E

Eagle, John

HPL Diary (online text) 305.

Earth

AWD Curwen 21; Keeper 141; Lurker; Spawn 31.

HK Invaders (online text) 73-74.

CAS Ubbo (online text) 48, 50, gods who died before Earth was born 51, 55.

See also: Earth's gods.

Earth Beings

AWD Hastur 11.

Earth Creature

AWD Sky 68.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Earth's gods

See: Great Ones (1).

Easter Island

HPL Aeons (online text) Easter Island images are possible vestiges of bygone Pacific civilisation (of Mu) 267; Diary (online text) 303; Gates (online text) 426; Haunter (online text) 102; Innsmouth (online text) 329; Medusa (online text) 187.

In the near future, a tsunami related to the rising of R'lyeh wipes out every man-made structure on Easter Island. After leaving R'lyeh, Cthulhu lurks on Easter Island in the crater of Rano-Raraku. There he mates with Kay Keith before being destroyed, along with the whole island, by an atomic bomb. [RB Strange]

AWD Island 179, 182, 186; Curwen 13; Gable (online text) 206; Gorge 100, 109, 121; Lurker 116; Sandwin 99; Seal (online text) 163; Sky 76.

FL Terror2 286.

JVS Dead 30.

Incl:Rano-raraku.

East High School

Arkham. HPL Unnameable (online text) 201.

East India, East Indies

HPL Aeons (online text) The night watchman at Cabot Museum was found with a bit of East Indian hemp knotted around his neck 282.

AWD Curwen 13; Clay 377-378.

See also: South Pacific.

East India Dock Road

London. AWD Curwen 34.

East India Docks

London. AWD Curwen 36.

East Nineteenth Street

Manhattan. HPL Test (online text) 20.

Eater of Souls

HK Eater (online text) 12-13, white hairy and appallingly hideous 14.

Eblis

(allusion) HPL Herbert (online text) 138.

Ech-Pi-El

A nickname for H. P. Lovecraft, based phonetically on his initials [CAS Pnom].

Eddy, Orin B

Of Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 103.

Edgewood

Rhode Island--near Pawtuxet. HPL Case (online text) 179, 185.

Edmond, Paul

Of Hollywood. HK Hydra (online text) 126-134, 136-141.

Edsworth Memorial Prize

RB Mannikin 75.

Edmunds, Jeremy

A pious and famous witch-finder. He told in his sermons about the geography of Hell. Edmunds told Godfrey of the damage wrought by witches and their familiars, and of tests to use for detecting witches. He urged Gideon Godfrey to dedicate himself to a journey: either specifically the journey to Roodsford, or possibly more generally to the vanquishing of witches. [RB Satan 7-8]

Edward III

HPL Descendant (online text) 361.

efreet

RB Hell (online text) 53; Sebek 123.

Egeburg, the

In Oslo. HPL Call (online text) 148, 154.

Egypt

HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum includes Egyptian mummies from earliest Sakkarah specimens to last Coptic attempts 266, Ghatanothoa cult penetrated Egypt 276; Case (online text) 133, 194; Cats (online text) the Cat is the soul of antique Aegyptus 55, dark wanderers from south, who visit Ulthar, worship gods that sound vaguely Egyptian 56; Fungi (online text) XXI; Haunter (online text) 100, 2 refs? 103; Medusa (online text) magic 170, 193; Nyarlathotep (online text) 1; Pyramids (online text) throughout, 217, lower 218, mysteries older than pre-dynastic Egypt related to animal-headed gods in panthon 223, elder magic of 227, full of inner mysteries and antique powers 228, embodied in Houdini's dream as a giant paw 230, 231, sepulchres 234; Time (online text) 395.

RB Brood colonized Cornwall 92, 93-96, 98; Faceless 36-37, 39-42; Fane 133-136, 139, 141-143; Mummy 284-286, 296, 298; Opener 156, 158-160, 162-163, 168; Sebek 115-117, 119-125, 127, 129; Steeple (online text) 213-214, 228-229; Shambler (online text) 180; Sorcerer (online text) 154.

