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Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.
An occult book. We know little of its contents, but Cabala is an alternate spelling of Kabbalah, "a medieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism, and thaumaturgy marked by belief in creation through emanation and a cipher method of interpreting Scripture." [Kabbalah, Meriam Webster] Saboth might be a variant spelling of Sabaoth or TZ'VAOT, which means "armies" or "hosts," and is sometimes used in the Jewish names for God, such as YHWH-Tsvaot and Adonai-Tsvaot.
Simon Maglore had a copy of the almost priceless Cabala of Saboth (Greek translation, circa 1686). [RB Mannikin 75]
Strange's father initiated him into the mysteries and arcana to be found amid the shuddery speculations of such blasphemies as the Cabala of Saboth. [RB Tomb (online text) 13]
HPL Aeons (online text) trustee of Cabot Museum who was present at dissection of T'yog mummy 287.
Of Boston. A small and obscure museum with high standing in scientific circles. It specializes in non-artistic remains of ancient and unknown civilisations. Located in Mt. Vernon Street, near Joy, in Beacon Hill district of Boston. Housed in a former private mansion designed by Buffinch and built in 1819. Includes a hall containing mummies from many cultures, including Eyptian, Aleutian Islands, Pompeii. Also the mummy of T'yog, from ancient Mu, acquired in 1878 by Curator Pickman. Sensational press coverage of the mummy in 1931-1932 resulted in attempts by cultists to revive mummy, and the dissection that uncovered a living, pulsing brain. [HPL Aeons (online text) 264, 266-267, 269]
See also: Carver, Dr.; Johnson, Richard H.; Joy St.; Mason, Dr.; Minot, Dr. William; Moore, Dr. Wentworth; Mt. Vernon St.; Pickman; Saltonstall, Dudley; T'yog; Wells, Dr..
Oklahoma. HPL Mound (online text) 98; Yig (online text) 84.
Of Oklahoma. HPL Mound (online text) 104; Yig (online text) "Caddo Country" 83.
London. CJ Acquarium 310.
Britain. HPL Case (online text) 220.
"Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (. . . 2 June 1743 – 26 August 1795) was the alias of the occultist Giuseppe Balsamo . . . ; in French usually referred to as Joseph Balsamo). Cagliostro was an Italian adventurer and self-styled magician. He became a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued various occult arts, including psychic healing, alchemy and scrying. His reputation lingered for many decades after his death, but continued to deteriorate, as he came to be regarded as a charlatan and impostor, this view fortified by the savage attack of Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) in 1833, who pronounced him the 'Quack of Quacks'. Later works—such as that of W.R.H. Trowbridge (1866-1938) in his Cagliostro: the Splendour and Misery of a Master of Magic (1910), attempted a rehabilitation." [Alessandro Cagliostro, Wikipedia]
Possible author of La Très Sainte Trinosophie.
RB Sorcerer (online text) absurd, posturing 155.
HK Hunt (online text) a charlatan 167.
Egypt. HPL Case (online text) 133; Pyramids (online text) 218, Gare Centrale 219, old Cairo 220, Saracen Cairo 221, Zoological Gardens 221, Cairo Museum 222, 223-224, 226, Cairo Museum 231.
RB Faceless 36; Fane 131, 133-135, 138; Mummy 286-287, 297; Opener 159, 164.
AWD Gorge 98, 108, 115; Lurker 125; Space 234; Shuttered 257.
Incl: Drogman, Abdul Reis el; Whateley, Abner; Ziz, Ali.
A Roman municipium in Spain. FBL Hills (online text) 287.
AWD Gorge 112.
RB Kiss (online text) 43.
AWD Island 211.
Vermont. HPL Whisperer (online text) 209.
See: ceremonial days.
HPL Call (online text) 132; Electric (online text) 72; Test (online text) 16-17, 21, 28, 37; Whisperer (online text) home of Akeley's son 218, 225, 232, 234, 264.
RB Kiss (online text) 40.
In the near future, an earthquake causes the entire coastline from Baja California to San Francisco to be inundated. [RB Strange]
HK Hydra (online text) 126-127; Invaders (online text) 69.
FL Terror2 267.
Incl: Edmond, Paul; Fischer, Anton; Fischer, Georg Reuter; Hodgkins, Russell; Kinney, Abbott; Mutsunes; Reuter, Marie; Rodia, Simon; Ross; Serra, Junipero.
Alameda; Berkeley; California Historical Society; Coyote Canyon; Culver City; Fermin, Pt.; Glendale; Griffith Observatory; Griffith Park; Hollywood; Hollywood Hills; Hollywoodland; Huntington Library; Lancaster; Laurel Canyon; Long Beach; Los Angeles; Los Gatos; Malibu; Millbrae; Oakland; Pacific Coast Highway; Paradise Crest; Pinos Range; Sacramento; San Diego; San Francisco; San Jose; San Pedro; San Quentin; Santa Cruz Mountains; Santa Monica; Santa Monica Mountains; San Xavier; Sausalito; Skyview Terrace; Southern California; Tamalpais; UCLA; Venice; Vulture's Roost; White's Point.
Aka: Nueva California.
San Francisco. HK Bells (online text) 80, 92.
By H.P. Lovecraft. (Online text)
Amos Tuttle had read the story, and noticed that the sentence "Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’ nagl fhtagn" also occurred in the R'lyeh Text. [AWD Hastur 14]
John Conrad held that "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of the three master horror tales. [REH Children (online text) 151]
Georg Fischer haunted secondhand bookstores, hunting down copies of magazines (mostly Weird Tales) with Lovecraft stories in them, including "The Call of Cthulhu." [FL Terror2 294]
Former owners of the Masonic hall. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 336.
RWC Mask (online text) 46; Repairer (online text) 28, 37.
AWD Island 195, 211.
Incl: Angkor-Vat.
Massachusetts. HPL Aeons (online text) Widener Library Necronomicon 270; Dunwich (online text) 172; Mound (online text) 159; Winged (online text) 251.
AWD Gorge 113; Lurker 81; Sky 57; Wood 72.
Incl: King's Lane; Harvard University; Morton; Wecter, Jason; Widener Library.
Fragrant groves of. HPL White (online text) 40.
HPL Challenge (online text) 1-17.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 334.
HPL Challenge (online text) 1.
AWD Dweller 122; Island 179, 200; Beyond2 164; Gorge North Canada 108; Peabody, ref 185; Wind (online text) speaks of a mystery in Manitoba.
Incl: Manitoba; Quebec; Royal Northwest Mounted Police.
Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 85-86.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 159, 172; Doorstep (online text) 298; Sorceries (online text).
AWD Lurker 17, 140.
See also: ceremonial days.
Georg Reuter Fischer heard mysterious voices whisper of Canis Tindalos and their foul essence [FL Terror2 281].
See: Hounds of Tindalos.
A plant related to cannibis sativa, marijuana. HK Hydra (online text) 128-129.
See also: marijuana
RB Poe (online text). Collector of Poe manuscripts and memorabilia. Son of Christopher Canning, father of Launcelot Canning. An only child at the time of his father's death, he was sent to live with his mother's relatives in Baltimore. Later he became a well-known literary critic, possessed of an independent income, who privately added to his inherited Poe collection. He especially focused on acquiring and studying of Poe's letters. He may have been seeking evidence that his father was a blood relative of Poe.
RB Poe (online text). Collector of Poe manuscripts and memorabilia. Father of Arthur Canning, grandfather of Launcelot Canning. He defended Poe in the literary controversies of the day. A leading patron of the arts in Baltimore, he helped arrange for Poe's body to be moved to the Presbyterian Cemetery so that a monument could be erected. In the process, he managed to steal Poe's coffin, which he then hid in a chamber under a newly built Poe-esque mansion. He retired from his life as a merchant and devoted himself completely to collecting Poe items and meeting or corresponding with people who had known Poe. Later he was found collapsed on the floor on the lower level, clutching a small box holding Poe's remaining bones. He lingered for six months, raving about images from Poe's stories, before dying.
