ROCK and RULE: Is the Armageddon Demon lovecraftian enough?
After the recent discussion on the wikia, is this entity Lovecraftian enough? It is described by the film makers as a Lovecraftian demon.
Ex Oblivione In Memoriam Scriptorem
As much as it is a "hold back the sea" level task, I feel strongly that ALL the artists and writers who have made the effort, whether once or many times, to expand the Mythos must be honored here with an entry. Some claim their place effortlessly; some flare across the sky and burn out; some simply - leave. Others struggle mightily to achieve literary or artistic success and then through old age, tragedy or change of heart vanish from the annals.
It is reminiscent of the varied careers of Lovecraft and his Circle to me, and I feel for that reason it is worth recording all of them, yes, even though the Miskatonic Repository alone has a welter of contributors. All should be added, eventually, and all the others beyond.
This is a wikia on Fando…
My Mythos related work on DriveThruRPG
It seemed a little bit cringe to add pages for my own Mythos work on the wikia so for now I will list some of it here instead.
WHITEFRANK: ZOOMWAY: REANIMATED
An adventure set on a cruise ship near Antarctica where the cargo hold has a smuggled item from a very unique prison on Antarctica: HERBERT WEST. This is West post-injected with his own formula, and turned into a powerful monster/villain who intends to go to work on anyone he can catch on board.
However there are more complications on the ship: it's under siege and drifting towards disaster and a Jason Voorhees style "undead" serial or spree killer is also loose on board.
Finally, the man who chartered the cruise is the recipient of a small dose of West formula a century and more ago whi…
Lovecraft Lexicon
As part of a new animation project I have begun creating a dictionary of the imaginary language that I play theorize the Mythos uses. In other words the conceit is that the bizarre words are all part of a single language.
Work so far:
The funny thing is, due I think partly to the good education in the classics of Lovecraft and his Circle and partly due to natural influence of their own native tongue, a vast amount of Mythos gibberish is actually derived or could be argued as being derived from PIE or prehistoric PIE ancestor tongues. Also due to repetitious borrowing and the desire to make new names fit at least subconsciously with what has gone before, the words begin to make their own kind of squirrelly sense.
It's not exactly Tolkien's Elv…
Have you seen the Yellow Sign? No, I mean REALLY? Seen it?
Robert W. Chambers is a wonderful writer, and more of a pioneer in his way and his day than Lovecraft in his. This is true even though Lovecraft and the Mythos cottage industry has spread and indeed exploded into as close to the mainstream as it is likely to get, while the Fin de Siecle and Gilded Age psychological horror and doomed romances of Chambers have either been forgotten or assimilated by the box ticking sub-genre of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The King In Yellow is an amazing work of horror to me. And unlike many people offering views or critiques of it, I see all of its stories as horror stories. In the same way that some of the best of the Agatha Christie stories are, at the same time, crime stories AND horror stories, Chambers in his d…
Silence Is Golden
I am currently working on an animated series best described as Scooby-Doo meets the Cthulhu Mythos. I'm enjoying doing it and I hope it will find an audience. :)
Ebooks
Hi folks, this should be fairly simple.
When I structured the category system a few years ago, I thought it was a good idea to add ebooks as a subcategory of books. Today, it seems like I wasn’t all that forward thinking! I don’t think the ebook category is relevant any more, as virtually everything that would fall under the category of Books is available as an ebook or PDF, and many books are available solely in a digital format.
So, I’d like to ask if we can remove the ebook category. If there’s something I haven’t thought of, please let me know,
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New Categories
Hi folks, a user has approached some of us asking whether it would be possible to create a new category for species specifically created by Lovecraft. As we are the H. P. Lovecraft wiki after all, I can see some merit to this. However, there is an issue which I’d like to raise first.
So, I feel that adding Species Originating from Lovecraft Circle works (or something similar) alone isn’t really fair. If we do if for Species, then we’d have to include similar articles for Characters, Locations, Artefacts, etc. While I think this may be a good idea, the amount of time this would take is considerable. To give everyone an idea of how much, during the last category overhaul, the wiki had around 1800 pages, IIRC. Two of us combed through them for s…
H.P. Lovecraft vs. The Public Domain
Today I stumbled across an interesting article on this subject. If it’s true, it’s a poor showing by those involved. Attempting to keep a stranglehold on a property with one hand, while with the other making courtroom assertions that one has no right to those properties in the first place to avoid legal repercussions is pretty low.