The Probilski Foundation had statues of Egyptian gods. The prophecy says that Nyarlathotep will come out of Egypt. Reverend Nye said the Egyptians new him as Nyarlathotep. [RB Strange]

AWD Island 181-182, pyramids 199; Brotherhood, Egyptian papyri 329; Gorge 99, 122; Keeper 140; Sandwin 104; Space 234; Survivor (online text) animal worship of ancient Egypt 162.

REH Roof (online text) degraded and mongrel peoples of lower Egypt 8; Untitled 36, 38.

HK Hunt (online text) 169-170; Invaders (online text) 70.

RFS Warder 164.

Incl: el Drogman, Abdul Reis; baboons; Black Pharaoh; Blind Apes of Truth; Cartaret, Captain; Cheops; Chewer of Corpses; Horus; Hyborians; Ka; Khephnes; Khephren, King; Luveh-Keraph; Nephren-Ka; Nitokris; Sphinx; Stygians; Thoth; Thutmosis IV; Unknown God of the Dead; Alexandria; Ankh; Black Rites; Bubastis; Cairo; Coptic Period; Elephantine; Fayum; Grand Cairo; Great Pyramid; Hadoth, Valley of; Karnak; Karneter; Khem; Memphis; mummies; Nile; Ninth Pyramid; Papyrus Ipuwer; Place of the Blind Apes; Pyramids; Secret Place; Semites; Soul Chant of Sebek; Thebes; Valley of Kings; Wadi Hassur; Walls of Truth.

Egyptian gods: Amen; Amon; Anubis; Apis; Bast; Bennu; Buto; Hathor; Horus; Isis; Judges of the Dead; Khepri; Neb; Nekhebet; Nyarlathotep; Osiris; Pasht; Ra; Re-Harakhte; Sebek; Sekhmet; Set; Thoth; Unknown God of the Dead;

Aka: Khem.

See also: wanderers.

Eibon

Hyperborean sorcerer, author of the Book of Eibon. CAS Coming (online text) 82; Door (online text) 18-41; CAS Pnom Eibon encountered Hzioulquoigmnzhah on Cykranosh (Saturn).

eighon-wood

A type of wood that was used for the executioner's block in Commoriom. [CAS Testament (online text)]

Eight Brazen Towers

REH Dig (online text) 79: The Eight Brazen Towers of the Yezidees rise in the mysterious wastes of deep Asia.

For comparison, Robert W. Chambers' novel The Slayer of Souls (1920) states that Mongolia was guarded by the Eight Towers of the Assassins, and that the vice-regent of Erlik, Prince of Darkness, dwelt within this unknown land.

Eiglophian Moutains

Black mountains located in Hyperborea, a day's march from Commoriom. Ralibar Vooz took a party there to hunt voormis. The fauna also included alpine catoblepones and saber-tooth tigers. [CAS Seven (online text)]

Knyagathin Zhaum led raiding parties of voormis from the Eiglophian mountains against the surrounding hill-regions. [CAS Testament (online text)]

Incl: voormis; Voormithadreth, Mt.;

Einstein

HPL Case (online text) 161; Moutains 19; Whisperer (online text) light-speed limit 253; Time (online text) 376; WitchHouse (online text) 264.

AWD Curwen 7.

RB Steeple (online text) *226; Sorcerer (online text) 152.

FBL Hounds (online text) 74-75, Einstein formula 86.

Eire-ann

Synonym for Ireland. REH People (online text) 149.

Elagabalus

An author. HPL Herbert (online text) 155.

Elder God

Sculpture by Clark Ashton Smith. AWD Wood 73.

Elder God

Carved image of. AWD Gorge 100.

Elder Gods (1)

For further information, see Elder Gods and Great Old Ones: God Terminology in Derleth's Mythos Stories.

AWD Island 179, benevolent 180, 181-182, 186, 188, 197-198, described (200), 212; Curwen 21-22, 31, 37, 42-43; Dweller 133; Gable (online text) 207; Gorge beneficient 121, 126; Depths (online text) 235-236, 240-241, 249, 251-252; Keeper 141, 157, 163, seal of 170; Lair 126, 134; Lurker 51, home in Glyu-Vho 83, 84, 123, 133-135; OutThere 590-591; Hastur 11, home in Betelgeuse 27; Sandwin 106-106, 112; Seal (online text) 160-162, 164, 177, 179; Sky books stolen from 68, benign authority 69, 71; Space 238-239, 240-242; Spawn 30-31; Survivor (online text) 162; Valley (online text) 127, 134-135; Whippoorwills 47, 51; Witches 301, 303; Wood 81.