RB Poe (online text). Collector of Poe manuscripts and memorabilia. Grandson of Christopher Canning, son of Arthur Canning. He undertook occult studies of such works as De Vermis Mysteriis and Liber Eibon, and succeeded in resurrecting Poe from the latter's essential salts. He kept the reanimated Poe locked in an underground room, but eventually fell in a struggle with the escaped Poe while the mansion burned around them.
A star or constellation. AWD Curwen 15; Gorge 105.
A passenger on an ocean liner who threw himself overboard shortly after viewing the Sacred White Elephant of Jadhore [RB Elephant (online text) 45].
HPL Innsmouth (online text) a sanitarium at Canton 364, 367.
FL Terror2 Canton asylum 299.
Of Stamford-Norwalk area, Connecticut. Cousin of Frank. RAL Settlers (online text) (narrator), name mentioned 18-19 & 23 & 25 & 28 & 33 & 35, co-owner with Will Richards of Advertiser 17, investigates Settler's Wall 17-36.
HPL Mountains (online text) 7.
South of Kingsport Head. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 315.
HPL Medusa (online text) 164, 166-167, 180, 186, 197, 199.
A star or constellation? AWD Lurker 106.
HPL Call (online text) 139.
Of Roman Britain. HPL Descendant (online text) ancestor of Lord Northam 360/361.
Of hamlet of the dog, Maine. Told Harvey a story of what happened, concerning Graag, 20 years back. RAL Graag (online text) 15.
AWD Island 177.
AWD GodBox 119-123.
345-280 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 69.
AWD Island 200.
AB Inhabitant (online text) 534-535. A city that was already ancient and famous in the time of one of its inhabitants, Hoseib Alar Robardin. Later, it crumbled to irregular mounds and tumuli extending to the horizon and was roamed by primitive people and wolves.
RWC Cassilda (online text); Court (online text) towers rose behind the moon 81; Mask (online text) 60; Repairer (online text) where black stars hang in the heavens 5, two suns 5, 17, 28, dynasty established in 36, 37.
AWD Curwen 22; Dweller 138; Keeper 141; Lurker 84, 109, 138-139; Hastur 12, 22.
DW Lady (online text) 105.
Includes: Hoseib Alar Robardin.
HPL Aeons (online text) a popular sensation, contrasted with merely local fame of T'yog mummy 267.
Home of Delapores on banks of James in Virginia. HPL Rats (online text) 27, 31-32, 44.
CJ Acquarium 303.
The leader of Project Arkham said that the Caribbean could be one of the lairs of the Great Old Ones or their allies. [RB Strange]
Incl: Barbados; Blackbeard; Black Star; Jamaica; Port-au-Prince; Rover; San Juan; Santa Maria; Santa Rita; Senarbin Deep; Trinidad; West Indies.
FL Terror2 296.
Mother of Russell Carmody. Possibly of Arkham. JVS Dead 31-33, 35-37.
Son of Charlotte Carmody. Possibly of Arkham. Buried in Old Dethshill Cemetery. JVS Dead 30-32, (36).
A ship. HK Hydra (online text) 127.
CAS Return (online text) (35), 43, (45-46), 47.
CAS Return (online text) 33-42, (43), 44-47.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152.
RB Faceless Carnoti appears in some editions of this story, Opener 162.
Note: Dr. Carnoti appears in some editions of RB Faceless, but in the 1993 edition of Mysteries of the Worm, the name is given as Dr. Stugatche instead.
Lurker 136-137.
Pacific. AWD Island 183-184; Gorge 98, 101, 104, 108, 110; Lurker 121-122; Wood 77, cult-art 79.
India. AWD Survivor (online text) 153.
Curator of the museum at Beloin University. RFS Warder 155-156.
Part of someone's farm. HPL Dunwich (online text) 191.
Graduate student at Miskatonic University. HPL Mountains (online text) 10, 14, 42.
Author, Black God of Madness. HK Salem (online text) 250-266.
Of Bridgetown. RB Mannikin 84.
Of Egypt. RB Fane 131-133, 135-146.
Family. HPL Gates (online text) home 422, 423, 425, 427.
JVS Graveyard Arkham? Buried in Old Dethshill Cemetery 235.
HPL Unnameable (online text) (narrator) (200-205), 206-207.
Synonym for: Carter, Randolph? (possibly)
Grandfather of Randolph Carter. HPL Silver (online text) 412-413.
Great-uncle of Randolph Carter. HPL Gates (online text) 423, 429, 437; Silver (online text) 412, 416-417.
Ancestor of Randolph Carter; a wizard. HPL Gates (online text) 422-423, 427-428, 443; Silver (online text) 414.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 135, 140, 142.
Wife of Christopher Carter. HPL Gates (online text) 428-429; Silver (online text) 416-417.
Possibly of Arkham. Buried in Old Dethshill Cemetery. JVS Dead 30, 37; Graveyard 235.
Descendant of Randolph Carter in 2169. HPL Gates (online text) (year 2169) 443.
HPL Case (online text) 214; Gates (online text) 421-458; Kadath (online text) 306-307, and Pickman 336, and Kuranes in life (309), from Boston 355, 356; Silver (online text) 408-420, French Foreign Legion in Great War 411, successful novelist 412, dabbles in occult 412, Boston home 412, lives south of Arkham 415, wounded in Great War at Belloy-en-Santerre 419, change at 10 yrs old 418; Statement (online text) 299 etc.
RB Sebek 120.
FL Terror2 298.
JVS Graveyard 236.
Aka: Chandraputra, Swami, Zkauba. Possibly same as Carter (1).
In Elizabeth's time. HPL Silver (online text) 414.
Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.
HPL Medusa (online text) Carthaginian magic 170.
HPL Kadath (online text) 393, etc., 394.
Of Cabot Museum staff; present at dissection of T'yog mummy. HPL Aeons (online text) 287.
Factory inspector. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 308.
RWC Cassilda (online text); Mask (online text) 60; Repairer (online text) 37; Yellow (online text) 106.
RWC Repairer (online text) (narrator); Yellow (online text) 104.
Of Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 119.
A star or constellation? AWD Lurker 106.
HPL Call (online text) 140 (was 130?).
by (M. R.?) James. AWD OutThere Geoffrey Malvern was carrying a copy when he went to visit Hydestall Cathedral.
Providence. AWD Brotherhood 351.
HPL Kadath (online text) 318; White (online text) 39-41.
Author, De Re Rustica. FBL Hills (online text) 291.
Cats of the Waking World
Cats may have an unusual sensitivity to the supernatural. Thus, the cat "Nigger-Man" showed signs of alertness and anxiety shortly after moving into Exham Priory. The other cats in the household were affected similarly. When Delapore heard the sounds of rats in the walls, Nigger-Man reacted as if rodents were present in the room. [HPL Rats (online text) 32-40]
The town of Innsmouth was marked by a complete absence of cats and dogs [Innsmouth (online text) 326].
Cats of Dreamland
In Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat. The law arose after an incident involving an old cotter and his wife, who were fond of torturing and killing cats. After they killed a kitten belonging to dark wanderers from the South, one of the wanderers raised his arms to the sky and prayed in an unkown tongue. Thereafter, all the cats of Ulthar began circling the home of the cotter and his wife. When the villagers next looked in on the cotters, their bones had been picked clean of flesh. [Cats (online text) 55-58].
It was the priest Barzai who advised the burgesses of Ulthar to pass their law against killing cats. Barzai also told Atal where the black cats go on St. John's Eve. [Other (online text) 128]
Randolph Carter visited Ulthar about 300 years after this incident; for Atal, who had been a small boy when the law was passed, was fully three centuries old when Carter met him [Cats (online text) 58; Kadath (online text) 311].
