S

S., Bridget

Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150, 194.

Saba

Arabia. District. RFB Iram (online text) 113, 118.

Incl: Shaddad the Less.

SABAOTH

A word commonly used in Medieval magical invocations, and derived from the Hebrew word TZ'VAOT, which means "Hosts" as in "The Lord of Hosts." This information was kindly supplied me by Eric Friedman, who goes on to state: "In the original Hebrew, it bears no relationship whatsoever to the word SABBATH (SHABAT), meaning 'rest'. It is only in transliteration into Roman characters that they appear related . . . "

HPL Case (online text) 162, quoted 170, 215-216, 233; Dunwich (online text) 184.

See also: Legend of the Elder Saboth

Sabbat, Sabbath

HPL Diary (online text) 311, 316-318, 320-321.

RB Notebook (online text) 244-245; Satan 15-18.

See also: Great Sabbath; Witches-Sabbat.

Sabin, Thomas

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 188.

Sabin's Tavern

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 134.

Saboth

See: Sabaoth.

Sac Indian language

AWD Hastur 9.

Saco

New England town enroute Portland to Arkham. HPL Doorstep (online text) 290.

Sac Prairie

Wisconsin. AWD Lurker 137.

Sacramento

California. HPL Electric (online text) 69, 72; Test (online text) 23, 33, 44-45.

Sacred White Elephant of Jadhore

RB Elephant (online text) 39-48, 50-55: Of Jadhore, and later of the Stellar Brothers Circus. Believed to be an incarnation of Ganesha.

Aka: Ganesha.

Sacsahuaman

AWD Curwen 10; Gorge Sachsahuaman 125, Sachcahuaman 132.

Sadogowah

See: Tsathoggua.

Saducimus Triumphatus

A "book on witchcraft by Joseph Glanvill, published posthumously in England in 1681... The book affirmed the existence of witches with malign supernatural powers of magic, and attacked skepticism concerning their abilities." [Saducimus Triumphatus, Wikipedia, 11/12/20]

HPL Festival (online text) 211: The narrator found a copy of Saducimus Triumphatus in Kingsport, at the home of his people.

Sahara

HPL Medusa (online text) 171; Test (online text) 19.

AWD Gorge 108; Wind (online text) "stars are born in the Sahara," raved Allison Wentworth while remembering his year spent with Ithaqua.

Incl: El Nigro; Tuaregs.

St. Augustine (1)

Florida city. AWD Survivor (online text) 161.

Incl: Bishop, Henry.

St. Augustine (2)

Augustine, Bishop of Hippo. See: Augustine, St..

St. Clair Academy

HPL Medusa (online text) 170.

St. Eloi

A place in France. HPL Herbert (online text) 156, 162.

St. Eustatius

A port--Caribbean? HPL Case (online text) 122.

St. Germain, Count

"The Comte de Saint Germain (. . . c. 1691 or 1712 – 27 February 1784)[3] was a European adventurer, with an interest in science, alchemy and the arts. He achieved prominence in European high society of the mid 1700s. Prince Charles of Hesse-Kassel considered him to be 'one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived'. St. Germain used a variety of names and titles, an accepted practice amongst royalty and nobility at the time. These include the Marquis de Montferrat, Comte Bellamarre, Chevalier Schoening, Count Weldon, Comte Soltikoff, Graf Tzarogy and Prinz Ragoczy. In order to deflect inquiries as to his origins, he would make far-fetched claims, such as being 500 years old, leading Voltaire to sarcastically dub him 'The Wonderman' and that 'He is a man who does not die, and who knows everything'. His real name is unknown while his birth and background are obscure, but towards the end of his life, he claimed that he was a son of Prince Francis II Rákóczi of Transylvania. . . .

"Myths, legends, and speculations about St. Germain began to be widespread in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and continue today. They include beliefs that he is immortal, the Wandering Jew, an alchemist with the 'Elixir of Life', a Rosicrucian, and that he prophesied the French Revolution. He is said to have met the forger Giuseppe Balsamo (alias Cagliostro) in London and the composer Rameau in Venice. Some groups honor Saint Germain as a supernatural being called an ascended master. Madame Blavatsky and her pupil, Annie Besant, both claimed to have met the count, who was traveling under a different name." [Count of St. Germain, Wikipedia]

Possible author of La Très Sainte Trinosophie.

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.

St. John

HPL Hound (online text) 171-175, 177.

St. John's church

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 114, formerly King's 160.

St. John's Eve

Of dreamlands.HPL Other (online text) Barzai told Atal where the black cats go at midnight on St. John's Eve 128.

St. Lawrence river

AWD Dweller 127.

St. Louis

HPL Call (online text) 133; Herbert (online text) 151; Medusa (online text) 175, 180.

JVS Dead 31.

Incl: Robert Leavitt.

St. Mary's

Church in Philadelphia. HPL Case (online text) 138.

St. Mary's Hospital

Arkham.

[HPL Unnameable (online text) 207]

St. Mary’s Hospital in Arkham was thought to provide better care than the hospital in Kingsport. [HPL Festival (online text)]

St. Paul's

Church, Philadelphia? HPL Case (online text) 138.

St. Peter's

Church, Philadelphia? HPL Case (online text) 138.

St. Stanislaus' Church

HPL WitchHouse (online text) 271, 298.

St. Toad's

HPL Fungi (online text) XXV.

Sakkarah

Egypt. HPL Aeons (online text) specimens of earliest Sakkarah mummies at Cabot Museum 266.

Salalah

Arabia/Middle East. AWD Keeper 148, 150, 153, 155-156, 169, 171.

Salamanders

Fire elementals, who are ruled over by djin, the prototype of all djinn [RB Hell (online text) 60].

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.

Salapunco

AWD Curwen 10, 15, 29; Gorge 122, 125, 127, 129, 134.

Salem

Massachusetts. HPL Case (online text) 116-117, 135, 138-139, 149-150, 152-153, 156, 159, 194-195, 198-199; Diary (online text) 306; Dunwich (online text) 157; Gates (online text) 422, 428; Includes the Pickman family (History (online text) 53); Kadath (online text) 340; Pickman (online text) 14-15, 25; Silver (online text) 414; WitchHouse (online text) Salem Gaol 263.

RB Notebook (online text) 232-233; Satan 7-9.

AWD Attic 308; Lamp (online text) 254; Peabody 194.

HK Hydra (online text) 135; Salem (online text) 250-251, 257-258, Salem Harbor 259, 263.

Incl:

A., Jonathan; B., Deborah; Barnard, Rev. Thomas; Burroughs, Rev. George; C., Mehitable; Carson; Gedney, Judge; Hathorne, Judge; How, Amity; Hutchinson, Edward; Lawson, Hepzibah; Leigh, Michael; P., Susan; Polish immigrants; Prinn, Abigail; S., Bridget; Sarah (2); W., Deliverance

Burying Point; Charter Street Burying Ground; Charter Street; Court House; Court of Oyer and Terminer; Derby Street; Essex Institute; Immigrant Panic of 1853; Kester Library; Olde Bury'g Point?; Registry of Deeds; Williams-Lane; Witch Room

Salem-Village

Massachusetts; now called Danvers. HPL Case (online text) 149.

Salisbury

England. AWD GodBox 120-123.

Saltonstall, Dudley

Trustee of Cabot Museum, Boston. Present at dissection of T'yog mummy. HPL Aeons (online text) 287.

Saltonstall, Mr

Of Arkham; a lawyer. AWD Attic 310, 315, 318.

Saltonstall St

Arkham residence of Albert Wilmarth and Daniel Upton. HPL Doorstep (online text) 278; Whisperer (online text) 216; WitchHouse (online text) 271.

FL Terror2 287, 295, 297.

Salvador

See: El Salvador.

Samarkand

AWD Sandwin 104.

Samoa

HPL Mountains (online text) 6.

Sammael

Synonym for Satan [RB Hell (online text) 37].

Sana

Ship. AWD Keeper 137, 171-173.

Incl: Robertson, Capt..

San'a

Al-Yaman, Arabia. RFB Iram (online text) 114.

Sanaa

In Yemen, home of Alhazred. HPL History (online text) 52.

San Andreas fault

Albert Keith read a newspaper report of a recent earthquake from the San Andreas fault. [RB Strange]

San Antonio

A ship. HK Bells (online text) 84.

Sand-Dwellers

AWD Gable (online text) 210, (212), 213.

Sanderson, Orin

A soft-spoken Southerner and agent of Project Arkham. He guarded Kay Keith and escorted her on a plan trip to Los Angeles, then was possessed by another intelligence when the flight was rerouted to Easter Island. [RB Strange]

Sanderton and Harker, Book Importers

Of Fourth Avenue (store location). AWD Passing Eric Holm bought a copy of Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus from their Fourth Avenue store. Incl. Sanderton, Mr..

Sanderton, Mr

AWD Passing of Sanderton and Harker. Testified at Eric Holm's inquest that Holm had bought a copy of Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus.

San Diego

HPL Whisperer (online text) 218, 236.

FL Terror2 289, 297, 310.

Incl: Akeley, George Goodenough; Pleasant St.

Sandwin, Asa

Father of Eldon Sandwin; uncle of David. AWD Sandwin 88, (91-93), 95, (95), 96, (97), 98-107, 110-111, (112), 113.

Sandwin, David

Possible full name of David. Asa Sandwin was David's uncle, but we don't know if they were related through David's father or mother, so David's family name is uncertain.

Sandwin, Eldon

Son of Asa Sandwin, first cousin of David. AWD Sandwin 88-90, (91-92), 93-105, 107-111, 113.

Sandwin-by-the-Sea

Synonym for Sandwin House. AWD Sandwin 88.

Sandwin House

AWD Sandwin 88-90, 94, 106, 108-114.

San Francisco

HPL Call (online text) 147; Electric (online text) 61, 69, 76, 78; History (online text) 182; Test (online text) 16, 20, 23-24, 27, 32, 44; Winged (online text) 253.

HK Bells (online text) 92; Salem (online text) 255.

Incl: Bannister place; California Historical Society; Goat Hill; Jackson St.; Market Street; Mexican quarter; Observer; Royal Hotel; Tlaxcala Mining Company.

Clarendon, Alfred; Clarendon, Georgina; Dick; James, Dr.; Leigh, Michael; Margarita; McComb, President.

San Jose

California. HPL Test (online text) 23.

San Juan

RB Terror 231.

San Marcos

A University located in Lima. AWD Lurker 81.

San Mateo Mountains

Mexico. HPL Electric (online text) 61.

San Pedro

California. RB Kiss (online text) 38-40, 43-44, 52.

HK Hydra (online text) 127, 135.

Incl: Dean, Graham; Dena; Godolfo, Morella; Hedwig, Doctor; Yamada, Dr. Makoto.

Buena Street.

San Quentin

HPL Test (online text) 16, 21, 23-25, 28, 32-33, 39.

Sanscript

Synonym for Sanskrit? AWD Lamp (online text) 250.

