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Books in the Cthulhu Mythos

Index Books in the Cthulhu Mythos

Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in H.P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos. [1]

173 relations: Africa, Alchemy, All Saints' Day, Ambrose Bierce, Arkham House, Artephius, Astral projection, At the Mountains of Madness, August Derleth, Azathoth, Basel, Bible, Black magic, Blaise de Vigenère, Book of Dzyan, Books in the Cthulhu Mythos, Boom! Studios, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Cannabis indica, Carcosa, Caroline Islands, Cenozoic, Chaosium, Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos), Clark Ashton Smith, Coptic language, Cryptography, Cthulhu, Cthulhu Mythos, Cthulhu Mythos cults, Cthulhu Mythos deities, Cycad, Dagon (short story), De Vermis Mysteriis, Deep One, Egyptian mythology, Elder Thing, Encyclopædia Britannica, England, English language, Eocene, F. Paul Wilson, Fictional book, Filippo Pigafetta, France, French language, Gautier de Metz, Genealogy, Germany, ..., Ghatanothoa, Giambattista della Porta, Gla'aki, Great Race of Yith, Greek language, Grimoire, H. P. Lovecraft, Hastur, Henry Kuttner, Huntington Library, Hyperborean cycle, I Ching, Incarnation, Indochina, Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jade, Jerusalem's Lot, Johannes Trithemius, Jonathan L. Howard, Joseph Glanvill, Joseph S. Pulver Sr., Karl Edward Wagner, Latin, Leng (plateau), Lin Carter, Lincoln, Nebraska, Magician (fantasy), Manuscript, Margaret Murray, Michael Alan Nelson, Miskatonic University, Moses, Mu (lost continent), Mycroft Holmes, Naacal, Necronomicon, Nicholas Rémy, Novel, Nyarlathotep, Obsidian, Occult, Paleocene, Pangaea, Pickman's Model, Play (theatre), Pnakotic Manuscripts, Polaris (short story), Providence, Rhode Island, Ramon Llull, Ramsey Campbell, Randolph Carter, Revival (novel), Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Robert Fludd, Robert Harrison Blake, Robert M. Price, Robert W. Chambers, Roger Bacon, S. T. Joshi, Sahara, Salem, Massachusetts, San Marino, California, Satan, Satanism, Shagreen, Sherlock Holmes, Short story, Spanish Inquisition, Stephen King, Suicide, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Dunwich Horror, The Festival, The Haunter of the Dark, The Horror in the Museum, The Keep (film), The Keep (Wilson novel), The Lurker at the Threshold, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shambler from the Stars (Short Story), The Whisperer in Darkness, To Charles Fort, with Love, Triassic, Tsathoggua, Ulthar, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Undead, Wildside Press, Xothic legend cycle, Yellow Sign, Zhou dynasty, 1517 in literature, 1541 in literature, 1586 in literature, 1613 in literature, 1679 in literature, 1681 in literature, 1685 in literature, 1728 in literature, 1809 in literature, 1890 in literature, 1895 in literature, 1907 in literature, 1911 in literature, 1927 in literature, 1929 in literature, 1930 in literature, 1932 in literature, 1934 in literature, 1935 in literature, 1939 in literature, 1945 in literature, 1957 in literature, 1964 in literature, 1968 in literature, 1969 in literature, 1971 in literature, 1975 in literature, 2003 in literature, 2005 in literature. Expand index (123 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Alchemy

Alchemy is a philosophical and protoscientific tradition practiced throughout Europe, Africa, Brazil and Asia.

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All Saints' Day

All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, Hallowmas, Feast of All Saints, or Solemnity of All Saints, is a Christian festival celebrated in honour of all the saints, known and unknown.

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – circa 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran.

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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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Artephius

Artephius (or Artefius) (c. 1150) is a writer to whom a number of alchemical texts are ascribed.

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Astral projection

Astral projection (or astral travel) is a term used in esotericism to describe a willful out-of-body experience (OBE) that assumes the existence of a soul or consciousness called an "astral body" that is separate from the physical body and capable of travelling outside it throughout the universe.