The neighborhood of Ulthar is notable for the presence of many cats. The cats of Ulthar slew a party of zoogs that had followed Carter to the town, because one of the zoogs sought to eat a kitten. [Kadath (online text) 314] Later, Carter informed the cats of the zoogs' plans for revenge. The cats launched a pre-emptive strike, and secured the surrender of the zoogs, along with twelve young zoogs of noble families to keep as hostages, and an annual trible of grouse, quail, and pheasants. [345-347]
The cats of dreamland leap from rooftops up into the sky at night and visit the dark side of the moon [314, 322]. When Carter was held prisoner on the moon's dark side by the moon-things, an army of cats rescued him and slew his captors. Carter was able to converse with them in the soft language of cats. [322-324] The old cat-general of Ulthar taught Carter passwords and introductions he could use when meeting other cats [353].
The only enemy feared by earth's cats are the very large and peculiar cats from Saturn, who are allied to the moon-things. [324]
In Thran, Carter spoke gravely to the venerable cat at the inn where he stayed [350]. In Celephaïs, an old Maltese, the chief of Celephaïs' cats, told Carter much of the secret lore known to cats on the seaward slopes of Ooth-Nargai, and also told Carter where to find Kuranes [347-348, 353].
Cats avoid Inganok, and the ships that go there, because Inganok holds shadows that no cat can endure, and a brooding hint of outer space which cats do not like [354]. The men of Inganok are sorry that no cats will stay there, and blame it on the hidden nearness of Leng [358].
RB Brood 89, 94-95, 100.
Incl: Nigger-Man.
New York. Home of Joe Slater and Peter Slater [HPL Sleep (online text) 26, 30, 33].
HPL Man (online text) 209.
REH House (online text) 117.
HPL Rats (online text) 37.
HPL Mist (online text) 278-279.
HPL Kadath (online text) 307, 338-339.
Beneath Mt. Voormithadreth, Hyperborea. CAS Seven (online text) 60, 62, 65.
Zyhumë still lives in the Cavern of the Archetypes [CAS Pnom].
Cavern of the Children of the Night
REH People (online text) 152, 161.
Synonym for: Dagon's Cave.
In an unknown city. RB Demon 68.
A star in the Pleiades star cluster, in the constellation Taurus. In the Pleiades it lies between Alcyonne and Electra on one side, and Maia and Taygeta on the other [AWD Curwen 46].
The Great Library
There is a library on Celaeno [AWD Island 197-198]. It is not clear how a library could be located "on" a star. It is possible that Laban Shrewsbury and his companions used the term "Celaeno" as a shorthand for a planet that orbits Celaeno.
The library on Celeano is of carved granite, with columns and tables of colossal size. The shelves hold gigantic books with hieroglyphs on their spines. The walls are made of rows of stacked blocks that are convex on top and concave on the bottom. Carvings appear on the walls. [AWD Gorge description (118)]
The hieroglyphs and books there were stolen from the Elder Gods by the Great Old Ones. Some were stolen at the time of their revolt from the Elder Gods, while others were stolen later on. [AWD Curwen 43; Sky 69]
Human Exiles
Laban Shrewsbury, Andrew Phelan, Abel Keane, Claiborne Boyd, and Nayland Colum all spent periods of time in exile on Celaeno. Shrewsbury spent a full twenty years there after his initial disappearance. [AWD Curwen 43; Gorge (118); Island 197-198; Keeper 144, 160; Sky 54, 67]
To travel to Celaeno, Shrewsbury and his companions first drank a special golden mead and recited an invocation to Hastur. This summoned the bat-winged byakhee, who transported them to the Nameless City in Arabia. There, they left their bodies in hibernation while their astral selves traveled to Celaeno. It is not clear how their astral selves were transported to Celaeno, though this may also have involved using the byakhee. [AWD Curwen 44; Sky 86, 93]
Hastur and the Hyades
Claiborne Boyd and Abel Keane each mistakenly believed that Celaeno is in the Hyades, which is another star cluster in the constellation Taurus. Boyd jumped to this conclusion after reading a reference to a dark star in the Hyades in the R'lyeh Text; since Boyd had recently heard of Celaeno, he made the leap of connecting the two. [AWD Sky 59] Abel Keane had a vision of Laban Shrewsbury, in which he was supposedly told that Celaeno is "a place far removed from our universe—Celaeno in the Hyades" [AWD Gorge 132]. This lapse can perhaps be explained if you suppose that Shrewsbury referred to Celaeno and the Pleiades as being somehow related to the Hyades, which is the realm of Hastur. Together with the use of Hastur's byakhee for transport, these factors seem to imply that Celaeno is controlled by servants of Hastur.
Presumably it was these followers of Hastur who tortured Shrewsbury when he first arrived on Celaeno, because he did not have a star-stone for protection [AWD Curwen 44].
A book that is sometimes found in the libraries of occultists. From the title, it may have some connection to the library on Celaeno. See: Celaeno.
Laban Shrewsbury said that the Celaeno Fragments was one of the sources of the Cthulhu Mythos [AWD Island 180].
Shrewsbury had a sealed folio of the Celaeno Fragments which he sent Andrew Phelan to donate to the Miskatonic University Library [AWD Curwen 41]. Later, Abel Keanee saw Shrewsbury's folio of the Celaeno Fragments at Miskatonic University library, but did not have time to open it [AWD Sky 59].
Claiborne Boyd found passages from the Celaeno Fragments among the papers of Asaph Gilman [AWD Gorge 109]. Prof. Vibarro Andros loaned Claiborne Boyd a transcript of the Celaeno Fragments [AWD Gorge 126].
The Gable Window narrator found a copy in the house of his late cousin, Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206].
Winfield Phillips borrowed either an original copy or a photostat from Dr. Seneca Lapham. It probably was borrowed or copied from the Miskatonic University library. [AWD Lurker 134]
Amos Piper consulted a copy while possessed by a member of the Great Race [AWD Space 234]
Island in Indonesia. In the near future, Celebes suffers damage from earthquakes related to the rising of R'lyeh. [RB Strange]
(Celephaïs) dreamland. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 85-89; Kadath (online text) 309, 333-334, 338-339, 345, 347, 350, 352-354, 356-358, 360.
AWD Beyond2 stars not right for Hastur 170.
Incl: Acquarius; Alcyone; Aldebaran; Algol; Altair; Andromeda; Antanôk; Antares; Arcturus; Argo Nevis; asteroid belt; Betelgeuse; black star near Aldebaran; Canopus; Capella; Carcosa; Castor; Celaeno; Coma Berenices; Cygnus; Dark Star; Deneb; Dog-Star; Electra; Fomalhaut; Glyu-Vho; Great Bear; Hyades; Jupiter; Hali, Lake of; Hyades; Hydra; Kythanil; Leo; Maia; Mars; Mercury; Milky Way; Moon; Neptune; Nova Persei; Nython, the triple star; Orion; Pleiades; Pluto; Polaris, Pole Star; Pollux; Rigel; Saturn; Shaggai; Sirius; Southern Cross; Sun; Taurus; Taygeta; Vega; Venus; Vhoorl; Yuggoth.
Of Britain. HPL Rats (online text) 44.
REH Black (online text) 61; Gods (online text) 187, 199; Little A Bronze Age culture that displaced the Picts; People (online text) 147.
RB Brood Celtic myths 89.
RB Brood 97.
Home of Azathoth. HK Hydra (online text) 139.
AWD Gable (online text) 199; Sky 76.
REH Roof (online text) 6, 10.
Incl: El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Yucatan.
Kingsport. HPL Festival (online text) 216; Silver (online text) 416; Mist (online text) 280.
Partridgeville. FBL Hounds (online text) 84-85.
HPL Winged (online text) 242.
Incl. De Witt, Ian.
Providence; a police station. RB Steeple (online text) 215.