Sanskrit

Ancient Indian language.

Aka: sanscript?

Sansu

Of dreamlands. HPL Other (online text) written of with fright in Pnakotic Manuscripts 129, scaled Hatheg-Kla long ago and found only ice and rock 131.

Santa Barbara

California. HK Invaders (online text) 64, 68, 71.

Incl: Hayword, Mike.

Santa Cruz Mountains

California. Includes Skyview Terrace and a spot where Reverend Nye retreated after earthquakes submerged much of the state; the place where Nye transformed Mark Dixon into Cthulhu. [RB Strange]

Santa Maria

RB Terror 224-228.

Santa Monica

California. Fred Elstree drove Kay Keith through Santa Monica on the way to Pacific Coast Highway. [RB Strange]

Santa Monica Mountains

FL Terror2 289, 303.

Santa Rita

RB Terror 219-223, 226-227, 229, 240, 250.

Incl: Cut-Throat Cove; Lane, Howard; Martino, Alicia and Felipe; Rico's Bar; Robales, Jose; Valdez, Officer.

Santiago, Felipe

Of Los Angeles. Antique dealter with a shop on South Alvarado Street. Santiago sold a ghoul painting by Richard Upton to Albert Keith. Keith and Simon Waverly found his dead body leaning out of a window, with the face apparently chewed off. [RB Strange]

San Xavier

California city and mission founded by Junipero Serra. HK Bells (online text) 80-81, 85-88, 90-93.

Incl: Bernard, Father; Denton; Franciscans; Jose; Sarto; Todd, Arthur; Xavier Hotel.

Saracenic Rituals

By Ludvig Prinn; a chapter of De Vermis Mysteriis. See: De Vermis Mysteriis.

Saracens

RB Faceless 41.

Sarah (1)

HPL Medusa (online text) a servant 174.

Sarah (2)

HK Salem (online text) a little girl 262.

Sardanapalus

Assyrian king; synonym for Asshurbanipal. REH Fire (online text) 92.

Sarey, Aunt

See: Whateley, Sarah.

Sargent, Joe

Innsmouth bus driver. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 305, 308, 313*, 341-342.

Sargent, Moses and Abigail

Servants of Asenath Derby (Innsmouth). HPL Doorstep (online text) 296, 300.

Sarkis, Plateau of

HPL Polaris (online text) 21.

Sarkomand

City in Leng (dreamland). HPL Kadath (online text) 339, 344-345, 371, 374-376, 379-381, 384, 388, 390.

Sarnath

A city of Mnar. HPL Doom (online text) 43-49; Iranon (online text) 114; Nameless (online text) 100.

AWD Lurker 134.

Sarto

Of San Antonio area. HK Bells (online text) 84-86.

Sarucene

RAL Nyaghoggua (online text) seekers of Sarucene are sometimes waylaid and subjected to weird rites by servants of Nyaghoggua.

Saskatchewan

Canada. AWD Beyond2 175.

Satan, Satanism

HPL Descendant (online text) 361; Medusa (online text) 188; Yig (online text) 90.

RB Hell (online text) 26, 33-38, 44-46, 48-49, 52, 59, 61, 64-71.

RB Satan 7, 15, 16, 19.

After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Satan. [RB Strange]

AWD Gorge 130; Ithaqua 112; Peabody 192; Sky 71; Valley (online text) 135.

REH Dig (online text) 79, 86: Prof. John Kirowan claimed that Muhammedans view Satan as a synonym for Malik Tous, and the essence of the evil of all the universes.

CAS Holiness (online text) Satanic and pre-Satanic facilities 120; Return (online text) 36, 39, 43; Ubbo (online text) 49.

Aka: Abaddon; Adversary, the; Ahriman; Asmodeus; Azriel; Beelzebub; Black Goat of the Sabbath; Devil, the; Elder Shepherd; Fallen Angel; Father of Lies; Goat of the Sabbath; Lord of the Sabbath; Lucifer; Malik Tawis; Master of the Great Black Lodge; Mephistopheles; Nodens; Prince of Darkness; Sammael; Sathanus; Set; Typhon; Yama; Zamiel.

Sathanas, Sathanus

Synonym for Satan.

AWD Island 179; Peabody 195; Seal (online text) 162; Wentworth.

REH Dig (online text) 84: A synonym for Malik Tous. The ritual read over John Grimlan's body says there is but one Black Master though men calle him Sathanas and many other names.

Sato, Captain

Of Tahiti. Captain of the Okishuri Maru. He was hired to take Ronald Abbott and Albert Keith to the location of R'lyeh and destroy the island. Unfortunately, Sato and his crew were actually followers of Cthulhu. [RB Strange]

Saturday Review

AWD Curwen 3.

Saturn

AWD Lurker 60, 106; Whippoorwills 46.

CAS Door (online text) 22, 36.

CAS Seven (online text) 44.

Aka: Cykranosh.

satyrs

HPL Whisperer (online text) 214.

AWD Keeper 150; Lurker 133.

FBL Hounds (online text) 86.

Saurian Age, The

By Banfort. There was a copy of Banfort’s The Saurian Age in the library of Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere [AWD Survivor (online text) 160].

Sausalito

California. HPL Test (online text) 23.

Sawyer, Chauncey

HPL Dunwich (online text) 177-178, 190.

Sawyer, Earl

HPL Dunwich (online text) 160, 164-165, 168, 176, 191-192.

Sawyer, Sally

Of Dunwich. HPL Dunwich (online text) 177, 190.

AWD Lurker 101.

Sawyer, Harold

Of Dunwich. AWD Middle 368.

Sawyer, John

Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 279.

Sawyer, Lutey

Of Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 274.

Saxons

HPL Rats (online text) 27, 29, 36, 42-43.

RB Brood Saxon gods 90.

Incl: Athelstane the Saxon.

Sayles, Mr

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152.

Scar-Face

A bottle. HPL Terrible (online text) 273.

scarlet circles

FBL Hounds (online text) 86.

Schacabao, Ibn

HPL Case (online text) 151; Festival (online text) 216.

Schafer, Dr

Doctor of glandular therapeutics. FBl Hills (online text) 264.

Schneider, Ralph

Los Angeles police sergeant, with the Burglary Section. Danton Heisinger talked to Schneider about the man who broke into the house of the late Albert Keith and impersonated Ben Powers. [RB Strange]

Schomvaal, battlefield of

Hungary. REH Black (online text) 59, 71.

Schrodinger

Pysicist. AWD Curwen 7.

Scientific News, The

REH Roof (online text) 4.

Scipio, old

"Uncle Scip." A servant. HPL Medusa (online text) 174, 184, 186.

Scollard, George Francis

President of Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts. FBl Hills (online text) 261.

Scoresby

Arctic whaler, 1820. HPL Mountains (online text) 30.

Scorpion, the

Another name for Kathulos.

Scotland

HPL Case (online text) 163.

REH Black (online text) 61.

Includes: Bran Mak Morn; Helni, aka Isle of Slyne; Isle of the Altar; Isle of the Swords; Picts.

Scotland Yard

HPL Museum (online text) 239.

AWD Spawn 18.

Scott

HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 8, 42.

Scott, Kenneth

Baltimore artist and occultist. HK Hydra (online text) 126-130, 132-134, 136-141.

Scott County

Okalahoma? Arkansas? HPL Yig (online text) 88, 92.

Scott-Elliot, W

Author, Atlantis and Lost Lemuria [HPL Call (online text) 128].

Scylla

RB Kiss (online text) 41, 49.

Scythic race

REH Black (online text) 63.

sea-dwellers

RB Kiss (online text) 49, 50, described (53).

Sea God: Ponape Origin

Wooden statue of Cthulhu in the collection of Jason Wecter. AWD Wood throughout, named 86.

Sea Goddess

Sculpture by Jeffrey Corey. AWD Clay 373-375, 380.

Seal of Elder Gods

AWD Keeper 170.

Seal of R'lyeh

AWD Seal (online text) Described (15?), 166, 168, 171, 176, (177), 178; Witches 303.

seal-men

RB Kiss (online text) 48.

sea men

FL Terror2 scaly 281.

Sears, Ronnie

Possibly of Arkham. JVS Dead 33-34.

Sea Tombs

Poem by Georg Reuter Fischer [FL Terror2 289].

Sebek

Egyptian god. RB Faceless 40; Fane 133-134; Mummy 284-286, 289-291, 293, 296, 298; Sebek (121), 124-128; Suicide (online text) 21.

The Probilski Foundation had a statue of saurian-snouted Sebek. [RB Strange]

Secaire, St.

See: Mass of St. Secaire.

Sechmet

See: Sekhmet.

Second Church

Arkham. See Baptist Church, Arkham.

Second Station

Providence police. HPL Case (online text) 169, 177, 229.

Secret One

RB Faceless 39.

Secret Parable of Byagoona the Faceless One

Alexander Chaupin spoke of blasphemies such as the secret parable of Byagoona the Faceless One [RB Grinning].

Secret Place

Egypt. RB Fane 132.

Secret Watcher, The

By Halpin Chalmers. Apparently one of Chalmer's "recondite books on occult themes". In an excerpt, he speculates about a parallel dimension where another type of life might exist, generated by a force different from the one that generates life in our world. If this force penetrates to our world, it might give rise to new kinds of cell life. Chalmers claims to have seen its manifestations, the Doels. He claims to have seen their maker in dreams, beyond time and matter, moving through strange curves and outrageous angles. He plans to travel back in time and meet their maker face to face. These concepts resemble things that Chalmers later related to Frank while under the influence of the drug Liao. It is possible that The Secret Watcher was based on previous experiments that did not go quite so far. [FBL Hounds (online text) 87]

Secret Worlds

HK Hunt (online text) through which Iod hunted souls; hinted by Prinn to be other dimensions of space 169.

Seekonk River

Rhode Island. HPL Messenger (online text) 57.

AWD Brotherhood 328, 329, 336, 343-344, 348, 350; Lamp (online text) 249, 256.

Sefton

Massachusetts, probably near Arkham. [HPL Herbert (online text)]

Incl: Sefton Asylum.

Sefton Asylum

Located at Sefton.

The reanimated corpse of Dr. Allan Halsey was kept in the asylum at Sefton, where it beat its head against the walls of a padded cell for sixteen years. Then the reanimated Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee arrived with a group of other corpse-things and broke Halsey out of the asylum, killing four attendants in the process. [HPL Herbert (online text)]

segur-whiskey

A type of liquor that is imported from Mars. [CAS Pnom]

Sekhmet

Lioness-head Egyptian Goddess.

The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Mother Sekhmet crouching, baring feral fangs. [RB Strange]

See also: Star of Sechmet.

Selarn

A place. HPL Kadath (online text) 264.

Selfridge's

London. AWD Spawn 20, 22, 32-33.

Seminole Indians

HC Death (online text) 362, 365, 370.

Semites

HPL Aeons (online text) Ghatanothoa cult penetrated to forgotten Semitic empires of Africa 276.