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At the Mountains of Madness

At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length.

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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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Basel

Basel (also Basle; Basel; Bâle; Basilea) is a city in northwestern Switzerland on the river Rhine.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Black magic

Black magic has traditionally referred to the use of supernatural powers or magic for evil and selfish purposes.

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Blaise de Vigenère

Blaise de Vigenère (5 April 1523 – 19 February 1596) was a French diplomat, cryptographer, translator and alchemist.

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Book of Dzyan

The Book of Dzyan (comprising the Stanzas of Dzyan) is a reputedly ancient text of Tibetan origin.

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Books in the Cthulhu Mythos

Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in H.P. Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Boom! Studios

Boom! Studios (styled BOOM! Studios) is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley (born 2 December 1937) is an English horror-fiction writer.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan

Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan (born 26 May 1964) is an Irish-born American author of science fiction and dark fantasy works, including ten novels, many comic books, and more than two hundred and fifty published short stories, novellas, and vignettes.

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Cannabis indica

Cannabis indica, formally known as Cannabis sativa forma indica, is an annual plant in the Cannabaceae family.

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Carcosa

Carcosa is a fictional city in the Ambrose Bierce short story An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1886).

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Caroline Islands

The Caroline Islands (or the Carolines) are a widely scattered archipelago of tiny islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, to the north of New Guinea.

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Cenozoic

The Cenozoic Era meaning "new life", is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and, extending from 66 million years ago to the present day.

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Chaosium

Chaosium Inc. is one of the oldest publishers of role-playing games still in existence.

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Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos)

Chthonians (from Greek: chthon, "earth") are worm-like creatures in 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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Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian (Bohairic: ti.met.rem.ən.khēmi and Sahidic: t.mənt.rəm.ən.kēme) is the latest stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century.

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Cryptography

Cryptography or cryptology (from κρυπτός|translit.

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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

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Cthulhu Mythos cults

A number of fictional cults appear in the Cthulhu Mythos, the loosely connected series of horror stories written by H.P Lovecraft and other writers inspired by his creations.

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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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Cycad

Cycads are seed plants with a long fossil history that were formerly more abundant and more diverse than they are today.

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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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De Vermis Mysteriis

De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm, is a fictional grimoire created by Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Deep One

The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

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Egyptian mythology

Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world.

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Elder Thing

The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Encyclopædia Britannica

The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Eocene

The Eocene Epoch, lasting from, is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.

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F. Paul Wilson

Francis Paul Wilson (born May 17, 1946 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres.

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Fictional book

A fictional book is a book (created specifically for a work of fiction) that sometimes provides the basis of the plot of a story, a common thread in a series of books, or the works of a particular writer or canon of work.

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Filippo Pigafetta

Filippo Pigafetta (1533–1604) was an Italian mathematician and explorer.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gautier de Metz

Gautier de Metz (also Gauthier, Gossuin, Gossouin, Walther von Metz) was a French priest and poet.

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Genealogy

Genealogy (from γενεαλογία from γενεά, "generation" and λόγος, "knowledge"), also known as family history, is the study of families and the tracing of their lineages and history.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Ghatanothoa

Ghatanothoa is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Giambattista della Porta

Giambattista della Porta (1535? – 4 February 1615), also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was an Italian scholar, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples at the time of the Scientific Revolution and Reformation.

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Gla'aki

Glaaki (often written as Gla'aki) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Great Race of Yith

The Great Race of Yith are a fictional race of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Grimoire

A grimoire is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirits, and demons.

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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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Huntington Library

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens (or The Huntington) is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington (1850–1927) and located in Los Angeles County in San Marino, California.

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Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea.

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I Ching

The I Ching,.

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Incarnation

Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh.

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Indochina

Indochina, originally Indo-China, is a geographical term originating in the early nineteenth century and referring to the continental portion of the region now known as Southeast Asia.

