Questions tagged [cthulhu-mythos]
Use this tag for questions about 'The Cthulhu Mythos', a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, as well as August Derelith and Donald Wandrei. The stories focus on or deal with cosmic horror, including entities like the "Great Old Ones", that exist in this universe.
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What do Shoggoths have to do with Y’ha-nthlei?
In H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow over Innsmouth", there are two instances where a Shoggoth is mentioned. Once by Zadok Allen, when hinting at the plans of the Innsmouth people, and once ...
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Why did the victims in H.P.Lovecraft's stories happen to be very intelligent?
For example in Dreams in the Witch-house, the protagonist is a very talented student at Miskatonic university
Does it implicate that only the brightest will learn the truth and as they either go mad ...
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Are there other in-universe references to other Mythos authors in the early Cthulhu Mythos stories?
In At the Mountains of Madness, Clark Ashton-Smith, one of the major early contributors to the Cthulhu Mythos, is mentioned by name
Dyer and Pabodie have read Necronomicon and seen Clark Ashton Smith’...
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Story/Novel where Old Ones dominate modern world
I'm pretty sure I read this in the '90s; I don't recall whether I'm recalling a single section of a longer novel, or a short story.
It may have been part of a story involving a cross-timeline ...
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Book with at least two boys trapped in an old house being pursued by Lovecraftian beings who were documented in family archives and/or an RPG
I read this as a Kindle book, probably at least 5 years ago, but probably not more than 10. I think I may have received the book free as a promotional item, and plan to try plumbing through my history ...
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Find a Cthulhu Mythos quotation from Lin Carter
I have read a few books about fantasy by Lin Carter, and if I remember correctly one of them had a poem by Lin Carter based on the King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers.
As most of you should know, The ...
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Does the name of Shub Niggurath contain or reference a racial slur?
I've always thought that the name of the Lovecraft deity Shub Niggurath was intended to sound vaguely Semitic, but I recently noticed that it seems to encode a certain well-known English-language ...
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How large is Cthulhu?
Howard Phillips Lovecraft in his seminal work The Call of Cthulhu described this Elder God as "a gigantic thing 'miles high'.
Most derivative works present Cthulhu as "Kaiju-sized". In ...
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Are there any unexplained allusions among the captive minds in Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time"?
In H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 novella "The Shadow Out of Time," the protagonist Nathaniel Peaslee has his body stolen temporarily by a time-traveling mind belonging to one of the Great Race. ...
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Was the illustration of the "Primordial One" in the AD&D Deities and Demigods based on the one from Barlowe's Guide to Extraterrestrials?
Out of the blue, one of my sons asked me today what Cthulhu's "stats" were. My immediate thought was to look them up in the original Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Deities & Demigods. ...
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Why is the Cthulhu Mythos named after Cthulhu?
Cthulhu, in the original story "The Call of Cthulhu", is not very impressive. Its plot ends with it
and the general moral of the story seems to be that
It's feeble (by the old gods ...
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How old are the Old Gods in the Cthulhu Mythos?
In the Cthulhu Mythos the Old Gods have been around since the beginning of the creation of our planet, but just how old are they exactly? I've seen in videos about them that some are as old as 6 ...
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Were the original forms of the Great Race of Yith ever explored?
In H. P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, we learn that the four-limbed rugose bodies of the Great Race of Yith are not their original forms:
And, meanwhile, the Great Race itself waxed well-nigh ...
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Relationship of Nyarlathotep and Deep Ones
Nyarlathotep is almost everywhere in Mythos, but as far as I know he is not mentioned in Lovecraft's work in relation to Deep Ones. In fact, I don't even recall that Cthulhu is mentioned in such way, ...
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Is there an intentional pun in this quote from the Necronomicon?
The Necronomicon is a fictional book mentioned in a number of Lovecraft's short stories and novellas. And we know a few quotes from it.
In "The Nameless City" (1921), a rhyming couplet that appears ...
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