REH Untitled 38.

Semitic peoples

REH Fire (online text) 32.

Senarbin Deep

In the Caribbean, off the coast of Haiti. CJ Acquarium 303.

Senmut

AWD Island 182.

Sentinel Hill

Dunwich area. HPL Dunwich (online text) 159-161, 164, 168, 181, 187, 190, 192, 194.

AWD Shuttered 258, 266; Watchers (page ref lost).

Sentinel Stone

Near Dunwich. AWD Shuttered 266.

Sepik River

New Guinea. AWD Island 185; Gorge 100, 101.

Serannian

City in the clouds. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 86-87, 89; Kadath (online text) 352*, 357.

Sereke, Satsume

Of the Yokahama. AWD Island 202, (203), 204-205, 207.

Serpent Cult of Obeah

Haitian cult that worships the Snake-God. RB Serpents 259.

See also: Serpent's Curse

serpent, feathered

See: feathered serpent; Terrible Nameless One.

serpent god

REH Shadow (online text): The serpent-men of Valusia built a monstrous religion about the worship of the serpent god. Ka-nu the Pict had a green jewel stolen from the Temple of the Serpent.

Compare with: Snake-God; Yig.

Serpent-men (1)

Snake-headed humanoids that predated humanity and once were almost stamped out by humans. Men conquered and drove them forth into the waste lands of the world, there to mate with true snakes until some day, say the sages, the horrid breed shall vanish utterly.

Through their magic, the serpent-men could take any form, and impersonate anyone they wanted to. So the remaining serpent-men returned in disguise to infiltrate humanity. But men learned to detect them in two ways. First, no serpent-man could pronounce the words "Ka nama kaa lajerama." These words could be spoken only by a real man of men, whose jaws and mouth are shaped different from any other creature. The words' meaning had been forgotten, but not the words themselves. Second, men took for a sign and a standard the figure of the flying dragon, which was the greatest foe of the serpent. It appears that the image of a dragon could act as charm, for in later years, Brule the Spear-Slayer had a mystic armlet of gold representing a winged dragon coiled thrice, with three horns of ruby on the head, which could not be worn by or even touched by a serpent-man. Finally, it is possible to kill a serpent-man, provided that one strikes at the skull. Upon being slain, a serpent-man would resume his true appearance. So humanity was able to drive them out again.

Still later, after humanity had grown forgetful, the serpent-men returned once more, this time as priests of a new cult of the serpent god. These priests lived in the utmost secrecy; no one had ever seen a priest of the Serpent and lived. For the most part, they ruled through their power as priests, but sometimes they would secretly murder a king and substitute one of their own as ruler. One such Valusian king fell beneath the spear of Lionfang and resumed his true guise as a snake.

After King Kull conquered Valusia, the serpent-men plotted to kill him and replace him with a double. The Pictish ambassador, Ka-nu the Ancient, and his warrior Brule the Spear-Slayer helped Kull to defeat the plot. Brule remarked that "These serpent priests know naught of swordcraft and die easier than any men I ever slew." [REH Shadow (online text)].

During the vanished saurian age, Valusia’s serpent-men laid the foundation-stones of evil magic [HPL Diary (online text) 318:]. The serpent-men of Valusia salvaged the Shining Trapezohedron from the ruins of the crinoid Old Ones of Antarctica [Haunter (online text) 106]. While Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee's mind was a captive of the Great Race in 1908-1913, the Great Race had sojourning among them a mind from the reptile people of fabled Valusia [Time (online text) 395].

Compare with: Serpent-men (2), serpent-people.

serpent-men (2)

CAS Ubbo (online text) 54: Paul Tregardis, on gazing into the crystal of Zon Mezzamalech, was regressed through time until he was one of the serpent-men who reared their cities of black gneiss and fought their venomous wars in the world’s first continent. As a serpent man, Tregardis walked undulously in ante-human streets, in strange crooked vaults; peered at primeval stars from high, Babelian towers; and bowed with hissing litanies to great serpent-idols.

Compare with: Serpent-men (1), serpent-people.

Serpent, old

REH Dig (online text) 79: A synonym for Malik Tous.

serpent-people

CAS Seven (online text) 58, 59*, 65: A race who lived in spacious caverns beneath Mt. Voormithadreth, Hyperborea. They were scientists of no ordinary attainment. They walked lithely and sinuously erect on pre-mammalian members, their pied and hairless bodies bending with great suppleness. Their language sounded like hissing. They had collected specimens of various species, including Voormis and humans. In the past, they had thoroughly dissected humans and learned all that there was to learn regarding what they considered a very uncouth and aberrant life-form. Their chemistry was devoted almost wholly to the production of powerful toxic agents. They had long abandoned the eating of impure natural foods, and confined themselves to synthetic types of aliment. Upon receiving Ralibar Vooz as a gift from their ally, Haon-Dor, they sent him on to the Cavern of the Archetypes.

Compare with: Serpent-men (1), Serpent-men (2).

serpents

See: snakes.

Serpent's Curse

The most terrible curse of all. With her dying breath, a priestess of the Serpent Cult of Obeah laid this curse on her son, the president of Haiti. [RB Serpents 265-266]

Serpent Yig

See: Yig.

Serra, Junipero

HK Bells (online text) 80, 84.

Set

Egyptian god. RB Brood 95; Faceless 40; Fane 133; Hell (online text) synonym for Satan; Mummy 284; Opener 158, 160, 163; Sebek 117, 125.

After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Set. The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Set, Lord of Evil. [RB Strange]

Seth

Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 32-33, 40, 101.

Seth Bishop, His Book

By Seth Bishop. A book found by Jefferson Bates in the house of the late Seth Bishop. It was a monumental tome, bound by hand in wood. The full title was Seth Bishop, His Book: Being Excerpts from the “Nekronomicon” & the “Cultes des Ghouls” & the “Pnakotic Manuscripts” & the “R’lyeh Text” Copied in His Own Hand by Seth Bishop in the Yrs. 1919 to 1923. It appeared to consist of long excerpts of books in the Miskatonic University Library that Seth Bishop had copied by hand. The contents concerned the unsuccesful revolt of the Ancient Ones (also called Great Old Ones) against the Elder Gods, the subsequent imprisonment of the Ancient Ones, and their continuing efforts to escape with the help of human cultists. [AWD Valley (online text) 124, (145)]

Settler, Major Horace Wingate

Of Maine. Uncle of Dave Fenner, neighbor of Thad Wing. Owner of land where Settler's Wall was located. Investigated it with no success. RAL Settlers (online text) 24-25, 27-36.

Settler's Wall

Alien entity or artifact resembling a wall. Located on Settler family property near road to Skowhegan, Maine. First noticed circa 1840. An example of non-Euclidean geometry, the wall has only one side- crossing it always returns you to where you started from. Investigated unsuccessfully by Clyde Cantrell, Will Richards, Thad Wing, Major Settler, Dave Fenner, and Jim Garlan. Quote from Necronomicon suggests it is an entity with a passive alliance to the elder ones. Disappeared during hurricane of 1938. RAL Settlers (online text) 17-36.

Seven Caves of Chicomoztoc

HPL Electric (online text) 68.

Seven Circles

HK Jest (online text) 61.

Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan

In Ulthar, the priest Barzai was deeply learned in the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan [HPL Other (online text) 128]. Three centuries later, Randolph Carter visited the patriarch Atal in Ulthar and consulted the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan. Carter was disappointed by the meager information he found there to aid his search for Kadath. [HPL Kadath (online text) 312]

The book exists in the waking realm and not just in the land of dream. Nathaniel Corey found a copy of the book in the library of Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206]. Winfield Phillips read either the book itself, or a photostat of portions of it, which Seneca Lapham had obtained from the Miskatonic University Library [AWD Lurker 134]. Amos Piper consulted the book during the period of time when his body was controlled by a member of the Great Race [AWD Space 234].

seven lamps, the

Part of a preparation for astral projection. HK Hydra (online text) 128.

Seven Lost Signs of Terror

HPL Diary (online text) 320.

Seven Stewards of Heaven

Beings invoked in White Magic [RB Hell (online text) 60].

Includes: Arathron; Bethor; Hazith; Och; Ophiel; Phaleg; Phul.

Seven Suns

World of Nyarlathotep. HPL Whisperer (online text) 226.

AWD Dweller 137.

Seventh Book of Moses

"The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses is an 18th- or 19th-century magical text allegedly written by Moses, and passed down as hidden (or lost) books of the Hebrew Bible. Self-described as 'the wonderful arts of the old Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the Kabbalah and the Talmud,' it is actually a grimoire, or text of magical incantations and seals, that purports to instruct the reader in the spells used to create some of the miracles portrayed in the Bible as well as to grant other forms of good fortune and good health. The work contains reputed Talmudic magic names, words, and ideograms, some written in Hebrew and some with letters from the Latin alphabet. It contains 'Seals' or magical drawings accompanied by instructions intended to help the user perform various tasks, from controlling weather or people to contacting the dead or Biblical religious figures." [Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses, Wikipedia] The text is available online at the Internet Archive, among other places.

Jefferson Bates found a copy of the notorious Seventh Book of Moses in the house of the late Seth Bishop. Bates described it as "a text much prized by certain oldsters in the Pennsylvania hex country . . . A slender prayer-book in which all the prayers seemed to be mockeries, for all were directed to Asarael and Sathanus, and other dark angels." Bates surmised that it belonged to Seth Bishop's father. It seems that Seth lacked interest in the hex tradition, but was fascinated by more obscure lore, as evidenced by Seth Bishop, His Book. [AWD Valley (online text) 124]

Amos Stark owned a copy, and said "it’s got a sight more larnin’ in it than any other book I ever seen." It had previously belonged to Nahum Wentworth. Fred Hadley considered it a kind of Bible for hexes, a curious rigmarole of chants and incantations to such “princes” of the nether world as Aziel, Mephistopheles, Marbuel, Barbuel, Aniquel, and others. Some of the incantations were designed to cure illness, others to grant wishes; some were meant for success in undertakings, others for vengeance upon one’s enemies. Hadley foolishly recited the incantation Aila himel adonaij amara Zebaoth cadas yeseraije haralius. (The incantation can be found in the online edition on Sacred-Texts.com; the text says that "These words are terrible, and will assemble devils or spirits, or they will cause the dead to appear.") Later that evening, Wentworth came back from the dead and took vengeance on Amos Stark. [AWD Wentworth 173-174]

Seventh Louisiana Infantry, C.S.A

HPL Medusa (online text) 169.

Sewell, Davey and Mary

Parishioners of Rev. Ralph Beckford's church in Innsmouth, who went with Beckford to pray in Deeprock Gorge. [HC Coming]

Sewell Street

Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.

Incl: Tarleton.

Sfatlicllp

Granddaughter of Tsathoggua and daughter of Zvilpogghua. Sfatlicllp mated with a voormi and gave birth to Knygathin Zhaum. [CAS Pnom]

S'gg'ha

Of the Old Ones. HPL Time (online text) 417.

