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HPL Pyramids (online text) Vital principle of the deceased 222, life principle 234, meeting place of 239.
Place in the Cold Waste; of dreamlands. HPL Dunwich (online text) 170; Kadath (online text) 307-308, 310, 312-313, 316, 318, 325, 329, 332, 334, 339, 347, 350, 352-353, 355, 358, 361, 370, 384, 388-391, description 395*, 396*, 397, 399, 400, 402-403, 407; Medusa (online text) 182; Mound (online text) 131; Mountains (online text) 71, 103; Other (online text) gods of earth have retired to unknown Kadath in the cold waste where no man treads 127, gods of earth still come from Kadath in ships of cloud to play on Hatheg-Kla 132; Mist (online text) 285.
After Cthulhu returns, Kadath will surface with a risen continent. [RB Strange]
AWD Curwen 22; Dweller 133, 138; Gable (online text) 207; Keeper 141, 160, 163; Lamp (online text) 252; Lurker 48-49, 82, 84, 134; Hastur 22; Seal (online text) 160-161; Space 241; Valley (online text) 135; Whippoorwills 47.
Brick cylinders of; city in Mnar.
A city along the river Ai in ancient Mnar, founded by dark shepherd folk. Travelers from Kadatheron visited Sarnath for the thousandth anniversary of the destruction of Ib. The brick cylinders of Kadatheron describe the green beings of Ib and their arrival from the moon in a mist. Men from Kadatheron marveled at the shining domes in Sarnath. The greatest palaces in Kadatheron were less mighty than the least palaces in Sarnath. [HPL Doom (online text)]
Iranon visited Kadatheron in his travels. [Iranon (online text)]
The beautiful wares of Kadatheron were traded for onyx from Inganok. [Kadath (online text)]
HPL Polaris (online text) 21-22.
HPL Mountains (online text) 71.
Of Greece. HPL Whisperer (online text) 214.
Priest of dreamland. HPL Kadath (online text) 307-308, 345.
Secret name of Ephraim Waite. HPL Doorstep (online text) 287, 296.
An outdated term for Pacific Islanders, especially ones who were sold into indentured servitude. HPL Call (online text) 146; Innsmouth (online text) 330-331, 333, 336-337.
AWD Clay 378.
Author, Magic and Black Arts. [HH Guardian 288]
RB Mannikin 74.
Bridgetown. RB Mannikin 74.
HPL Mound (online text) 116.
Incl: Arkansas river; Barton County; Rice County.
Means the Black City. REH Fire (online text) (31), 32-33, 36, (37-39), 40, 50-51, 56.
Aka: Beled-el-Djinn; Black City; City of Devils; City of Evil.
Egypt. AWD Island 182.
Egyptian underworld. RB Fane 141; Opener 156, 160.
(Dream) HPL Iranon (online text) 111, 113-114.
Kassonites
A people of the world of Balrahar. Xathra incorrectly guessed that John O'Dare might be a Kassonite. [REH Door]
Visited by Zkauba. HPL Gates (online text) 447.
HH Guardian 291-296, 299: Inhabitant of Vhoorl. A mathematical prodigy, he sought knowledge of higher realities, and ventured outside space and time to the realm of the Evil Ones (2). They thrust him back to our world and warned that if he disclosed any of their secrets, his soul would be shattered into a million fragments and these tortured fragments scattered shrieking throughout the entire Cosmos.Nevertheless, he later wrote of his experiences, and by doing so, brought doom to his city of Bhuulm. He was found dead, horribly mangled and covered with tiny blue perforations. The pages that he wrote were later compiled by his friend Tlaviir into the Book. The tiny man hinted of a connection between Kathulhn and Kthulhu.