Aka: Elder Ones (4); Old Ones (Misc); Ancient Ones (2).

Elder Gods (2)

CJ Acquarium 306, 307.

DAW Review (online text) The Necronomicon speaks of the Elder Gods who came before the modern demons.

elder gods (3)

RFS Warder 164.

Elder Key

The Elder Key is a half-fabulous cryptogram, and one of the sources that enabled Andreas Benson to piece together the incantation which would summon Iod to Earth. [HK Hunt (online text) 169]

The occultist Kenneth Scott was rumored to possess a copy of the blasphemous Elder Key; one of the only two copies that are reputed to exist on earth. [HK Hydra (online text) 127]

Elder Lore

HPL Gates (online text) 432.

Elder One (1)

HPL Fungi (online text) the last Elder One XXVII.

Elder One (2)

RB Fane 134.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Elder Ones (1)

HPL Mountains (online text) 25.

Synonym for: Old Ones (1).

Elder Ones (2)

Spawn of the dark planet Yuggoth, who colonized the earth before the birth of terrestrial life. Built gigantic fortress on top of Mount Yaddith-Gho, in the crypts beneath which their god Ghatanothoa lowers and broods eternally. Brought the lagh metal to earth from Yuggoth. HPL Aeons (online text) (272), 274.

Possible synonym for: Outer Ones?

Elder Ones (3)

HPL Mist (online text) 277, 282, 285-286; Kadath (online text) 311, 351, 356.

Synonym for: Gods of Earth.

Elder Ones (4)

AWD Lair 125; Sky 86.

Synonym for: Elder Gods (1).

Elder Ones (5)

Unidentified meanings. HPL Medusa (online text) 187.

REH Dig (online text) 83: Beings that existed before humanity, and whose lord dwells even now among the shadows. "Their lord" is probably a reference to Malik Tous.

Elder Pharos

"Pharos" means lamp or lighthouse. HPL Fungi (online text) XXVII; Mountains (online text) 106.

FL Terror2 272.

Elder Script

The writing used in the Parchments of Pnom, which were possibly Hyperborean [CAS Pnom].

Elder Seal

AWD Valley (online text) 135.

Synonym for: Elder Sign (2)?

Elder Shepherd

Probably a synonym for Satan. RB Satan 18.

Elder Sign (1)

A symbol whose form and significance is unclear. In some references, the Elder Sign is apparently a hand gesture invoked for protection. Thus, when Randolph Carter asked about the Great Ones, the farmer and his wife would only make the Elder Sign and tell him the way to Nir and Ulthar [HPL Kadath (online text) 311]. And when Surama was frightened by Dr. Alred Clarendon's curses, he made an elder sign that no book of history records [HPL Test (online text) 35]. However, the sign is not always effective: Alhazred reports that, beyond the Gateway guarded by 'UMR AT-TAWIL, there lies "the Evil that defieth the Elder Sign" [HPL Gates (online text) 431]. 

The Elder Sign seems also to be an element of cult ritual; in the time of Roman Britain, strange folk descended from a lost Western continent met together and made the Elder Sign in the dark [HPL Descendant (online text) 361]. Then again, the narrator of The Messenger regards it as a device for invoking malevolent beings; he refers to "the Elder Sign, bequeathed from long ago, That sets the fumbling forms of darkness free" [HPL Messenger (online text) 57].