Shackleton

HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 8, 42.

Shaddad the Less

Of Arabia; son of Shaddad bin Ad. RFB Iram (online text) 118.

Shadid

Of Arabia; son of Ad the Greater and brother of Shaddad bin Ad. RFB Iram (online text) 115.

Shadow Kingdom, The

James Conrad saw a copy of this book amid an assortment of books on occult matters, in a deserted house in Old Dutchtown, N.Y. [REH House 125]

Coincidentally, Robert E. Howard wrote a (probably unrelated) story called "The Shadow Kingdom."

Shadow Over Innsmouth, The

By H.P. Lovecraft. A novella describing a brief visit to Innsmouth and what the narrator discovered there. First published in 1936 in a small hardcover edition by Visionary Publishing Co. of Everett, PA.

Josiah Alwyn implied that there might be truth behind Lovecraft's story The Shadow Over Innsmouth [AWD Beyond2 160].

Asaph Gilman found it suspicious that "The American writer, H. P. Lovecraft, died within a year of publication of his curious ‘fiction,’ The Shadow Over Innsmouth." [AWD Gorge 110]

Georg Reuter Fischer read a copy of The Shadow Over Innsmouth in the original edition from Visionary Press. Albert Wilmarth commented “The original of its youthful hero has disappeared and his cousin from the Canton asylum. Down to Y’ha-nthlei? Who knows?” Wilmarth said that the Innsmouth jewelry is "real enough." [FL Terror2 296, 299; narrator 299, 302, 310].

Shadow Over Innsmouth narrator

In HPL's preliminary notes to the story, the narrator is called Robert Olmstead. However, HPL renamed a number of the characters in the final story, so it's impossible to tell if he still considered Robert Olmstead to be the character's name.

The narrator had the Deep Ones taint, received from his great-grandmother, Pth'thya-l'yi. For details of his ancestry, see The Descent of Robert Olmstead. The narrator was born in 1905-1906, probably in Toledo, Ohio; at least, his immediate family was living in Toledo when he was attending college. He attended Oberlin College in Ohio. Following his third year in college, he decided to celebrate turning 21. He undertook a tour of New England, intending to view antiquarian sights and research his family geneaology. As part of this tour, he visited Innsmouth on July 15-16, 1927. From talking to Zadok Allen, he learned too much of the town's curse. The locals tried to detain him, but he managed to escape. He made frightened appeals to the authorities, which would later cause the Federal government to take drastic actions in Innsmouth. Meanwhile, he cut most of his remaining tour short, but stopped long enough in Arkham to find disquieting clues that he had Marsh ancestry.

The narrator returned to Oberlin for his final year and graduated in June. The following month, he visited his late mother's family in Cleveland, where he found further evidence that he was descended from the Marsh family. He started work in an insurance company and tried to ignore the hints of his ancestry. Then in the winter of 1930-31, he started having dreams of undersea ruins and sea creatures. His health deteriorated until he had to quit his job and became an invalid. He developed noticeable signs of the Innsmouth look. He wrote a long account of his visit to Innsmouth and his discoveries there. At the end of his account, his fear of his coming transformation changed into joy. He renounced earlier temptations toward suicide and decided to free his fellow Innsmouth-tainted cousin, Lawrence Williamson, from a Canton asylum, and together to go to sea and join the Deep Ones forever. [HPL Innsmouth (online text)]

In 1940, an Innsmouth grocery store named Hendreson told Abel Keane the fate of the man who brought in the Federals. Hendreson referred to this man as "Williamson," apparently in reference to the narrator's mother's maiden name. Hendreson said that when the Innsmouth locals learned that Williamson had both Marsh and Orne blood, they just waited for him to come back. He eventually returned to Innsmouth, went down to the water singing, dove in, and was never seen again. [AWD Sky]

While speaking of HPL's story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," Albert Wilmarth commented that the original model for the narrator, and his cousin from the Canton asylum, had both disappeared, and speculated about whether they were down in Y’ha-nthlei. [FL Terror2]

Shaggai

1. A work by Robert Blake, one of his five best-known short stories. Written shortly after his move to Providence in the winter of 1934-35. [HPL Haunter (online text) 97]

2. Apparently a planet or other celestial object, referred to by Blake in his final diary entry: "I remember Yuggoth, and more distant Shaggai, and the ultimate void of the black planets . . ." [HPL Haunter (online text) 114]

Shah of Iran

Project Arkham suspected that the assassination of the Shah of Iran was done by the Black Brotherhood. [RB Strange]

Shaikorth

See: Rlim Shaikorth.

Shamballah

Built by Lemurians. HPL Diary (online text) 313.

shambler from the stars

RB Shambler (online text) 185-186.

Shang

Of Ulthar, a blacksmith. HPL Cats (online text) accompanies Kranon to the cotter's house 58.

Shan-si, province

In Burma. AWD Lair 117.

shantak-birds

Of the dreamland. The shantak-birds are winged beings that guard Kadath [HPL Kadath (online text) 388, 391].

Beings of Rumor and Legend

The onyx-miners of Inganok believe that the shantak-birds are no wholesome things, and that it is fortunate that no man has ever truly seen one [363].

Shantak-birds are rumored to frequent a great unused onyx quarry, north of Inganok and close to the cold waste [358]. Flapping sounds at another such quarry reminded Randolph Carter uncomfortably of the rumored shantak-birds [365]. A slant-eyed merchant brought eggs of the rumored shantak-birds to Inganok to trade [361].

The father of all the shanktak birds is rumored to dwell in the great central dome of the palace of the Veiled King at Inganok, where it is fed in the dark [363].

The Awful Truth

The shantak-birds are larger than elephants and have heads like a horse's [367]. To their wings cling the rime (ice) and nitre of nether pits [368]. The shantak-birds have slippery scales instead of feathers [368].

The shantak-birds both understand speech, and can speak themselves. Thus, one shantak-bird understood the guttural speech of the slant-eyed merchant, and replied to him in tittering tones like the scratching of ground glass [370]. Sometimes the shantak-birds wheeze and titter with impatience [403], or leer and titter at their victims [404].

The shantak-birds build nests on the ledges half-way up the peaks dividing Leng from Inganok [371-372].

The shantaks fear the night-gaunts that frequent certain caves near the topmost pinnacles [372, 388, 391].

Foes of Randolph Carter

In the cold waste, near the carven mountains, Randolph Carter saw the shantak-birds [367-368]. After being taken prisoner, Carter rode one the shantak-birds through the air [368-369]. They took him to the monastery of the high-priest not to be described [370]. Later, Carter feared passing over Leng and past the monastery again, partly because of the risk of encountering the shantak-birds once more [375].

Carter asked for night-gaunts to bear him past the realm of the shantaks [388-389].

Nyarlathotep offerred Carter a shantak-bird to bear him to his fabulous sunset city. On arriving there, Carter was to prod the shantak-bird until it cried out, for its sound would make the Great Ones homesick. The shantak-bird was supposed to remind the Great Ones of Kadath and tell them that its halls are lonely [402]. Then the shantak-bird was to utter its homing cry and fly back to Kadath, inspiring the Great Ones to follow behind [403]. But the shantak-bird actually set course for Azathoth and infinity's center [404].

AWD Lurker 84.

shantaks

AWD Gable (online text) 207-209; Keeper 141; Seal (online text) 161; Space minions of Ancient Ones 241; Survivor (online text) 162; Whippoorwills 47.

shapes

HPL Gates (online text) 432-436.

Sharp

AWD Depths (online text) (narrator) (225-252), 232, 236-237, 244, 247-249.

Shathak

Another name for Chushax. [CAS Pnom]

Shaurash-Ho

A descendent of Cthulhu, and ancestor of Yogash the Ghoul [HPL Family (online text)].

Shaw

The new elephant keeper at Stellar Brothers Circus [RB Elephant (online text) 46].

Shedad

Last of the despots of the tribe of Ad, Arabia. Son of Ad the Greater; father of Shaddad the Less. AWD Lamp (online text) 249.

Aka: Ad, Shaddad bin.

Sheeley, Bert

Providence policeman. RB Steeple (online text) 219.

Sheffield, James

DWR Music (online text) translated (with modifications) the Chronicle of Nath 294, may have deleted sections of the text 295.

Shepley Library

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112, 124.

Sherman

Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 14, 23, 27, 32-34, 39.

Sheriff

From Aylesbury. AWD Whippoorwills 58-59, 61, 67.

Shields, Charles A

Of Buffalo; father of Oscar Shields. HPL Diary (online text) 304.

Shields, Oscar S

Of Buffalo; son of Charles Shields. HPL Diary (online text) 304.

Shining Pursuer

HK Hunt (online text) mentioned in De Vermis Mysteriis 169.

Synonym for: Iod.

Shining Pyramid, The

By Arthur Machen. A story about a survival of Little People in modern Britain. See the online text.

Joan Costigan found the story silly, but her brother Costigan said it was a masterpiece of outré literature. [REH Little]

Shining Trapezohedron

Free Will Church. HPL Haunter (online text) 103, 105-107, 114-115.

RB Steeple (online text) crystal (213), polyhedron (214), stone (215), 217, 221, 225-229.

In ancient Egypt, Nyarlathotep used the Shining Trapezohedron to first assume human form. In modern times, as "Reverend Nye," Nyarlathotep showed the Shining Trapezohedron to hypnotize the congregation at the Starry Wisdom Temple. In the near future, he will use it again to transform Mark Dixon into Cthulhu. [RB Strange]

AWD Middle 359.

FL Terror2 300, 311.

Shintoism

The traditional religion of Japan, characterized by worship of spirits or kami that are held to inhabit all things. Many of the spirits are associated with local landscape features, and temples dedicated to them are erected nearby. One of the most important spirits is the Sun goddess Amaterasu. Within State Shintoism, the Japanese emperors are held to be divine beings (kami). [Shinto, Wikipedia 10/25/2020]

John Conrad inaccurately described Shintoism as one of the darker, grimmer phases of the occult, along with devil-worship and voodoo. [REH Dig (online text) 73-74]

Shippen, Dr

Of Philadelphia. HPL Case (online text) 139.

Ship Street

Kingsport. HPL Mist (online text) 279; Terrible (online text) 273-274.

Shiraz

A place in or near Persia. REH Fire (online text) 31-32.

Sho-Gath

A being housed in the God-Box found near Stonehenge, and guarded by an ancient Druid priest. When let out of its box, it looked like a pillar of smoke with malignant eyes and a ghastly travesty of a face. [AWD GodBox 120-121, (122-123).]

shoggoths

Intelligent, protoplasmic masses that were created by the crinoid Old Ones to serve as their slaves. These beings could mould their tissues into all sorts of temporary organs under hypnotic influence, to perform a variety of heavy work. Their expansions could be made to lift prodigious weights, including the stones that formed the vast cities of the Old Ones. [HPL Mountains (online text) 62] The shoggoths were the primary beast of burden for the Old Ones in their underwater cities, though other creatures were used on land. [65]

The Things that Should Not Be

The shoggoths are composed of a viscous black, iridescent jelly, like an agglutination of bubbles. They average about fifteen feet in diameter when a sphere. However, their shape and volume constantly shift, as they form temporary organs, including those of sight, hearing, and speech. Shoggoths reproduce by fission. The shoggoth that Dyer and Danforth saw was faintly self-luminous, with myriads of glowing green eyes forming and unforming as it moved. [66, 101]

Shoggoths have an apalling odour that is different from, and worse than, the smell of the Old Ones [93-95, 99].

