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This subject is written on a topic in the real world and reflects factual information. This subject contains information from the Expanded Cthulhu Mythos, and not based on H.P. Lovecraft's works directly. The Advent of Uhvash is a short story by American author and editor James Ambuehl.

Synopsis[]

A man is invited to visit his friend bringing with him some books on "Black Magic". It transpires that his friend has begun to experiment with intense Astral Projection, assisted by one Great Old One, Gi-Hoveg, in defiance of another Great Old One, Uhvash. It ends very badly for the narrator's astrally projecting friend.

Publication History[]

"The Advent of Uvhash" was first published in the anthology Mythos Tales & Others in 1996, and later appeared in Midnight Shambler #9 in August 1998.

Behind the Mythos[]

The story features a laundry list of books related to the Mythos, some of which are creations of the author. The texts named are "the accursed Blood-Rituals of Rhylkos, Cultes des Goules, The R'lyeh Text: Fragmentary Transcriptions, the Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus, the Caelano Fragments, the Clavicule Cosmopgraphicum, The Ultimate War, Devil-Gods of the Lu-Kthu Mythos, and the Book of Non Amya.

The Marvel Comics superhero Doctor Strange is also mentioned, indicating that the story takes place in a universe where Marvel's own contributions to the Mythos are likely fictional.

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