REH Skull (online text): A sorceror of ancient Atlantis. He advised kings and may have been one himself: he "reigned in the dim misty sea lands ages and ages before the sea rose and engulfed the land." Before the land sank, he and other dark wizards and kings drank a draft to preserve them through long eons beneath the waves. By the 1920s, a deep sea tide had broken his coffin free from the sunken halls where it lay, and it was found off Senegal by a passing ship, bobbing around on the ocean's surface. The mummy-case was "a strangely shaped affair carved with characters neither cuneiform nor hieroglyphic." The mummy was unique in having all its organs intact, though it had hardened to a wood-like consistency. On seeing it, the Moors and negroes aboard ship knelt and began chanting worshipfully. They identified him with a legendary figure known as the "ocean-man" or "The Son of the Ocean," who would some day lead the world's colored peoples in vanquishing the white race and establishing a new empire. Kathulos escaped from the ship in Lagos, and the continent of Africa shortly begain to seethe with unrest. His followers knew him as the Master, the Scorpion, or Skull-face. He was high priest of the mysterious Scorpion society of northern Africa. He sought the remains of Atlantean culture on distant shores where their cities had existed, but had not sunk, but found that their cities existed no more and had become deserts or the abodes of modern humans, whom he regarded as primitive and ignorant. He was also known as Kathulos the Egyptian, a name that might imply he had sought the remains of Atlantis first in Egypt. He also found such remains in the form of a vast network of lost, prehistoric tunnels under London.
Kathulos ran an opium den in London in the 1920s and use that drug and hashish to enslave many, including the wealthy and influential, and make them his servants. He had an elixir of his own creation that could cure anyone of opium addiction and give them vast strength and vitality, but the subject became more dependent on the elixir than on any drug. He had another elixir that could cure one's dependence on the first elixir, but which probably would kill the subject in the process. He also had mesmeric powers that enabled him to dominate others.
His face was gaunt like a skull, but yellow, with lean, yellow hands, with knobby joints and cruel curving talons, and a voice sounding rusty, as of one long dead. When talking to his servants, he sat hidden behind a screen in a room with artificial potted palms, dragon tapestries, and an idol with incense burning before it. When venturing forth, he disguised himself as a leper in rags.
Kathulos regarded the black, Middle Eastern, and Asian races only as tools to advance his ultimate goal. He planned to revive the ancient masters of Atlantis so that they might establish a new Atlantean empire over the world.
He may have been destroyed when a vast amount of explosives inexplicably detonated beneath a building that he owned in London, destroying fully a tenth of the city. His body was never found, but the revolutionary movement among the word's colored races seemed to die out shortly afterward.
The name Kathulos has a phonetic resemblance to Cthulhu, but it is not known whether the two are related. Their descriptions are quite different, although both spent eons in dormancy under the oceans. Also, they slept under different oceans: Kathulos under the Atlantic, and Cthulhu under the Pacific. It is conceivable that Kathulos was a devotee of Cthulhu, or that he was pretending to be an incarnation of Cthulhu so as to enlist the existing Cthulhu cult in his service.
REH Dig (online text) 75: John Grimlan hinted to John Conrad of Kathulos and the sunken cities.
Aka: the Master, ocean-man, the Scorpion, Skull-face, Son of the Ocean. Possibly aka: L'mur Kathulos.
A security officer who was present at the attempted assassination of the Los Angeles mayor. [RB Strange]
A descendent of Yogash the Ghoul, and an ancestor of Ghoth the Burrower [HPL Family (online text)].
AWD Island (177), 178, 202, 206, ordained Rev. and death 212; Gorge possible reference (127); Keeper 160; Sky (narrator), 51, 53, 55-56, college student 57, 58, reads language of Necron.? 59, 60, fm. New Hampshire 62, 64, 67, 71, 89. Was living in Boston at the start of the story.
Of Miskatonic University. AWD Witches 302-307.
Of Boston. HPL Aeons (online text) Looked into T'yog's eyes with a magnifying glass after Richard Johnson, after the image of Ghatanothoa was well faded 285.
New Hampshire. Town on the railroad from Bellows Falls, Vermont to Arkham. HPL Whisperer (online text) 228, 230.
RB Opener 160.
Synonym for Yog-Sothoth. AWD Whippoorwills 70.
AWD Keeper 140, 142.
Synonym for: Alhazred, Abdul.
See: Peaslee, Alice.