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Jabir ibn Hayyan

Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (جابر بن حیانl fa, often given the nisbas al-Bariqi, al-Azdi, al-Kufi, al-Tusi or al-Sufi; fl. c. 721c. 815), also known by the Latinization Geber, was a polymath: a chemist and alchemist, astronomer and astrologer, engineer, geographer, philosopher, physicist, and pharmacist and physician.

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Jade

Jade is an ornamental mineral, mostly known for its green varieties, which is featured prominently in ancient Asian art.

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Jerusalem's Lot

"Jerusalem's Lot" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection Night Shift.

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Johannes Trithemius

Johannes Trithemius (1 February 1462 – 13 December 1516), born Johann Heidenberg, was a German Benedictine abbot and a polymath who was active in the German Renaissance as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

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Jonathan L. Howard

Jonathan L. Howard is a British writer and game designer, known mainly for his novels about Johannes Cabal the Necromancer.

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Joseph Glanvill

Joseph Glanvill (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman.

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Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

Joseph S. Pulver Sr.

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Karl Edward Wagner

Karl Edward Wagner (12 December 1945 – 14 October 1994) was an American writer, poet, editor and publisher of horror, science fiction, and heroic fantasy, who was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and originally trained as a psychiatrist.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Leng (plateau)

Leng is a fictional cold arid plateau in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose location seems to vary entirely from story to story.

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Lin Carter

Linwood Vrooman Carter (June 9, 1930 – February 7, 1988) was an American author of science fiction and fantasy, as well as an editor, poet and critic.

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Lincoln, Nebraska

Lincoln is the capital of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County.

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Magician (fantasy)

An enchanter, enchantress, mage, magician, sorcerer, sorceress, warlock, witch, or wizard, is someone who uses or practices magic derived from supernatural, occult, or arcane sources.

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Manuscript

A manuscript (abbreviated MS for singular and MSS for plural) was, traditionally, any document written by hand -- or, once practical typewriters became available, typewritten -- as opposed to being mechanically printed or reproduced in some indirect or automated way.

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist.

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Michael Alan Nelson

Michael Alan Nelson (born June 6, 1971) is an American comic book writer and novelist.

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Miskatonic University

Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictional town in Essex County, Massachusetts.

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Moses

Mosesמֹשֶׁה, Modern Tiberian ISO 259-3; ܡܘܫܐ Mūše; موسى; Mωϋσῆς was a prophet in the Abrahamic religions.

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Mu (lost continent)

Mu is the name of a suggested lost continent whose concept and name were proposed by 19th-century traveler and writer Augustus Le Plongeon, who claimed that several ancient civilizations, such as those of Egypt and Mesoamerica, were created by refugees from Mu—which he located in the Atlantic Ocean.

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Mycroft Holmes

Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Naacal

Naacal is the name of an ancient people and civilization first claimed to have existed by Augustus Le Plongeon and later by James Churchward.

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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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Nicholas Rémy

Nicholas Rémy, Latin Remigius (1530–1616) was a French magistrate who became famous as a hunter of witches comparable to Jean Bodin and De Lancre.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Nyarlathotep

Nyarlathotep is a character in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers.

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Obsidian

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Paleocene

The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.

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Pangaea

Pangaea or Pangea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.

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Pickman's Model

"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.

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Pnakotic Manuscripts

The Pnakotic Manuscripts (or Pnakotic Fragments) is a fictional manuscript in the Cthulhu Mythos.

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Polaris (short story)

"Polaris" is a fantasy short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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Ramon Llull

Ramon Llull, T.O.S.F. (c. 1232 – c. 1315; Anglicised Raymond Lully, Raymond Lull; in Latin Raimundus or Raymundus Lullus or Lullius) was a philosopher, logician, Franciscan tertiary and Spanish writer.

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Ramsey Campbell

Ramsey Campbell (born 4 January 1946 in Liverpool) is an English horror fiction writer, editor and critic who has been writing for well over fifty years.

