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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. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark. Description. A brief description ...
S. Petersen's Field Guide to Cthulhu Monsters is a 64-page sourcebook that details 27 creatures of the Cthulhu mythos, each with a full-page full-color painting and clues to help characters recognize them, and the supplement includes a key to help identify the monsters and a chart displaying their relative sizes.
The Twin Spawn of Cthulhu: Twin daughters of Cthulhu, imprisoned in the Great Red Spot of the planet Jupiter. They both appear as huge shell-endowed beings, with eight segmented limbs, and six long arms ending with claws, vaguely resembling their "half-sister" Cthylla. Ngirrth'lu The Wolf-Thing, The Stalker in the Snows, He Who Hunts, Na-girt-a-lu
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 Mythos character redirects to lists (21 P) D. Cthulhu Mythos deities (12 P) S. Cthulhu Mythos species (12 P) Pages in category "Cthulhu Mythos characters"
Wayne Ligon reviewed Dark Designs in White Wolf #29 (Oct./Nov., 1991), rating it a 3 out of 5 and stated that "An important addition to this book is a summary of CoC character generation as it applies to the 1890's. No changes are made to Cthulhu By Gaslight, save that everyone is assumed to be Upper Class. An 1890's-specific character sheet ...
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.
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 magazine Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, this creature has since been featured in numerous pop culture references.