Cthulhu Mythos Species: Cthulhu Mythos Deities, Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, Glaaki, Cthugha, Dagon, Mi-Go, Great Old One, Tsathoggua

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Cthulhu Mythos deities, Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, Glaaki, Cthugha, Dagon, Mi-go, Great Old One, Tsathoggua, Azathoth, Clark Ashton Smith deities, Xothic legend cycle, Serpent Men, Outer God, List of Great Old Ones, Elder Thing, Great Race of Yith, Shoggoth, Hastur, Insect from Shaggai, Yog-Sothoth, Elder God, Deep One, Colour out of space, Ramsey Campbell deities, Voormis, Ghatanothoa, Hounds of Tindalos, Henry Kuttner deities, Nodens, Brian Lumley deities, Cthulhu Mythos supernatural characters, Flying polyp, Nightgaunt, Lloigor, Yugg, Ithaqua, Byatis, Gnophkeh, Tcho-Tcho, Mordiggian, Many-angled ones, Lin Carter deities, Cyaegha, Fire vampire, Zhar, Yig, Chthonian, Y'golonac, The Master of the Monolith, Cthylla, Ulthar, Star vampire, Rhogog, Yag-Kosha, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, Hunting Horror, Dhole, Byakhee, Moon-beast, Shantak, Men of Leng. Excerpt: Cthulhu is a fictional character that first appeared in the short story The Call of Cthulhu, published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. HP Lovecraft's initial short story, The Call of Cthulhu, was published in Weird Tales in 1928 and established the character as a malevolent entity trapped in an arctic underwater city called R'lyeh. Described as being ...an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings, and a mountain walked or stumbled, the imprisoned Cthulhu is apparently the source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level, and also the subject of worship by a number of evil cults (located in Arabia, Greenland and Louisiana) and other Lovecraftian monsters (called Deep Ones and Mi-Go). The short story asserts the premise that while currently trapped Cthulhu will eventually return, with worshippers oft...