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The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos.. Overview: Name.The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death.The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name.
Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors. He is the supreme deity of the Cthulhu Mythos and the ruler of the Outer Gods, [1] and may also be seen as a symbol for primordial chaos, [2] therefore being the most powerful entity in the entirety of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Wayne Ligon reviewed Curse of Cthulhu in White Wolf #26 (April/May, 1991), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stating that "Curse of Cthulhu is very good on the whole, with 'Fungi' being the star attraction. The other adventures are good, but others could have been introduced to expand the main feature into a book-length adventure."
The Elder Things (also known as the Old Ones [1] and Elder Ones [2]) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos.The beings first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains of Madness (published in 1936, but written in 1931), and later appeared, although not named, in the short story "The Dreams in the Witch-House" ().
Shannon Appelcline commented that after the publication of fourth edition Call of Cthulhu, "The modern Cthulhu Now setting even got some love with the At Your Door (1990) adventure anthology — best known for its introduction of disguised Shoggoth 'Mr. Shiny,' who became a sort of Chaosium mascot for several years." [3]: 269
It is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche that involves H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. [1] It is the first book in the Cthulhu Casebooks series. The second novel, Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities, was released in November 2017 [2] and a third, Sherlock Holmes and the Sussex Sea-Devils, in November 2018. [3]
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana is a 400-page book by Daniel Harms that contains an alphabetized listing of entities, cults and lore from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that were published during the twentieth century. Sources include works by Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, and Stephen King, as well as scenarios from the Call of Cthulhu game.