HPL drew this image of the Elder Sign at the conclusion of a letter to Clark Ashton Smith dated November 7, 1930, and included in H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III, ed. August Derleth and Donald Wandrei (Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1971), p. 216. If you wanted to convey this symbol through a hand gesture, a possible way might be to hold up one hand vertically, edge on, and hold the other hand behind it with fingers open so that the thumb and forefinger appear on one side and the other three fingers on the other side. Alternatively, you could perhaps make a gesture similar to a genuflection, drawing first a vertical line and then two or more horizontal lines in the air. (Scan of the Elder Sign is courtesy of Donovan Loucks at http://hplovecraft.com

Elder Sign (2)

Misquamacus used a stone carved with the Elder Sign to seal the prison of Ossadagowah [HPL Sorceries (online text), AWD Lurker 15, 139]. Alijah Billington removed and later restored this stone [Lurker 141]. Dewart observed this carving, which was shaped like a star, with a broken lozenge at the center that seemed to be a caricature of an eye, and other lines suggestive of flames or of a pillar of flame [Lurker (27)].  Cthulhu was sealed within the barnacled tower at R'lyeh by the Elder Sign, which his minions are powerless to touch [Lurker 83]. Perhaps the same as the sign of protection referred to by Mrs. Bishop [Lurker 103]. Referred to by Seneca Lapham as the mark the Great Old Ones fear and hate, for it is the mark of the Elder Gods whose strength against the Great Old Ones is absolute [Lurker 128].  Richard Billington was subject to the power of the Elder Sign [Lurker 142]. Lapham and Winfield Phillips dug up the stone marked with the Elder Sign and used it to reseal the opening [Lurker 144, 146]. The people of Dunwich placed the Elder Sign on the central pier of Crary Road bridge [AWD Middle 370].

Aka: Elder Seal?; Sign, the.
Compare with: star-stones.

Elder Things, polypous

A race of alien entities from immeasurably distant universes who dominated the earth and three other solar planets about 600 million years ago. They were only partly material, but could wield material tools. They are described as "half-polypous." This may denote a partial resemblance to terrestrial life forms such as sea anemones, which have a cylindrical body plan with a mouth at one end, usually surrounded by tentacles. However, they were capable of changing their body shape at will, and also of temporarily becoming invisible. Their type of consciousness and sense perceptions differed widely from those of terrestrial organisms. The Elder Things had no eyesight, but their senses could penetrate all material barriers.[HPL Time (online text) 400-402]

The Elder Things could control the wind and even harness it for military purposes. They could also fly through the air (despite a lack of any wings). Their footprints occurred in groups of three; each was about a foot square, and consisted of five circular marks, one in advance of the other four. [402, 424, 428] They were associated with singular whistling noises [402, 429, 430].

After settling on earth, the Elder Things dwelt in great cities of windowless basalt towers and in adjoining underground caverns. The Elder Things preyed horribly on the earth beings they found, including the cone-creatures. However, when the Great Race took over the minds of the cone-creatures, they waged war against the Elder Things. The Great Race could not exchange minds with the Elder Things, since their type of conciousness was too alien. However, the Elder Things could be destroyed by certain types of electrical energy; and the Great Race battled them using camera-like weapons which produced tremendous electrical effects. The Elder Things were defeated and driven underground. The Great Race placed gigantic sealed trapdoors over the entrances. [392, 400, 401]

Something less than 50 million years ago, the Elder Things temporarily errupted from their underground lairs to take vengeance against the Great Race. Ironically, however, the minds of the Great Race had already escaped to the future, to the bodies of the post-human beetle race. So the revenge of the Elder Things was really exacted against hapless captive minds of the beetle race who were stuck in the cone-creature bodies at that point. Thereafter, the Elder Things again withdrew underground and gradually died out [Time (online text) 385, 402; Challenge (online text) ]

The Elder Things are hinted of in the beliefs of Australian aborigines, who preserve legends of underground huts from which a frightful wind sometimes blows [Time (online text) 404].

AWD Whippoorwills 47.

FL Terror2 invisible whistlers (296).

Elder Things (2)

HPL Dunwich (online text) 185

Elder Things (3)

HPL Mountains 20, 22.

Elder Time

RFS Casket 25.

Eldertown

RB Tomb (online text) 12.

el Drogman, Abdul Reis

See Reis el Drogman, Abdul.

Electra

Star in the Pleiades. AWD Curwen 46.

elementals

HPL Museum (online text) 222, 229.

RB Hell (online text) 61-62; Sorcerer (online text) 158-160, 163.

