The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used — and continue to use — to craft their stories. The term itself was coined by the writer August Derleth. Although this legendarium is also sometimes called the Lovecraft Mythos, most notably by the Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, it has long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception. The name "Cthulhu" derives from the central creature in Lovecraft's seminal short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe. Lovecraft made frequent references to the "Great Old Ones", a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and have since fallen into a deathlike sleep. While these monstrous deities were present in almost all of Lovecraft's published work (his second short story "Dagon", published in 1919, is considered the start of the Mythos), the first story to really expand the pantheon of Great Old Ones and its themes is "The Call of Cthulhu".
Short Stories[]
H.P. Lovecraft[]
- Alchemist, The
- Beast in the Cave, The
- Beyond the Wall of Sleep
- Call of Cthulhu, The - February, 1928, Weird Tales
- Cats of Ulthar, The
- Celephais
- Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The
- Colour Out of Space, The
- Dagon - November, 1919, The Vagrant #11
- Doom That Came to Sarnath, The
- Dreams in the Witch House, The
- Dunwich Horror, The
- From Beyond
- Herbert West - Reanimator
- Lurking Fear, The
- Nameless City, The
- Rats in the Walls, The
- Shadow Out of Time, The
- Shadow Over Innsmouth, The
- Silver Key, The - January, 1929, Weird Tales
- Statement of Randolph Carter, The
- Thing on the Doorstep, The
- Through the Gates of the Silver Key - July, 1934, Weird Tales [1]
- Unnamable, The
- Whisperer in Darkness, The
Compilations[]
- H.P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror
Films[]
- Beyond Re-Animator
- Bride of Re-Animator
- Dagon
- Dunwich Horror, The (1970)
- Dunwich Horror, The (2008)
- From Beyond
- Haunted Palace, The
- Necronomicon
- Unnamable
- Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, The
Programs & Web Series[]
- Lovecraft Country
- Masters of Horror
- Resonator: Miskatonic U
Comics[]
- Cthulhu Tales Vol 1
- Fall of Cthulhu Vol 1
- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom Vol 1 - 2012, Arcana Comics
- H.P. Lovecraft Vol 1 - 1991-1992, Malibu Graphics
- Necronomicon Vol 1
- Re-Animator Vol 1
- Re-Animator Vol 2
- Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator Vol 1
- Re-Animator: Tales of Herbert West 1
- The Calling: Cthulhu Chronicles Vol 1 - 2010, Boom! Studios
- Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft Vol 1 - 1993-1998, Calibur Press
Characters[]
Creatures[]
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Humans[]
Notes[]
- Cthulhu mythos redirects to this page.
- In his essay "H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos", Robert M. Price described two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos. Price called the first stage the "Cthulhu Mythos proper". This stage was formulated during Lovecraft's lifetime and was subject to his guidance. The second stage was guided by August Derleth who, in addition to publishing Lovecraft's stories after his death, attempted to categorize and expand the Mythos. [3][4]
Related categories[]
See also[]
External Links[]
- Cthulhu Mythos at Wikipedia
- Cthulhu Mythos at The Collector
- Cthulhu Mythos at the Lovecraft Wiki
- Cthulhu Mythos at the True Tropes Wiki
Gallery[]
Film posters[]
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Books[]
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Comic Covers[]
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References[]
- ↑ Story was co-written by E. Hoffmann Price.
- ↑ This is the Swiss scientist; not to be confused with the German criminal featured in Die Hard.
- ↑ Lovecraft, H.P.; Bloch, Robert (1987). The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (1st ed.). New York: Ballantine Publishing Group. ISBN 0345350804.
- ↑ Price, Robert M. (1990). H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House. ISBN 1557421528.