Of Los Angeles. Wealthy collector, briefly married to Kay Keith. Albert Keith bought a ghoul portrait by Richard Upton from Felipe Santiago. With his friend Simon Waverly, Keith looked for more of Upton's belongings. Following Waverly's murder and a large earthquake, he flew to Tahiti. Along the way, he met Ronald Abbott. The two of them hired the Okishuri Maru to travel to the location of R'lyeh. There, Keith was betrayed by Abbott and the crew, who fed him to Cthulhu. [RB Strange]
Of Los Angeles. Former wife of Albert Keith. She worked as a model and was represented by Max Colbin. She was hired by Reverend Nye to model for photos to advertise the Starry Wisdom Temple. She was recruited by Mike Miller to infiltrate Nye's organization. After a narrow escape, she was taken by Miller to Washington, to a meeting of Project Arkham. She fell in love with Miller and later was flown to the South Pacific to meet him after an attempt to destroy R'lyeh. Her flight was diverted to Easter Island, where Nye gave her as a mate to Cthulhu. She later died giving birth to Mark Dixon. [RB Strange]
RB Hell (online text) 21-52, 54, 56-59, 62, 64, 66-71.
AWD Clay (narrator) 373.
Aka: Jack (5).
HC Isle (online text) 152, 155.
England. AWD Spawn 21.
sorcerer buried in Old Dethshill Cemetery. JVS Graveyard 237.
RFS Mists 26-27.
Of Cornwall. RB Brood 89-91, (92), 93-100.
Of Texas. REH Lost 65.
Kerry
An Irish county. Lord Donald O'Dare was found dead in a fairy ring in Kerry. [REH Door]
Salem. HK Salem (online text) 261.
Alaska. AWD Island 179.
Incl: Tlingits.
Ketric
REH Manor: The single servant of Tavarel at Dagon Manor. He had a bare, high skull, light eyes, and a thin hooked nose.
Although his name was similar to Ketrick, the two were probably different people. Ketric was a servant, and disliked by John Conrad and the Dagon Manor narrator. Ketrick was of noble ancestry, highly intellectual, a good companion, and apparently a friend of both Conrad and John O'Donnel (until the latter went berserk after a head wound). [REH Children (online text)]
REH Children (online text) 150, 153-154, 160, 163: An acquaintance of John Conrad. The Book of Peers recorded his descent from the Cetrics of Sussex. He had unusual, amber-colored, slanting eyes. Prof. Hendrik Brooler thought him to be a throwback to an unknown Mongoloid ancestor. After Ketrick accidentally struck John O'Donnel with an ancient Welsh flint mallet, O'Donnel became convinced that Ketrick was one of the Children of the Night, and attempted to strangle him. Though Ketrick was rescued on that occasion, O'Donnel remained determined to kill him some day. See also: Ketric.
The English name for one or more alchemical texts attributed to Artephius, and known in Latin as Clavis Sapientiae or Clavis maioris sapientiae. It may date to around 1150, and is thought to have been originally written in Arabic by a Muslim author. [Artephius, Wikipedia, 1/17/2021]
Joseph Curwen had a copy in his library. [HPL Case (online text) 121]
Ambrose Dewart found a copy at Billington house. [AWD Lurker 16]
Mentioned by Von Junzt. REH Black (online text) 57, 73; Roof (online text) 5-6, jewel-key 8, 9-11.
12th century biographer of Abdul Alhazred (HPL History (online text) 51).
AWD Keeper 162.
HK Invaders (online text) 70.
HK Salem (online text) 262.
RB Mummy 287.
Antique and shadowy. Another name for Egypt.
HPL Haunter (online text) 106, 114; the black Kem of Re and Amen, Isis and Osiris HPL Pyramids (online text) 221.
RB Steeple (online text) 215.
Reverend Nye/Nyarlathotep said he first assumed the semblance of man in ancient Khem. [RB Strange]
14th Dynasty Egyptian. HPL Time (online text) 395.
HPL Pyramids (online text) pyramid of 222, statue of in Cairo Museum 222, restored Sphinx and replaced original face with his own 222, 227, 231, 232, 233, 235, lives underground with Queen Nitokris 235, 236-238, 240-242.
Egyptian god. The Probilski Foundation had a statue of scarab-skulled Khepri. [RB Strange]
AWD Island Khmer civilization 178; Curwen 12.
HPL Pyramids (online text) 221.
Aka: Cheops.
REH Fire (online text) 42.
Area of Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 85.
Arabian man who stumbled upon Irem. RFB Iram (online text) 113, (114), 115.