Rebel Scum

While working as slaves of the Old Ones, the shoggoths gradually developed a semi-stable brain and an occasionally stubborn volition. The shoggoths became particularly intractable around the middle of the Permian age. Then the Old Ones fought a war of resubjugation, and were able to subdue the shoggoths through the use of weapons of molecular disturbance. Though the shoggoths showed an ability to live out of the water during the rebellion, the Old Ones returned them to living only underwater, since they were considered more difficult to manage on land. [67-68]

During the rebellion, when the shoggoths killed Old Ones, they would tear off the heads and leave the dead bodies coated with glistening, reflectively iridescent black slime [67, 94-95]

In their final, decadent phase, the Old Ones used shoggoths to build their new city in the underground sea beneath Antarctica. By this stage, the shoggoths grew to enormous size and singular intelligence, and could take and execute orders with marvelous quickness. They conversed with the Old Ones by mimicking their voices: a sort of musical piping over a wide range. They came to work more from spoken commands than hypnotic suggestions as in earlier times. [75]  

Dyer and Danforth encountered a shoggoth that made the sound "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! " in musical piping tones [97, 98, 100, 101, 106]. The two scientists inferred that this sound was the imitated voice of the shoggoths' bygone masters, the Old Ones [101]. Danforth hinted that Poe had secret sources when he wrote of the call "Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li! " in his novel Arthur Gordon Pym. [97]

Eventually the shoggoths could even mimic the Old Ones' writing with dots of slime [95, 96].

The Shoggoths Triumph

After the Antarctic became colder, the Old Ones adapted some of the shoggoths to land life, to perform needed work in their Antarctic land city. [76]

It is likely that the shoggoths finally killed all the Old Ones in the subterranean water city [96]. At any rate, shoggoths now frequent the passages leading from the Antarctic land city down to the underwater city. The shoggoths have replaced some of the Old One's bas-reliefs with carvings of their own, which are decorative and conventional in nature, composed of a series of crude spirals and angles [92].

Those Old Ones who were accidentally wakened by the Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition, were later slain by shoggoths when the Old Ones attempted to make their way to the city in the underground sea. [93-96]

Shoggoths Abroad

Abdul Alhazred was apparently ignorant of the history of the shoggoths on this planet. Though Alhazred wrote of shoggoths in the Necronomicon, he did not hint that they ever existed on earth, except in the dreams of those who had chewed a certain alkaloidal herb. [62, 95]

The shoggoths have survived to modern times in other locations, aside from Antarctica. Thus, Zadok Allen hinted that the Deep Ones had brought, or were planning to bring, shoggoths to Innsmouth. If already present, the shoggoths are apparently in the houses north of the river between Water and Main Streets. The Innsmouth (online text) narrator saw a shoggoth in his dreams of the Deep Ones, and woke up in a frenzy of screaming. [HPL Innsmouth (online text) 340, 367]. Based on these references, the shoggoths appear to be allied with the Deep Ones.

Edward Pickman Derby visited the pit of the shoggoths, while he was possessed by Asenath Waite, only to awake there in terror when his own consciousness returned to his body. The pit is located down the six thousand steps, somewhere near Chesuncook, Maine. Later, Derby raved about the pit of the shoggoths when he felt Waite struggling to take over his brain again. [HPL Doorstep (online text) 287, 296.] Note that Waite was originally from Innsmouth.

Beneath the dreamlands, shoggoths frequent a foul lake in nether pits that are visited by the night-gaunts. This is somewhere near the peaks of Throk in the Great Abyss. The shoggoths at that lake are said to be puffed and in doubtful sleep. [HPL Fungi (online text) XX]

When the Old Ones of K'n-yan explored the black abyss of N'kai, they found amorphous lumps of viscous black slime that took temporary shapes for various purposes. Though these beings were not referred to by name, their description certainly resembles shoggoths. These particular beings oozed along stone channels and worshipped onyx and basalt images of Tsathoggua. [HPL Mound (online text) 141]

RB Notebook (online text) 235, 238, 240, 245, 248-249.

AWD Curwen 22; Keeper 141; Lurker 84, 133; Sky 68; Whippoorwills 43.

FL Terror2 proto-shoggoths 272, shoggoth-stampeded Danforth 310.

RFS Warder 164.

Aka: Them Ones.

Shonhi

HPL Gates (online text) 444, 447.

Shooloo

Synonym for: Cthulhu.

Shrewsbury, (Prof.) Laban

Author, Investigation Into the Myth-Patterns of Latterday Primitives With Especial Reference to the R'lyeh Text, An and Cthulhu in the Necronomicon. AWD Island (177), 178, (179-181), 182-183, (184), 185-190, 195-198, 200-212; Curwen 4, appearance 5, 6, 8, (9, 10), 11-14, 16-19, (20-21), 22-24, 26, 28, 30, author C. in Necronomicon 30, 31, (32), 33-36), Aylesbury Street (not just Curwen Street!) 36, 37-42, on Celaeno 43, tortured on Celaeno 44, 45, 46; Gorge 107, vanished within 1 yr of publication of his book on myth-patterns 109, 110, 112, descr. (113), (114, 118-119), 124, 126, if transported in essence only, why are his eyes missing? 127, 131-133; Keeper 138, (139-140), disquieting aspect (141), 142-143, (144), 145, bio 146, 147-154, (155), 156-157, has been to Nameless City by air 158, 159, was in the glass cases for a while 160, not as strong as Boyd 161, 162-164, 166-169, (170), mailing addresses in London and Singapore 171, (172), 173; Lurker 134, 138; Sky 57-60, 6769, 71-72, 74, 87, 93; Wood 84.

Shrewsfield, Earl of

HPL Rats (online text) 30.

shub

Syllable on tomb of Obediah Carter; possibly a reference to Shub-Niggurath. JVS Dead 30.

Shub-Niggurath

A deity worshipped by an ecstatic fertility cult, and often revered together with other eldritch deities.

Shub-Niggurath was spouse of Yog-Sothoth and mother of Nug and Yeb [HPL Family (online text)].

While traveling in K'n-yan, Zamacona encountered a shrine of Shub-Niggurath, the All-Mother and wife of the Not-to-Be-Named One. The Mound (online text) narrator compares Shub-Niggurath to a "sophisticated Astarte." Astarte was an ancient Semitic goddess; the comparison suggests a cult of fertility, which is consistent with the epithet "All-Mother." Zamacona, a pious Catholic, found the rites of Shub-Niggurath to be repulsive, most especially the emotional sounds uttered by the celebrants. [HPL Mound (online text)]

According to Von Junzt's Nameless Cults, Shub-Niggurath was worshipped in ancient Mu as the Mother Goddess and the Goat with a Thousand Young. A copper temple was dedicated to her. T'yog, the High Priest of Shub-Niggurath, regarded her as one of the gods friendly to humanity, and felt inspired by her to try to vanquish the malignant cult of Ghatanathoa. T'yog also counted on the help of Shub-Niggurath's sons; these might perhaps be the deities Nug and Yeb, whom T'yog also regarded as friendly to man. [HPL Aeons (online text)]

During a May-Eve ritual recorded outside a Vermont cave, a human and an Outer One voiced praises to several deities, including Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Nyarlathotep, and Shub-Niggurath. The fragmentary text includes references to Shub-Niggurath as the Black Goat of the Woods and the Goat with a Thousand Young. There are also references to the Lord of the Woods; the reference to Woods might imply that the Lord of the Woods is a male aspect or paramour of Shub-Niggurath [Whisperer (online text) 226-227].

On Walpurgis-Eve, Alonzo Typer saw worshippers within a cromlech chanting "Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!" [Diary (online text) 321].

Devotees of arcane cults tend to call out to Shub-Niggurath whenever they get excited. There is a startling lack of continuity to these interjections, which often pop up in conversations or writings that otherwise seem unrelated to Shub-Niggurath. It is almost as if the phrase implies devotion and awe for all the elder deities, rather than merely Shub-Niggurath. Thus,

    • In the midst of a Necronomicon passage describing Yog-Sothoth and the Old Ones, Alhazred wrote "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" [Dunwich (online text) 170].
       
    • In his diary, Daniel Morris wrote the exclamation "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" [Man (online text) 209]. Morris had a copy of the Book of Eibon, so perhaps he had read of Shub-Niggurath in that book.
       
    • While mourning the death of Marceline Bedard, the Zulu witch-woman Sophonisba shouted the name of Shub-Niggurath [Medusa (online text) 189]. She also appealed to Cthulhu, which suggests that one can be devoted to both deities.
       
    • While speaking of Rhan-Tegoth, George Rogers blurted "Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!" [Museum (online text) 225]. Later, when promising a sacrifice to Rhan-Tegoth, Rogers called out the same phrase [232].
       
    • Dr. Alfred Clarendon burst out "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" while arguing with Surama [Test (online text) 47].
       
    • In one of his interdimensional dream travels, Walter Gilman heard or exclaimed the phrase "Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!" [WitchHouse (online text) 293].

Even the victims of the eldritch cults sometimes blurt out the same invocation, as if expressing fear or awe, or perhaps unconsciously verbalizing things they had witnessed and could not forget:

    • While speaking of his trip to the pit of the shoggoths, Edward Pickman Derby exclaimed "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" [Doorstep (online text) 287] Again when he felt that Asenath Waite trying to pull his soul from his body, he called the name and epithet of Shub-Niggurath [296].
       
    • Heaton exclaimed "Iä! Shub-Niggurath!" in his ravings after returning from K'n-yan [Mound (online text) 101].

RB Mannikin 79; Notebook (online text) 235.

Albert Keith dreamed of creatures worshipping Shub-Niggurath. Reverend Nye spoke of Shub-Niggurath to his congregation. [RB Strange]

AWD Island 180; Curwen 21, 31; Dweller 127, 132-133, 137; Gable (online text) 207-209; Gorge 122; Keeper 141, 150; Lamp (online text) 255; Lurker 59, 84, 124, 133; Middle 359; Seal (online text) 159, 162; Sky he? 59; Survivor (online text) 162; Valley (online text) 134; Whippoorwills 50; Witches 301.

FBL Awakening 112.

JVS Dead (30), 34: A new obelisk was erected in Old Dethshill Cemetery with a drawing of a horrendous goat. Boys heard "Shub Niggurath" chanted from beneath Elmer Harrod's house and later from a tunnel that lead from that house.

