The Cthulhu Mythos

A fictional Massachusetts town where Miskatonic scholarship, colonial witch-lore, and inherited secrets occupy neighboring streets.

A blind, mindless presence seething at ultimate chaos, surrounded by flutes and drums beyond ordered space.

An extraterrestrial phenomenon carried by a meteorite, draining a farm while displaying a colour no human spectrum contains.

An ancient presence sleeping in drowned R’lyeh, entering human dreams while the stars delay the hour of its return.

A sea-name revered by the Deep Ones and Innsmouth’s Esoteric Order, joining an ancient god to modern oceanic dread.

An immortal marine people who interbreed with humans, purchasing Innsmouth’s devotion with gold, fish, and a tidal inheritance.

A persistent realm beyond waking life, filled with ports, gods, moon-beasts, cats, and roads known to practiced dreamers.

A protective or prohibitive mark whose twig-like Lovecraft form and later star-and-eye design belong to different layers.

A star-headed civilization that reached primordial Earth, raised Antarctic cities, and engineered the shoggoths that later rebelled.

Dog-faced subterranean eaters of the dead who travel from cemeteries into Dreamland and may once have been human.

A civilization migrating by mind exchange across ages, compiling an archive from captives temporarily displaced into alien bodies.

A name transformed by Bierce, Chambers, Lovecraft, and Derleth, accumulating Carcosa, the Yellow Sign, and later mythos rank.

A decaying New England port whose bargains with the Deep Ones purchase gold and fish at the price of a tidal ancestry.

Fungoid travelers from Yuggoth who mine Vermont’s hills and carry human brains between worlds in metal cylinders.

Arkham’s fictional university, keeper of a Necronomicon and sponsor of expeditions where scholarship becomes a dangerous key.

The mother-name invoked in Innsmouth’s sea cult, powerful in ritual yet almost entirely undescribed by Lovecraft.

A fictional grimoire by Abdul Alhazred, furnished with translations, lost editions, library copies, and no authentic volume in reality.

Faceless horned fliers of Dreamland who seize travelers with barbed tails, terrifying as captors and invaluable as allies.

A cosmic messenger who enters human cities in changing masks, offering wonders that ripen into delirium and ruin.

Cthulhu’s drowned city, built in angles hostile to human perception and raised briefly when earthquake meets the appointed stars.

Engineered, formless laborers that grow temporary organs, imitate their makers’ voices, and eventually revolt against command.

A name of monstrous fecundity repeated in invocations, scarcely embodied by Lovecraft and visualized chiefly by later mythmakers.

A serpent father of the American plains, ordinarily tolerant but relentless toward those who kill his children.

A confluence of luminous spheres coextensive with time and space, present wherever forbidden thresholds open.