Ancestor of Job and Jonas Kiles. REH Dwellers 115, 125-126.
Brother of Jonas Kiles, descendant of Captain Jacob Kiles. REH Dwellers 111-119, 121, 124, 127.
Brother of Job Kiles, descendant of Captain Jacob Kiles. REH Dwellers 112-113, 115, 120-123, 127-130.
Of Texas. REH Lost 65.
An anthropologist. AWD Curwen 12; Lurker 116.
FBL Kinarth (online text) 11.
Compare with: Kynarth.
HK Invaders (online text) 77.
Synonym for: Vorvadoss.
RWC Repairer (online text) 43-44.
A being. RWC Cassilda (online text); Court (online text); Mask (online text);
The King in Yellow seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts; the ambitions of Caesar and Napoleon paled before his. He is a king whom emperors have served. Hildred Castaigne had a diadem fit for a king of kings, an emperor of emperors, but still felt that the diadem might be scorned by the King in Yellow. [Repairer (online text)]
Mr. Wilde said that the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow must hide Yhtill forever. [Repairer] "Scolloped" may mean that border of the cloth has a continuous series of circle segments or angular projections [scallop, Merriam-Webster]; or it may mean that a there was a pattern of Heraldic escallops (downward-facing scallop shells) printed on the cloth [Glossary, Heraldic Science Héraldique]. The fact that the King wears tatters may suggest that he returned after being outcast or dead.
Osgood Oswald Vance was aware of the King in Yellow, but had briefly forgotten Him after being released from the asylum. [Repairer]
The King in Yellow may be known as the son of Hastur, for Castaigne believed that during his coming reign, people should know the son of Hastur. [Repairer]
Mr. Scott knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now. His model Tessie was killed instantly, and Scott died after writing his confession. [Yellow (online text) 106-107]
A play that caused a sensation when published in book form. It is not clear whether it was ever performed on stage.
Reception
The play was called the very supreme essence of art. No definite principles had been violated in those wicked pages, yet all felt that that the essence of purest poison lurked therein. The book spread from city to city around the world, often banned or confiscated, only to turn up somewhere else. There were denunciations from pulpit and Press, and it was said that the book drove men frantic and blasted their lives. [RWC Repairer (online text)]
Appearance
The copy in Mr. Scott's bookcase was bound in mottled serpent skin. [RWC Yellow (online text)]
Structure
The first act is banal and innocent, and the second act is horrific but fascinating [Repairer]. Nobody ever ventured to discuss the second part aloud [Yellow].
Act i, Scene 2 includes Cassilda's Song, which speaks of lost Carcosa. [RWC Cassilda (online text)]
At some point Cassilda gives the bitter cry, "Not upon us, oh King, not upon us!" [RWC Mask (online text)]
Setting
The setting involves lost Carcosa, the Lake of Hali, the twin suns, the black stars, and the Hyades. [Cassilda]
Characters
The characters include Cassilda, Camilla, a Stranger, and Hastur. [Repairer; Yellow]
Symbols
After reading the play, Mr. Scott and Tessie Reardon realized that the symbol on a certain onyx clasp was the Yellow Sign. [Repairer]
After reading the play, Hildred Castaigne's mind would bear for ever the memory of the Pallid Mask [Repairer]. After reading the book, Mr. Scott and Tessie spoke to each other of the King and the Pallid Mask; since these thoughts were paired, it is possible that the King wore the Pallid Mask in the story [Yellow]. In Act I, Scene 2, Camilla asks the Stranger to unmask, stating that everyone else has laid aside their disguises, and panics on learning that the Stranger is wearing no mask [Mask]. If the Stranger is the same as the King, then perhaps the Pallid Mask is a nickname for the King's own face, so pale and unnatural that people mistake it for a mask at first glance. Possibly they were at a masquerade ball where the others have all unmasked at the end of the evening.