AWD Dweller 127, 133; Ithaqua spirits of the elements 112; Seal (online text) 162; Sky 68; Wind (online text) according to Dr. Jamison, beings associated with the four elements earth, air, fire, and water. Ithaqua is said to be an air elemental.

Includes: gnomes; salamanders; sylphs; undines.

Elephant

Inn, tavern? Providence. HPL Case (online text) 162.

Elephantine

Egyptian city with temple of Bubastis. RB Brood 94-95.

Eliot

Family, Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 323.

AWD Clay 375-376, 378; Sky 62; Survivor (online text) 161.

Eliot

HPL Pickman (online text) 12, 17-20, 22-25.

Eliot, Matt

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 329-330, 332, 334, 336.

Eliot St

Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 327, 351, 355.

Eliot, T.S.

HPL Case (online text) 209.

Elixir

HK Jest (online text) 60-62, synonym for Philosopher's Stone 63.

Elixir Vitae

HK Hydra (online text) =heavy water? 135.

Eliza

Brig out of Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 329.

Ellery, Professor

Miskatonic University? HPL WitchHouse (online text) 284.

Ellis, Mate

A bottle. HPL Terrible (online text) 273.

El Mekru, Nurreddin

REH Fire (online text) 47-51, 53, 55.

Elm Mountain

Massachusetts; south of Arkham. HPL Silver (online text) 419.

Elmwood Avenue

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165.

Eloim

HPL Case (online text) 170, 233.

El Nigro

Saharan oasis. AWD Gorge 108, 110.

El Paso

Texas. HPL Electric (online text) 63, 78.

El Reno

A town. HPL Yig (online text) 87.

El Salvador

Central America. Project Arkham suspected the Black Brotherhood was responsible for the assassination of El Salvador's president. [RB Strange]

Elstree, Fred

A government agent who substituted for the photographer at a photo session with Kay Keith at the Starry Wisdom Temple. Elstree was shot to death by a cultist named Jody. [RB Strange]

El Turco

An Indian. HPL Mound (online text) 116.

Eltdown Shards

Debatable and disturbing clay fragments, dug up from pre-Carboniferous strata in southern England, thirty years before the events of The Challenge From Beyond (written 1935). [HPL Challenge (online text) 7].

The first examiners of the shards were Dr. Dalton and Dr. Woodford; this was 44 years before the events of The Warder of Knowledge. Following their discovery, the shards were hastily sent to a museum at a small midwestern school called Beloin University [RFS Warder 154-157].

In 1912, a Sussex clergyman named Arthur Brook Winters-Hall published a purported translation, based on comparisons with "pre-human hieroglyphs" handed down in certain mystical circles. [HPL Challenge (online text) 7].

Dr. Gordon Whitney started a translation of the cryptic and half-decipherable Eltdown Shards, but abandoned the project in fright. He returned to the project years later and completed a translation of the nineteenth shard. Whitney's translation was based on comparison with later Amharic and Arabic root words [RFS Warder 154-158].

Appearance

There are 23 shards total. The shards are slabs of iron-hard grey clay, varying in shape and ranging in size from the fifth shard, about 4 by 8 inches, to the fourteenth, a triangular piece about 20 inches across. Most are broken and are missing pieces. The shards are carved with fine, symmetrical characters, except for a one inch margin around the edge. [RFS Warder 156]

Contents

The Shards record that, in distant Elder Times, the wizard Om Oris attempted to defeat the demon Zubnian. [RFS Mists 25]. The shards also record that Om Oris attempted to defeat a demon called Avaloth, who was plaguing the earth with a growth of living ice and snow. [RFS Casket 11]. In both these cases, it is not known whether Om Oris was able to destroy the demons, and some believe that he did not have sufficient means to actually destroy them. Yet Zubnian was seen no more, and the ice fields of Avaloth vanished.

The fifth shard discusses the revolting habits of the fiendish Avaloth at some length [RFS Warder 159].

The nineteenth shard discusses an enity called the Warder of Knowledge [RFS Warder 155, 156], and ends with a spell for summoning It [158]. However, the shard is broken and is missing the complementary spell for dismissing the Warder.

