Faster access than browser!
36 relations: Aristocracy, Atlantis, Conquistador, Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos deities, Extraterrestrial life, Ghatanothoa, H. P. Lovecraft, Hastur, Hazel Heald, Hedonism, Lemuria (continent), Melee, Native Americans in the United States, Nuclear power, Oklahoma, Orgy, Psionics, Robert W. Chambers, Sadomasochism, Serpent Men, Sexual ritual, Shub-Niggurath, Social norm, Socialism, Telepathy, Teleportation, The Mound (short story), The Whisperer in Darkness, Tsathoggua, Undead, Zealia Bishop, 1930 in literature, 1935 in literature, 1940 in literature.
Aristocracy
Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos "excellent", and κράτος kratos "power") is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class.
New!!: K'n-yan and Aristocracy · See more »
Atlantis
Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος, "island of Atlas") is a fictional island mentioned within an allegory on the hubris of nations in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias, where it represents the antagonist naval power that besieges "Ancient Athens", the pseudo-historic embodiment of Plato's ideal state in The Republic.
New!!: K'n-yan and Atlantis · See more »
Conquistador
Conquistadors (from Spanish or Portuguese conquistadores "conquerors") is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.
New!!: K'n-yan and Conquistador · See more »
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.
New!!: K'n-yan and Cthulhu · See more »
Cthulhu Mythos
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.
New!!: K'n-yan and Cthulhu Mythos · See more »
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.
New!!: K'n-yan and Cthulhu Mythos deities · See more »
Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to Earth").
New!!: K'n-yan and Extraterrestrial life · See more »
Ghatanothoa
Ghatanothoa is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos.
New!!: K'n-yan and Ghatanothoa · See more »
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.
New!!: K'n-yan and H. P. Lovecraft · See more »
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.
New!!: K'n-yan and Hastur · See more »
Hazel Heald
Hazel Heald (1896–1961) was a pulp fiction writer, who lived in Somerville, Massachusetts.
New!!: K'n-yan and Hazel Heald · See more »
Hedonism
Hedonism is a school of thought that argues that the pursuit of pleasure and intrinsic goods are the primary or most important goals of human life.
New!!: K'n-yan and Hedonism · See more »
Lemuria (continent)
Lemuria is the name of a "lost land" located either in the Indian or the Pacific Ocean, as postulated by a now-discredited 19th century scientific theory.
New!!: K'n-yan and Lemuria (continent) · See more »
Melee
Melee (or, French: mêlée) or pell-mell battle generally refers to disorganized close combat in battles fought at abnormally close range with little central control once it starts.
New!!: K'n-yan and Melee · See more »
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
New!!: K'n-yan and Native Americans in the United States · See more »
Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions that release nuclear energy to generate heat, which most frequently is then used in steam turbines to produce electricity in a nuclear power plant.
New!!: K'n-yan and Nuclear power · See more »
Oklahoma
Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.
New!!: K'n-yan and Oklahoma · See more »
Orgy
In modern usage, an orgy is a sex party where guests freely engage in open and unrestrained sexual activity or group sex.
New!!: K'n-yan and Orgy · See more »
Psionics
Psionics is the study of paranormal phenomena in relation to the application of electronics.
New!!: K'n-yan and Psionics · See more »
Robert W. Chambers
Robert William Chambers (May 26, 1865 – December 16, 1933) was an American artist and fiction writer, best known for his book of short stories entitled The King in Yellow, published in 1895.
New!!: K'n-yan and Robert W. Chambers · See more »
Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.
New!!: K'n-yan and Sadomasochism · See more »
Serpent Men
Serpent Men are a fictional race created by Robert E. Howard for his King Kull tales.
New!!: K'n-yan and Serpent Men · See more »
Sexual ritual
Sexual rituals fall into two categories: culture-created, and natural behaviour, the human animal having developed sex rituals from evolutionary instincts for reproduction, which are then integrated into society, and elaborated to include aspects such as marriage rites, dances, etc.
New!!: K'n-yan and Sexual ritual · See more »
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.
New!!: K'n-yan and Shub-Niggurath · See more »
Social norm
From a sociological perspective, social norms are informal understandings that govern the behavior of members of a society.
New!!: K'n-yan and Social norm · See more »
Socialism
Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.
New!!: K'n-yan and Socialism · See more »
Telepathy
Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
New!!: K'n-yan and Telepathy · See more »
Teleportation
Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them.
New!!: K'n-yan and Teleportation · See more »
The Mound (short story)
"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 he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story about an Indian mound which is haunted by a headless ghost.
New!!: K'n-yan and The Mound (short story) · See more »
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.
New!!: K'n-yan and The Whisperer in Darkness · See more »
Tsathoggua
Tsathoggua (the Sleeper of N'kai, also known as Zhothaqquah) is a supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe.
New!!: K'n-yan and Tsathoggua · See more »
Undead
The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive.
New!!: K'n-yan and Undead · See more »
Zealia Bishop
Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop (1897–1968) was an American writer of short stories.
New!!: K'n-yan and Zealia Bishop · See more »
1930 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1930.
New!!: K'n-yan and 1930 in literature · See more »
1935 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1935.
New!!: K'n-yan and 1935 in literature · See more »
1940 in literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1940.
New!!: K'n-yan and 1940 in literature · See more »
Redirects here:
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K'n-yan