Island in Indonesia. In the near future, Ceram suffers damage from earthquakes related to the rising of R'lyeh. [RB Strange]
Incl: Candlemas; Hallowe'en; Lammas; May-Eve; Midsummer Night; Roodmas; St. John's Eve; Walpurgis; Yule.
HPL Celephaïs (online text) 86; Kadath (online text) 334, 348, 350-352, 357, nameless island 358-359, 407.
Ships from there ply the Arctic islands in Hyperborean times. CAS Coming (online text) 67, flower-girdled 74.
REH Children (online text) 150: Ketrick was descended from the Cetrics of Sussex, who are recorded in the Book of Peers. No slightest trace of Mongoloid intermixture appears in the genealogy.
HPL Electric (online text) 68.
Of Manitoba. CAS Offspring (online text) 10, 12.
Of Manitoba. CAS Offspring (online text) (8-9), 10, (11-17), 18, (19), 20, (21-25).
HPL Aeons (online text) Ghatanothoa cult had penetrated Chaldea 276.
RB Opener 159.
Of Darwich University. RAL Abyss (online text) 286, 290.
FBL Hills (online text) 240-241; Hounds (online text) 74-75, (76), 77-78, (79), 80-87; Gateway "Uncle" a reincarnation? of Chalmers (5-9).
Of Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 107.
Rumors of the Necronomicon are said to have inspired Chamber's early work The King in Yellow (HPL History (online text) 53).
DAW Review (online text) Chambers is said to have consulted the Necronomicon when writing some of his earlier and more fantastic works.
Of Pringle Street, Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 107.
Boston. Where Randolph Carter lived as Zkauba. HPL Gates (online text) 452.
A ship. AWD Curwen 15.
HPL Man (online text) 208, Osborne E. 212.
London. HPL Descendant (online text) 360.
A disguise of Randolph Carter. HPL Aeons (online text) visited Cabot museum and was profoundly moved by hieroglyphs on scroll 270; Gates (online text) 425-427, (429, 434), 435, (446), 447, 450, (452-453), 454-457, (458).
Arkham. HPL Herbert (online text) 135-136.
Near Arkham. HPL Colour (online text) 60, 78.
An indian. HPL Mound (online text) 117, 119-123, (125), 130, 137-138.
London. HPL Museum (online text) 237.
RB Philtre (online text) 293-294.
AWD Survivor (online text) 161.
Incl: Balacz family.
In or near Boston. HPL Case (online text) 163.
A constellation. HPL Kadath (online text) 357.
Benefit Street, Providence. AWD Survivor (online text) 148-150, (151), 152.
Of Bayonne, Paris, Pondicherry, Providence, and Quebec. AWD Survivor (online text) 150-165, 167.
HPL Pickman (online text) 24.
HPL Kadath (online text) 340.
HK Salem (online text) 258.
HK Salem (online text) 258, 260.
See: Faussesflammes, Chateau.
HPL Celephaïs (online text) 88.
Chaugnar Faugn
See: Chaugnar Faugn.
FBL Hills (online text) 246, 254-255.
FBL Hills (online text) 254.
See also: miri nigri.
RB Grinning 51, (52-55), 56-59.
AWD Curwen 10.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 120, 122, "Parson"? 152.
HPL Mound (online text) 115; Pyramids (online text) 221, 224.
Aka: Khufu.
Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 119.
Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 117.
Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 116.
Author, "Lepanto." RB Kiss (online text) 38.
Maine. A town. HPL Doorstep (online text) 287, 293-294.
RB Brood 99-100.
Synonym for: Bubastis.
A half-legendary occult manuscript. Will Benson had a copy [HK Hunt (online text) 167]. Scott had read the Chhaya Ritual, and hinted at the hidden meanings behind the veiled hints in it [Hydra (online text) 127].
AM White2 (online text) 125.
AWD Lurker 134.
Illinois. HPL Gates (online text) 424.
AWD Depths (online text) 225, 236.
RB Steeple (online text) 212, 220-221, 223.
Incl: Aspinwall, Ernest B.; Harbinger, John; Holmes, Jordan; Jackson; Jameson, Dr.; Fiske, Edmund; Morrison, Professor; Sharp; Tennant, John;
Chicago University; Fair Grounds; Field Museum; Grant Park; Michigan Avenue; Michigan, Lake; Municipal Pier; Northwestern?; Soldier's Field; World's Fair.
AWD Lurker 138.
AWD Depths (online text) 229.
HPL Electric (online text) 68.
HPL Electric (online text) 63.
By Earl Hines. DWR Music (online text) improvisation, reminiscent of music of the stars 297.
Apparently a synonym for Druids. RB DarkIsle 97.
HPL Gates (online text) only in old versions of story; replaced by reference to Winged Ones in corrected Arkham edition.
REH Children (online text) 157-159, 161, 163: The first humanoid inhabitants of ancient western Europe and Britain, until they were overrun and driven into obscurity by the Picts. They were of Mongoloid origin, but were not like some cleanly Chinaman or Mongol
of recent times. The Children of the Night were short, with deformed dwarfish bodies, yellow skin, and hideous faces with slanted, amber eyes. Their language sounded like the hissing of snakes. In later times, the Aryan tribes regarded them as reptiles. One of these tribes, the Sword People, hunted by day in the forest where the Children of the Night lived. The Children lived in dark forests and subterranean dwellings, and snuck forth to shoot cattle or lone humans with flint-tipped arrows, or to steal human children. In modern times, Ketrick was an unexplained throwback with characteristics of the Children of the Night. John Conrad set an old, small flint mallet head from the Children in a wooden handle, and the resulting weapon was oddly balanced and difficult to control.
People (online text) (148),
serpent-like hissing (152 & 153), 153-154, described 155, (156), 157-158, 160,
163-164, 167.
Synonym for: Little People.
HPL Aeons (online text) Eridanus bound for Chile 265.
Incl: Valparaiso.
RB Brood 97.
HPL Aeons (online text) Ghatanothoa cult penetrated China 276; Call (online text) 140; Test (online text) 17, 43, 47.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.
Project Arkham suspected the Black Brotherhood of causing the sudden death of China's number two man in the Peking goverment. [RB Strange]
AWD Curwen 12; Lair 122, 124, 136; Lurker 116; Seal (online text) 150, 153, 162.
REH Bear 36.
FBL Hounds (online text) 76, 81; Gateway 7; WereSnake (online text) there are altars to Ishtar in China.
Incl: Chou dynasty; Cochin-China; Hankow; Peking; Sinkiang province?
HPL Call (online text) 140-141.
HPL Diary (online text) 313, 320.
By Robert Fludd. A volume, apparently containing one or more of Fludd's short treatises about palmistry [See Utriusque Macrocosmi et Microcosmi Historia, at www.johnnyfuncham.com]. A copy was in the library of Launcelot Canning. [RB Poe (online text)]
Area, N.Y. HPL Diary (online text) 304-305, in walking distance from Attica (306), villagers (311), (320).
AWD Whippoorwills 70-71.
FBL Gateway 7.
Of Arkham. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 271, 276, 284, 293, 295.
AWD Gorge 130.
Philadelphia. HPL Case (online text) 138.
Arkham. HPL Herbert (online text) 135, 138, 142.
Christianity, Christian Mythos
HPL Mound (online text) 136.
Christian Science Church and Christian Science Dome
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115, 165.
AWD Seal (online text) 162.
HPL Festival (online text) 208; Man (online text) 209.
Synonym for: Yuletide.
By Rudolf Yergler.