Anyway, here’s the article:
https://dorkland.blogspot.com/2023/04/hp-lovecraft-vs-public-domain.html
Should we continue to allow AI images on this wiki?
Click here to see the poll and vote.
Over the past months, the subject of AI images (which are currently allowed and widely used on this wiki) has been brought up and discussed multiple times, by different users.
Some users and staff members have spoken up against the practice of allowing AI-generated pictures. Our admin, ManBearSmoog, has kindly asked me to start a discussion, so that we can weigh up the pros and cons, and I'm myself curious to know what others think about it.
Let's start with the pros, then. First, I do genuinely believe that AI images have the potential to be a helpful tool for this wiki, for the following reasons.
- AI can be used to illustrate subjects that otherwise wouldn't be illustrated at all. Some subjects are so obsc…
What's a Novella?
I'm wondering--do we have a rule for what counts as a novella vs. a short story? The question mainly matters for whether we italicize or put the title in quotation marks--I think that's our rule, anyway.
Mostly I see novellas described as being between 17,500 and 40,000 words, though sometimes you see 20,000 as the lower bound, and sometimes it's 10,000. In round numbers, that's like 60, 70 or 35 pages as the minimum.
It might be worth taking a look at our page on Lovecraft's word counts:
Lovecraft's Word Counts
These are the stories that would be novellas with the shorter count:
The Dunwich Horror is the only story between 17,500 and 20,000 words.
These are the Lovecraft stories that are pretty clearly novellas--between 20,000 and 40,000 words…
Arkham House
So today I decided to have a look at the Arkham House website only to discover that it is currently down. Looking into it, the site appears to have been down for nearly a year. I also checked their Facebook page, and there have been no new posts from them for over 2 years. According to ISFDB, they haven’t produced any new material for 13 years; Wikipedia states that a handful of titles have been reprinted.
I’ve checked every way I can think of to try and find out if they are still active, but at the moment it looks like we may have lost Arkham House.
Incorporating Other Wiki Material (When Appropriate)
I wanted to raise the topic of slightly relaxing our rule about incorporating material from other wikis into the HPLW.
I think there are two main objections to such incorporation--the ethical and the practical--which I'll address in turn.
The ethical objection is that copying and pasting material from other wikis is either plagiarism or too close to plagiarism. To that I would say, at least with Wikipedia and I believe with other wikis, part of the initial conception was that it was creating content for not just readers, but for other creators as well to use. That's why everything has a Creative Commons license -- it's this one, here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ It specifically authorizes one to "copy and redistribute the…
On the Origin of the Great Old Ones
There are many unanswered questions in the Cthulhu Mythos.
For example, what is that white polypous thing in the bayou?
Who left that note in Dr. Willett's pocket?
What's the relationship between the Fishers from Outside and the devil-flies?
Did life on Earth start with the Elder Things' experiments, or with Ubbo-Sathla?
And of course, what exactly are the Great Old Ones, and how did they originate?
Needless to say, the truest answer to all these questions is: "you decide". Different authors have provided their own diverging answers, and as readers, we're absolutely free to choose the ones we prefer, or to invent our own.
The theory that I'll discuss here, concerning how the Great Old Ones are created, is one of many possibilities. I don't claim …
New Logo
Hi guys, one of the Fandom members who is looking after us has kindly designed a proposed new logo to replace the one in the top-left of the screen. Before we do anything, I’d like to get any opinions you all may have.
You can view the new design .
deleted pages
here is a selection of deleted pages, most seemingly imported from old wikipedia pages or dubious translations from other wiki languages.
- Kthaw'keth (was on wikipedia with the "MC" source; apparently from deviantart https://www.deviantart.com/spikevalance/art/Spike-Valance-Cthulhu-Mythos-Kthaw-keth-260787584
- X'chll'at-aa.jpg (was on wikipedia)
Category Overhaul 2.0
Hey there folks, I hope you’re all doing well.
As you’re probably aware, we’ve been streamlining the category system recently, beginning with the Real World side of things. Now, we’re ready to start on the in-universe aspect.
Below is the proposed layout for the Fictional category system. I’d like to invite everyone to comment on what’s missing, what’s unnecessary and what’s in the wrong place. Any input is welcome, and I’d love to hear from you all.
