G

G

Of Philadelphia. HPL Case (online text) 195.

Ga, Chung

See: Chung Ga.

gable window, the

AWD Gable (online text) 200, 203-205.

Gaels

Of Britain. RB Brood 92.

REH People (online text) 149, 151-153, 157.

Incl: O'Brien, Turlogh Dubh.

Gaiman

Type of saurian. AWD Survivor (online text) 152.

Gainesville Pike

HPL Statement (online text) 299-300.

Galla

An ethnic group in Africa. HPL Winged (online text) 245, five Gallas were hired by Slauenwite for his expedition 247.

Incl. Old N'kuru.

Gallery of Fiends

Photo series. RB Sorcerer (online text) 150.

Incl: Asmodeus; Azazel; Sammael; Beelzebub.

Galloway hills

REH Black (online text) 61.

Gallows Hill, Salem

HPL Gates (online text) 422; Pickman (online text) in Salem? 15, 19.

RB Satan 9.

HK Salem (online text) 250.

Galvez, Joseph D

HPL Call (online text) 138.

Gaol Lane

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 114.

Gamba

Of M'gonga. HPL Winged (online text) the factor's messenger, who Dr. Slauenwite intentially infected with the bite of a devil-fly 249, fell ill from the bite but was saved by Slauenwite with shots of tryparsamide 250-251 & 255.

Gamwell

Of Barnes St., Providence; an antiquarian of note. AWD Survivor (online text) 150-155.

Gamwell, Mrs

Of Providence. JVS Snouted 27.

Ganesha

An elephant-headed god-form of Hinduism, revered as the remover of obstacles.

In Jadhore, Ganesha seems to have associations far different than in the rest of Hinduism. According to the Rajah of Jadhore, Ganesha is not a benevolent god, but a master of dark forces, who has been variously worshipped as Chaugnar Faugn and as Tsathoggua [RB Elephant (online text) 44, 47, 51, 52, 53]. (The identification with Chaugnar Faugn is understandable, since the latter deity is also represented with an elephant head. However, the link with Tsathoggua seems less plausible, since Tsathoggua is held to be toad-like rather than elephantine.)

In Jadhore, there has been a temple of Ganesha for thousands of years. At the temple there is always a Sacred White Elephant that is regarded as the incarnation of Ganesha. [Elephant (online text) 44]

Ganesha was also the name given by the members of the Stellar Brothers Circus to the latest Sacred White Elephant of Jadhore. [Elephant (online text) 45, 46, 48, 54, 55]

See also: Chaugnar Faugn; Sacred White Elephant of Jadhore; Tsathoggua;

Gantley

Author, Hydrophinnae. CJ Acquarium 305.

Gardner

Town enroute Fitchburg to Athol. HPL Whisperer (online text) 244.

Gardner, Merwin "Mernie"

Youngest son of Nahum Gardner. HPL Colour (online text) 66-68, 71-74, 77.

Gardner, Nabby

Wife of Nahum. HPL Colour (online text) (63), 64, (65), 67, (68), 72, 77.

Gardner, Nahum

HPL Colour (online text) 57, 59-70, 72-75, 77, 79-81.

FL Terror2 300.

Gardner, Thaddeus "Thad"

Second son of Nahum Gardner. HPL Colour (online text) 62-68, 70-71, 77.

Gardner, (Prof.) Upton

Of the state university, Wisconsin. AWD Dweller 118-123, 125-127, 129-134, 138-139, 141, 145-146, (147), 148, 151-152.

Gardner, Zenas

Oldest son of Nahum. HPL Colour (online text) 65, 67-69, 71-74, 77.

Gargoyle

By Edgar Gordon. A famous story, which was inspired by a dream. [RB Demon 63]

gargoyles

JVS Snouted 25-26.

Garlan, Ben

Of Maine. Father of Jim. RAL Settlers (online text) 26.

Garlan, Jim

Of Maine. Son of Ben. Tried to solve secret of Settler's Wall; studied Necronomicon in British Museum, and later died of brain fever. RAL Settlers (online text) 26-27.

Garrison, Henry

Sacrificed. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 335.

Garrison, Uriah

Of Arkham; great-uncle of Adam Duncan. AWD Attic 308-311, 314, 316, 320, 322, 325-327.

Garrison Street

Arkham (runs North). HPL WitchHouse (online text) 274.

Gaspee

Revenue ship. HPL Case (online text) 146.

Gatan

HPL Aeons (online text) 278.

Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.

Gate of Deeper Slumber

HPL Kadath (online text) 308, 338-339, 389, 406.

Gate of Dreams, The

Bas-relief by Anton Fischer [FL Terror2 274, 283, 285, 298, 302, 306].

Gate of the Caravans

Inganok. HPL Kadath (online text) 363.

Gates

HPL Gates (online text) 440, 442.

AWD Whippoorwills 47, 51.

Gates, Absalom

Of Bridgetown. RB Mannikin 74, widowed sister 74, 76-77, 80.

Gates of the Silver Key

AWD Dweller 138.

Gauer, Harold

Of Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 104.

Gauguin

HPL Medusa (online text) 170.

Gaunts

AWD Lurker 84; Whippoorwills 47.

Synonym for: night-gaunts.

Gavialis

Type of saurian. AWD Survivor (online text) 152, 163.

Gazette

See: Arkham Gazette.

Geber

An alternate spelling of "Jābir ibn Ḥayyān. . . the supposed[6] author of an enormous number and variety of works in Arabic often called the Jabirian corpus. The scope of the corpus is vast and diverse covering a wide range of topics, including alchemy, cosmology, numerology, astrology, medicine, magic, mysticism, and philosophy. . . in 13th-century Europe an anonymous writer, usually referred to as pseudo-Geber, started to produce alchemical and metallurgical writings under this name." [Jabir ibn Hayyan, Wikipedia]

One of the works produced by pseudo-Geber was De investigatione perfectionis ("On the Investigation of Perfection") [Pseudo-Geber, Wikipedia].

Mentioned as the author of Liber Investigationis. [HPL Case (online text) 121]

Gedney

HPL Mountains (online text) 10, 17-18, 31-32, 36-39, 77, 80, 82, 86, 96, 101.

FL Terror2 310.

Gedney, Judge

Of Salem. HPL Case (online text) 150.

Gelka

REH Gods (online text) 199, 213, 226.

Gene

HK Invaders (online text) (narrator) 65, 68-70, 73, 75.

Genesis

Bible book. AWD Hastur 11.

Genghir the Dreamer

A lord in an ancient middle-eastern kingdom, at least 5,000 years ago. He neglected his duties and delegated the governance to his vizier, Hassim el Wadir, then had the latter flayed for misuse of office. Genghir was interested only in magic and pleasures of the flesh. At last he imbibed the potion of the Black Lotus, which gave him three visions that culminated in his death. Old men told the story of Genghir in ancient Teraz, and still tell of him in the souks of Ispahan. [RB Lotus]

Genghis Khan

REH Bear 36.

