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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 ...
Fictitious works are denoted by F; real-life works by R. Author. The person or character credited as the author of the work. Authors of nonfictional works are real people. If the author is fictitious, the name of the writer who created the work appears in parentheses after the character's name. Surnames of Mythos writers are as follows:
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
His worshippers chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn " ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"). [11] H. P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu's creator. Lovecraft conceived a detailed genealogy for Cthulhu (published as "Letter 617" in Selected Letters) [1] and made the character a central reference in his works. [15]
A number of fictional cults dedicated to "malevolent supernatural entities" appear in the Cthulhu Mythos, the loosely connected series of horror stories written by Lovecraft and other writers inspired by his creations. [23] These fictional cults have in some ways taken on a life of their own beyond the pages of Lovecraft's works.
First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop role-playing games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods. He is a shape-shifter with a thousand forms, most of them maddeningly horrific to ...
Cthulhu Mythos media most commonly portray shoggoths as intelligent to some degree, but deal with problems using only their great size and strength. The shoggoth that appears in At the Mountains of Madness simply rolls over and crushes numerous giant penguins that are in its way as it pursues human characters.
In Neil Gaiman's and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens, Hastur is the name of a demon. In the TV series adaptation of Good Omens, Hastur is portrayed by Ned Dennehy. Hastur is the name of a hunter in the video game Identity V who is also known as The Feaster and The King in Yellow. Hastur also appears as a character in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.