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Browse
- Fictional
- Lifeforms & Entities
- Species
- Species Originating From Lovecraft Circle Works
- Species Originating From Expanded Mythos Works
- Species Originating From Mythos-Adjacent Works
- Species Originating From Mythos-Inspired Works
- Species Incorporated From Folklore, Myth & Religion
- Extinct Species
- Earth…
- Species
- Lifeforms & Entities
The Beyonder
I got my page in FB that dedicate traditional art of Lovecraft lore, feel free to check it out.
Bigeggs | Facebook
Category Overhaul 1.2
Hi again folks, here is the proposed final draft for the "Real World" side of our category makeover. Unless someone points out anything major that needs to be reworked, then we’ll be starting to implement this on Friday 18 June. Anybody who’d like to help out is more than welcome to, please message me to arrange work areas so that we can avoid getting tangled up with each other. I’d appreciate it if everyone could refrain from starting the changeover before I give the go-ahead.
Once again, thanks to everyone who has taken the time to give input,
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- Real World
- Real World People
- Content Creators
- Lovecraft Circle Authors
- Kalem Club
- Lovecraft's Correspondents
- Lovecraft's Co-authors
- Expanded Mythos Authors
- Mythos-Adjacent Authors
- Mythos-Inspired Authors
- Lo…
- Lovecraft Circle Authors
- Content Creators
- Real World People
Category Overhaul 1.1
Hi there everyone, this blog is to update the progress of the category overhaul after the first week. Now that I’ve spoken to some of you, I’ve adjusted the the proposed new layout per suggestions, and have included it below for everyone to have a look at and put forward any more opinions. The categories which have been added since the previous post are in bold, those removed are indicated by a strikethrough.
Please note that some pages may be categorised under more than one of these tags; this is inevitable, and is just the nature of the beast.
Something I’d like to make absolutely clear is that these categories will not be the only ones on the Real World side of this wiki; these will be the bases to which all others are subsidiary. For exa…
Category Overhaul
Hi there everyone, in this blog I’ll be launching the first phase of out Category overhaul.
As some of you may be aware, we are planning on re-organising the entire category system, beginning with the "real world" side. Over the last few days, I have worked up a first draft of how I would envision the new layout, but this obviously needs more input and discussion before we can go forward.
I've included the draft below, please feel free to comment with any additions, deletions or changes you feel need to be made so that we can come to a community consensus.
Thank you for taking the time to read this,
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- Realworld
- Content Creators
- Lovecraft Circle Authors
- Expanded Mythos Authors
- Mythos-Adjacent Authors
- Mythos-Inspired Authors
- Lovecraft's Inspirations …
- Content Creators
TEKELI-LI! TEKELI-LI!
I am not a "Necronomicon is real" guy but I am a "Lovecraft read an awful lot of Fortean reports" guy.
Lovecraft Aeternae
It's fascinating to have lived through the period where Lovecraft has gone from "who?" to "oh yeah him". :)
Cthulhu's aliases (trivia)
Hi!
I'm again in the process of completing pages related to the , and I was looking to know if the exact spellings "Kthl" or "Ktuhl" were ever used for Cthulhu in the Cthulhu Mythos (based on the little I have, I assume that would Ramsey Cambell, Lin Carter, or Brian Lumley, in the case the spelling is indeed ever used)?
Those two spellings are used among many "ftaghn" invocations (including "ftaghn Nyerlathortech", "... Yot-Soter", "...Yoggor", "... Llhek", "... S'geht", "...Shuma-Gorath".
By the way, if any of the above names, or the name "Shoggor", rings any bell, I'm listening. So far, Nyerlathorthech=ref or alternate to Nyarlathotep, Yot-Soter=ref or alternate to Yog-Sothoth.
Thanks in advance,
Have a great day.
Is there a place to put non-canon entities/events/objects?
I mean, its a Wiki, there should be place like that, and I can think of a plenty ideas in a span of seconds.
- Our stance is that there is no canon. As long as it's a professional release, it's good. The only thing we consider "non-canon" would be fan fiction, to keep it sensible. If the fanfiction is significant, I guess you culd put it in the "behind the mythos" or "trivia" sections.