Geoffrey, Eustace

(Elder?) brother of Justin Geoffrey. REH House (online text) 114-115.

Geoffrey, John

(Elder?) brother of Justin Geoffrey. REH House (online text) 114, 116.

Geoffrey, Justin

Author, People of the Monolith. HPL Doorstep (online text) 277.

REH Black (online text) 56, 58-59, 65, 72; House (online text) 113, family 114-117, poem quoted in REH's "Arkham" 119, 120, 123, 127-130; Roof (online text) 3.

An eccentric poet, who died screaming in a madhouse in the full prime of his youth. Author of The Roads of Justin Geoffrey and Towers in the Sky. John O'Dare was a fan. [REH Door]

Geoffrey, Mrs

Mother of Justin Geoffrey. REH House (online text) 115.

Geoffrey, William

Younger brother of Justin Geoffrey. REH House (online text) 114.

geography

(3) general. AWD Gorge focal points of cult activities 108.

geometry, non-Euclidean or mystical

HPL Call (online text) 143; Gates (online text) 432; Medusa (online text) 193.

RB Sorcerer (online text) 159.

AWD Island 206.

HK Hydra (online text) 129-130, 137; Salem (online text) circles, triangles, pentagram 253.

FBL Hounds (online text) angles 80-83 & 85, curves 80 & 82-83.

See also: angles; curves.

George Street

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115, 126.

Georgia

Incl: Hancock County.

geoscanner

See: magneto-optic geoscanner.

Germantown

Pennsylvania. HPL Case (online text) 132.

Germany

HPL Aeons (online text) Von Junzt a German scholar 277; the Necronomicon was printed, evidently in Germany, in the fifteenth century (History (online text) 53).

AWD Lurker 138; Spawn 26.

REH Black (online text) 56, 63.

CJ Acquarium 305.

Gervis, George

Of Singapore. A trapper and collector of circus beasts who knows the tropics like a book. RB Elephant (online text) 39-41.

Gethsemane, Garden of

HPL Case (online text) 132.

ghasts

Of dreamland. Primitive creatures who live in the pitch-dark Vaults of Zin, which connects to the underground realm of the gugs. The ghasts are the main food of the gugs, who enter the Vaults of Zin to hunt them. In turn, the ghasts creep forth during the sleeping-hour of the gugs to attack them while they are defenseless. The ghasts cannot discriminate among victims, and so they attack ghouls as readily as gugs, and even eat each other. Light is fatal to the ghasts, though they can tolerate the twilight of the gugs' kingdom for hours. Their sense of smell is very sharp. [HPL Kadath (online text) 339-340, 373].

Ghasts are the size of a small horse. Their aspect is scabrous and unwholesome, filthy and disproportioned. Their faces are curiously human despite the absence of a nose, a forehead, and other important particulars. They have yellowish-red eyes. They have long hind legs and hard pointed hooves. They move by grubbing about or making kangaroo leaps. They speak in coughing gutterals. [339-342]

The ghasts often hop up the steps in the Tower of Koth while the gugs sleep. The gugs often chase escaped ghasts up to the very top of the tower. [342-343]

The night-gaunts planned to feed the conquered moon-beasts to ghasts and other creatures of the Great Abyss. [380].

AWD Lurker 133.

Ghatanothoa

See: Ghatanothoa.

Ghizghuth, Ghizguth

An male offspring spawned by Cxaxukluth in a far star system and brought to Yuggoth. Ghizghuth's wife was Zstylzhemgni, and their son was Tsathoggua. They moved to deep caverns to escape the cannibalistic habits of Cxaxukluth. [CAS Pnom]

Ghlomph

City of the Ydheems on Cykranosh. CAS Door (online text) 39-40.

Ghlonghs

Subterranean dwellers of Cykranosh. CAS Door (online text) 36.

Ghooric zone

HPL Fungi (online text) XXXII.

Ghost Cave

Of Lost Valley, Texas. REH Lost 64, 90.

Ghoth the Burrower

One of the Little People, who mated with Viburnia. Their union was a hellish and nameless tragedy. [HPL Family (online text)]

Ghoul Feeding

Pickman painting. HPL Pickman (online text) 13-14.

ghouls

A race of beings that burrows through human graveyards and eats the bodies of the dead.

Ghouls are roughly bipedal, but with a forward slumping, and vaguely canine cast. The skin has an unpleasant rubberiness, and is caked with mould. Their doglike faces have glaring red, bloodshot eyes; pointed ears, flat nose, and drooling lips. Their claws are bony and scaly; their feet are half-hooved. [HPL Pickman (online text) 18-19, 22-23]

Aside from haunting graveyards and eating corpses, they sometimes also attack people in their homes, while they are asleep [19].

The ghouls leave their spawn in cradles in exchange for the human babies they steal. The ghouls teach the human children to feed off corpse-flesh like they do. The children of ghouls can pass for human among their human families, but have an unholy attitude [19-20].

Boston and Pickman

The Boston artist Richard Upton Pickman created numerous paintings of ghouls [13, 14]. From details of Pickman's paintings, Thurber inferred that the ghouls are linked to human beings by evolution; the ghouls are actually developed from human mortals [19]. Pickman himself was gradually devolving, losing human attributes and gaining ghoulish ones [14, 17]. Either he was born with ghoulish ancestry, or found some way to unlock the forbidden gate [24].

Based on Pickman's paintings, the ghouls infested at least a portion of Puritan New England in colonial times; Pickman hinted at their presence in Salem during the witch-hunts. Pickman also recorded the ghouls in the Boston of the 1920's. Pickman spoke of a network of underground tunnels surviving under the North End from colonial times, all apparently infested by ghouls. The painting "Subway Accident" showed ghouls attacking people at the Boylston Street subway station, while another showed ghouls dancing at the Copp's Hill burial ground. Other paintings implied that the ghouls infest Beacon Hill and have savored the corpses of famous Amercans at Mount Auburn cemetery. [16, 19-21, 25]

Passeways to Dream

Ghouls are also able to visit dreamland, even while still awake. It seems that the ghouls frequent various abysses beneath the earth's surface. These abysses are connected by burrows to at least two regions beneath dreamland: the Great Abyss and the kingdom of the Gugs. In the Great Abyss, the ghouls live on a dim-litten plain, which is flat except for great boulders and burrows. This plain is in fact the flat summit of the crag of ghouls, which rises near the peaks of Throk. The ghouls on this plain throw offal over the edge, whence it falls into the vale of Pnath miles below. [HPL Kadath (online text) 336-339] From somewhere within the Great Abyss, it is possible to access the upper dreamlands by climbing the black nitrous stairways that lead up to the deserted city of Sarkomand in Leng, in upper dreamland. [339, 377]

Alternatively, ghouls can follow burrows from earth's abysses to the kingdom of the Gugs. Risking attack from both gugs and ghasts, ghouls can travel through the gug kingdom to the tower of Koth. Ascending the steps within, they can reach the stone trapdoor that leads up into the enchanted wood, in upper dreamland. [338-339]

Ghouls do not like to use the route that mortal dreamers follow between the waking world and the dreamland, for the ghouls do not like to pass the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah in the cavern of flame [344-345].