Other References
Mr. Wilde spoke of a number of things which may have originated in the play: the Dynasty in Carcosa; the lakes which connected Hastur, Aldebaran and the mystery of the Hyades; the cloudy depths of Demhe; someone or something called Yhtill; and the ramifications of the Imperial family, from Hastur to Naotalba and Phantom of Truth, to Uoht and Thale, to Aldones, and the Last King. [Repairer]
Readers
Hildred Castaigne read The King in Yellow and apparently became subject to megalomania, paranoia, and other delusions, centering on a dynasty stretching back to Hastur, which he believed entitled him to be king of America. A postscript tells us that he later died in the Asylum for the Criminal Insane. [Repairer]
There was a copy of The King in Yellow at the studio of Boris Yvain. Though it is not stated, the book may have inspired Boris's strange experiments with a solution that could instantly turn any living thing into a beautiful stone fossil. Later, Boris' friend Alec stumbled across The King in Yellow, read in it for a few moments, and then set it aside with a shudder. The book may have caused the unraveling of the love triangle between Boris, his wife Geneviève, and Alec, which resulted in Geneviève plunging herself into the fatal solution and Boris shooting himself. While sickened with a fever, Alec came to consider his pretense of being only a friend to Genevieve to have been a sort of mask, reminiscent of the Pallid Mask in the play. He saw the lake of Hali, and the towers of Carcosa behind the moon; as well as Aldebaran, the Hyades, Alar, and Hastur, gliding through the cloud-rifts which fluttered and flapped as they passed like the scolloped tatters of the King in Yellow. According to Alec's narrative, Geneviève later came back to life, but it remains unclear how much of his account consists of delusions caused by exposure to the play. [Mask]
Reading The King in Yellow caused the In the Court of the Dragon narrator three nights of physical suffering and mental trouble. Thereafter he believed that his soul was hunted by a pale and malignant church organist. He felt the wind from the Lake of Hali, saw black stars hanging from the sky, and saw the towers of Carcosa rising behind the moon. He seems to have sunk into some kind of oblivion or death at this point. [RWC Court (online text)]
Tessie Reardon and Mr. Scott stumbled across the book in Scott's rooms, though he had no idea how it had gotten there. The arrival of the book was only the latest of a series of strange occurrences that began with Tessie finding a clasp inlaid with the Yellow Sign, followed by nightmares about the strangely corpse-like local church watchman. After Tessie and Scott read the play, the watchman entered their room and apparently caused Tessie to die instantly, while Scott began a fatal decline. [Yellow]
While hunting alone in Britanny, Philip seemed to be transported into the 1500s, where he fell in love with the beautiful demoiselle Jeanne D'Ys. After being stung by a serpent, he reawakened to the present day. Though there is no mention of The King in Yellow, one of the falconers was named Hastur. This raises the possibility that Philip had been exposed to The King in Yellow at some point and become subject to its curse. [RWC Demoiselle (online text)]
In most of these cases, The King in Yellow seems to make a man aware of some forbidden love, and then punish him for it. Castaigne fancied Constance, who had eyes only for his cousin Louis. Alec loved his best friend's wife. Mr. Scott consented to marry Tessie although in his heart he loved another, and expected to make Tessie unhappy. The commoner Philip loved a noblewoman from another century. Even the In the Court of the Dragon narrator felt that he was being punished for an unspecified past misdeed: "Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him—they had changed him for every other eye, but not for mine."
Authorship
Some believed that the author of the play shot himself after bringing forth such a monstrosity, but Castaigne believed that the author still lived. [Repairer]
Misc
Robert W.Chambers is said to have derived the idea of his novel The King in Yellow from rumors of the Necronomicon. [HPL History (online text) 2]
The tiny man told Doctor Wycherly that books such as The King in Yellow would not be found lying about in bookstores. [HH Guardian 288]
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 194.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 120, 127, same as St. John's 160.
Cambridge. AWD Wood 72.
Incl: Wecter, Jason.
An antique coastal town in Massachusetts, located on the east coast of Massachussetts. As you proceed south from Innsmouth and the mouth of the Manuxet, there is a long line of cliffs that culminate in Kingsport Head, before veering off toward Cape Ann [HPL Innsmouth (online text)].
One of the pleasant backwoods roads north of town leads past Hooper's Pond. Arkham is inland and to the northwest [Mist (online text)]. The distant spires of Kingsport are visible from the hills behind Arkham [Gates (online text) 428]. The distant spires of Kingsport are visible from Randolph Carter's childhood home and from the home of his mother's family, near the crumbling farmhouse of old Goody Fowler the witch [Silver (online text) 415-416].
