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59 relations: Arkham House, August Derleth, Azathoth, Characters of the Cthulhu Mythos, Clark Ashton Smith, Classical element, Cognitive dissonance, Conan the Barbarian, Cthugha, Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos anthology, Cthulhu Mythos deities, Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture, Cyäegha, Dagon (short story), Deity, Dirk W. Mosig, Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, Fantasy tropes, Frank Belknap Long, Fritz Leiber, Ghatanothoa, H. P. Lovecraft, Hastur, Henry Kuttner, Henry S. Whitehead, Horror fiction, Ithaqua, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraftian horror, Mi-Go, Necronomicon, New England, Nyarlathotep, Ohio University Press, Pulp magazine, R'lyeh, Richard L. Tierney, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Robert M. Price, S. T. Joshi, Sauk City, Wisconsin, Shared universe, Shoggoth, Shub-Niggurath, The Acolyte, The Call of Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, ..., Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Weird fiction, Weird Tales, Yog-Sothoth, Zhar (Great Old One), 1931 in literature, 1935 in literature, 1936 in literature, 1943 in literature. Expand index (9 more) »
Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft.
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August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist.
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Azathoth
Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors.
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Characters of the Cthulhu Mythos
The following characters appear in H.P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Clark Ashton Smith
Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893 – August 14, 1961) was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories.
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Classical element
Classical elements typically refer to the concepts in ancient Greece of earth, water, air, fire, and aether, which were proposed to explain the nature and complexity of all matter in terms of simpler substances.
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Cognitive dissonance
In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the mental discomfort (psychological stress) experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.
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Conan the Barbarian
Conan the Barbarian (also known as Conan the Cimmerian) is a fictional sword and sorcery hero who originated in pulp-fiction magazines and has since been adapted to books, comics, several films (including Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer), television programs (cartoon and live-action), video games, role-playing games, and other media.
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Cthugha
Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, the creation of August Derleth.
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Cthulhu
Cthulhu is a cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft and first introduced in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
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Cthulhu Mythos anthology
A Cthulhu Mythos anthology is a type of short story collection that contains stories written in or related to the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction launched by H. P. Lovecraft.
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Cthulhu Mythos deities
H. P. Lovecraft created a number of deities throughout the course of his literary career, including the "Great Old Ones" and aliens, such as the "Elder Things", with sporadic references to other miscellaneous deities (e.g. Nodens) whereas the "Outer Gods" are a later creation of other prolific writers such as August Derleth, who was credited with formalizing the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture
This article provides a list of cultural references to the work of author H. P. Lovecraft.
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Cyäegha
Cyäegha is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and first appeared in Eddy C. Bertin's short story "Darkness, My name Is" (1976).
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Dagon (short story)
"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult.
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Deity
A deity is a supernatural being considered divine or sacred.
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Dirk W. Mosig
Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig (born 1943) is a psychologist, historian, literary critic and ordained Zen monk noted for his critical work on H. P. Lovecraft.
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Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany.
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Elements of the Cthulhu Mythos
The following tables and lists feature elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, that are often shared between works within that fictional setting.
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Fantasy tropes
Fantasy tropes are a specific type of literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction.
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Frank Belknap Long
Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1901 – January 3, 1994) was an American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction.
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Fritz Leiber
Fritz Reuter Leiber Jr. (December 24, 1910 – September 5, 1992) was an American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.
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Ghatanothoa
Ghatanothoa is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction.
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Hastur
Hastur (The Unspeakable One, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Henry Kuttner
Henry Kuttner (April 7, 1915 – February 3, 1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.
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Henry S. Whitehead
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Horror fiction
Horror is a genre of speculative fiction which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten, scare, disgust, or startle its readers or viewers by inducing feelings of horror and terror.
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Ithaqua
Ithaqua (the Wind-Walker or the Wendigo) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.
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Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos
Lovecraft: A Look Behind the "Cthulhu Mythos" is a 1972 non-fiction book written by Lin Carter, published by Ballantine Books.
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Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (and in some cases, unknowable) more than gore or other elements of shock, though these may still be present.
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Mi-Go
Mi-Go are a fictional race of extraterrestrials created by H. P. Lovecraft and used by others in the Cthulhu Mythos setting.
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Necronomicon
The Necronomicon is a fictional grimoire (textbook of magic) appearing in the stories by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft and his followers.
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New England
New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.
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Nyarlathotep
Nyarlathotep is a character in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers.
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Ohio University Press
Ohio University Press (OUP), founded in 1947, is the largest scholarly press in the state of Ohio.
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Pulp magazine
Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.
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R'lyeh
R'lyeh is a fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in Weird Tales in June 1928.
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Richard L. Tierney
Richard Louis Tierney (born August 7, 1936) is an American writer, poet and scholar of H. P. Lovecraft.
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Robert Bloch
Robert Albert Bloch (April 5, 1917 – September 23, 1994) was an American fiction writer, primarily of crime, horror, fantasy and science fiction, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Robert E. Howard
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres.
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Robert M. Price
Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American theologian and writer, known for arguing against the existence of a historical Jesus (the Christ myth theory). He taught philosophy and religion at the Johnnie Colemon Theological Seminary. He is a professor of biblical criticism at the Center for Inquiry Institute, and the author of a number of books on theology and the historicity of Jesus. A former Baptist minister, he was the editor of the Journal of Higher Criticism from 1994 until it ceased publication in 2003. He has also written extensively about the Cthulhu Mythos, a "shared universe" created by the writer H. P. Lovecraft. He also co-wrote a book with his wife, Carol Selby Price, Mystic Rhythms: The Philosophical Vision of Rush (1999), on the rock band Rush. Price is a fellow of the Jesus Seminar, a group of 150 writers and scholars who study the historicity of Jesus, the organizer of a Web community for those interested in the history of Christianity, and sits on the advisory board of the Secular Student Alliance. Secular Student Alliance, accessed April 15, 2010. He is a religious skeptic, especially of orthodox Christian beliefs, occasionally describing himself as a Christian atheist.
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S. T. Joshi
Sunand Tryambak Joshi (born 22 June 1958), known as S. T. Joshi, is an American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of H. P. Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction.
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Sauk City, Wisconsin
Sauk City is a village in Sauk County, Wisconsin, United States.
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Shared universe
A shared universe or shared world is a set of creative works where more than one writer (or other artist) independently contributes a work that can stand alone but fits into the joint development of the storyline, characters, or world of the overall project.
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Shoggoth
A shoggoth (occasionally shaggoth) is a monster in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Shub-Niggurath
Shub-Niggurath, often associated with the phrase “The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young”, is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.
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The Acolyte
The Acolyte was a science fiction fanzine edited by Francis Towner Laney from 1942-1946 (a total of 14 issues), dedicated to articles about fantasy fiction, with particular emphasis on H. P. Lovecraft and his circle.
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The Call of Cthulhu
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by the American writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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Tsathoggua
Tsathoggua (the Sleeper of N'kai, also known as Zhothaqquah) is a supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe.
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Unaussprechlichen Kulten
Unaussprechlichen Kulten (also known as Nameless Cults or the Black Book) is a fictional book of arcane literature in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Weird fiction
Weird fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction originating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Weird Tales
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine founded by J. C. Henneberger and J. M. Lansinger in March 1923.
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Yog-Sothoth
Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity in the fictional Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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Zhar (Great Old One)
Zhar (The Twin Obscenities) is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos.
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1931 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1931.
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1935 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1935.
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1936 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1936.
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1943 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1943.
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References
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