Though ghouls are capable of reaching upper dreamland, they generally do no business there, leaving the web-footed wamps to frequent the graveyards of dreamland [338]. Hence, ghouls are not knowledgeable of the geography of upper dreamland [345, 374-375]

Masters and Allies

The ghouls have no masters [387], and do not owe allegiance to the Other Gods or Nyarlathotep. However, the Other Gods can control the ghouls when they must [396].

The ghouls are bound by solemn treaties with the night-gaunts [376]. The ghouls and night-gaunts communicate by means of ugly gestures [391].

On the Dream-Quest with Randolph Carter

The ghoul Richard Upton Pickman loaned Randolph Carter three ghouls to guide him through the gug kingdom and up the tower of Koth. [339-344]

Later, these three ghouls were taken prisoner in Dylath-Leen by the almost-human merchants, and taken to the jagged rock of the moon-things in the northern sea, and thence to Sarkomand where they were tortured. After Carter discovered their plight, he alerted the other ghouls who, together with their allies the night-gaunts, ventured up to Sarkomand in force to rescue their fellows. Subsequently, the ghouls, the night-gaunts and Carter, led an assault on the moon-things at their rock in the northern sea. The ghouls secured victory, but over a fourth of their party was killed in the day's battle. [375-387] Carter discouraged "the old ghoulish custom of killing and eating one's own wounded" [387].

Then the army of ghouls and night-gaunts agreed to accompany Carter to Kadath where he planned to confront the Great Ones. Towards the end of their flight, the army was sucked forward by a might wind. After arriving at Kadath, the ghouls and night-gaunts disappeared; apparently either banished or destroyed by the might of Nyarlathotep and the Other Gods. [388-397]

Related References

When the Outsider narrator saw himself in a mirror, he described himself as ghoulish. Later, he rode with the mocking and friendly ghouls on the night-wind. Nevertheless, he seems not to have been related to Pickman's type of ghouls, for the minimal description stresses that he is putrid, dripping, and eaten-away to reveal the bones. The Outsider seems to resemble a disinterred corpse rather than the doglike ghouls of Pickman's ilk. [HPL Outsider (online text) 51, 52].

Alonzo Typer wrote privately printed papers on ghouls, vampirism and poltergeists [HPL Diary (online text) 303].

RB Brood Bast a ghoul-goddess 95, 99; Creeper (online text) possible refs; Grinning 53, (59).

Richard Upton painted a portrait of a ghoul. He apparently showed that picture, or a similar one, to to H. P. Lovecraft. Laurel Colman was decapitated by a ghoul in Parkland Cemetery. [RB Strange]

Compare with: creeper in the crypt.

See Will Murray, "Lovecraft's Ghouls," in The Horror of It All, ed. Robert M. Price.

Giant Stars

HK Eater (online text) 12.

Gibor

Word. HPL Case (online text) 170.

Gideon

AWD Island 181.

Gifford

Teacher of David Niles. RB Sorcerer (online text) 151.

Gilbert Islands, Gilbert and Ellice Islands

Pacific island chains.

In the near future, the Gilbert and Ellice Island group is inundated by tsunamis related to the rising of R'lyeh. [RB Strange]

AWD Gorge 104.

Giles' brook

Harrop's Pocket. AWD Whippoorwills 57.

Giles family

A family in Dunwich. AWD Lurker 99, 140.

Giles, Lem, Abbey, Arthur, Albert (Bert), and Virginia

AWD Whippoorwills 36-37, Mrs. 37, Lem and Abby 44, Bert 57, Lem 57, Bert 58-59, Albert 60, Bert 67, Abbey 70.

Giles, Mis' (Mrs.)

Dunwich. AWD Lurker Dunwich resident? 32, 33, 37-39.

Gilman

Family, Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 323, 329; Doorstep (online text) 289.

AWD Clay 375-376, 378; Sky 62, 64, 83; Survivor (online text) 161.

Gilman

Of Innsmouth. AWD Island 191-192.

Gilman, Asaph

Great-uncle of Claiborne Bord. AWD Gorge 97, profession 98, (100), must not have known virtue of star-stones as he did not carry his (101), (102-103, 107-111), 112, (113), 114, (118, 120-125).

Gilman, Dr

Of Innsmouth. AWD Fisherman 291-292; Shuttered 277.

Gilman House

Hotel in Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 308, 319, 327, 341-350, 352, 355-356.

AWD Sky 73, 80, 83, 86, 88, 91.

Gilman, Hiram

Sacrificed to fish things. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 335.

Gilman, Walter

HPL WitchHouse (online text) 262-298.

FL Terror2 300, 309-310.

gingko trees

HPL Kadath (online text) 352.

Gizeh

HPL Pyramids (online text) 226, 238, 243.

See also: Pyramids.

Glanvill, Joseph

"Joseph Glanvill FRS (1636 – 4 November 1680) was an English writer, philosopher, and clergyman. Not himself a scientist, he has been called 'the most skillful apologist of the virtuosi', or in other words the leading propagandist for the approach of the English natural philosophers of the later 17th century. In 1661 he predicted 'To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic conveyances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.'" [Joseph Glanvill, Wikipedia, 11/12/20]

Author of Saducimus Triumphatus [HPL Festival (online text) 211].

Glauber

Science author. HPL Case (online text) 121.

Glendale

California. Frederick T. Beckman lived on Whitsun Drive in Glendale. [RB Strange]

Glimpses Into Prehistory

A book Clark Ulman was working on. FBL Hills (online text) 245.

Gll'Hthaa-Ynn

Of K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 140, 142-146.

Gll'Hthaa-Ynn mistakenly told Zamacona that only images of Tsathoggua, and not Tsathoggua himself, had emerged from the inner world [CAS Pnom].

Glossina palpalis

A species of African fly. HPL Winged (online text) 246, 248, 249.

Synonym for: devil-fly.

Gloucester

Massachusetts. AWD Island 212; Lamp (online text) inspiration for Ward Phillips' story about the strange high house in the mist 254.

Glover, Dudley Ropes

Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers 400.

Glyu-Vho

Among the stars; home of the Elder Gods. AWD Lurker 83.

gn'agn

(judges?) of K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 153.

Gnai-Kah

High priest of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 48.

Gnomes

RB Hell (online text) earth elementals, ruled over by Gob 61-62; Sorcerer (online text) 155.

Gnoph-Hek

AWD Lurker 135.

Synonym for: Rhan-Tegoth or "hairy-thing"; related to Gnophkehs?

Gnoph-Keh

Of Greenland. HPL Museum (online text) 230.

