The Mound is a horror/science fiction novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written by him as a ghostwriter from December 1929 to January 1930 after...
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Mound railway station, a former station in northern Scotland Mound, a fictional entity in the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock The Mound (novella)...
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pigment, is the same as what was provided to the character Zamacona to write with in the later story The Mound (novella), implying a link between the subterranean...
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Novella is a cross painted in tempera and gold on wood panel (578 x 406 cm) by Giotto di Bondone around 1290-1295. The crucifix is preserved in the center...
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At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931. Rejected that year...
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The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos...
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novelettes/novellas: "Thesme and the Ghayrog" (novelette), "The Time of the Burning", "In the Fifth Year of the Voyage" (novelette), "Calintane Explains", "The Desert...
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Shub-Niggurath (redirect from The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young)
goddess in The Mound, where he calls her "Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother". He describes her as a kind of Astarte in the same story. In Out of the Aeons, she...
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later mentioned in other works, before being described in detail in his novella At the Mountains of Madness (1931). It was a terrible, indescribable thing...
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Henryk Sienkiewicz (category People from the Russian Empire of Lipka Tatar descent)
In the Land of Gold (1881) - short story The Lighthouse Keeper (1881) - novella Bartek the Conqueror (1882) - novella Jamiol (1882) - novella The Third...
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Richard Sharpe Shaver (redirect from The Shaver Mystery)
novella length of 31,000. Palmer insisted that he did not alter the main elements of Shaver's story, but that he only added an exciting plot so the story...
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Hounds of Tindalos (redirect from The Hounds of Tindalos)
story "The Hounds of Tindalos", first published in the March 1929 issue of Weird Tales. Lovecraft mentions the creatures in his short story "The Whisperer...
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Soulton Long Barrow (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
sequence of stone chambers under an earthen mound, and was begun in 2017, with a principal stone being laid in the spring of 2018, and an early stone being...
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on January...
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earthquake" mentioned in the story is likely the 1925 Charlevoix–Kamouraska earthquake. S.T. Joshi has also cited A. Merritt's novella The Moon Pool (1918) which...
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Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1936, but written in 1931), and later appeared, although not named, in the short story "The Dreams...
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prove that the American Indians are the descendants of Israel. Sarah J. Hale (1823): Imagined in her poems that the mounds built by the mound builders could...
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issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first story set in the Cthulhu Mythos world. In the story, the protagonist...
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Maria Novella in Florence (c. 1365). The convention of showing the heart point upward switches in the late 14th century and becomes rare in the first...
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Cthulhu Mythos deities (redirect from Beyond the Gates of the Silver Key)
is the complete irrelevance of humanity in the face of the cosmic horrors that exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the "Great...
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William Brodie (category People educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh)
respectable façade and his real nature, and this paradox inspired him to write the novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which he published in 1886....
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H. P. Lovecraft bibliography (redirect from The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft)
"The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" (c.1898–1899 / 1959) "The Secret of the Grave" (before 1902; unpublished, nonextant, may simply be "The Mystery of the...
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stories, "The Thing on the Doorstep" and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. 2007's Cthulhu, directed by Dan Gildark, is loosely based on the novella The Shadow over...
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Pangolin (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
similar to the spray of a skunk. They have short legs, with sharp claws which they use for burrowing into ant and termite mounds and for climbing. The tongues...
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the creature's origins ("I learned whence Cthulhu first came, and why half the great temporary stars of history had flared forth.") The 1931 novella At...
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The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published...
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The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird...
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In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" (most likely after a line from either...
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Azathoth (section The Azathoth Cycle)
novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in 1926. Price sees another inspiration for Azathoth in Lord Dunsany's Mana-Yood-Sushai, from The Gods...
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Buonamico Buffalmacco (category Characters in The Decameron)
while Death piles mounds of corpses all around is likely to have inspired the setting of Giovanni Boccaccio's literary masterpiece The Decameron, written...
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