See: Chronike von Nath
Chronicles of Captain Elias Godsworthy, His Trips & Explorations upon the Continent of North America
Printed by Haverstock in London, in 1672. Includes the first mention of Roodsford, which it describes as "a fishing Towne of fourteen Houses, the Inhabitants of which wear doleful, ungodly Look in Keeping with Their meagre Dwellings." [RB Satan 5]
By Rudolf Yergler. It contained odd musical rhythm patterns designed to summon certain star-born monsters from the earth’s core and from other worlds and dimensions. The first edition of 1653 was publicly suppressed. A translation was published by James Sheffield in 1781 as Chronicle of Nath. Although Sheffield modified the text, it was still wild beyond imagination. In modern times, Rambeau found a copy of the English translation in a Spokane bookshop. Frank Baldwyn referred to this copy to aid him in composing the music of the stars. Baldwyn found that the translation was not very clear. A correspondent, Lancaster in Providence, finally admitted that he’d read the original Chronike, which is infinitely more terrible than the translation. After Baldwyn's death, his copy was burned by special court order. [DWR Music (online text) ]
See: Appendix: Notes on Chronology.
High priest of Chaugnar Faugn. FBL Hills (online text) 248, 252.
RFS Mists 25-28.
Of Battle Creek, Michigan. AWD Lurker 138.
HPL WitchHouse (online text) 274.
AWD Attic 311.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 325.
And Naacal language. HPL Aeons (online text) Sleazy reporter Stuart Reynolds had a fondness for the writings of Colonel Churchward 269; Gates (online text) 425.
Chushax
The wife of Tsathoggua and mother of Zvilpoggua. Chushax is also known as Zishaik or Shathak. [CAS Pnom]
HPL Mound (online text) 116.
On the Pecos. HPL Mound (online text) 116.
Of Boston; foreman. AWD Peabody 190.
HPL Time (online text) 396.
HK Invaders (online text) 73.
REH Hyborian (online text).
HPL Aeons (online text) A Cingalese attempted to get at T'yog mummy by tampering with the lock of the case 280.
Museum guard killed by Chaugnar Faugn. FBL Hills (online text) 266.
Kingsport. HPL Festival (online text), 210.
Sidney. HPL Call (online text) 148.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 159-160.
REH Fire (online text) 32.
Synonym for: Kara-Shehr.
REH Fire (online text) 32.
Synonym for: Kara-Shehr.
Synonym for: Irem, in Arabia. HPL History (online text) 51.
AWD Gorge 108; Keeper 148; Lamp (online text) 249, 252; Lurker 84; Whippoorwills 47.
AWD Whippoorwills 47.
Apparently a synonym for Druids. RB DarkIsle 93.
Clapham-Lee, (Major Sir) Eric Moreland
HPL Herbert (online text) 156-157, 160, 162.
London. HPL Descendant (online text) 360.
Clarendon, (Dr.) Alfred Shuyler
HPL Test (online text) 16-39, 41-53, (54), 55-60.
HPL Test (online text) gentle mother of Alfred 39.
HPL Test (online text) (16), 17, 19-20, 25, 28-31, 35-52, 57-60.
HPL Test (online text) 17-18.
HPL Picture (online text) 121, 123.
RFS Casket 11-14.
In or near Arkham. HPL Colour (online text) 61-62.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.
Innsmouth store owner. AWD Seal (online text) 153.
Virginia. FL Terror2 295.
REH Fire (online text) 29-30, 32-49, 52-56.
Of England. HPL Rats (online text) 31.
Georg Reuter Fischer heard voices mention the clavicle of Nyarlathotep as part of a list of books [FL Terror2]. In this case, "clavicle" is probably not a reference to a collarbone, but is used like the Latin word Clavicula, meaning a key. The title is reminiscent of the Key of Solomon (Latin: Clavicula Salomonis), a Renaissance-era book of magic that was misleadingly attributed to the Biblical King Solomon. One can surmise that the Clavicle of Nyarlathotep is a Renaissance-era book of spells that are attributed to Nyarlathotep. When originally issued, the book may have had a Latin title like Clavicula Niarlathotepus.
Clavis Philosophiae et Alchymiae (1632), by Robert Fludd. The work discussed alchemy as a spiritual path, and attempted to defend the Rosicrucian brotherhood from its Catholic critics. In 1632, the whole edition of the work was destroyed in Frankfurt by the militia; but the work was reprinted the following year. [Robert Fludd: A Picture in Need of Expansion by Ron Heisler, at www.levity.com; Problems of Mysticism, by Herbert Silberer, at www.aiwaz.net; Fludd, Robert at matemius.free.fr.; Language of the Birds at www.occultopedia.com.]
Joseph Curwen had a copy in his collection [HPL Case (online text) 121].
Ambrose Dewart found a copy at Billington House [AWD Lurker 16].
HPL Mound (online text) 104-105.
An archaeologist who ignored haunted ruins, and in turn was ignored by the Royal Society [FBL WereSnake (online text)].
Doctor to Avis Long. RB Unspeakable 165, 168-177.
REH Children (online text) 149, 152-153, 160: A successful author of swashbuckling novels, who found his real artistic expression as an editor of the bizarre poetry magazine The Cloven Hoof. A tall, lean, reticent man, his face lined by early struggles with poverly. He smoked a pipe with especially strong shag tobacco. In college, Clemants had a roommate who spoke of the Bran cult in his sleep. In a discussion with John Conrad, Clemants upheld the theory of a separate, distinct Alpine race. Clemants was present at Conrad's place when John O'Donnel attacked Ketrick.
CAS Holiness (online text) 122-123, 138, 141.
Of Richmond, Virginia. REH Roof (online text) 5.
Ohio. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363-364.
A monk, author of Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus. AWD Depths (online text) Confessions of 236, 239-240, 244, 247; OutThere Supposed to have been somewhat deranged. Lived at Hydestall Cathedral. Set free Something From Out There and was banished by St. Augustine to Rome; Passing Monk who lived on the English coast. Author, Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus. Wrote of a beast that a wise man could send against his enemies. Served under bishop Augustine.
HPL Gates (online text) 421, 425, 427, 434, 446, 455-458.
HPL Medusa (online text) 189-190.
AWD Gorge 109.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
Cloven Hoof
In the world of Balrahar, a being that was feared by Xathra. [REH Door]
A poetry magazine, edited by Clemants, whose bizarre contents had often aroused the shocked interest of the conservative critics. [REH Children (online text) 152]
Of Lynwold. AWD OutThere Albert, son of Jibber, along with the sons of Henry Kopps, got lost in the caves under the priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea and found the body of Old Cramton.
HPL Winged (online text) megalithic ruins in Uganda were said to have been an outpost of the evil god Clulu 247.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
Of Providence. AWD Survivor (online text) 155-156.
HPL Diary (online text) 304.
HPL Case (online text) 138.
Of Monk's Hollow. HK Frog (online text) 106.
Phrase in incantation. HPL Case (online text) 170.
RB Sebek 118.
Incl: Delvin, Doctor; de Marigny, Etienne Laurent de; Royce, Richard; Vanning, Henricus; Weildan, Prof..
Of Darwich University. RAL Abyss (online text) 286-290.
Location in another dimension. HK Hydra (online text) 140.
Manitoba. AWD Ithaqua 105-108, 110-112, 115-116.
Near Dunwich. HPL Dunwich (online text) 166, 177-181, 188.
Where Kadath stands. AWD Dweller 133, 138; Lamp (online text), Kadath in the ___ 252; Lurker 48-49, 82; Space 241; Valley (online text) 135; Whippoorwills 47.
Incl: Kadath.
Of Dunwich. AWD Middle, farm north of Dunwich 368.
Race(s?) of beetles immediately following mankind. HPL Time (online text) 395.
See also: beetle civilization.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 154; Haunter (online text) 109, 113.
AWD Lurker 76.
HPL Haunter (online text) 93.
RB Steeple (online text) 212, 215.
JVS Snouted 27.
HPL Call (online text) 146.