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Randolph Carter

Randolph Carter is a recurring fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction and is, presumably, an alter ego of Lovecraft himself.

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Revival (novel)

Revival is a novel by American writer Stephen King, published on November 11, 2014 by Scribner.

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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 Fludd

Robert Fludd, also known as Robertus de Fluctibus (17 January 1574 – 8 September 1637), was a prominent English Paracelsian physician with both scientific and occult interests.

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Robert Harrison Blake

Robert Harrison Blake is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos.

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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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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.

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Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon (Rogerus or Rogerius Baconus, Baconis, also Rogerus), also known by the scholastic accolade Doctor, was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism.

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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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Sahara

The Sahara (الصحراء الكبرى,, 'the Great Desert') is the largest hot desert and the third largest desert in the world after Antarctica and the Arctic.

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Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is a historic, coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, located on Massachusetts' North Shore.

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San Marino, California

San Marino is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, incorporated on April 12, 1913 The city is located in the San Rafael Hills.

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Satan

Satan is an entity in the Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin.

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Satanism

Satanism is a group of ideological and philosophical beliefs based on Satan.

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Shagreen

Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, historically from a horse's or onager's back, or from shark or ray.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Short story

A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood, however there are many exceptions to this.

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Spanish Inquisition

The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition (Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition (Inquisición española), was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile.

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Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of horror, supernatural fiction, suspense, science fiction, and fantasy.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel (51,500 words) by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime.

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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).

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The Dreams in the Witch House

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle.

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The Dunwich Horror

"The Dunwich Horror" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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The Festival

"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.

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The Haunter of the Dark

"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53).

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The Horror in the Museum

"The Horror in the Museum" is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Somerville, MA writer Hazel Heald in October 1932, published in 1933.

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The Keep (film)

The Keep is a 1983 horror film directed by Michael Mann and starring Scott Glenn, Gabriel Byrne, Jürgen Prochnow, Alberta Watson and Ian McKellen.

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The Keep (Wilson novel)

The Keep is a horror novel by American writer F. Paul Wilson.

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The Lurker at the Threshold

The Lurker at the Threshold is a horror novel by American writer August Derleth, based on short fragments written by H. P. Lovecraft, who died in 1937, and published as a collaboration between the two authors.

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The Shadow Out of Time

The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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The Shambler from the Stars (Short Story)

"The Shambler from the Stars" is a horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales.

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The Whisperer in Darkness

The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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To Charles Fort, with Love

To Charles Fort, With Love is a short story collection by fantasist Caitlin R. Kiernan, published by Subterranean Press in 2005.

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Triassic

The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.

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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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Ulthar

Ulthar is both a fictional town and a fictional deity.

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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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Undead

The undead are beings in mythology, legend, or fiction that are deceased but behave as if they were alive.

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Wildside Press

Wildside Press is an independent publishing company in Cabin John, Maryland, United States.

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Xothic legend cycle

The Xothic legend cycle is a series of short stories by American writer Lin Carter that are based on the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, primarily on Lovecraft's stories "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Out of the Aeons".

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Yellow Sign

The Yellow Sign is a fictional symbol or glyph, first described in Robert W. Chambers' book of horror short stories The King in Yellow (1895).

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Zhou dynasty

The Zhou dynasty or the Zhou Kingdom was a Chinese dynasty that followed the Shang dynasty and preceded the Qin dynasty.

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1517 in literature

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1541 in literature

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1586 in literature

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1613 in literature

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1679 in literature

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1681 in literature

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1685 in literature

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1728 in literature

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1809 in literature

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1890 in literature

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1895 in literature

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1907 in literature

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1911 in literature

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1927 in literature

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1929 in literature

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1930 in literature

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1932 in literature

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1934 in literature

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1935 in literature

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1939 in literature

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1945 in literature

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1957 in literature

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1964 in literature

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1968 in literature

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1969 in literature

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1971 in literature

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1975 in literature

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2003 in literature

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2005 in literature

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References

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