According to Winters-Hall's translation, the Shards tell of giant worm-like aliens, the Spawn of Yekub, and of certain cubes that they used to transfer their minds between universes [HPL Challenge (online text)10].

The Shards also speak of the planet Yith, the origin of the Great Race [HPL Time (online text) 401].

Modern Copies and Readers

Alonzo Typer read from the text of the Eltdown Shards in the library of the deserted van der Heyl house, and regretted having come there [HPL Diary (online text) 311].

Elton, Basil

Of the North Point Light, Kingsport. HPL Kadath (online text) (317): Basil Elton discoursed to Randolph Carter of the glorious lands and cities which he had seen in dreams. White (online text) 36-42.

Elton, (Professor)

RFS Mists 27-28, paleontology 29, 30.

el Wadir, Hassim

A vizier who ran the government for his lord, Genghir the Dreamer, in an ancient middle-eastern kingdom. Genghir had Hassim flayed for abuse of his office. [RB Lotus]

Elwood, Frank

Miskatonic University math student. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 271, 276, 279-280, 282-287, 289-290, 294-296.

Embankment, the

London. CJ Acquarium 309.

Emma

Two-masted schooner, of Auckland. HPL Call (online text) 146, 149.

AWD Seal (online text) 163.

Empire Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 165.

Empress

A ship. HPL Time (online text) 412.

Empty Space

Arabia. HPL History (online text) 52.

AWD Keeper 148.

Synonym for: Roba el Khaliyeh.

Enchanted Wood

HPL Kadath (online text) 308-310, 334, 339.

England

Of Britain. HPL Case (online text) 149; Hound (online text) 175; Mound (online text) 137; Rats (online text) 33, 42-44.

RB Brood 89-90; Kiss (online text) 48; Notebook (online text) 235; Satan 8, 17; Sebek 124.

AWD Lurker 4, 9, 13, 40, 46, 127, 136, 142; Middle 352-353, 355, 358; Spawn 19-20, 26; Watchers 384, 394, 395; Wind (online text) Allison Wentworth raved of the fogs over England, which he must have visited while a captive of Ithaqua.

REH Gods (online text) 196; People (online text) 147; Roof (online text) 9.

FBL Gateway 3.

CAS Offspring (online text) 8.

Incl. Bassett; Billington, Alijah; Billington, Laban; Bishop, Ambrose; Bishop, Peter; Bishop?, William; Black Prince; Brinton, Sir William; Capito, Cnaeus Gabinius; Clave, Sir John; de la Poer, Walter; de la Poer, Gilbert; de la Poer, Godfrey; de la Poer, Mary; Delapore; Drayton, Lady; Edward III; Hardie, Sir John; Harper; Hemery, Soames; Norrys, Capt. Edward; Shrewsfield, Earl of; Sullatt; Thornton; Trask, Dr.; Tremoth, Lady Agatha; Tremoth, Sir John; Tremoth, Lady Agatha; Tremoth, Sir John; Trevor, Lady Margaret; Vernon, Duncan; Warwick, Jason.

Anchester; British Museum; Cornwall; Devon; Dover; Drayton Hall; Dunstable; Eton Club; Exham Priory; Hanwell; Harrow; Hydestall; Kent; Lindum; London; Lynwold; Malvern-by-the-Sea; Melcombe House; Northam Keep; Oxford; Scotland Yard; Selfridge's; Stonehenge; Surrey; Tremoth Hall; Warwickshire; Wolverhampton; Yorkshire.

Enterprise

A Crawford packet. HPL Case (online text) 126, 134.

Eocene epoch

55-35 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 17, 22.

Ephighs

Cykranoshian pygmies. CAS Door (online text) 36.

E-poh

Leader of the Tcho-Tcho people. AWD Lair 7,000 year old leader of Tcho-Tchos 128, 129-133.

Epstein

Sculptor admired by Jeffrey Corey. AWD Clay 372; Wood 75.

Erebus

Antarctic volcano. HPL Mountains (online text) 7-9.

Erech

An ancient city in Sumer and Babylonia.

In Erech, a manifestation of Ishtar hired camel-drivers and destroyed them with kisses [FBL WereSnake (online text)].