Gnophkehs

Related to Gnoph-Hek? HPL Kadath (online text) 310; Mound (online text) hairy, destroyed Lomar 141; Polaris (online text) 22.

Gnorri

Bearded and finny; in sea below Ilek-Vad. HPL Gates (online text) 424; Silver (online text) 420.

FL Terror2 310.

Goade, Aseph

Of Arkham, 1851. AWD Survivor (online text) 161.

Goat, Black

HPL Man (online text) 207.

Goat Hill

San Francisco. HPL Test (online text) 17, 20.

Goat of the Sabbath

Synonym for Satan [RB Hell (online text) 50].

Goat with a Thousand Young

HPL Aeons (online text) T'yog of K'naa, in ancient Mu, was guardian of the copper temple of Goat with a Thousand Young 273; Diary (online text) 321; Man (online text) 209; Museum (online text) 225, 232; Doorstep (online text) 296; Whisperer (online text) 226-227; WitchHouse (online text) 293.

AWD Dweller 137; Keeper 141.

FBL Awakening 101-114.

Synonym for: Shub-Niggurath.

Goat with the Hands

RB Sorcerer (online text) 157.

goats

HPL Medusa (online text) 193.

Gob

Ruler of the gnomes, or earth elementals [RB Hell (online text) 61, 63].

Gobo

An interpreter in M'gonga. HPL Winged (online text) 245.

God-Box

Ancient Druidic box found near Stonehenge, which houses the god Sho-Gath [AWD GodBox 120].

Godfrey, Gideon

Of Boston. RB Satan 5-19.

God of Blood

AWD Those 117.

Aka: God of Life.

God of Life

Synonym for God of Blood. AWD Those 117.

God of Ressurection

RB Faceless 39.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

God of the Desert

RB Faceless 42, 45-47.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

God of the Winds

Synonym for Ithaqua. AWD Wind (online text) a name that Allison Wentworth used to refer to Ithaqua.

Godolfo, Morella

RB Kiss (online text) 39-41, 49-50, 55-57.

Gods

See: "Appendix: Gods, Demons, and Other Singular Entities."

gods friendly to man

HPL Aeons (online text) T'yog felt the gods friendly to man could be arrayed against the hostile gods; he classed Shub-Niggurath, Nug, Yeb, and Yig among those who might aid humanity against Ghatanothoa 273.

gods of earth, Earth's gods

See: Great Ones (1).

gods of good and evil

Of Bel-Yarnak. HK Jest (online text) 61.

Godsworthy, (Captain) Elias

Author, Chronicles of Captain Elias Godsworthy [RB Satan 5].

Golden Ball Inn

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 114.

Golden Bough, The

By Sir James Frazer; a classic of comparative religion and mythology, describing the fertility cults of primitive peoples. George Gammell Angell's notes on secret cults included references to the Golden Bough [HPL Call (online text) 128].

Golden Goblin Press

Publisher of expurgated reprint of Nameless Cults in 1909. HPL Aeons (online text) 269, 271.

REH Black (online text) 56; Roof (online text) 4, 6.

Golden Hill

Haverhill. HPL Time (online text) 370.

golden mead

Of the Elder Gods. AWD Curwen 16, 19, 26, 28, 33, 36, 42, 44-46; Gorge 127, separates self from body (but contradicted by previous stories; slime on shoes etc.?) 131, (134); Keeper properties 143, 144, 146, 151, body remains behind? 147, part separated from counterpart 148, 162, 164, 173; Sky 69, in pellet form 81, 93.

golden pellets

AWD Sky 81, 87, 93.

Gol-goroth

The greatest god of Bal-Sagoth. A god of darkness, whose mighty statue sat in the Temple of Shadows, sinister and abhorrent, with inhuman features. Youths were sacrificed to Gol-goroth at the waxing and the waning, the rising and the setting of each moon. The high priest of Gol-goroth was Gothan. Brunhild, posing as the goddess A-ala, ordered Its image destroyed, but the hammers shattered, and those who wielded them were strangely injured. So Brunhild ordered the temple of Gol-goroth sealed. After Brunhild was overthrown, the priests of A-ala were sacrificed on the altars of Gol-goroth. After Brunhild's return to power, the statue of Gol-goroth fell forward and crushed her, shattering as it did so. [REH Gods (online text)]

John Kirowan admitted the former existence of cults such as the cult of Gol-Goroth, but doubted that they had survived to the present day [REH Children (online text) 152].

Aka: Black God.

Golgotha, Hill of

HPL Case (online text) 132.

Gomes, Tony

Portuguese mulatto. HPL Case (online text) 179, 186, (189-190, 193), 224.

Gonar

Pictish high priest of the Dark Man. REH Dark (online text) 87.

Gonzalles, Juan

REH Roof (online text) 6.

Goodenough, George

See: Akeley, George Goodenough.

Gordon, Edgar Henquist

An author of fantasy horror stories that were based on his dreams. His works included Gargoyle, Night-Gaunt, The Principle of Evil, The Soul of Chaos.

He was a tall, thin, angular man pale face and deep-set eyes. His language was poetic and profound, and his mannerisms slow and dreamlike. He was descended from a Welsh wizard. He claimed to have seen Azozath, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, and Yuggoth in his dreams, prior to reading of their existence in such books as the Necronomicon, Mysteries of the Worm, and the Book of Eibon. Toward the end of his life, his library included occult works such as Cultes des Goules and the Daemonolorum.

An intelligence called the Dark One instructed Gordon to write his books, and distribute them to "those who know." Someday, Gordon expected to band together with them and unfold secrets of the cosmos. The Dark One also promised to become incarnate in Gordon, and eventually did so, so that Gordon's body became furry and hog-faced. The narrator shot him then, and later the authorities found only an empty suit of clothes.

[RB Demon 61-64, (65), 66, (67), 68-70]

Gordon, Evelyn

Wife of James. Née Evelyn Ash. REH Ring (online text) 49-56 etc.

Gordon, James

Husband of Evelyn Gordon. Grandson of Sir Richard Gordon. REH Ring (online text) (throughout), 54 used to work in psychopathic ward.

Gordon, Lady Elizabeth

Wife of Sir Richard Gordon. Of Argyle. REH Ring (online text) 53, etc.?

Gordon, Sir Richard

Of Argyle. Grandfather of James Gordon. REH Ring (online text) 50, 53.

Gorgioso's Invocation of the Devil

RB Hell (online text) 33.

Gorgo

Synonym for Hydra; named in Magna Mater ritual. HK Hydra (online text) 135.

gorgon(s)

HPL Medusa (online text) 187, 193, 196, 200.

RB Kiss (online text) 41, 49.

gorlaks

Of Bel-Yarnak, a type of fleet but repugnantly shaped reptile. HK Eater (online text) 13.