- I hope it answers your question.RingoRoadagain (talk) 22:29, July 24, 2020 (UTC)
Categories
From looking at what we've got I think this be a pretty straightforward system. (half an hour in and I know how foolish I was)
- Browse
- Administration of this site [Unchanged]
- Articles including information from the Greater Cthulhu Mythos
- Articles including information from the "Lovecraft Circle" Myth Cycles
- Articles including information from the Derleth Cthulhu Mythos
- Articles including information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos
- Articles including information from the Mythos Adjacent Works
- Articles including information from the Mythos Influenced Works
- Creatures
- Characters
- Deceased (In Mythos)
- Deities
- Dark Giants [New]
- Elder Gods
- Great Old Ones
- Great Ones
- Many-Angled Ones [New]
- Outer Gods
- Families
- Magic practitioners
- Other Supernatural Beings
- DC (Ct…
Community Project
I need ideas for my pantheon of entities called "The Beyonders", based on various concepts such as Endings, Beginnings, and Fate, inspired by the various gods of lovecraftian lore.
Yvriolketl, The eternal darkness: Ruler of all dark, literal or metaphorical. All evil, sin, terror, madness, and all negative things come from him in some way. He himself often interacts with humanity, claiming they amuse him. In 1900, he scared one H.P. Lovecraft, changing him forever. His true form is indescribable by finite language, but he regularly changes into a monochrome human dressed in half-grungy half-formal clothing.
Mythos Connections
I’ve been writing articles for this wiki for a couple of months now, and one thing I always like to do is state how these characters/books/storylines fit in with the Mythos. Whilst I understand that not every article is a part of Lovecraft's world directly, I believe that every page should at least have an explanation of its position/connection to the Mythos, rather than an assumption that the reader knows exactly how it feeds in. I feel that so many pages on this wiki are comic book stubs whose connection to the Mythos can only be gleaned through clicking on multiple links. I don’t mind trying to fix those pages so that there’s something to connect them to the Mythos, but I think that my past history might make my actions seem like harass…
Does Cthulhu ever awaken?
I may be new to the mythos, but I can't find a canon story where Cthulhu awakens from his slumber and destroys earth (or something along those lines). I know what will happen, but I don't know if it happened in the mythos yet. Can someone please answer this.
Sandbox
- 1 Images
- 2 Stories to expand
- 3 To do
- 4 Prefixes
- 4.1 Old
- 4.2 New
- 5 My Canon Circle
- 5.1 Generally accepted:
- 5.2 Friends and correspondents:
- 5.3 Not counting the 26 short stories and the novel written after Lovecraft's death by August Derleth.
- 6 Canon test for published Lovecraftian media
- 6.1 Does it contain direct references to the mythos?
- 6.2 If so was it published under Lovecraft's name during his lifetime?
- 6.3 If not, was it published by August Derleth?
- 6.4 If not, was it published by a member of the Lovecraft Circle?
- 6.5 If not, does it exist within a separate story cycle?
- 6.6 If not, it belongs under .
- Lovecraft circle Seal.jpg
- Extended universe sigil.jpg
- The Electric Executioner
- Winged Death
- The Night Ocean
- The Horror in the Museum
The Man of Stone- The Trap
- Medusa's Coil
- The La…
Bärkatlànm
What follows is the preserved work of 179.111.25.3 and SergioCamppo ( Sergio Roberto Sbeghen Campos) for any obscure fanfiction enthusiasts out there. As far as I know "The Yerg'le Lake" has never been published and all of the information about it came from this now deleted wikia entry (While Szarëgg also had her own page it likely wasn't created by Sergio and said nothing that isn't included here) Also if you came from the image of David Kaye's Hammerhead Alien that was also added later by someone who acknoledged that "No representation of this character is yet available.".
Bärkatlànm is a Great Old One. But different from many other Great Old Ones, he doesn't seek the destruction of mankind; he needs mankind's faith to be able to move hi…
Fungi from Yuggoth
When I started to write up the plot for Fungi from Yuggoth one sonnet at a time I assumed that it was one long story. The first 4 were about someone stealing a book to explain their unusual visions. By the fifth the first possible link to Randolph Carter appears as a daemon offers to take them back to a magnificent city they once called home "When they had sight". Struggling to fit in "VI The Lamp" and "VII Zaman's Hill" I hoped that reading on would help me figure them out . Instead the narrator contines from Arkham (which I assumed to be the city from the first sonnet) to Innsmouth where they find it to be a cult riddled maze where dancing corpses drag them through the streets to drumbeats ("IX The Courtyard" and "X The Pigeon-Flyers"). …
Headbutting a wall
Just spent the day writing up a plot summary for The Man of Stone only for it to disappear like Wheeler himself. Not best pleased.