Aka: All-Mother; Black Goat of the Woods; Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young; Goat with a Thousand Young; Lord of the Woods; Mother Goddess.

Compare with: Niguratl-Yig.

Siam

AWD Island 195.

Siberia

Of Russia.

The tall man of Project Arkham speculated that the meteorite that exploaded over Siberia in 1908 was an atomic-powered spacecraft. [RB Strange]

AWD Wind (online text) wolf-infested Siberia mentioned by Allision Wentworth while raving of his year spent with Ithaqua.

FBL WereSnake (online text) there are altars to Ishtar in Siberia.

Siddartha, Gautama

Dreamed of Hsieh Ho. FBL Hills (online text) 273.

Siddons

Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 105.

Sidrak, Mt

(Dream.) HPL Iranon (online text) 111.

Sierra de Malinche

HPL Electric (online text) 63, 77.

Sign, the

Refers either to the sign of protection (presumably Elder Sign 2) or another sign used by cultists [AWD Lurker 32, 100-101]. Septimus Bishop was warned that the Sign can destroy wizards, so they cannot even re-embody themselves by feeding on human blood [AWD Middle 359].
Compare with: Elder Sign 2.

Sign of Kish

AWD Island 190; Keeper 163; Lurker 49.

Sign of Koth

See: Koth (1).

Sign of Shakespear's Head

HPL Case (online text) 128.

Sign of the Elephant

In Cheapside--part of Providence?? HPL Case (online text) 123.

Sign of the Goat

HPL Case (online text) 131.

Sign of the Golden Eagle

Across the bridge, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.

Sign of the Golden Lion

HPL Case (online text) 140-143.

Sign of the Unicorn and Mortar

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 118.

Silurian period

425-405 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 18.

silken robe

RWC Repairer (online text) 33, white embroidered with Yellow Sign 44.

Silva, Manuel

HPL Terrible (online text) 272-274.

silver

RB Hell (online text) 70.

Silver Key

HPL Gates (online text) 422-423, 426-430, 433, 435-436, 443-444, 447-450, 454; Silver (online text) 413-420.

AWD Dweller 138.

Sime, Sidney

Artist. HPL Call (online text) 138; Medusa (online text) 175; Museum (online text) 228; Pickman (online text) 13, 18.

Simonds

Of H.M.S. Advocate. AWD Gorge 106.

Simpkins

RFS Casket careless slipshod servant of Wesson Clark 11, 15.

Simplon-Orient

AWD Gorge 112.

Sinara

On the southern slope. HPL Iranon (online text) 114.

Sindara, the

Title for the ruler of Bel Yarnak. HK Eater (online text) 12-15; Jest (online text) 63.

Singapore

AWD Beyond2 176; Island 177, 186-187, 196, 205, 211; Gorge 98, 103-104; Keeper 171; Seal (online text) 158, 180.

RB Elephant (online text) 39, 43.

Includes: Gervis, George

Singapore Times

AWD Seal (online text) 179.

Sinistrari, Ludovico

A 17th Century Franciscan friar and theologian.

Author of Daemonialitas. [AWD Peabody 192-193]

Kenneth Scott had one or more works by Sinistrari in his occult library. [HK Hydra (online text) 127]

Sinkiang province

China? AWD Gable (online text) 199.

Sioux indians

HPL Mound (online text) 116.

Sirius

A star. AWD Lurker 106.

Siva

REH Fire (online text) 44.

Six Kingdoms

HPL Kadath (online text) 315.

Sixtystone

An engraved stone. HK Hydra (online text) 127.

AM Novel (online text) 16-17.

Synonym for: black seal.

Ska

King of Bal-Sagoth. REH Gods (online text) 199, new king 203, tall (204), 205-210, 212-213, 215.

Skai, River

Of dreamlands.HPL Cats (online text) Ulthar lies beyond 54; Gates (online text) 427; Kadath (online text) 310-311, 313-315, 328, 334, 345-346, 380; Other (online text) Ulthar lies beyond 128; Silver (online text) 420; Mist (online text) 282.

Skipworth, Jennifer

A parishioner of Rev. Ralph Beckford's church in Innsmouth, who went with Beckford to pray in Deeprock Gorge. [HC Coming]

Skowhegan

Maine. RAL Settlers (online text) Will Richards and Clyde Cantrell stumble on Settler's Wall while driving to Skowhegan 18 & 23.

Skull-face

Another name for Kathulos.

Skuyler, Humphrey

An eccentric artist. REH House (online text) 118-124.

Skyview Terrace

A street in Santa Cruz Mountains, California. The car carrying Mark Dixon passed a turnoff for Skyview Terrace shortly before reaching Reverend Nye's place. [RB Strange]

Slade, John

AWD OutThere Constable of Lynwold. Found Geoffrey Malvern delirious and delivered him to Dr. William Currie. Informed Dr. Currie when Old Cramton was found dead in the cave under the priory.

Slater, Joe

An unintelligent vagabond, hunter and tapper in the Catskill Mountains who had exotic dreams of being an entity of light in a luminous realm. This light entity was periodically subject to a degrading bondage, such as his birth in the limiting body and mentality of Slater, but temporarily regained its freedom during Slater's dreams. The entity was consumed with the desire for revenge against a being called the "oppressor." Slater used to rave of these dreams after waking from them, and in his excitement after one dream, butchered Peter Slater and was confined to a state psychopathic institution. As Slater lay dying, the Sleep (online text) narrator was able to commune with him telepathically via an electrical device. After Slater's death, the light entity flared up in the night sky as the new star Nova Persei, close to the daemon star Algol, the beacon of the oppressor [HPL Sleep (online text) 26-35].

Slater, Peter

A Catskills Mountains resident, who was slain when he tried to restrain the raving Joe Slater [HPL Sleep (online text) 27-28].

Slauenwite, (Dr.) Paul

Formerly of Pretoria, Transvaal, South Africa. Father of Thomas Slauenwite. Died 1916. [HPL Winged (online text) 244]

Slauenwite, (Dr.) Thomas

Born Trenton, N.J. in 1885, son of Paul Slauenwite. Served in France in WWI in a South African regiment. Studied medicine at Columbia University and specialized in African fevers. While in Mombasa, was accused by his friend Henry Sargent Moore of having stolen a major theory from the late Sir Norman Sloane. [HPL Winged (online text) 244]

Moved to M'gonga, learning there of a fatal disease caused by the bite of the local "devil-fly," of which he obtained specimens [244-248]. Created a disguised variant of the species by crossing it with tsetse flies and painting the wings blue [248-250]. Posing as a London entomologist named Neville Wayland-Hall, sent specimens of the infected flies to Moore, claiming that they were harmless and asking for Moore's help identifying them. [251]

Received news of Moore's infection, illness, and eventual death [251-254]. Inferring that he was now suspected of murder, fled to Johannesburg and adopted the name Frederick Nasmyth Mason, a mining properties broker from Toronto [254].

Was harassed in Johannesburg, and later Bloemfontein, by a devil-fly whose behavior suggested that it carried Moore's soul, which was seeking revenge. Died of fright after being bitten by the fly. [254-262] Left a journal about his murder plot and his later downfall [243, 262].

Slavs

REH Black (online text) 61, 63, 65.

Sleght

Family. HPL Diary (online text) 312, 317, 320.

Sleght, Adriaen

HPL Diary (online text) 306, husband of Trintje 321.

Sleght, Trintje van der Heyl

HPL Diary (online text) 311, wife of Adriaen 321, daughter of Dirck van der Heyl 321.

Slim

Gangster visiting Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 105.

Sloane, (Sir) Norman

Government physician, of Mombasa. After his death, his theory on the transmission and development of remittent fever was either rediscovered or stolen by Dr. Thomas Slauenwite. [HPL Winged (online text) 244]

Slocum, Charles

HPL Case (online text) 145, 208.

Smith, Clark Ashton

HPL Call (online text) 143; Medusa (online text) 175; Mountains (online text) 22; Museum (online text) 216; Pickman (online text) 18.

HPL addressed Smith as "Klarkash-Ton, 7th Incarnation of Eibon the Unfathomable" [Selected Letters V, Letter 758 to Clark Ashton Smith, ca. 1935]. Smith's ancestors included Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, and Tsathoggua [HPL Family (online text)].

AWD Wood sculptor of Elder God 73, 74-75, 78.

Smith, Dr

Partridgeville area. FBL Eaters (online text) 96, (102), 103-104, (105).

Smith, Eleazar

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 130-134, 136, family 138, diary 139, 140-143, 147, 149, 213.

Smith, Japhet

AWD Gorge 114-117, 119-120, 131.

Smith, Lafayette

HPL Yig (online text) 89.

Smithstone

Manhattan Museum of Fine Arts employee who takes casts. FBL Hills (online text) 266.

Smithwich and Isaacs

24 Central Square, Partridgeville. FBL Hounds (online text) 85.

Smuggler's Point

REH Dwellers 115, 125, 127-128, 130.

Snake Den

A cave in Arkham. HPL Gates (online text) 423-424, 428-429, 437, 451.

Snake-God

Deity of the Serpent Cult of Obeah, in Haiti. RB Serpents 261.

Aka: Crawler of Midnight.

Compare with: serpent god; Yig.

snakes

HPL Medusa (online text) 171, 189, 193-194, 196, 199-200; Mound (online text) 109, 115, 126; Museum (online text) Rhan-Tegoth's tentacles resemble snakes 224-225; Yig (online text) 80 & throughout.

RB Brood serpents growing from foreheads of priests of Bast 97; Sebek serpents 117 & 125.

FL Terror2 attracted by winged worms 283, 287, venomous 289, 291.

AM Novel (online text) Little People's voices harsh and hissing (20), smell like snakes (28), reversion to snake/reptile form (40-41); Shining (online text) Little Peoples' voices like hissing of snakes 201.

Snake Tomb

In Petra. HPL Mountains (online text) 48.

S'ngac

A coloured gas. HPL Kadath (online text) 356, 406.

Snireth-Ko

A human dreamer. HPL Kadath (online text) 319.

snouted thing

JVS Snouted (25), 26-28.

Snow, Deacon ("Elder")

's church, Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123, 141.

Snow Thing

Synonym for Ithaqua. AWD Beyond2 165.

Snow-Thing

Synonym for Ithaqua. AWD Ithaqua 105, 116.

soapstones, five-pointed

Artifacts left by the lost Old Ones of Antartica. The Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition found soapstones, six inches across by one and a half inches thick, in the shape of five pointed stars. There was a smooth depression in the center. The tips were broken off and there were signs of other cleavage at the inward angles and in the center of the surface. With a magnifying glass, Carroll thought he could make out groups of tiny dots in regular patterns. The camp dogs seemed to hate these soapstones [HPL Mountains (online text) 19-20]. The Expedition later found more of the star-shaped soapstones, among the bodies of several Old Ones; these stones were smaller than the previous specimens, with no marks of breakage except at some of the points [20]. On returning to their wrecked camp, the Expedition found a pile including several of the greenish soapstone fragments with five-pointed rounding and faint patterns of grouped dots [32]. When the Old Ones buried six of their dead in snow graves, the grave mounds resembled the soapstones with five points and the groups of patterned dots [33, 39]. From records  in the Old One's city, the scientists inferred that the Old Ones used small, flat counters, five-pointed and inscribed, as money. The scientists theorized that the smaller of the various greenish soapstones found by their expedition were pieces of such currency [65]. After returning home, the Expedition leaders refrained from showing the more puzzling of the greenish soapstones [35].