Gothan

REH Gods (online text) 196-199, 201-203, (204), 205-208, 213, 215-217, 221-222, 224-225: High priest of Bal-Sagoth and of its greatest deity, the dark god Gol-Goroth. The most ancient men of the city said that Gothan was old when they were babes. The people believe him to be more god than priest, and he did terrible and mysterious things, beyond the power of a common man. In appearance he was very old; he alone of the people there was bearded, and his beard was as white as the long hair which fell about his shoulders. He was very tall and very lean, and his great dark eyes blazed as from a hidden fire. He wore no mantle, bore no weapons; his only garment was a plain loincloth. Gothan had delved too deep in forbidden secrets to remain altogether human. He had passed through doors that had cut him off from the dreams, desires and emotions of ordinary mortals. His subjects were beasts—serpents, spiders, and great apes; and men—red captives and wretches of his own race. Deep in his grisly caverns he made beasts of men and half-men of beasts, mingling bestial with human in ghastly creation. No man dared guess at the horrors that had spawned in the darkness, or what shapes of terror and blasphemy had come into being during the ages Gothan wrought his abominations; for he was not as other men, and had discovered the secret of life everlasting. He at least brought into foul life one creature that even he feared, a gibbering, mowing, nameless Thing he kept chained in the farthest cavern that no human foot save his had trod. When Brunhild was cast ashore and promoted as the goddess A-Ala by the priests, he taught her many strange and fearful things, but did not allow her any actual power. After Brunhild seized the queenship, Gothan eventually lead a successful revolt against her. Then when she returned to power, he sent his most dangerous monster, the nameless Thing to slay her. When the attempt failed, the Thing returned and tore Gothan to pieces. Even after his death, Gothan's face briefly appeared on the statue of Gol-Goroth before it toppled and crushed Brunhild.

Gothenburg, Sweden

HPL Call (online text) 149.

Goths

REH Black (online text) 57.

Goya

HPL Hound (online text) 172; Medusa (online text) 175; Pickman (online text) 14.

Graag

Of hamlet of the dog area, Maine. Called on the Other for his sorceries. Before dying, buried the earthly remains of the Other and cast on it the curse called the mantle of the sorcerer. RAL Graag (online text) (13), 14-15.

Granada

Spain. RB Kiss (online text) 40.

Granary Burying Ground

Boston. HPL Kadath (online text) 338.

Grand Cairo

Egypt. HPL Case (online text) 133.

Grand Canyon

HPL Mound (online text) 116.

Grandma

Of Willie Osborne; Essex County? RB Notebook (online text) 232-233, 234, 236.

Grant Park

Chicago. AWD Spawn 233.

Granville

Of Darwich University. RAL Abyss (online text) 286, 290.

Granville, Thomas

FBL Gateway 3-9.

Graves, Rev. John

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 127.

Gray Friar

Spanish ship. REH Gods (online text) 232.

Gray Gulf of Yarnak

HK Eater (online text) where a brooding horror dwelt loathesomely 12-14, (15); Invaders (online text) 73.

Incl: Eater of Souls; Vorvadoss.

Aka: Great Gulf of Yarnak.

See also: Bel-Yarnak.

Gray's Inn

London. HPL Descendant (online text) 358-359.

Great Abyss

HPL Kadath (online text) (335-344), 371-372, 374, 380, 384.

Great Bear

Constellation. AWD Lurker 16.

Great Bridge

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 115, 118-119, 123, (124), 137, 140-141.

Great Cthulhu

See: Cthulhu.

Great cubes

Sentient beings. AWD Brotherhood 340-342, 350.

Great Gulf of Yarnak

HK Eater (online text) reputed to be bottomless 13.

Syonym for: Gray Gulf of Yarnak.

Great Hill

Near Roodsford, Maine. RB Satan 17-18.

Great Messenger

A name for Nyarlathotep. [Whisperer (online text)]

Great Old One

Synonym for: Cthulhu. AWD Valley (online text) 137.

Great Old Ones (1)

A race of alien beings associated with Cthulhu, who is said to be their priest, and who preserved them with spells in the sunken land of R'lyeh so they can survive until the stars are "right" again. It is not known whether the Great Old Ones resemble Cthulhu [HPL Call (online text) 139, 140]. For information on the cult of the Great Old Ones, see: Cthulhu.

According to Reverend Nye, the Great Old Ones created humanity to worship and obey them. The passing of huge comets caused earth upheavals and the submerging of continents, and a great Flood that trapped the Great Old Ones beneath oceans and polar ice. After the catastrophe, new priesthoods denied the existence of the Great Old Ones and masked their memory in the guise of demons. Yet a few faithful followers of the Great Old Ones remained. And the Great Old Ones survived, sleeping through the eons and sending forth dreams to invade the minds of believers and unbelievers. When they return, only the chosen will be spared. The Shining Trapezohedron is a gift of the Great Old Ones. Kay Keith dreamed that the Great Old Ones were watching her with millions of eyes, opening millions of mouths, and send millions of tentatcles toward her. The being possessing Orin Sanderson said the Great Old Ones feed off human emotion, especially fear. [RB Strange]

Compare with: Cthulhu spawn.

Great Old Ones (2)

A synonym for the crinoid Old Ones of Antarctica, according to Prof. Dyer [Mountains (online text) 25, 59]. These cannot be the same as the Great Old Ones associated with Cthulhu, for the crinoid Old Ones were enemies of the Cthulhu spawn. It is possible that Dyer read some of the lore about Cthulhu's Great Old Ones, and accidentally misattributed it to the crinoid Old Ones.

Great Old Ones (3)

A group of evil gods who rebelled against the benign Elder Gods. For further information, see Elder Gods and Great Old Ones: God Terminology in Derleth's Mythos Stories.

AWD Island = Ancient Ones 179, 181; Curwen 13, 20-22, 30; Dweller 133; Gable (online text) 207; Gorge 121-122, 126; Lamp (online text) 255; Lurker and Yog-Sothoth 48, includes Him Who is Not to Be Named 49, 51, 84, 123-125, 127-128, 131, 133-135, 137; Sky 68-69, 71; Valley (online text) 134-135; Whippoorwills 47; Wood 76-77, 81.

See also: Old Ones (5).

Great Old Ones (4)

AWD Lair 126; Seal (online text) first among universes 160-161;

Synonym for: Elder Gods (1).

Great One who must not be named

HC Isle (online text) 157.

Great Ones (1)

Of dreamlands. Also known as Earth's gods, the Elder Ones, and the gods of Earth. Of old, they played on many mountain peaks, but to avoid being spied upon by men, they withdrew to only the higest peaks, and finally to Kadath in the cold waste. Now they have grown stern, having no higher peak whereto flee [HPL Other (online text) 127]. 

When homesick, they sometimes still travel in cloud-ships to visit the peaks where they were wont to play [Other (online text) 127]. On such peaks they dance reminiscently when the moon is above and the clouds beneath [HPL Kadath (online text) 310]. Men have mistaken their tears for rain, and their sighs for the wind [Other (online text) 127-128]. On Hatheg-Kla, Barzai the Wize heard Earth's gods sing in revelry, and expected to shortly see them dancing and howling in the moonlight [Kadath (online text) 130]. 