The people of Kingsport love some of the cliffs along the coast just to the north, such as one whose grotesque profile they call Father Neptune, and one whose pillared steps they term The Causeway; but they fear the tallest cliff because it is so near the sky. There stands the Strange High House in the Mist, and the locals believe the same One has lived there for hundreds of years [Mist (online text)].
Basil Elton was the keeper of the North Point Light in ancient Kingsport [Kadath (online text)].
Kingsport is hoary with stacked chimneys and deserted quays and overhanging gables, tall steeples and winding hill streets, and the marvel of high cliffs and the milky-misted ocean with tolling buoys beyond [Kadath (online text)]. The old Congregational steeple on Central Hill was a prominent landmark, but has long since been torn down to make room for the Congregational Hospital [Silver (online text)] and its graveyard, beneath which rumour said some terrible caves or burrows lurked [Mist (online text)].
The narrator of The Festival found the home of his people in Kingsport: the seventh house on the left in Green Lane, with an ancient peaked roof and jutting second story, all built before 1650. His people were apparently witches, of whom four were hanged for witchcraft in 1692. [Festival (online text) 209, 212-213, 216]. In the 1700s, John Merritt heard monstrous things whispered of the Necronomicon after the exposure of nameless rites at the strange little fishing village of Kingsport [Case (online text) 121].
Kingsport has a harbour [Festival (online text)]. In the 1800's, fishermen from Kingsport came in sloops to try to catch the abundant fish off Innsmouth, but the fishermen disappeared and were never seen again [Innsmouth (online text) 336].
The Terrible Old Man, a living embodiment of New England's past, dwelled all alone in a very ancient house on Water Street, with a back gate in Ship Street near the sea. But the town's inhabitants also included new and heterogeneous alien stock, such as Joe Czanek, Angelo Ricci, and Manuel Silva (until their untimely demise). [Terrible (online text) 272-275] Granny Orne had a tiny gambrel-roofed abode in Ship Street, all covered with moss and ivy [Mist (online text)]. Asenath Waite attended Hall School at Kingsport, along with the daughter of a friend of Daniel Upton [Doorstep (online text) 280].
Kuranes thought that Randolph Carter would not benefit from finding the marvellous sunset city in dreamland, but would long for early remembered scenes, such as Kingsport. Nyarlathotep said that the marvellous dream city was the sum of Carter's earlier memories of places such as antediluvian Kingsport. [Kadath (online text)]
RB Notebook (online text) 239, 241: A man claiming to be Cousin Frank Osborne said he was from Kingsport. Willie Osborne had a letter from Cousin Osborne addressed from Kingsport.
AWD Fisherman 290: Enoch Conger sold his fish in Kingsport. Lurker 52: Jedediah Tyndal's body was found in the Kingsport country. Shuttered 272: Luther Whateley's papers included postcards from Kingsport. Whippoorwills 36: Abel Harrop had netting of the type used in seines along the coast at Kingsport for the purpose of catching rough fish.
Incl:
Czanek, Joe; Derby, Asenath; Ellis, Mate; Jack (2); Long-Tom; Olney, Thomas; Orne, Granny; Peters; Ricci, Angelo; Scar-Face; Silva; Spanish Joe; Terrible Old Man
Back Street; Causeway, The; Central Hill; Circle Court; Congregational Hospital; Congregational Steeple; Father Neptune; Green Lane; Hall School; Hooper's Pond; Kingsport Head; Market House; North Point Light; Orange Point; Ship Street; Strange High House in the Mist; Water Street
South of Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 315-316; Mountains (online text) 8, (transmitter!) 20.
HPL Time (online text) 395.
RB Terror 227.
On the coast, north of Plymouth. AWD Gable (online text) 199; Valley (online text) 116.
HPL Diary (online text) 303; Man (online text) prob. in New York? 207.
Incl: Typer, Alonzo.
New England; Rhode Island? HPL Case (online text) 119.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 114, 135, 188.
Founder of Venice, a beach resort city which later was annexed by Los Angeles, California. FL Terror2 273, 285.
Of Texas. REH Lost 69-70, 84.