Eridanus

A freighter which, bound from Wellington to Valparaiso in 1878, chanced by a temporary island. A landing party under Captain Weatherbee discovered the mummy of T'yog. HPL Aeons (online text) 265.

Ermington

Someone at the Navy Department who authorized sending a nuclear submarine to destroy R'lyeh. [RB Strange]

Eskimos

HPL Call (online text) 135.

RB Kiss (online text) 48.

AWD Gorge 99, 121.

Aka: Esquimau.

Esopus

HPL Man (online text) 207.

Esoteric Order of Dagon

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 312, 318, 320, 336-337.

AWD Clay 378; Sky 56, 62-66, 69, 75, 80, 82.

Aka: Order of Dagon.

Esquimaux

HPL Museum (online text) legends 221.

Synonym for: Eskimos.

Essential Saltes

HPL Case (online text) 107, 122, 199.

FL Terror2 283.

RB Poe (online text). After consulting works of wizardry (possibly including Liber Eibon and De Vermis Mysteriis), Launcelot Canning revived Edgar Allan Poe from the essential salts of Poe's remains. It is not clear whether Canning used a process similar to that of Joseph Curwen and Charles Dexter Ward. The process cannot have been identical, since Canning had access only to a small box of Poe's bones, whereas Curwen's method required a full set of remains to work successfully.

Essex County

Massachusetts. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 310, 362; Sorceries (online text); WitchHouse (online text) 263.

Incl: Arkham; Crubinthorpe, Judge; Innsmouth; Grandma; Kingsport; Roodsford?

Essex Institute

Salem. HPL Case (online text) 149-150, 156, 159.

Ethiopia

RB Suicide (online text) 19.

Eton Club

London. AWD Spawn 19.

Etrick, (Sir) Landon

AWD Gorge 109-110.

Etruscans

HK Hunt (online text) 168.

Eunapius

"Eunapius (. . . fl. 4th–5th century AD) was a Greek sophist and historian of the 4th century AD. His principal surviving work is the Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (. . . Latin: Vitae sophistarum), a collection of the biographies of 23 philosophers and sophists." [Eunapius, Wikipedia]

Uriah Garrison's library included an old book by Eunapius, presumably the Vitae sophistarum. [AWD Attic 320]

A copy of Vitae sophistarum was found in a hidden room in the house of the late Asaph Peabody. [AWDPeabody 193]

Europe

HPL Aeons (online text) Europe harbored only hybrid entities 200,000 years ago 272, witchcraft movement in Europe had strong connection with Ghatanothoa cult 276; Mound (online text) 153, 155.

AWD Island 180.

RB Faceless 41.

European Club-Room

Hankow. REH Bear 35.

Evagh

Hyperborean sorcerer. CAS Coming (online text) 67-82.

Evam

HPL Case (online text) 170.

Evening Bulletin

Providence. HPL Case (online text) (page ref lost).

Evidences of Nahua Culture in Yucatan

A rival scholar named Tussmann attempted to discredit the work, resulting in a bitter controversy. However, the narrator felt that he had sufficiently refuted Tussmann's charges in the eyes of the world. [REH Roof (online text) 3-4]

See also: Nahua indians.

Evil Ones (1)

AWD Depths (online text) 235, 240, 249; Hastur conflicts between those of Water vs. Air, Fire vs. Earth 11.

Evil Ones (2)

HH Guardian 293: Beings who exist outside of space and time, and are the source of all evil. Sometimes they reach in to our world. Kathulhn encountered them after speaking an incantation in correlation with a dimension calculus. Kathulhn later started to remember rites performed by Them that involve the Cosmos in a diabolic way. They were amused by Kathulhn's presence. After thrusting him back into our world, They closed the route so that no one from our world could ever reach Them again.

Also known as: Outer Ones (2), Them.

Evil Presence

HPL Aeons (online text) 275.

Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.

Evoe

HPL Electric (online text) 70.

Evolution

FBL Hills (online text) cycles 257, regression 263-264.

Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others, An

By Solar Pons, published in 1931. [AWD Who] A monograph that may not have been seriously intended. At the time of "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders," Solar Pons said of the Necronomicon, Cultes des Ghoules, De Vermis Mysteriis, and Liber Ivonis that "All these books have a precarious existence only in the writings of certain minor authors of American origin, all apparently followers, in a remote sense, of the work of Edgar Allan Poe." [AWD Six] Thus, Pons probably regarded the Cthulhu cult also as a literary fiction. "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders" apparently took place in 1930, just a year prior to the publication of An Examination of the Cthulhu Cult and Others. [See Robert Pattrick's "A Chronology of Solar Pons," in August Derleth, The Reminiscences of Solar Pons, Manchester, NH: Belanger Books, 2018.]

Exham Priory

HPL Rats (online text) 26-29, 31-32, 40, 45: Ancestral home of the de la Poer (later Delapore) family, located three miles west of the village of Anchester, England. It stood on the site of a prehistoric temple, from Druidic or pre-Druidic times. It appears that the cult secretly kept a herd of slightly subhuman, plump, white, flabby quadruped things in a grotto under the temple, for use as food and possibly as sacrifices. A large population of rats also lived there and apparently subsisted on the herd-things, or possibly on their remains.

During Roman times, rites from that prehistoric cult continued under the guise of the worship of Magna Mater. The cult continued even after the rise of Christianity and the fall of Rome. Certain Saxons added to the temple, making it the centre of a cult feared through half the heptarchy (the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England). About 1000 A.D. the place was a substantial stone priory housing a strange and powerful monastic order and surrounded by extensive gardens. It was never destroyed by the Danes, but declined after the Norman Conquest, until Henry the Third granted the site to Gilbert de la Poer, First Baron Exham, in 1261. The family built a castle on the foundations of the old temple and priory. Thereafter the de la Poer family apparently adopted the habits of the original cult. The family developed an evil reputation, and was suspected in the occasional disappearances of villagers through several generations.

During the reign of James the First (1603-1625), Walter de la Poer, the third son of the family, apparently became appalled by the family cult practices. (The date was 1610 or later, since grafitti from 1610 was subsequently found onsite.) Walter murdered his father, five of his siblings, and several servants, and then emigrated to Virginia. Three months later, an army of rats burst forth from the castle and devoured domestic animals and two humans. Subsequently, the estate reverted to the crown. Exham Priory remained untenanted, though later allotted to the estates of the neighboring Norrys family.

Exham Priory had Gothic towers resting on a Saxon or Romanesque substructure, whose foundation in turn was reputed to be a blend of Roman and Druidic or native Cymric. This foundation was merged on one side with the solid limestone of a precipice. The nearby Anchester villagers had an almost unbelievable fear and hatred of the place.

Delapore (a American descendant of Walter de la Poer) bought Exham Priory in 1918, and visited in December 1921, then began restoring the Priory. He moved into Exham Priory on July 16, 1923. Almost immediately his cats showed signs of agitation and frenzy, and Delapore himself heard unaccountable sounds of a horde of rats scurrying through the solid stone walls. No other humans could hear the sounds. While investigating the subcellar with his neighbor Capt. Norrys, Delapare discovered an entrance to a deeper sublevel. With a team of archaeologists, they ventured downward and found a vast grotto with skeletons of the cult's victims and of many rats. There were also tumuli, a circle of monoliths, a low-domed Roman ruin, a sprawling Saxon pile, and an early English edifice of wood.

Venturing too far into the dark recesses of the grotto, Delapore seems to have reverted to the habits of his ancestors by slaying and partially eating the plump, flabby Capt. Norrys, who apparently reminded him of the herd-things. Delapore denied the crime and claimed that the rats had done it. Subsequently, Delapore was confined to a barred room at Hanwell. Workmen blew up Exham Priory, and worked to obliterate its foundations. Most of the facts concerning the Priory were suppressed.

One of Delapore's statements may imply that the Exham Priory cult was really dedicated to Nyarlathotep: "It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth’s centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players."

Exhibitor, S.S

HC Death (online text) 365.

Eye of Horus. RB Sebek 143.

Eye of Horus

See: Horus.

Ezdagor

Hyperborean sorcerer on Mt. Voormithadreth. CAS Seven (online text) (48), 49-52, 55.

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