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An informal and appropriately chaotic Shared Universe that squarely defines the darkest and edgiest of genres, cosmic horror. It was started unintentionally by H. P. Lovecraft and his circle of peers (informally called the 'Kalem Club') who belonged to the embryonic Fandom.
- Character Page
A page for describing Characters: Cthulhu Mythos. This is a...
- YMMV
Alternate Character Interpretation:. Virtually all modern...
- Quotes
A page for describing Quotes: Cthulhu Mythos. A page for...
- Pantheon
A page for describing Pantheon: Cthulhu Mythos. In the Trope...
- Awesome
Parry of "The Room in the Tower" sets the Great Old One...
- WMG
The Cthulhu Mythos isn't the inspiration of multiple works...
- Headscratchers
Why do the cosmic beings in the Mythos take so many weird...
- Trivia
And in the Pathfinder (AKA D&D 3.75) campaign setting, a...
- Character Page
A page for describing Characters: Cthulhu Mythos. This is a compendium of all those things squamous, rugose, and otherwise weird from the writings of H. P.
- The Americas
- Asia-Pacific and Oceania
- Europe, North Africa, West and South Asia
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Miscellaneous Folklore
General — Native American Mythology(many different indigenous cultures of the Americas)Indigenous North Americans:Indigenous South Americans:Post-Colonial Folklore:Central and North Asian Mythologies:East Asian and Mainland Southeast Asian Mythologies:Maritime Southeast Asian and Oceanian Mythologies:Afro-Asiatic (and Semitic) Mythologies:Finno-Ugric Mythologies:Indo-European Mythologies:North Causasian Mythology:General — African Mythology(many different cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa; see above for Madagascar)Central African Mythologies:East African Mythologies:West African Mythologies:The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, originating in the works of Anglo-American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and protégé of Lovecraft
This is the online compendium of information about the Cthulhu Mythos, the 1920s cosmic horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and the ongoing growth of the Mythos in literature and popular culture. Mythos. Comics. Films. TV. Games. Yog-Sothoth. "Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate." Read more > Mythos Topics.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe created by H.P. Lovecraft and used by many other writers. It forms the basis of the Call of Cthulhu RPG (as well as the Delta Green setting). Tropes: Common tropes of the Cthulhu Mythos include: Ancient Astronauts; Apocalyptic Log; Artifact Of Doom
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The following tropes are common to many or all entries in the Cthulhu Mythos franchise. For tropes specific to individual installments, visit their respective work pages.