Cthulhu Mythos species information

This is a list of fictional creatures from the Cthulhu mythos of American writer H. P. Lovecraft and his collaborators. The byakhees or byakhee birds first...

universe, the Cthulhu Mythos, where it exists with its fellow entities, is named after it. Invented by Lovecraft in 1928, the name Cthulhu was probably...

The Deep Ones are creatures in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The beings first appeared in Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931)...

the Old Ones and Elder Ones) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains...

deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. He is the supreme deity of the Cthulu Mythos and the ruler...

creatures created by Frank Belknap Long and later incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos when it was codified by August Derleth. They first appeared in Long's...

A shoggoth (occasionally shaggoth) is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos. The beings were mentioned in passing in H. P. Lovecraft's sonnet cycle...

Carter and Clark Ashton Smith adapted the race for inclusion in the Cthulhu Mythos, inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's 1921 short story "The Nameless City"...

Lloigor is the name of a fictional deity and a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos. The entity first appeared in August Derleth and Mark Schorer's short...

be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd"...

created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep"...

 315. ISBN 0-86473-485-9. Carter, Lin. Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos. p. 84. Annotated Lovecraft, pp. 17–18. H. P. Lovecraft, letter to August...

Lumley. The books are based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. In a departure from many Cthulhu Mythos stories, Lumley's characters are not helpless victims...

Sollasina cthulhu from the Coalbrookdale Formation of the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte in England was named after H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The...

ritual. H. P. Lovecraft admired the Machen story, and used Aklo in his Cthulhu Mythos stories "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Haunter of the Dark". The authors...

underpinning the Chinese Zodiac Great Race of Yith, a fictional Cthulhu Mythos species described by H.P. Lovecraft Great Race (Native American legend)...

Cthulhu macrofasciculumque is a species of excavates. It lives in the guts of termites. It lives in the hindgut of Prorhinotermes simplex (Cuban subterranean...

Aisora and Koin. Based on the Nyarlathotep deity first seen in the Cthulhu Mythos described in the books by H. P. Lovecraft, Nyaruko is member of an alien...

ISBN 0-9673215-3-0. Definitive version. Lin Carter, Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia....

snake An unnamed race from H.P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City - later Cthulhu Mythos tales have named these the Valusians or simply "serpent people". The...

satirisation of bureaucracy. While the stories are partially inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos universe created by H. P. Lovecraft and others, they are not set in...