Jasper terraces of. HPL Kadath (online text) 348.
REH Children (online text) 149, 151-154, 160-161: A friend of John Conrad. Kirowan had delved into the Latin version of the
Necronomicon, and had found there things not even a cold-blooded scientist could answer
or refute. He was skeptical that any of the nightmare cults described by Von Junzt, such as the Bran cult, still survive today. He disagreed with Clemant's theory of a distinct Alpine race, and argued instead that the Alpine peoples are a mixture of Nordic and Mediterranean blood. He believed that an early Mongoloid race of extremely inhuman aspect (the Children of the Night) was the source of troll and dwarf legends all over Europe; however, unlike Conrad, he did not believe that this race had preceded the Picts into Britain. Kirowan was present in Conrad's study when John O'Donnel attacked Ketrick.
Dig (online text) narrator 71, 73, 75: Accompanied John Conrad to perform a ritual over the body of their neighbor John Grimlan, which consigned the latter's soul to Malik Tous.
Jade: Together with John Conrad, he investigated the killing of their neighbor William Dormouth.
Ring (online text) (throughout), Wanderer's Club 56, details of his
past 56, tragic past 61-62, travels 63.
House (online text) (113-130), 117, 119, 123-124,
129.
Manor: Kirowan may have been the unnamed narrator who went with John Conrad to visit Tavarel (possibly the same as Taverel) at Dagon Manor, where they were greeted by the sinister Ketric.
Last name indicates possible kinship to John Kirowan, though there is no explicit link. REH Dermod.
HPL Mountains (online text) 42.
See also: Sign of Kish.
Maine. RB Satan 6.
Atlantean high priest who preserved the Commoriom myth cycle. HPL Whisperer (online text) 254.
Bought the lodge belonging to the late sorcerer Graag, near the hamlet of the dog, Maine. With his friends Paulsen, Roche, and Frank Hartley, discovered Graag's books and notes, and dug up the earthly remains of the Other. Died of the curse called the mantle of the sorcerer. RAL Graag (online text) 12-15.
Transylvania. HPL Case (online text) 164.
DW "perfumed jungles". HPL Gates (online text) 431, 440; Kadath (online text) 351; Silver (online text) 408.
Street? in Prague. HPL Case (online text) 194.
Author of Kryptographik (1). [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183]
A province or kingdom of ancient Mu. Included Mt. Yaddith-Gho, and ruins left by pre-human races such as the spawn of Yuggoth. Sacrifices were made to Ghatanothoa, whose priesthood was pampered and powerful. Other gods worshipped (and considered more friendly to man) were Shub-Niggurath, Nug, Yeb, and Yig. At the time of the Year of the Red Moon, the nation was ruled by King Thabon. It was then that T'yog made his tragic attempt to free humanity from the tyranny of Ghatanothoa. [HPL Aeons (online text) 272-273, 275-276]
Incl: Dhoric shrine; Imash-Mo; Ghatanothoa; Nath-feast; pthagon membrane; Thabon, King; tlath-wood; T'yog; Yaddith-Gho, Mt..
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. HPL Haunter (online text) 115.
London. CJ Acquarium 300.
HPL Mountains (online text) 13.
Subterranean world. HPL Aeons (online text) Von Junzt implied the presence of the Ghatanothoa cult in K'n-yan 276; Mound (online text) (implicitly throughout the story), 131-133, 136-142, 144-150, 152-154, 159, 163; Whisperer (online text) 254.
AWD Curwen 22; Dweller 138; Lurker 134.
FL Terror2 301.
CAS Pnom Tsathoggua emerged from the Gulf of N'kai to caverns closer to the surface (presumably Yoth and K'n-yan), where his cult thrived. After the coming of the ice, he returned to N'kai. Later, his legend was partially forgotten, so that Gll'Hthaa-Ynn mistakenly told Zamacona that only images of Tsathoggua, and not Tsathoggua himself, had emerged from the inner world.
Incl:
Gll'Hthaa-Ynn; gn'agn; gyaa-yothn; Nug; Shub-Niggurath; T'la-yub; Tsathoggua; Tulu; y'm-bhi; Yeb; Yig
B'graa; Do-Hna; Grh-yan range; L'thaa; Nith, plain of; N'kai; Tsath
Compare with: Nergu-K'nyan.