Talent agent who represented the model Kay Keith. He sent her to the Starry Wisdom Temple for a modeling job. Kay told Reverend Nye that Max Colbin was black. Mike Miller persuaded Colbin to allow Fred Elstree to stand in for the original photographer, Al Bedard. [RB Strange]
Girlfriend of Mark Dixon. She had an Irish father and a Japanese mother. She lived near Parkland Cemetery at 1112 Parkland Place. She was decapitated by a ghoul in Parkland Cemetery. [RB Strange]
France. RB Shambler (online text) De Vermis Mysteriis printed there 181.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 114, 123.
When Kay Keith was five years old, she saw long-dead body dragged up from the Colorado River. [RB Strange]
A life-form in distant space. HPL Kadath (online text) 356.
HPL Colour (online text) throughout, esp. 71-72, 81; Mountains (online text) 106.
DW Lady (online text) 105.
Of London. Author, The Watchers on the Other Side. AWD Island (177), 178, 206; Keeper (narrator) 137, flat in Soho 138, 139-140, 142-144, evidently over 30 145, 148, 155-156, 159-160, 162, 165, 170, 173.
Brig, out of Innsmouth, owned by Obed Marsh. AWD Clay 378; Shuttered 271.
Aka: Columby.
HPL Test (online text) 53, 56.
HPL Diary (online text) 303; Winged (online text) 243, 244, 252.
RAL Settlers (online text) In 1930-31, Will Richards and Dave Fenner were fraternity brothers there 24 & 30-31.
Incl: Dyson; Fenner, Dave; Moore, Henry Sargent; Richards, Will; Slauenwite, Thomas; Typer, Alonzo.
AWD Island 181.
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 329.
Synonym for: Columbia.
Constellation. HPL Medusa (online text) 171.
Circa 135 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 16-19, 33, 52, 71.
By Mycroft. Simon Maglore had a copy of the book. [RB Mannikin 75]
A place with a bar, Arkham. HPL Herbert (online text) 141.
Old capital of Hyperborea. An opulent city with mountainous walls and alabastrine spires, surrounded by jungle. Commorom received tribute from as far as Atlantis and Mu, and traders from as far as Mhu Thulan in the north and the peninsula of Tscho Vulpanomi in the south. [CAS Testament (online text)]
Commoriom was a day's march from Mount Voormithadreth in the Eiglophian Mountains. [CAS Seven (online text)]
Commoriom was abandoned when the unkillable Knygathin Zhaum ran amok in town. [CAS Testament (online text)] The new capital city Uzuldaroum was founded a day's journey away from Commoriom. [CAS Tale (online text)]
Later, it was incorrectly rumored that Commoriom was abandoned because of the prophecy of the White Sybil of Polarion. Strange tales were told, of horrors that haunt forevermore the shrines and mausoleums and palaces of Commoriom. [CAS Testament (online text); Tale (online text)]
After the human residents of Commoriom had left, one of them returned and found the city inhabited by the fissional spawn of Knygathin Zhaum [CAS Pnom]. On another occasion, Satampra Zeiros and Tirouv Ompallios visited the ruins of deserted Commoriom and encountered a black slime creature living in a basin in a temple of Tsathoggua [CAS Tale (online text)]. This creature may have been one of the spawn of Knygathin Zhaum.
HPL Mountains (online text) 47; Whisperer (online text) Commoriom myth-cycle 254.
DW Lady (online text) 105.
Incl: Athammaus; Cunambria; djongua-beans; eighon-wood; foum-wine; Homquat; Loquamethros; pazoors; suvana-fruit; Thal, Manghai; Vooz, Ralibar;
HPL Gates (online text) 434-435.
HPL Mound (online text) 99, 102-103, 106, 107, 110, 114, 155-157; Yig (online text) 87.
Compton, Grandma Sally and Joe
HPL Mound (online text) 99, 102, 105-107, 110, 114, 156-157.
(Not Conan of Cimmeria.) Earlier incarnation of John O'Brien. REH People (online text) 149, (150-160), 161-164, 167-168.
Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Location of Dr. Waite's private hospital, where Joseph Curwen, in the guise of Charles Dexter Ward, was committed. HPL Case (online text) 193, 231.
Massachusetts. HPL Whisperer (online text) enroute Waltham to Ayer 244.
AWD Watchers 385.
A race that peopled earth about a billion years ago [HPL Time (online text) 389]. They belonged to no surviving, or scientifically known, line of terrestrial evolution [398]. Their minds were displaced by the minds of the Great Race from the planet Yith about 600 million years ago [400-401]. See: Great Race.
AWD Brotherhood, description (340), tending great cubes 340-342, 344, (350).
Confessions of Clithanus, Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus
By Clithanus. Originally published in Rome. Soames Hemery found a copy. Includes an account of St. Augustine visiting Hydestall Cathedral when Clithanus set free the creature Something from Out There. Augustine banished Clithanus to Rome and succeeded in imprisoning the creature with a star-stone, on which he wrote a Latin inscription. [AWD OutThere]
Purchased by Eric Holm from Sanderton and Harker. Includes a formula to invoke a spawn of Cthulhu, another formula to send it back to the sea, and yet another to send it back upon the person who first invoked it. [AWD Passing]
The Field Museum library has a copy. [AWD Depths (online text)]
REH Bear 36.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 113.
Of Falcon Point. AWD Fisherman 289-293.
HPL Picture (online text) Congo region 119; Winged (online text) 248
Incl: Nyangwe (possibly).
Congregational Church, Dunwich
HPL Dunwich (online text) 158.
AWD Watchers 401.
Incl: Hoadley, Rev. Abijah.
Congregational Church, Innsmouth
HPL Innsmouth (online text) 318, 350.
Congregational Church, Providence
HPL Case (online text) 118.
Kingsport. HPL Silver (online text) 416; Mist (online text) 281.
HPL Unnameable (online text) 201.
Central Hill, Kingsport. HPL Silver (online text) 416.
HPL Case (online text) 145, 165.
Incl: Cantrell, Clyde; Richards, Will; Stamford-Norwalk area; Darien.
Enroute Greenfield to Brattleboro, after Northfield. (page and story ref. lost)
Curwen 9.
REH House (online text) 113, (114), 115-124, (125-129), 130.
Synonym for: Conrad, John?
REH Children (online text) 149-154, 160: A scholar and collector who was fascinated by the unknowable, obscure, and mystic. He had a bizarrely fashioned study, with queer relics from all over the world. There, of weird fiction vied with works on witchcraft, voodoo and dark magic. The volumes included Von Junzt’s Nameless Cults, the Mandrake Press edition of
Boccaccio, and a Missale Romanum, bound in clasped oak boards and printed
in Venice, 1740. His collection of weird fiction included Walpole's Castle of Otranto and a "nightmare" of Joris-Karl Huysman's (perhaps the novel Là-bas). To his mind, the three master horror tales were Poe’s "The Fall of the House of Usher", Machen's "Novel of the Black Seal" and Lovecraft’s "The Call of Cthulhu". His friends or acquaintances included Prof. John Kirowan, John O'Donnel, Clemants, Ketrick, and Taverel. He believed that the Picts were preceded into Britain by a Mongoloid type, deformed and inhuman appearing, with a neolithic culture (see Children of the Night). He was given a flint mallet head from the Welsh hills and fitted it to a handle of his own carving; he seems to have been a skilled woodcarver. He was present when John O'Donnel went berserk and attacked Ketrick.
Dig (online text) 71-86: John Conrad was the only friend that John Grimlan had. Conrad agreed to perform a ritual over Grimlan's body, in which Grimlan's soul was consigned to Malik Tous.
Jade: Together with John Kirowan, he investigated the killing of their neighbor William Dormouth by the Jade God.
Dwellers 111-123, 127-130;
Manor: Conrad and a friend (possibly John Kirowan or John O'Donnel) went to visit Tavarel (possibly the same as Taverel) at Dagon Manor and were greeted by the sinister Ketric.