The soapstones are reminiscent of both the magic signs mentioned by Zadok Allen, and the star-stones of ancient Mnar. Like the magic signs, the soapstones are attributed to "Old Ones"; however, whereas the magic signs are said to have a swastika marked on them, the soapstones are said to have patterns of small dots. One can imagine that a swastika could be formed as a pattern of small dots. However, we don't know the shape of the magic signs and whether they were five-pointed like the soapstones anyway.

Regarding the star-stones of ancient Mnar, they are definitely five-pointed like the soapstones, but are marked with the Elder Sign 2, which seems too complicated to be described as a "pattern of dots."  

FL Terror2 Antarctic soapstones 300.

See also: star-stones; magic sign.

Society for Psychical Research

HPL Diary (online text) 303.

Incl: Typer, Alonzo.

Sodagui

See: Tsathoggua.

Soho

London. AWD Keeper 138, 140, 147, 162.

Incl: Colum, Nayland.

Soldier's Field

Chicago. AWD Depths (online text) 238.

Solomon

HPL Case (online text) Temple of 132; Diary (online text) 317.

Solomon, Jack

Of Texas. REH Lost 66, 68, 89.

Somaliland

REH Fire (online text) 47.

Somerset

HPL Mound (online text) 115.

AWD Keeper 145.

Incl: Pilgore, Henry.

Somesville road

Near Wolf Lake. RFS Mists 26.

Something from Out There

AWD OutThere Follower of Cthulhu, trapped in a sunken kingdom by a star-stone on a stone casket under the priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea. Set free by Clithanus and reimprisoned by St. Augustine; later freed again by Geoffrey Malvern, who went insane. Described as a shocking, greenish hulk with three eyes, it moves by awkward rolling. Requires three human sacrifices to regain full strength. Leaves victims crushed and frozen. Killed Old Cramton and Herbert Green before being reimprisoned again by Dr. William Currie, Soames Hemery, and Duncan Vernon.

Sona-Nyl, land of fancy

HPL Kadath (online text) 317; White (online text) 39, 41.

Son of the Ocean

Another name for Kathulos.

Song of Yste

A book of occult lore. A family of adepts, named the Dirkas, translated the Song of Yste into the three great languages of the dawn cultures, and later into Greek, Latin, Arabic, and Elizabethan English. Various passages in the Song of Yste speak of the adumbrali, a dangerous transdimensional species. Graf Norden and Harvey both studied the Song of Yste. [RAL Abyss (online text) 284-285, 288, 290-291].

The Song of Yste was mentioned in a book by the wizard Graag [RAL Graag (online text) 13]

Sophia, Aunt

Aunt of Adam Duncan. AWD Attic 308.

Sophonisba, Old

Zulu servant. HPL Medusa (online text) 174, 182, 189-191, 194, 200.

Sophy, Aunt

See: Sophonisba, Old.

Sorbonne, the

University in Paris. HPL Medusa (online text) 170.

AWD Shuttered 257.

Incl: Whateley, Abner.

Sotho

DWR Dreams (online text): A being that plays in Yith. Sotho is slimy and lies in a deep hole. Sotho has "no human face"; whether Sotho has an inhuman face, or no face at all, is unclear. Perhaps Sotho is the same as the being described as an "eyeless, huge and bloated head." Some dwellers in Yith are waiting for Sotho to open a door.

Soul Chant of Sebek

RB Suicide (online text) 21.

Soul of Chaos, The

The first of four privately-printed books by Edgar Gordon. It was a product of the final phase of his writing, which brought him into general disfavor because his work had become too horrible and revolting for popular taste. It begins with the statement "This world is but a tiny island in the dark sea of Infinity, and there are horrors swirling all around us. Around us? Rather let us say amongst us. I know, for I have seen them in my dreams, and there are more things in this world than sanity can ever see." [RB Demon 65]

souls, immortal

HPL Medusa (online text) 187, life and death all one 194; Pyramids (online text) 234.

See also: astral body; reincarnation.

South

(United States). AWD Gorge 108.

South Africa

50,000 B.C. HPL Time (online text) 395.

Thomas Slauenwite briefly expected a high position in the South African Health Service [HPL Winged (online text) 244]. Later he planned to return to South African to escape likely prosecution on a murder charge [253].

Incl. Bloemfontein; Johannesburg; Pretoria; Transvaal.

South America

HPL Call (online text) 132; Mountains (online text) 10.

RB Notebook (online text) 236.

AWD Curwen 8, 28; Gable (online text) 199; Gorge 115.

Incl: Abancay; Andes; Andrada, Father; Andros, Prof. Vibarro; Buenos Aires; Chimu civilization?; Conquistadores; Cordillera de Vilcanota; Cuzco?; Devourer, the; Fernandez, Timoto?; Incas; Kon; Machu Pichu; Montez, Ysola; Ollantaytambo; Peru; Quichua-Ayars; Sacsahuaman; Salapunco; Trujillo; Viracocha.

South Carolina

HPL Gates (online text) 422.

South Dearborn Street

RB Shambler (online text) 180.

Southern California

FL Terror2 271, 282.

Incl: Alameda; Coyote Canyon; Culver City; Fermin, Pt.; Glendale; Griffith Observatory; Griffith Park; Hollywood; Hollywood Hills; Hollywoodland; Huntington Library; Lancaster; Laurel Canyon; Long Beach; Los Angeles; Malibu; Paradise Crest; Pinos Range; San Diego; San Pedro; Santa Monica; Santa Monica Mountains; San Xavier; UCLA; Venice; Vulture's Roost; White's Point.

Southern Cross

Constellation. AWD Curwen 17; Gorge 105.

Southern Pacific depot

San Francisco. HPL Electric (online text) 62.

Southern Sea

HPL Kadath (online text) 312-313, 317, 331.

Southhampton

Britain. AWD Keeper 143-144, 146-147, 151.

South Kinnikinnic

RB Sorcerer (online text) 154.

Incl: Voorden, Isaac.

South Londonderry

HPL Whisperer (online text) 224.

South Main

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115, 179.

South Pacific

Of Pacific Ocean. HPL Dagon (online text) 14-19; Innsmouth (online text) 306, 309, 329, 337; Mountains (online text) 66; Museum (online text) 217; Time (online text) 407.

Simon Waverly and Albert Keith found a map that H. P. Lovecraft had drawn of the South Pacific, showing the location of R'lyeh. The tall man of Project Arkham said the area that concerned Lovecraft the most was the South Pacific. [RB Strange]

AWD Island 177-178, 183-184, 187, 194-196, 201, 211; Fisherman 290; Gorge 99-100, 108; Innsmouth (online text) 372-373, 378; Keeper 137, 140; Shuttered 261; Wood 73.

Incl: Walakea;

Bora-Bora; Celebes; Ceram; Cook Islands; Easter Island; East India; Kanakas; Manihiki; Marquesas Islands; Micronesia; Moorea; Otaheite; Pitcairn Island; Polynesia; Polynesians; Ponape; R'lyeh; Tahiti; Timor; Tuamotu Islands;

See also: Pacific.

South Station

Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 17.

South St

Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 351-352, 354-355.

Southwark Street

London. HPL Museum (online text) 215, 227, 237-238.

South Water Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115.

Southwick, Adoniram

Sacrificed. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 335.

Soviet Union

Incl: Politburo.

See also: Russia.

Space-devils

HPL Mound (online text) 131.

space eaters

FBL Eaters (online text) (throughout).

Spain, Spaniards, Spanish

HPL Case (online text) 133; A printing of the Necronomicon was made in the Seventeenth century, probably in Spain (History (online text) 53); Mound (online text) 126, 136-139, 143-145, 147, Spanish wordsss 148, Spaniard 150, Spain 151, 153, 155, Spanish text 156, Spanish 163.

RB Kiss (online text) 40; Steeple (online text) Spanish translation of Necronomicon 224; Terror 223-225, 227-228, Spanish 232.

Project Arkham suspected that the Black Brotherhood was responsible for the apparent death by drowning of the putative heir to the Spanish throne. [RB Strange]

AWD Island 184; Gorge 115.

REH Gods (online text) 188; Roof (online text) 5.

Incl: Dena; Godolfo, Morella; Moors.

Alhambra, Granada.

Spanish Joe

A bottle. HPL Terrible (online text) 273.

spawn of Cthulhu

See: Cthulhu, spawn of.

Spawn of Dagon

See: Dagon, spawn of.

Spawn of the Maelstrom

AWD Spawn 18-34.

Spawn of Yekub

Worm-like beings, giant centipedes. HPL Challenge (online text) 8-9, 12-14.

Spence, Louis

HPL Aeons (online text) speculations concerning lost continents and civilisations 269.

Spencer, Dr

Quebec University. AWD Wind (online text) affirmed that the gold plaque found in the pockets of the dead Robert Norris must have come from some place ancient.

Sphinx

HPL Cats (online text) cousin to the cats 55; Pyramids (online text) Temple of 222-223 & 232 & 242, had frightening visage before Khephren replaced it with his own face 222, 223, 225, 227-228, 231, 233, 235-236, 238.

RB Mummy 284.

sphinxes

RB Faceless 40.

Spirito Santo Church

Federal Hill, Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 111.

RB Steeple (online text) 215, 218.

Incl: Merluzzo, Father.

Spitzbergen

HPL Time (online text) 373.

Spokane

Washington. DWR Music (online text) Rameau found Chronicle of Nath in Spokane bookshop 294.

Incl: Baldwyn, Frank?; Rambeau?

Spolito

Of Yokahama.

Sprague, Ephraim, Doctor

Of the Arkham area. [AWD Hastur 1, 4-5]

Springfield

Massachusetts. HPL Dunwich (online text) 158.

AWD Watchers 382, 383, 384, 392, near Dunwich 394, 399, 400.

Incl: Boyle, Ambrose; Paul, Clifford; Springfield Republican.

Springfield Republican

Springfield. AWD Watchers 401.

Spring Glen road

Dunwich. AWD Lurker 32-33.

Square of Pillars

Great Race. HPL Time (online text) 414.

Stahl

Medeival science writer. HPL Case (online text) 121.

Stairs in the Crypt, The

A story by Robert Blake. HPL Haunter (online text) 94.

Stalker among the Stars

Synonym for Nyarlathotep. RB Faceless 40.

JVS Dead 34: Boys heard the name "Stalker Among the Stars" chanted while in a tunnel leading from Elmer Harrod's house.

Stamford-Norwalk area

Connecticut. RAL Settlers (online text) 17.

