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Cthulhu Universalis

Cthulhu Universalis

An index of references to books, gods, races, places, and people in works by first-generation Cthulhu Mythos authors. This work is gradually being converted from an index into something more like an encyclopedia, with articles rather than just index entries. Recently expanded: Arkham, Ipswich, Rowley, Bolton, Aylesbury, Dean's Corners, Jade God, Dictionnaire Infernal, Discours des Sorciers, Elder Key, De Natura Daemonum, Daemonialitas, Edgar Allan Poe, Chronike von Nath, Olaus Wormius, Aklo, Exham Priory. Stories recently indexed: The Jade God and The Little People, both by Robert E. Howard.

Links have been added from each article to the online text of the stories they mention, if available.

Cthulhu by Raymond Bayless

Librarium Cthulhuvius

An online library of first-generation, public domain Cthulhu Mythos stories, including works by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Hugh B. Cave, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Robert A. W. Lowndes, Duane W. Rimel, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei.

Recently added: Those Who Seek by August Derleth.

The Cthulhu Mythos: An Annotated Bibliography

Works by the first generation writers, with lists of the Mythos terms referenced in each story.

Lovecraft's Map of Arkham

HPL's hand-drawn map of one of his most famous creations.

Innsmouth

A Tourist's Guide to Innsmouth

Map of Innsmouth and Environs (Updated 2021)

Discussion of the Map (Updated 2021)

Now includes Lovecraft's sketch map of Innsmouth.

The Descent of Robert Olmstead

Newly added: The geneaology of Lovecraft's narrator, according to his preliminary notes and according to the finished story.

The Innsmouth Look
 

Necronomicon

The Necronomicon: A Study

Including H.P. Lovecraft's History of the Necronomicon and all known Necronomicon quotations from the first generation of Mythos authors.

Sources of Necromancy in Charles Dexter Ward

One of our most in-depth scholarly effusions... With eldritch engravings! [Updated in 2021 with new information about paligenesis, the alchemical art of recreating living things from their ashes.]

A Short Tour of Lovecraftian New England

Photos and notes about the real places that inspired Arkham, Innsmouth, and other Lovecraftian settings.

Danvers

The Real Arkham Sanitarium: Danvers State Hospital - Slideshow

An inspiration for Lovecraft's Arkham Sanitarium, Danvers State Hospital was a Victorian era complex featuring rather ornate and foreboding architecture. Mostly torn down now, but you can see some photo-engravings here based on images taken in 1997 before the demolition.

 

Alhazred

The Spanish Translation of Al-Azif, by Dr Carlos Sorentino

HPL

H. P. Lovecraft and the Myth of the 20th Century

Cthulhu Files Bookstore

Cthulhu Files Bookstore

A bookstore focusing primarily on works by the first generation of Cthulhu Mythos authors, including H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, and Donald Wandrei.

Art

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A Selection of Cover Art

By Victor Valla and other artists, from the classic Beagle Boxer and Lancer paperbacks of H.P.L.

Lady Hamilton with Pet

The Hound

A Cat of Ulthar

The Strange High House in the Mist

Emergence

Virgil Finlay's portrait of HPL

Artwork from Kenneth Waters

Mythos Booze and Grub

Links

Related Sites

Awards


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Images in the left margin, and tentacle elements in Cthulhu Universalis logo and bibliography logo are from Art Forms in Nature, by Ernst Haeckel.

Cthulhu image for Librarium Cthulhuvius is a detail from Raymond Bayless's peerless cover illustration for the seventh printing of H. P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror and Others, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, Inc.

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