Earth's gods are actively worshipped in dreamland, such as in Ulthar at the Temple of the Elder Ones, where Atal is priest [Kadath (online text) 311]; at Celephaïs, where Nath-Horthath is chiefly worshipped, but all the Great Ones are mentioned in diurnal prayers [353]; and at the Temple of the Elder Ones in Inganok [359]. The priests and people of Inganok were faithful in keeping the rhythms of the Great Ones using bells, horns, viols, voices, and carefully timed bursts of flame [359, 361]. Carter prayed to them for aid in visiting his sunset city [307]. When he was trapped in the dark, Carter prayed to the Great Ones for such help as they might afford [373]. 

Atal said that Earth's gods rule feebly only our own dreamland, having no power or habitation elsewhere [Kadath (online text) 312]; that is, not in the dreamlands around other planets, and perhaps not in the waking world even on Earth. This is suggested also by their being called the "gods of dream" [307]. Yet within Earth's dreamland, the Great Ones have real power, for they did not allow Randolph Carter to enter the sunset city in his dreams, and later prevented him from dreaming of it any further [307]. Earth's gods banished the gugs to caverns after learning of some abminination they had committed [ 338]. No gug dares lift the stone door to the forest because of the Great Ones' curse [ 342], nor can they ever emerge though that portal [344].

Atal said that although they might heed a man's prayer if in good humor, one most not think of climbing to their stronghold. It is much better to let all gods alone except in tactful prayers [312]. The high-priest in Celephaïs said that Earth's gods are testy and capricious [353]. Nyarlathotep said they are selfish [400]. 

Yet Earth's gods are also said to be mild [Kadath (online text)384, 397], and Carter knew that Earth's gods are not beyond a mortal's power to cope with [Kadath (online text)396].  

Perhaps they seem so by contrast with the Other Gods who protect them [Other (online text) 131, Kadath (online text) 353]. Nyarlathotep said it is unlawful for men to see the Great Ones [Kadath 399]. A lava- filled valley near Ngranek marks where the Other Gods punished men who had angered the Great Ones [315, 332].  Kuranes said the Great Ones were very dangerous creatures to seek out, and that the Other Gods had strange ways of protecting them from impertinent curiousity [ 339]. 

The Great Ones fear the night-ghaunts [Kadath (online text)372, 388, 389], apparently because the latter own not Nyarlathotep as their lord, but only Nodens, Lord of the Great Abyss. 

The only sign left by Earth's Gods is a carven image on Mt. Ngranek [Other 127], where the gods once danced [Kadath (online text)330].  Atal said it is a likeness of the features of Earth's gods; the features of that image are very strange, so that one might easily recognize them [312-313]. The haughty and majestic image has long narrow eyes, long-lobed ears, thin nose and pointed chin [(333)]. These features recur among the human population near areas frequented by Earth's gods, for the younger among them often espouse the daughters of men [313]. Carter had seen sailors with such features in the seaport of Celephaïs, whence they sailed from the north; Carter concluded that they came from a land near the onyx castle of the Great Ones [333-334]. These were the strange-faced sailors and onyx-traders of Inganok, who had in them the blood of the Great Ones [357]. Beyond the Gate of Caravans outside Inganok, Carter met a cotter who seemed to be one of the Great Ones living in disguise among men, or else someone with full nine-tenths of their blood [364]. Carter met onyx-quarry men whose knowledge of olden days and the habits of the gods seemed to be latent memories from their sires the Great Ones [364-365].

The Great Ones live in an onyx castle in unknown Kadath in the cold waste [Kadath (online text) 311, 339, 358] with a great throne room [389]. Their onyx castle has horrible domed towers in incalculable tiers and clusters beyond any dreamable workmanship of man; the size of the steps implies beings many times larger than human [395]. 

Carter meant to find unknown Kadath and say a prayer before the faces of the Great Ones in their onyx castle [Kadath (online text)370]. But when Carter arrived there, he found the throne room empty of the Great Ones [397]. Nyarlathotep said that the Great Ones had gone to the sunset city of Carters' dreams, because it is a city more lovely than all the phantoms that have gone before. Nyarlathotep said that it is not well that earth's gods leave their thrones for the spider to spin on, and their realm for Others to sway in the dark manner of Others [399-400]. It is not clear why the Other Gods would care about the "Others" taking over dreamland, or even what manner of being the Others are. For that matter, Nyarlathotep's speech turns out to be a trap, so it is hard to tell how much credence to give to any of it. After failing to ensnare Carter in Azathoth's ultimate abyss, Nyarlathotep abruptly snatches Earth's gods back to Kadath from their revels in the marvellous sunset city [406-407]. In general, it seems clear that Earth's gods are inferior in power to their supposed protectors, the  Other Gods, but the full nature of the relationship between these groups of beings is never really explained.

During a later adventure, Randolph Carter learned that the " gods of men" are part of an infinitesimal phase of an infinitesimal level of being [HPL Gates (online text) 441]; these "gods of men" might be the same as the Great Ones.

HK Invaders (online text) 73.

Includes: Nath-Horthath

Synonyms: Great Ones; Elder Ones (3)

Compare with: Other Gods

Great Ones (2)

The term "Great Ones" might refer to other beings in other stories.

AWD Whippoorwills 66-67.

RB Faceless =otherdimensional things 41.

HK Hydra (online text) 135.

Great Pyramid

Outsider narrator attended feasts of Nitokris beneath. HPL Outsider 52.

The Great Pyramid was built using remnants of knowledge from the pre-Flood era when humanity worshipped the Great Old Ones. [RB Strange]

See Also: Pyramids.

Great Race

A race said to be the greatest of all, because they learned to project their minds into the past or future, and thus learned all the things that were ever known or ever would be known on earth [385]. Knowledge of the past is more difficult for them to glean than knowledge of the future, and is accomplished by a kind of mind-casting outside of the recognised senses. Knowledge of the future is achieved by the use of mechanical aids to project an individual mind to a desired era in the future, where it takes possession of the most advanced individual that can be found, of any intelligent race. Only the superior minds among the Great Race are capable of thus being projected into the future. The mind of the displaced individual would find itself transported to the past, to the body of the Great Race member who had displaced it. While it dwelled in the past, this captive mind would be closely questioned by the Great Race to obtain as much of its knowledge as possible [386].

After finishing its explorations in the future, a projected mind of the Great Race constructs a machine to reverse the process of projection. The projected mind thus returns to its own body in the past, while the captive mind is returned to its original body in the future. The captive mind is hypnotically purged of all memories of the Great Race before being returned to its own time [388]. However, some former captives have partially recovered their memories, including Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee [388, 389, 391]. The Necronomicon suggests there is a cult of humans who sometimes aid the voyaging minds of the Great Race [389].