Voice of El-Lil--a different John Conrad?
Aka: Conrad, James?
Play by Steele. HPL Case (online text) 188.
Manitoba area; Royal Northwest Mounted Police. AWD Ithaqua 116.
RB Hell (online text) 22, 30, 40, 43-47, 49-50, 54, 56, 71.
Included Philetas, Theodorus (HPL History (online text) 52).
See: celestial objects.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 17.
AWD Seal (online text) 158.
AWD Island 185, 187-188, 195, 198; Gorge 100.
Incl: Fisherman's God; Manihiki.
Library in Boston. HPL Case (online text) 159.
North End of Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 15, 20.
HPL Pickman (online text) 18.
Period, Egypt. HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum includes mummies from Coptic period 266.
Trapeze artist at the Stellar Brothers Circus [RB Elephant (online text) 46-51].
AWD Curwen 10, 15, 18, 29, 38; Gorge 125, 134.
HPL Diary (online text) 306, 322.
Carter family servant. HPL Gates (online text) 423, 428; Silver (online text) 416-417.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 177, 191.
Of Paris, and of Innsmouth area; sculptor of Rima, the Bird Girl, and of Sea-Goddess. AWD Clay 371-381.
(Harrop's?) Pocket. AWD Whippoorwills 38, 44, 57, cows 58-59, Jethro 59, cows 67.
Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 274.
Wife of George Corey. HPL Dunwich (online text) 177, 189.
Of Vienna, Boston, and Arkham. AWD Space 229, (230-242), 247.
HPL Dunwich (online text) 193.
AWD Lurker 48-49, 52, 100, 127, 140.
Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 99-100.
Britain. HPL Rats (online text) 30.
RB Brood 89, colonized by Egyptians 92, 95; Sebek 124.
Incl: Kent, Malcolm.
HPL Mound (online text) 98, 113-114, 116-117, 119, 138.
HPL Time (online text) 395.
HPL Test (online text) 56.
Ship. AWD Seal (online text) 158, 167.
HPL Kadath (online text) 406; Whisperer (online text) 228, 240, 254, 256.
AWD Lamp (online text), levels of being in other time continua, older than earth itself, tracing back through the Ancient Ones to Hali in the start and even beyond 254.
HH Guardian 293, 296, 299. Kathulhn learned whence the Cosmos came, and why, and its unpleasant ultimate destiny. The entire cosmos was spewed forth by an evil thought in the mind of a monstrous Thing in the Darkness. The Evil Ones (2) are forces of pure Evil, the source of all the evil that ever was, and is, and will be. Sometimes They reach in to our universe. There is a purpose. The Evil Ones (2) are performing rites involving the Cosmos in a monstrous catastrophe.
FBL Hounds (online text) time 76, deed before time 81-82, angles and angular time 80-83 & 85, curves and curved time 80 & 82-83.
CAS Ubbo (online text) great circle of time 48.
An strong, athletic American youth, and an amateur boxer of ability, with a terrific punch in either hand. He went on a tour of Europe with his flapper sister, Joan. He lectured her about the history underlying legends of the Little People, and Machen's story The Shining Pyramid. [REH Little]
With his boxing proclivities, Costigan bears some resemblance to Sailor Steve Costigan. Perhaps they are relatives. [Sailor Steve Costigan, Wikipedia, 1/11/2021]
A young American flapper, sister of Costigan. While touring Europe with her brother, she became intrigued by an old stone cromlech and decided to spend the night there. She was attacked by a horde of Little People, but saved by the spirit of a Druid priest. [REH Little]
A drug-addicted WWI veteran who briefly served Kathulos and later turned against him. [REH Skull (online text)]
Of Ulthar. HPL Cats (online text) given to trapping and slaying cats 55-56, found dead after the prayers of Menes bring revenge for the cats 58.
's hill church, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.
Of Lynwold; a schoolmaster. AWD OutThere Found Geoffrey Malvern in the priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea estate, and discussed the star-stone with him.
Of the zoogs. HPL Kadath (online text) 309.
Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 126.
Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150; WitchHouse (online text) (Salem not mentioned?) 263.
Of Wisconsin. AWD Dweller (123), 124-125.
California. HK Bells (online text) 81.
Of Lynwold. AWD OutThere A solitary fisherman who lived in a hut near Lynwold. Was killed by Something from Out There. Body was found under priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea, icy cold and crushed.
HC Death (online text) (narrator) 360, 362, 364, 367.
Arkham. HPL Herbert (online text) near Miskatonic University campus 143; Time (online text) 371, 374, 376, 417.
Near Providence/Pawtuxet. HPL Case (online text) 178.
Dunwich area. AWD Middle 361.
A Providence family. HPL Case (online text) 122, 126.
Synonym for the Snake-God. RB Serpents 261.
See: Nyarlathotep.
Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 85.
Of Arkham; related to ghouls? RB Creeper (online text) invoked by Jonathon Dark (108), long nails or claws, wheezing laughter, victim moans for long after commencement of attack (110).
HPL Gates (online text) 424, 457.
RB Sebek Creole district, New Orleans 116.
AWD Gorge 97-98, 102, 112, 118.
Transylvania. AWD Gorge 98.
135 million to 65 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 17, 22, 53, 60, 69.
Synonym for: Roba El Khaliyeh. HPL History (online text) 52; Test (online text) 47.
AWD Keeper 148.
See: Old Ones (1)
HPL Museum (online text) 215.
RB Mummy 286.
See also: Sebek.
HPL Medusa (online text) with three legs and a dorsal row of tentacles 193.
AWD Keeper 154.
Synonym for: Nameless City denizens.
HPL Medusa (online text) 190.
RB Sebek 121, 125-129.
Genus of saurians. AWD Survivor (online text) 152, 162.
God of the Irish. REH People (online text) 161.
15,000 BC. HPL Time (online text) 396.
FL Terror2 chants of 285.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 156.
RB Satan 15.
FBL Eaters (online text) 88, (107), 108, 110, 112, 114.
Compare with: crux ansata; looped cross.
HPL Kadath (online text) 368.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 188.
An old house on the outskirts of Arkham, High Street, home of Edward and Asenath Derby. HPL Doorstep (online text) 282-285, 292, 298*, 299.
RB Satan 18.
AWD Curwen 33.
RB Notebook (online text) 233.
Keziah Mazon recoiled in panic when Walter Gilman showed his crucifix to her. [HPL WitchHouse (online text) 292]
RB Hell (online text) 30, 57-58, 68.
RB Fane 142.
RB Hell (online text) 30.
HK Salem (online text) 264-265.
JVS Snouted 25.
Aka: ankh; looped cross.
RB Poe (online text). A story written by Edgar Allan Poe after his death and reanimation by Launcelot Canning. The story was never published and presumably was destroyed in the fire that burned Canning's mansion.
"Cryptomenysis Patefacta, or Art of Secret Information Disclosed Without a Key is a 1685 non-fiction book written by John Falconer, it was only the second text written in English on the topic of cryptography. In 1693 it was republished as Rules for Explaining and Deciphering All Manner of Secret Writing." [Cryptomenysis Patefacta, Wikipedia, 12/20/2020] The 1685 edition edition is available online at the Internet Archive.
Dr. Henry Armitage consulted the Cryptomenysis Patefacta for help in deciphering Wilbur Whateley's diary. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183]
AWD Island 198; Curwen 20-21, 31; Dweller 127, 134, 138-140, 147, 151; Gorge 126; Keeper 151; Lurker 84, 133; Seal (online text) 160, 162; Sky 68; Witches 301.
Aka: Fire-Being.
See also: Flame Creatures of Cthugha.
An alien being, said to be the priest of the Great Old Ones. See full article.
