Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Cartman orders Cthulhu to banish the heroes to R'lyeh. Mysterion commits suicide by jumping into a pit of deadly spikes. Kenny awakens back in his bed and dons his Mysterion outfit, setting off to learn more about Cthulhu and his own powers in order to save his friends. He discovers that Cthulhu can only be killed by another immortal.
R'lyeh: H. P. Lovecraft: 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.
Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is a campaign of seven linked sequential adventures that are set in various locations around the globe. Investigators are pitted against the Hermetic Order of the Silver Twilight, [1] which is attempting to raise the lost city of R'lyeh from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
The book collects thirteen stories by Carter, two of them collaborative, his sonnet cycle "Dreams from R'lyeh" & an additional story by Price, all set in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, together with an introduction by Price. "Dreams from R'lyeh" previously appeared in Carter's poetry collection of the same title, published by Arkham House in ...
In addition to using pastiches of Cthulhu, the Deep Ones, and R'lyeh, writer J. Michael Straczynski also wrote the story in a distinctly Lovecraftian style. Written entirely from the perspective of a traumatized sailor, the story makes use of several of Lovecraft's trademarks, including the ultimate feeling of insignificance in the face of the ...
The sonnet cycle Dreams from R'lyeh, which comprises the first two-thirds of the book, consists of poems inspired by H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.Unlike Lovecraft's Fungi from Yuggoth, where the sonnets don't tell a continuous story, Dreams from R'lyeh from start to finish clearly narrates the story of Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag, from his childhood to just before his disappearance in late ...
Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in Wilcox's papers. Angell also discovers reports of mass hysteria around the world. More notes discuss a 1908 meeting of an archeological society in which New Orleans police official John Raymond Legrasse asks attendees to identify a statuette of unidentifiable greenish-black stone resembling ...