Besides projecting their minds into the future, the Great Race exchange minds with beings on other planets and explore their past and future as well [389].

Aside from exploration, the Great Race also use the mind projection technology to permanently escape en masse from planets or eras where circumstances are no longer safe for their survival. The Great Race came to earth from a transgalactic, dying elder planet known as Yith [389, 401]; on arriving here, they permanently displaced the minds of a terrestrial species of cone-creatures. This was about 600 million years ago [400]. At that time, the Great Race defeated a competing race of Elder Things and drove them underground [401]. The Great Race retained a haunting fear of the Elder Things, which were a taboo subject, rarely written or spoken of [400].

In their cone-creature form, the Great Race had cone-shaped bodies, ten feet in height and ten feet wide at the base. The skin was ridgy, scaly, and semi-elastic, with shimmering iridescent color. From the apex of the cones extended four flexible, foot-thick, cylindrical appendages, which could be contracted almost to nothing or extended up to ten feet in length. One of these limbs terminated in a globular yellowish head with three eyes spaced widely along its central circumference. From the top of the head sprouted four slender gray stalks with flower-like tips. Beneath the head dangled eight greenish tentacles. Of the other major limbs, two terminated in large claws, which were used for carrying objects and also for speaking through clicking and scraping sounds. The third bore a cluster of four red, trumpet-like appendages used for eating. The base of the cone was fringed with a rubbery gray substance that moved the cone across the ground by expanding and contracting. They had no clothing, but wore satchels or knapsacks suspended from the top of the trunk [392, 393]. Their blood was a thick greenish ichor [398].

The Great Race in this form had many senses, most of which were not well utilisable by alien captive minds. Of the senses familiar to humans, they had only sight and hearing; the latter sense being provided by the flower-like appendages on the grey stalks atop the head [392, 398]. They had no sense of touch or physical pain [399]. They were almost immune to fatigue and had no need of sleep [398].

They reproduced by seeds or spores that clustered on their bases and then were grown in shallow tanks of water. The common lifespan was four or five thousand years. They incinerated their dead with dignified ceremonies [399].

The Great Race formed a single nation with four divisions. The government was a type of fascistic socialism, with a small governing board that was elected by the votes of all who could pass required educational and psychological tests. [399]. In addition to civil wars, the Great Race fought against reptilian or octopodic invaders (presumably the Cthulhu spawn) and against the crinoid Old Ones [400].

Industry was highly mechanized and left the citizens with abundant leisure time, devoted to scientific and artistic pursuits [399]. Transportation included boats, airships [397], submarines [398] and boat-shaped cars [393]. Food was vegetable or synthetic, and ingested through the red trumpet appendages in a semi-fluid state [398].

Peaslee lived as a captive mind among the Great Race of 150 million years ago [398].

The libraries of the Great Race store the whole of earth's history, past and future [386]. In the city where Peaslee was held, the central archives were in a colossal subterranean structure near the city's center. The records were written or printed on a very long lasting cellulose fabric [396]. The Great Race wrote using a stylus gripped in their head tentacles [393, 394]. Peaslee eventually found the ruins of the central archive in modern Australia [414, 418, 421]. Parts of the text of the Pnakotic Manuscripts have existed since the time of the Great Race [389].

Also around 150 million years ago, the Great Race came into possession of a cube sent by the Spawn of Yekub, from another universe. The cube served a purpose similar to the Great Race's own technology of mind transference, but rather than swapping personalities across space and time, the cube swapped personalities between universes. The Great Race quickly understood that the cube was transporting invading minds among them, and they exterminated all the possessed members of their own species. Thereafter they kept the cube hidden and under guard in a shrine in a polar city, but the cube was lost amidst the chaos of war by 50 million years ago. [HPL Challenge (online text)]

The Great Race remained in the cone-creature form until 50 million years ago [Time (online text) 385], when they fled to escape an erruption of the Elder Things [402]. At that point, the Great Race transported its formost minds to the bodies of the coleopterous (beetle) species that will immediately follow mankind as the dominant race on earth [389, 395, 396].

Sometime after that, the Great Race will again migrate to the bodies of the bulbous vegetable entities of Mercury [396].

AWD Brotherhood description matches one of the races inhabited by the Great Race of Yith (340-342); Lurker 84; Space (232), (235-236), war with Ancient Ones 237, history 238, rugose cones but a temporary dwelling 239, neutral but side more with Elder Gods 240, 241-244, 246; Whippoorwills 47.

FL Terror2 a cone-shaped monster (296).

Great Race, enemies of

See: Elder Things, polypous.

Great Rite

HPL Man (online text) 207.

Great Russell Street

London. HPL Case (online text) 163.

Great Sabbat

On Sugar-Loaf in the Catskills. HPL Man (online text) 209.

Great Sandy Desert

Australia. HPL Time (online text) 404.

Greece, Greeks or Greecians

HPL Whisperer (online text) 214.

REH Fire (online text) 32.

FBL Hounds (online text) Greeks had a name for them 81, 86.

RFS Warder 164.

HK Hunt (online text) 168.

Incl: Homer

Greek language

HPL Diary (online text) 312. Rats (online text) 43. The Al-Azif was translated into Greek by Theodorus Philetas 950 A.D. (History (online text) 52). The Greek version was printed in Italy between 1500 and 1550, and was last seen in a Salem man's library that burned in 1692 (History (online text)53).

AWD Curwen 34.

REH Roof (online text) 3.

CAS Ubbo (online text) 49.

Greek, the

Gangster visiting Arkham. RB Creeper (online text) 105.

Green, Daniel

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 137.

Green Deeps, The

Poem by Georg Reuter Fischer [FL Terror2 288].

Green, First Mate

HPL Call (online text) 146.

Green, Herbert

Of Lynwold. AWD OutThere Farm laborer employed by Jasper Wayne. Killed by Something from Out There, which left his body icy cold and crushed.

Green, James

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.

Green, Mr

At the Elephant. HPL Case (online text) 162.

Greenbie, Alistair H

First Mate. AWD Island 186; Gorge 103-104, (105-106), 107, 110.

Green Decay

A spell in the Book of Eibon. HPL Man (online text) 209.

Greenfield

Vermont. Enroute from Boston to Brattleboro. HPL Whisperer (online text) 241, 243-244.

Greenland

HPL Call (online text) 135, 142 (2); Museum (online text) 230.

CAS Ubbo (online text) 49.

Incl: Esquimaux.

Green Lane

Kingsport. HPL Festival (online text) 210.

Greenough Lane

Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 17.

Greenwich Village

New York. REH House (online text) 116.

Green Street

Baltimore. RB Poe (online text). Location of the Presbyterian Cemetery.

Gregory

Old servant of Crawford Tillinghast; taken by entities from beyond, leaving only a heap of empty clothes. HPL Beyond (online text) 92, (95-97).

Gregory IX, Pope

Banned both Latin and Greek versions of the Necronomicon in 1232 (HPL History (online text) 53).

