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  1. The Cthulhu Mythos was H.P. Lovecraft’s greatest contribution to supernatural literature: a series of stories that evoked cosmic awe and terror through their accounts of incomprehensibly alien monsters and their horrifying incursions into our world.

    • Development
    • Structure
    • Theme
    • Derleth's Involvement
    • Elemental Theory
    • Conclusion
    • Fundament
    • See Also
    • External Links

    Robert M. Price, in his essay "H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos", sees two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos. The first stage, or "Cthulhu Mythos proper" as Price calls it, took shape during Lovecraft's lifetime and was subject to his guidance. The second stage occurred under August Derleth who attempted to categorize and expand ...

    The Mythos usually takes place in fictional New England towns and is centered on the Great Old Ones, a fearsome assortment of ancient, powerful deities who came from outer space and once ruled the Earth. They are presently quiescent, having fallen into a death-like sleep at some time in the distant past. The most well-known of these beings is Cthul...

    The essence in the Mythos is that the human world and our role in it are an illusion. Humanity is living inside a fragile bubble of perception, unaware of what lies behind the curtains or even of the curtains themselves, and our seeming dominance over the world is illusory and ephemeral. We are blessed in that we do not realize what lies dormant in...

    Derleth had his own take on the mythos and tried to make it conform to his own Roman Catholic values and dualism. Instead of a universe of meaninglessness and chaos, Derleth's mythos is a struggle of good versus evil. Derleth once wrote: Lovecraft was an atheist, and claimed that Kant's ethical system "is a joke." Because of this, Derleth's theorie...

    Derleth also connected the deities of the Mythos to the four elements of air, earth, fire, and water. This system left gaps which Derleth filled in by creating the beings Ithaqua, representing air, and Cthugha, representing fire. However, the system has a few problems. For example, Derleth classified Cthulhu as a water elemental, but if this were s...

    Derleth became a publisher of Lovecraft's stories after his death.Lovecraft himself was very critical of his own writings and was often easily discouraged, especially when faced with any rejection of his work. Were it not for Derleth, Lovecraft's writings and the Cthulhu Mythos might have remained largely unknown.

    As stated above, new elements have constantly been added to the mythology after Lovecraft's death, including works by others as well as stories by Lovecraft himself that were not originally included in the mythos. Other short stories written by Lovecraft are included because of references to such elements as the Necronomicon, cosmic terror and non-...

    Yog-Sothoth.com, a resource for Chaosium's Call of Cthulhuroleplaying game, which has been responsible for much of the upsurge in popularity of the Cthulhu Mythos since it’s inception in 1981.
    Schema on Lovecraft’s "The Call of Cthulhu" and the Cthulhu Mythos on schematax.org
  2. 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, to identify the settings, tropes, and lore that were employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

  3. The Cthulhu Mythos is a collection of 23 loosely connected short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, one of the earliest masters of dark fantasy and horror. From “Dagon” to “The Call of Cthulhu” to “The Haunter of the Dark,” each story connects to the ancient cosmic entities known as the Great Old Ones, buried in a deep sleep beneath the ...

  4. Os Mitos de Cthulhu (do inglês, Cthulhu Mythos) é o termo usado pelo escritor August Derleth como referência ao panteão de monstros e seres fantásticos que habitam os contos de ficção científica e horror de Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

  5. The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Tales collects twenty-three of Lovecraft’s greatest weird tales, including “The Call of Cthulhu,” “The Colour out of Space,” “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Shadow over Innsmouth,” and “The Shadow out of Time.”

  6. Os Mitos de Cthulhu é um universo fascinante e aterrorizante criado por H.P. Lovecraft. Mergulhe na tradição e aprenda sobre as criaturas e histórias que cativaram os fãs de terror por gerações.