Incl: Cantrell, Clyde; Richards, Will; Advertiser; Darien.

Stampa, Pietro Antonio

Author, Fuga Satanae Exorcismus. "Originally from Chiavenna, active in the second half of the 16th century. He was parish priest of Delebio from 1588." [Stampa, Pietro Antonio, CERL Thesaurus, 1/16/2021; translation by Google Translate]

"Stampa was considered one of the greatest authorities in the fight against demonic forces." [Thesaurus Exorcismorum atque conjurationum terribilium, booksofmagick.com, 1/16/2021]

AWD Attic 320; Peabody 193.

Stampers' Hill

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 111, 115, 117, 153.

Stanley

Of Los Angeles. One of the mayor's press secretaries. [RB Strange]

star designs

AWD Gorge 100; Lair 131.

Stark, Abel

Of Dunwich area. AWD Wentworth 172.

Stark, Amos

Of area north of Dunwich. AWD Wentworth 170-172, (173), 174-178.

Stark brothers

Of Texas. REH Lost 70, (84-85).

Stark, Dewey

Of Dunwich area. AWD Wentworth 172.

Stark, Ella

AWD Wentworth 172.

Stark, John

REH Hoofed 145-146, (147), 150, 153-159, (160), 161, (162-164), 165, 167-168.

Stark, Molly

Of Dunwich area. AWD Wentworth 172.

Starkweather-Moore Expedition

HPL Mountains (online text) 5, 19, 35, 39, 105.

Star of Sechmet

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155-156, 161, (162).

Starry Wisdom

AWD Middle 258.

Starry Wisdom sect

Free Will Church, Federal Hill, Providence. HPL Haunter (online text) 93, 103.

RB Steeple (online text) 213-214, 217, 225, 229.

Incl: Bowen, Prof. Enoch.

Starry Wisdom Temple

Los Angeles, on 1726 South Normandie Avenue. A church where Reverend Nye preached the coming of the Great Old Ones and displayed the Shining Trapezohedron to hypnotize audiences. Kay Keith met Reverend Nye there, and later she and Al Bedard attended a meeting there. The Temple burned down about the same time that the Probilski Foundation exploded near Malibu. [RB Strange]

star, six-pointed

Part of a "pentagram." HK Hunt (online text) 163.

stars and constellations

See: celestial objects.

Stars, Isle of the

AWD Lair 124, 133.

star-stones

Starfish-shaped stones engraved with the Elder Sign. AWD Island 196, described 197, 207; Curwen makes Indian less suspicious?! (18), 22, 37, 38, covered with hieroglyphs 40, 44; Gable (online text) 209; Gorge 101, (127); Depths (online text) (240), description (247), (248-251); Keeper 144, 150, 153, 163; Lurker 133, 143; Middle (361); OutThere One with a Latin inscription by St. Augustine served to imprison Something from Out There under the priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea. Radiated a feeling of benevolence to Dr. William Currie; Sandwin (114); Sky (52, 68, 86, 89), 93; Space 242; Spawn (29-30), description *31, 32, 34; Witches, bear Seal of R'lyeh (303), 305.

Aka: five-pointed stones.

Compare with: magic sign; soapstones.

Star-Treader, The

AWD Seal (online text) 160.

Star-Warriors

Synonym for the Elder Gods, or perhaps their agents. AWD Lair 131, 134.

State Historical Society

Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 119.

State House

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 112-113, 159.

State Street, Innsmouth

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 341.

State Street, Newburyport

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 312-314.

Steelbrath

Explorer who died searching for Chaugnar's statue. FBL Hills (online text) 242.

Steele

Playwright of Conscious Lover. HPL Case (online text) 188.

Steenwyck's store

(Mountain Top). HPL Man (online text) 210.

Stellar Brothers Circus

RB Elephant (online text) (38), 39, (40-55).

Incl: Blade, Captain; Chaugnar Faugn; Corbot; Dence, Captain; Dolen, Jim; Leela; Old Man; Rizzio; Sacred White Elephant of Jadhore; Shaw; Victoire; Zaroff, Captain;

Stethelos

A city. HPL Iranon (online text) 114.

Stevens

HPL Yig (online text) 81.

Sthanee

RAL Nyaghoggua (online text) seekers of Sthanee are sometimes waylaid and subjected to weird rites by servants of Nyaghoggua.

Stillwater

Manitoba, a town. AWD Wind (online text) Connected to Nelson by Olassie trail. Inhabitants all worhsipped Ithaqua and offered human sacrifices. Later they angered Ithaqua by working against him. They then planned to sacrifice Irene Masitte, but after her escape, Ithaqua swept all the inhabitants of the town into the sky.

Stone circles

HPL Dunwich (online text) 156, 158, 198; Whisperer (online text) 210, 221.

Stonehenge

England. HPL Case (online text) 205; Descendant (online text) 360; Rats (online text) 29.

Stonehenge was reared using remnants of knowledge from the pre-Flood era when humanity worshipped the Great Old Ones. [RB Strange]

AWD GodBox 120-121; Watchers, ref. 386.

REH People (online text) 154.

Stone of the Philosophers

HK Jest (online text) 60.

Synonym for: Philosopher's Stone.

Stowacki, Pete

HPL WitchHouse (online text) 288-289.

Strand

London. HPL Museum (online text) 227, 237.

Strang, Michael

REH Hoofed narrator 147, 149, 157, 160-161, 163-165.

Strange

Descendant of Jeremy Strange. RB Tomb (online text) (narrator).

Strange, Jeremy

RB Tomb (online text) 12-13, 15-16.

Strange High House in the Mist

HPL Mist (online text); Innsmouth (online text) 316.

AWD Lamp (online text) 254.

Stranger

RWC Mask (online text) 46.

Street of Pillars

Celephaïs. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 86; Kadath (online text) 353, 356.

Stregoicavar

Hungary. A town. REH Black (online text) 58, 61-63, 65, 71-72.

Stronti

Changed to Shonhi in corrected Arkham edition.

Stuart, Gilbert

Painter. HPL Case (online text) 127, 163.

Stugatche, Doctor

RB Faceless 35-40, 42-48.

See also: Carnoti, Dr..

Stygia

REH Hyborian (online text); Untitled 38; Ring (online text) 62.

Stygians

REH Hyborian (online text); Untitled 38.

Styx

REH Hyborian (online text) another name for the Nile; Untitled 38.

Subway Accident

By Pickman. A painting. HPL Pickman (online text) 20.

Suez

AWD Keeper 171.

Suffolk

England. REH Dig (online text) 80.

Includes: John Grimlan; Grymlann family; Toad's-Heath Manor.

Sufyan, Abu

Caliph in Al-Hijaz, Arabia. RFB Iram (online text) 114.

Sugar Act

HPL Case (online text) 129.

Sugar-Loaf

In the Catskills. HPL Man (online text) 209.

Suleiman the Magnificent

REH Black (online text) 59-60, 68.

Sullatt

Night watchman. AWD Spawn 23-26, 32.

Sully, Mrs.

Of Maine. Cooked a fine Maine breakfast at Thad Wing's place. RAL Settlers (online text) 28.

Sumatra Queen, Sumatry Queen

Barque, out of Innsmouth, owned by Obed Marsh. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 329, 333.

AWD Clay 378; Shuttered 271.

Sumerians

HPL Challenge (online text) 2.

Sumner's Pond

In or near Arkham. (Story ref lost.) p. 136.

Sun

AWD Island 181; Whippoorwills 46.

Sung, Plateau of

AWD Lair 117-118, 120-123, 126, 131-133, 135-136; Sandwin possible ref (98).

Superior, Lake

AWD Dweller 127.

AWD Beyond2 154.

Supply, U.S.S

AWD Lurker 137.

Surama

HPL Test (online text) 19-20, 25-32, 35-46, 50-51, 53, 55-59.

Surinam

HPL Case (online text) 162.

Surrey

England. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 88.

AWD Watchers 382.

Incl: Walters, Charles; Walters, Nicholas.

Sussex

HPL Challenge (online text) 7.

Tussmann had an estate in Sussex. [REH Roof (online text) 7]

See also: Sussex Manuscript.

Sussex Fragments

See: Sussex Manuscript.

Sussex Manuscript

A unique manuscript which purports to be a translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred. The work is leather-bound, and written in hand-produced blackletter with illuminations. The manuscript is in English, but written in the style of several centuries ago. The opening page is headed Cultus Maleficarum in Libri quattuor, which would appear to mean something like Cults of Evil Sorcerers in Four Books. Its origin is given as "Sussex - mdxcviii," — that is, Sussex, 1598. And it is said to be "ex hyms Baronis Fredericus Primus," which would seem to mean that it was transcribed or owned or commissioned by a Baron Frederic the First. The work is far too short to be the complete Necronomicon, which in any case is divided into more than four books. It is possibly a collection of extracts from the unpublished translation by John Dee (1527-1608).

Transcriptions of the Sussex Manuscript have been published in the books The Necronomicon: Selected Stories and Essays..., ed. Robert M. Price, and in A Guide to the Cthulhu Cult, by Fred L. Pelton.

Asaph Gilman's papers included baffling passages from the Sussex Manuscript. Prof. Vibberto Andros loaned a transcript of the Sussex Manuscript to Claiborne Boyd. [AWD Gorge 109, 126].

Sylvan Phillips' papers included references to the Sussex Fragments. Marius Phillips found a copy of the Sussex Fragments that had been hidden by Sylvan. [AWD Seal (online text) 159-160]

suvana-fruit

A fruit eaten in Hyperborea. [CAS Testament (online text)] Presumably it is the fruit of the suvana-palm.

suvana-palm

Hyperborea. CAS Tale (online text) 3, juice used as ink 13.

Swan Lake, The

By Tchaikovsky. RB Sebek 122.

Swan Point Cemetery

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 160.

swastika

See: magic sign.

Sweden

Incl: Gothenburg.

Sword People

REH Children (online text) 155-156, 159, 162-163: An bronze age tribe of ancient Britain who battled with the Picts, the Children of the Night, the River People, and later the Wolf People. The god of the Sword People was the metal-worker Il-marenin.

Includes: Aryara.

sybil

See: white sybil.

Sydney

HPL Call (online text) 148.

Sydney Bulletin

HPL Call (online text) 145.

Sydney Cove

HPL Call (online text) 148.

Sydney University

HPL Call (online text) 146.

Sylphs

Air elementals, who are ruled over by Paralda [RB Hell (online text) 61].

RB Sorcerer (online text) 155.

Syria

REH Fire (online text) 39.

RB Shambler (online text) 180.

Sylvius

Old science writer. HPL Case (online text) 121.

symbol, peculiar

HPL Museum (online text) 217, 220, 222.

Symons

Left his nose in Fen Chow Fu. FBL Hills (online text) 241.

Symphony Number 3

By Harris. AWD Wood 76, 79.

Syria

HK Salem (online text) Syrian sorcerers & Nyogtha 261.

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