Note:
K'n-yan (blue-litten) | V Yoth (red-litten) -----------------------| | | V V N'kai
(black; incl. Tsathoggua) Vaults of Zin
AWD Curwen 10.
Possibly synonymous with: Cthulhu.
Of Lynwold. AWD OutThere His two sons, along with Albert Cloy, got lost in the caves under the priory near Malvern-by-the-Sea and found the body of Old Cramton.
Lover of Brunhild, queen of Bal-Sagoth. REH Gods (online text) 197.
HPL Case (online text) sign of 214; Kadath (online text) sign of 339, tower of 340, 342, 375.
AWD GodBox sign of 122.
A dead city. REH Dig (online text) 75, 83, 84, 86: John Grimlan hinted to John Conrad of the black cyclopean walls of Koth. Grimlan was the only mortal man to visit the dead city of Koth, where, in a grim and silent chamber, his sold soul to Malik Tous, writing the contract in his own blood. A mortal who reaches the black citadels of Koth and speaks with the Darke Lord whose face is hidden, for a price may gain his heart's desire, riches and knowledge beyond counting and a life of 250 years beyond the mortal span. The ritual performed after John Grimlan's death included the invocation "Ya—Koth!"
Name of a forgotten god. REH Fire (online text) 51.
REH Hyborian (online text) a kingdom of the Hyborian age.
A river or stream in Dreamland. HPL Iranon (online text) 112, 116-117.
HK Kralitz (online text) 2, 5-6.
HK Kralitz (online text) narrator 2-9.
Of Ulthar. HPL Cats (online text) old burgomaster of Ulthar 57, calls at cotters' house to investigate their disappearance 58.
"Kryptographik Lehrbuch der Geheimschreibekunst (Cryptology: Instruction Book on the Art of Secret Writing) is an 1809 book on cryptography written by Johann Ludwig Klüber." [Kryptographik, Wikipedia]
Dr. Armitage consulted Klüber's Kryptographik while attempting to decipher Wilbur Whateley's diary. [HPL Dunwich (online text) 183]
By Thicknesses. Alijah Atwood wrote that he saw a copy of Thicknesses’s Kryptographik in the library of Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere. [AWD Survivor (online text) 160.]
Atwood may have conflated Klüber's Kryptographik with a 1792 work by Phillip Thicknesse called A Treatise On The Art Of Decyphering, And Of Writing In Cyphers,With An Harmonic Alphabet. [Philip Thicknesse, Wikipedia]
HPL Aeons (online text) 278.
Synonym for: Ghatanothoa.
HH Guardian 299: The tiny man hinted that Kathulhn was identical with Kthulhu.
AWD Gorge 109.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
AWD Dweller 127.
CAS Ubbo (online text) 48.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
HPL Museum (online text) 234.
DW Fire2 (online text) 82, 86, 90.
A Siamese cat. CJ Acquarium 301-305.
Kuddh
Evidently a fearsome being of the world of Balrahar. Xathra invoked Zlaxdhtath to preserve him from the eyes of Kuddh. [REH Door]
Name used by the Maya of the Yucatan for the feathered serpent deity, better known as Quetzalcoatl.
The Mound (online text) narrator recognized a serpent carving from K'n-yan as a prototype of the Yig, Quetzalcoatl and Kukulcan conceptions [Mound (online text)115]. The Curse of Yig narrator identified Yig as the older and darker prototype of Quetzalcoatl or Kukulcan [Yig (online text) 83].
Of Valusia. REH Shadow (online text); Dark (online text) 87.
AWD Gorge 130.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
A dreamer. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 83-89; Kadath (online text) only sane visitor to star gulfs 309 & 402, 333, 354-356.
Pacific islands? AWD Island 195; Gorge 103.
JVS Dead 30.
Synonym for: Cthulhu.
AWD Gorge 108.
Northwest Coast Indians, Quatsino Sound. AWD Survivor (online text) 159.
Of dreamland. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 87.
HPL Gates (online text) 451.
Compare with: Kinarth.
Source of the Hyperboreans; near Arcturus. HPL Gates (online text) 443-444.
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