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R'lyeh is characterized by bizarre architecture likened to non-Euclidean geometry that hampers exploration and escape. At one point, a crew member "climbed interminably along the grotesque stone moulding – that is, one would call it climbing if the thing was not after all horizontal – and the men wondered how any door in the universe could be so vast" [2] and at another, a sailor "was ...
Belton Regio (formerly Cthulhu Macula or Cthulhu Regio [1] [2]) is a prominent surface feature of the dwarf planet Pluto. [3] It is an elongated dark region along Pluto's equator, 2,990 km (1,860 mi) long and one of the darkest features on its surface.
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The Call of Cthulhu: A fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928. According to Lovecraft's short story, R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the malevolent entity called Cthulhu.
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", [2] published by the American pulp ...
Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi refers to the area as the Miskatonic region, after its fictional river and university. [1] Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls it Miskatonic County, [2] [page needed] and the film Color Out of Space refers to it as Arkham County, although Lovecraft indicates that at least some of his fictional towns were located in the real-life Essex County of Massachusetts.
Arkham Horror is a cooperative adventure board-game based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Players explore the town of Arkham while attempting to stop unmentionable horrors from spilling into the world. [28] Splatterhouse takes place in Arkham, Massachusetts. [29]
Mu appears in numerous Cthulhu mythos stories, including many written by Lin Carter in his Xothic legend cycle. [25] The 1970 Mu Revealed is a humorous spoof [26] by Raymond Buckland purporting to describe the long lost civilization of Muror, located on the legendary lost continent of Mu. The book was written under the pseudonym "Tony Earll ...