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Cthulhu Mythos — The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe created in the 1920s by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu a… … Wikipedia
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Lovecraft Mythos — The Lovecraft Mythos is the term coined by the scholar S. T. Joshi [ The Lovecraft Mythos , H. P. Lovecraft , p. 31ff. Joshi acknowledges, however, that Donald R. Burleson independently coined the term in his eponymous article that appears in… … Wikipedia
Arkham — Fictitious city in Massachusetts invented by HPL. The city is first cited in “The Picture in the House” (1920); other tales that feature Arkham are “Herbert West Reanimator” (1921–22), “The Unnamable” (1923), “The Colour out of Space” (1927),… … An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia
Cthulhu Mythos — Term devised by August Derleth to denote the pseudomythology underlying some of HPL’s tales, chiefly the “cosmic” stories of his last decade of writing. It is difficult to know how seriously HPL himself regarded his invented pantheon or his … An H.P.Lovecraft encyclopedia