Laban Shrewsbury's second book, which he began dictating to Andrew Phelan shortly before they both disappeared in 1938. Phelan found it utterly incomprehensible, being a book written for savants by a savant, but with occasional strangely stirring passages. [AWD Curwen 30, 32]
Abel Keane consulted a copy of the manuscript in the Miskatonic University Library. He found it filled with learned and scholarly paragraphs concerning the lore of the Arab, Abdul Alhazred, most of them utterly beyond his comprehension. There was also a quotation from the R'lyeh Text. [AWD Sky 59]
AWD OutThere One of Geoffrey Malvern's friends found parallels to occult truth "in the fiction of certain British and American writers."
A land race of beings shaped like octopi, who filtered down to earth from remote gulfs of interstellar space. They were composed of matter widely different from what we know, and were able to undergo transformations and reintegrations. They fought a monstrous war against the crinoid Old Ones who were already present on earth. Eventually peace was made; the Cthulhu spawn retained the lands recently risen from the South Pacific, while the remains of their Antarctic cities were obliterated by the Old Ones. This Pacific landmass included the city of R'lyeh, and it was the Cthulhu spawn who brought the R'lyehian language to earth [HPL Gates (online text) 452]. Later, the lands of the Pacific suddenly sank, and obliterated all the Cthulhu spawn. [Mountains (online text) 66, 68].
The Cthulhu spawn should not be confused with the Deep Ones, another race with links to Cthulhu; for the Deep Ones have fishlike and froglike attributes rather than being octopoid, and live underwater, unlike the Cthulhu spawn who were land dwellers.
On the other hand, the Cthulhu spawn might be the same as the Great Old Ones, whose appearance is not known, and who lie in R'lyeh, protected and yet also trapped by Cthulhu's protective spells. See: Great Old Ones.
AWD Beyond2 water smells are the sign of the spawn of Cthulhu; Depths (online text) 235-236, 240, 251-252; AWD Dweller Prof. Partier referred to the primal spawn of the amphibious Cthulhu; Passing formula for invoking in Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus; was invoked by Eric Holm and later killed him; left big, webbed, irregular footprints. In this context, same as Something from Out There.
After invoking the Warder of Knowledge, Gordon Whitney saw the spawn of Cthulhu fly to earth from other worlds, build the city of R'lyeh, and wage war against the Old Ones until a compromise was effected. [RFS Warder]
Aka: Horror from the Depths.
HPL Electric (online text) 74, 77.
See: great cubes.
A perilous treatise of whose missing portion only four copies are reputed to exist. Peter Mace had copy of the missing portion in his hut on Faikana. [HC Isle (online text) 149]
Cultes des Ghoules, Cultes des Ghouls, Cultes des Goules
By Comte D'Erlette. A volume of occult lore, referred to variously as "terrible" or "ghastly." The nightmare arcana of Cultes des Ghoules are not conducive to a healthy state of mind [RB Demon 65].
History
There were at least two published editions, of which at least one was expurgated. Henricus Vanning had a copy of the original edition, with the covers protected by thin strips of glass [RB Sebek 123]; whereas the Grinning Ghoul narrator consulted the expurgated edition [RB Grinning 55].
According to the spurious catalog created by the forger Alastair White, an edition was published in 1737 at Rouen [AWD Six 125].
Libraries
The Miskatonic University library has a copy, which cannot be checked out [AWD Lurker 134]. There may be a copy at the University of Lima, as a transcript was loaned to Claiborne Boyd by Prof. Vibarro Andros of that University [AWD Gorge 126].
Private Copies and Readers
Robert Blake found copy at the abandoned church of the Starry Wisdom sect; he had previously read the book himself [HPL Haunter (online text) 100].
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee consulted a library copy while possessed by a mind of the Great Race, and wrote notes in the margin [HPL Time (online text) 374]. A copy was consulted by Amos Piper while he was similarly possessed by a Great Race mind [AWD Space 234].
James Allington had a copy in his study [RB Suicide (online text) 19].
Laban Shrewsbury also spoke to Andrew Phelan and Nayland Colum of Cultes des Ghoules [AWD Curwen 20; Keeper 141]. Shrewsbury told Horvath Blayne that the book is one of the sources of the Cthulhu Mythos [AWD Island 180].
Ambrose Dewart found a copy at Billington House [AWD Lurker 16].
The Gable Window narrator found a copy in Wilbur Akeley's collection [AWD Gable (online text) 206].
Amos Tuttle had a copy of Culte de Ghoules [sic] [AWD Hastur 2].
Marius Phillips found a copy that had been hidden by his late uncle, Sylvan Phillips [AWD Seal (online text) 160].
Alijah Atwood found one among Dr. Jean-FrancoisCharriere's books and papers [AWD Survivor (online text) 160].
Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop [AWD Whippoorwills 43]
Robert Blake searched fruitlessly for a copy in bookstores [RB Shambler (online text) 180].
See: Esoteric Order of Dagon.
Cultus Maleficarum in Libri quattuor
See: Sussex Manuscript.
California. FL Terror2 270.
Of Hyperborea? CAS Tale (online text) jewels stolen by Satampra Zeiros and Tirouv Ompallios 3.
Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) assigned to investigate the desecration of the grave of Ezra Weeden 177.
Of Lynwold. AWD OutThere (narrator) Investigated the cause of Geoffrey Malvern's sudden loss of sanity. Together with Soames Hemery and Duncan Vernon, succeeded in reimprisoning the creature Something from Out There.
AWD GodBox 119-123.
FBL Hounds (online text) 92; Eaters (online text) 105.
HPL Case (online text) 127.
See: Potter, Ann Tillinghast.
(nee Tillinghast). Ancestor of Charles Dexter Ward. HPL Case (online text) 116, 125-127, 148.
HPL Case (online text) 110-112, 116-124, 126-133, 135-161, 167, 171, 174, 183, 185, 190, 192, Joseph C. 194, J.C> 195, 196-200, 202-205, 208, 211, 213-218, 220-221, 223-228, 230, 232-234.
Family, of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 120.
Arkham. AWD Curwen 3-4, 8, 14, 19, 24, 26, 29, 36, 39-40, 43, 45, one of the river streets in Arkham; Lurker 138; Sky 72.
HPL Case (online text) 212, 215.
See: guards.
FL Terror2 dreams of 272, minions 281, dreams in Rulay 288, 291, 298, 306.
Terror 219, 227, 229, 235, 246, 248, 250, 251.
Incl: Terror of Cut-Throat Cove.
Evolutionary theorist. FBL Hills (online text) and Chaugnar Faugn 257.
AWD Curwen 10, 15; Gorge 125-126, 129.
Cxaxukluth
A spawn that Azathoth produced by fission. Cxaxukluth was androgynous and its offspring included Hzioulquoigmnzhah and Ghizghuth. Cxaxukluth brought his family (Hzioulquoigmnzhah, Ghizghuth, Ghizghuth's wife Zstylzhemgni, and their infant Tsathoggua) to Yuggoth, where Cxaxukluth has remained. Cxaxukluth's cannibalistic habits caused its own offspring to avoid it. [CAS Pnom]
HPL Rats (online text) 29, 43.
See: Magna Mater.
HPL Doom (online text) Cydathrian groves 48; Iranon (online text) cities of Cydathria 116.
An armed schooner. HPL Case (online text) 133.
Stars. HPL Colour (online text) 78.
Name for Saturn in the tongue of Mhu Thulan. CAS Door (online text) 22-27, 30-32, 34-35, 40.
Hzioulquoigmnzhah moved from Yaksh (Neptune) to Cykranosh, whose inhabitants long worshipped him [CAS Pnom].
Aka: Saturn.
Incl: Djhenquomh; Djhibbis; Ephighs; Ghlomph; Ghlonghs; Hzioulquoigmnzhah; Vhlorrh; Ydheems.
In architecture. HPL Rats (online text) 27.
HPL Terrible (online text) 272-274.
HPL WitchHouse (online text) 288.
HPL Case (online text) 164.
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