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Edward Guimont has argued that H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds was an influence on "The Call of Cthulhu", citing the thematic similarities of ancient, powerful, but indifferent aliens associated with deities; physical similarities between Cthulhu and the Martians; and the plot detail of a ship ramming an alien in a temporarily successful but ...
Cthulhu's Dark Cults is an anthology edited by David Conyers, containing ten Cthulhu Mythos short stories set in Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu role-playing game setting. All the stories take place during the 1920s and 1930s, the era in which the game is set.
Unaussprechliche Kulte (also known as Nameless Cults or the Black Book) is a fictional book of arcane literature in the Cthulhu Mythos. The book first appeared in Robert E. Howard's 1931 short stories "The Children of the Night" and "The Black Stone" as Nameless Cults. Like the Necronomicon, it was later mentioned in several stories by H. P ...
In Issue 21 of Imagine, Richard Lee reviewed several Call of Cthulhu adventures including Curse of the Chthonians and The Fungi from Yuggoth.Lee found writer Keither Herber had used "impeccable technique" and "conviction" in creating The Fungi from Yuggoth, commenting that the eight chapters "contrive to make Lovecraft's horrific worlds rather too close for comfort."
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.
In Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu (1928), a cult is central to the narrative, worshipping the Cthulhu entity, a monstrous being said to control and manipulate those who follow it. The cults in Lovecraft’s works, such as the Cult of Cthulhu, are often depicted as depraved, secretive, and capable of dangerous power, serving as metaphors for ...
Inspired by the Cult of Cthulhu and its beliefs, referenced in "The Call of Cthulhu", as well as the cult of the Deep Ones from The Shadow Over Innsmouth: Seven Kingdoms: Decennium (2017) "In the Walls" Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Rats in the Walls." Shub-Niggurath: Le Morts Vont Vite and other albums "Yog Sothoth" and other ...
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' first omnibus edition of works by seminal 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in October 1999 and is still in print. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story, "The Call of Cthulhu".