Grenier, Gilles

Lord of Averoigne. He was descended from Nush the Eternal, and was an ancestor of Hippolyte Le Sorcier. [HPL Family (online text)]

Grey, (Lady) Jane

HPL Museum (online text) 215.

Grey Eagle

Wichita chieftain. HPL Mound (online text) 103, 108-110, 112, 115, 124, 156-157, 161; Yig (online text) 91, 93.

Grey Gulf of Yarnak

HK Invaders (online text) 73.

See also: Yarnak.

Grh-yan range

Of low hills, in K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 151.

Griffith Observatory

FL Terror2 312.

Griffith Park

California. HK Hydra (online text) 140.

FL Terror2 269.

Grimlan, John

Of the Grymlanns of Toad’s-heath Manor, Suffolk. Born John Grymlann, March 10, 1630. When he was 50 years of age, in 1680, he traveled to the dead city of Koth and sold his soul to Malik Tous to "gain hys heartes desire, ryches & knowledge beyond countinge & lyffe beyond mortal span even two hundred and fiftie yeares." His life was an evil and vicious one, and he was universally detested and feared. But he was also a highly educated, deeply cultured man. Late in his life, he was prone to seizures in which he would writhe on the floor gibbering curses and blasphemies. His only friend at that time was John Conrad, who found Grimlan interesting for his occult knowledge. Grimlan died, March 10, 1930. After Grimlan's death, John Conrad and Prof. John Kirowan performed a ritual according to Grimlan's instructions, which apparently consigned Grimlan's soul to Malik Tous in fulfillment of the original bargain. A stranger who appeared to assist at the ceremony seems to have been Malik Tous himself. [REH Dig (online text) 71-74, (75), 76-77, (78), 79-82, (85), 86, (87)]

Aka: Grymlann, John.

Grimoire

By Ludvig Prinn. Apparently a nickname for De Vermis Mysteriis [RB Philtre (online text) 294].

Grok

Lesser priest of the Dark Man. REH Dark (online text) 87.

Grosse, Marquis of

Carl Grosse, the author of the German Gothic novel Der Genius, which was translated to English as The Horrid Mysteries and published in 1796. [Horrid Mysteries, Wikipedia, 11/5/2020]

REH Children (online text) 151: Author of Horrid Mysteries.

Groth-golka

REH Gods (online text) 199, 201: A giant, centuries-old bird on the Isle of the Gods. At one time there were many of Groth-Golka's species on the on the isle; they warred on the local people and devoured them by hundreds. But at last all the others of his kind were exterminated. Hosts of men came against Groth-Golka, but he was greatest of all the devil-birds and he slew all who fought him. So the priests made a god of him and left a small part of the island to him, on the far side of a shark-infested lagoon. Gothan left Brunhild as a sacrifice to Groth-Golka, but Athelstane the Saxon and Turlogh O'Brien intervened and slew the bird thing. The three of them took its head to the city of Bal-Sagoth as proof that they had slain the bird-god.

Gruno, Alex

DW Fire2 (online text) 82, 84, 85, 87.

Grymlann

Family of Toads-Heath Manor, Suffolk. REH Dig (online text) 80.

Includes: Grimlan, John.

Grymlann, John

REH Dig (online text) 80, 83: Synonym for Grimlan, John.

G'tanta

HPL Aeons (online text) 278.

Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.

Guam

Of Micronesia, Pacific. Mike Miller was sent to Guam to meet a nuclear submarine headed to R'lyeh. [RB Strange]

Guardian of the Ancient Gateway

HPL Diary (online text) 317.

Guardian of the Gate

AWD Dweller 137.

Synonym for: 'Umr At-Tawil.

Guardian of the Threshold

Synonym for Yog-Sothoth. AWD Whippoorwills 70.

Guards

HPL Case (online text) 131, 197, 212-213.

Synonym for: Custodes.

Guatemala

HPL Yig (online text) 81.

REH Roof (online text) 6.

Guerrera

HPL Call (online text) 152.

Gugs

Of the dreamland. The gugs are hairy and gigantic beings, twenty feet in height. A buried gug will feed a community of ghouls for almost a year. Its arm is covered with black fur and bifurcates into two short forearms, with a paw each. Each paw is two and a half feet across, with formidable talons. The head is as large as a barrel, with two pink eyes that jut two inches from each side, shaded by bony protuberances overgrown with coarse hairs. The mouth runs vertically from the top to the bottom of the head, and has great yellow fangs. [HPL Kadath (online text) 338-341]

The gugs have no voice, but talk by means of facial expression. However, their hearing is very sharp, and they have grown accustomed to seeing without light when necessary [341-342].

The terrible kingdom of the gugs intervenes between the gulf of the ghouls and the enchanted wood. A great wall separates the ghouls from the gugs' kingdom. The gugs' city extends through their whole kingdom. The city has round towers of immense height, with thirty foot doorways [338-340].

The gugs once lived in the enchanted wood, where they reared stone circles and made sacrifies to the Other Gods and the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Then an abomination of theirs reached the ears of the Great Ones, who banished them to caverns below. Only a stone trapdoor with a great iron ring connects their realm with the enchanted wood, and the gugs are afraid to open it because of a curse [338, 344]. A central tower with the sign of Koth has stairs leading from their caverns up to the stone trap-door. [339, 340, 342, 375] The steps are nearly a yard high [342]. Near the Tower of Koth is a cemetery and also the mouth of the vaults of Zin [340].

Formerly, the gugs ate mortal dreamers for their food, and they have legends of the toothsomeness of such dreamers. But since their exile to the caverns, their diet is restricted to the ghasts [339]. The gugs venture into the vaults of Zin to hunt ghasts in the dark [340, 373]. However, during the gugs' hour of rest, the ghasts sneak out of the vaults of Zin to attack the sleeping gugs [340].

The gugs are somewhat afraid of ghouls [339], but would still attack the latter if circumstances were sufficiently advantageous [342].

The night-gaunts planned to feed the conquered moon-beasts to gugs and other creatures of the Great Abyss. [380].

AWD Lurker 84; Whippoorwills 47.

Guide, The

HPL Gates (online text) 430, 432, 433-436.

Synonym for: 'UMR AT-TAWIL.

Guillaume, Paul

Comte d'Erlette, but not the famous one. AWD Six 124.

Guinea blacks

HPL Case (online text) 124.

Gulf of Mexico

AWD Gorge 108.

Gulther, Fritz

RB Bargain (online text) (67-69), 70-76.

Gunders

Of Yokahama. AWD Island 203.

Gunnarsson

Of Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 27.

Guthrie

A town or city in Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) insane asylum in 80, 81.

gyaa-yothn

Half-human unicorns. Singular is gyaa-yoth. HPL Mound (online text) servant beasts (118), footprints (123), 125, (127-128), reported his presence (129), transportation (134), hybrid beasts (138), 139-140, 143, 146, 151, 153.

gypsies

See: Romani.

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