A start
I normally don't make blog posts but dangle an achievement under my nose and I'll do pretty much anything. That being said now that I'm here I may as well say that although I'm still learning the ropes I'm hoping to flesh out some of the smaller details bits of the nearly infinite Lovecraft Library. Admittedly as a bit of a purist I'm trying not to get lost in the extended canon but I'm sure I'll get my head around it eventually.
The Curse of Yig Narration + Score
I've just finished up work on a recording featuring a narration of "The Curse of Yig" with an original score by the doom folk group Freight Train Rabbit Killer. It's kind of a cross between an audiobook and a movie soundtrack. Check out a preview clip here: https://soundcloud.com/user-618267245/the-curse-of-yig-preview-clip-1
If you're into it, help us press the whole 43min recording to green/grey vinyl by visiting our Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/761385605/hp-lovecrafts-the-curse-of-yig?ref=dci2ad
Also, check out the thumbnail sketch of the album cover... a portrait of the victim of Yig's curse, Audrey Walker by Amy Abshier. She is finishing the painting now.
Thanks for the Support!
Help With Necronomicon
Hello, I have noticed that most(actually all) have been pretty much dismissed by Lovecraft fans for being too non-canonical or mostly unrelated to the mythos *ahem* simon necronomicon *ahem*. So, I have decided to write a version of the Necronomicon that is as canonical and accurate as possible. This is going to be a huge undertaking, and I am going to need a TON of help. For more info, here is my post on Reddit about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Lovecraft/comments/8negr0/help_with_necronomicon_part_1/
Also, here is the text from my Reddit post, copied here:
So, I am a writer and a huge fan of Lovecraft. I have decided to write an accurate(accurate as possible) and truly Lovecraftian (as in at least 80% canonical with Lovecraft's original…
Daggoth. russian version story
Later will be translate to English
Автор:
Панин Никита aka Witcher_Merlin
«Даггод»
Посвящается памяти
Говарда Филипса Лавкрафта
У берегов Канады в Беринговом Проливе находился омываемый холодными и безжалостными ледяными водами остров, носящий труднопроизносимое название – Кхататоте.
На самом острове возведен город, полный скрытных и необщительных людей, людей самодостаточных и отчужденных от мира. Казалось, все то время что существует Тшамбоэ, его жители старались отгородиться от окружающего мира, полностью погрузившись в свой собственный быт.
Не тревожимый долгие годы город десять лет назад попал под внимание внешнего мира, причиной стала та самая странность, что кружила вокруг острова.
На каменистых пляжах западного побережья Северной Америки ж…
At the Mountains of Madness film
I am mostly new to the Cthulhu Mythos/Lovecraft works and have only read a few so far. I have recently started At the Mountains of Madness and I heard that Guillermo Del Toro was working on a film version, but that it has been in development hell. I just wanted to ask if anybody knows any news or updates on if he is still working on the film or is the project cancelled?
Discord Channel
Today I have created a Discord channel called Cthulhu's Little Edgelords. It's in early developement but it works. If you want in on the channel just message me on my wall and I'll happily invite you. Just make sure you READ THE RULES so that my job as admin is just a little bit easier.
The best characters
I realy want to know (If anyone sees this) who are the best characters from the lovecraft works.
Lack of pages
I was on this wiki for a while now and i noticed that there is a lot of stub articles and non-existing pages.
subnautica banned me
got banned on the subnautic wiki because my name has a curse word in it. i'm probably going to change that. now you maybe asking why in the name azathoth is this waste of wiki space here? well because 1. I'm stupid and shouldn't be allowed to blog 2. because I don't know how to delete it. I'm sorry
Development Call to Action!
Wikis have become the primary repository for knowledge on just about every topic imaginable. But the H.P. Lovecraft Wiki has been largely unused.
Consider the following statistics: The Marvel Comics wiki has 146,928 pages, The Star Wars wiki has 121,472 pages, The Dr. Who wiki has 47,544 pages, The Game of Thrones wiki has 2,961 pages. The Lovecraft wiki has 387 pages. Is it possible there are so few H.P. Lovecraft fans? Certainly not! There are more fans of the Cthulhu Mythos now than ever in history. With new board games, t-shirts, hats, and even plush dolls released every year, Lovecraft fandom is at an all time high.
So how can you help? Tell your podcast listeners, your blog followers, your twitter followers, and anyone who will listen …