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HPL Aeons (online text) old tablets in Naacal tongue speak of Mu 271, hieratic Naacal of T'yog's order 273; Gates (online text) 422, 425, 452.
Alias of Simon Orne in Prague. HPL Case (online text) 223.
Syllable on tomb of Obediah Carter; possib. reference to Shub-Niggurath. JVS Dead 30.
HPL Aeons (online text) has custody of the true scroll 278 & 286.
Secret name of Keziah Mason. HPL WitchHouse (online text) 264, 290, 293.
Mexico. HPL Electric (online text) Nahuan-Aztec mythology 74.
AWD Island 181.
See also: Evidences of Nahua Culture in Yucatan.
HPL Electric (online text) 68.
Of Kenya. HPL Winged (online text) includes Dr. Lincoln 246.
Arabia Deserta. HPL Descendant (online text) 362; Mountains (online text) 47; Nameless (online text) 98-110, description of race 104-5, chronology 103, Paleozoic 105.
AWD Keeper 148, 150, 153, 155, 157, made for short creatures (158), domain of Hastur 160, history and humans 161, 168, wind leads back to oasis? 169, 170, once a sea city 170, 171; Lamp (online text) =Irem? 249, 252.
AWD Keeper 154-156, 158, 159, sacred reptiles 161, 167, 169, saurian and reptile followers of Cthulhu 170, 171.
A volume of esoteric lore by von Junzt, also known as Unaussprechlichen Kulten and the Black Book.
Publication History
Originally published as Unaussprechlichen Kulten in Dusseldorf in 1839. This edition had heavy leather covers and iron hasps. Not many copies were printed in the first edition. No more than a half-dozen copies of this edition are likely to survive, for many owners burned their copies in panic after learning the manner of the author's demise. This edition was nicknamed the Black Book, not because of its binding, but because of its dark contents [REH Black (online text) 56; Hoofed 156; Roof (online text) 3-4; HPL Aeons 269, 271]
A London Printer named Bridewell pirated the work and issued a cheap translation for sensational effect in 1845. This edition was full of grotesque wood-cuts, misspellings, and faulty translations. [REH Black (online text) 56; Roof (online text) 3-4; HPL Aeons 269, 271].
Both editions were suppressed, and copies were exceedingly rare until the publication of the carefully expurgated reprint by the Golden Goblin Press of New York in 1909. Fully a fourth of the original material was omitted from this edition. The book was handsomely bound and exquisitely illustrated by Diego Vasquez. This edition was too expensive for popular consumption. [REH Black (online text) 56; Roof (online text) 4; HPL Aeons 269]
Writing Style
The contents range from startling clarity of exposition to murky ambiguity, and there are statements and hints to freeze the blood of a thinking man. [REH Black (online text) 57] Von Junzt may have written vaguely at times because he was afraid to reveal too much, and deliberately gave dark and mysterious hints, that would have meaning only to those who know. [REH Children (online text) 151].
The extreme ambiguity and the incredible subject matter have long caused the book to be regarded as the ravings of a maniac, but much of his assertions are unanswerable [REH Roof (online text) 3].
General Contents
The bulk of the work concerns cults and objects of dark worship which Von Junzt claimed existed in his own day. [REH Black (online text) 57]
One of the cult survivals that Von Junzt spoke of was the Bran cult, which he alleged persists to modern times [REH Children (online text) 152-153].
Mysterious Keys
At many points Von Junzt speaks of keys, whose nature is not explained. [REH Black (online text) 57]. The Black Stone narrator inferred that these keys are Keys to Outer Doors, links with an abhorrent past, and perhaps with abhorrent spheres of the present. [73]
One of the keys that von Junzt mentions is the Black Stone, a monolith that broods among the mountains of Hungary. [REH Black (online text) 57] See: Black Stone.
Another key is to be found in an old temple in a Honduras jungle. There a strange god was worshipped by a tribe that became extinct before the coming of the Spaniards. The mummy of the last high priest is to be found in this temple, and on a copper chain around his neck is a red, toad-shaped jewel. This jewel is the key to the treasure of the temple, which lies hidden in a subterranean crypt beneath the temple altar. The Golden Goblin edition includes text describing the temple, but barely mentions the mummy. The Bridewell translation mistakenly gives the temple location as Guatemala. The Bridewell text says that the jewel is a key, but does not say what it is a key to. It is the Dusseldorf edition which states that the jewel is the key to hidden treasure beneath the temple, and later reveals that the "treasure" of the temple is the very god that was worshipped there. [REH Roof (online text) 5-11]
Unseen Worlds
One chapter deals with the summoning of daemons out of the Void. The book maintains that unseen worlds of unholy dimensions press on our universe, and that their inhabitants sometimes burst through the veil to our world at the bidding of evil sorcerers. [REH Hoofed 156]
T'yog and Ancient Mu
Some of the hieroglyphs in the scroll of T'yog also appear in Nameless Cults. Etienne-Laurent de Marigny wrote an article for the Occult Review about resemblances between the T'yog scroll and portions of Nameless Cults, which included the same hieroglyphs and a story centering on a similar cylinder and scroll. This information was copied and embroidered on by many articles appearing in the popular press in 1931-32. [HPL Aeons (online text) 268-271]
As related in Nameless Cults, T'yog was a High-Priest of Shub-Niggurath in ancient Mu. He dared to oppose the cult of Ghatanothoa, which sacrificed twelve young warriors and twelve maidens to Ghatanothoa each year. T'yog wrote a protective spell on a scroll before climbing Mt. Yaddith-Gho to confront Ghatanothoa; but before he left, the protective scroll was stolen and a worthless one substituted for it by Ghatanothoa's priests. As a result, when T'yog saw Ghatanothoa, his body was immediately petrified, though his brain remained eternally alive. [Aeons (online text) 271-277]
Elements of von Junzt's story turned up in new accounts of cult activities in the spring of 1932 [Aeons (online text) 278]. A swarthy Hawaiian cultist possessed many sheets of hieroglyphs like those in the T'yog scroll and the Black Book [280]. When Richard H. Johnson saw the image of Ghatanothoa on the retina of the T'yog mummy, his description reminded listeners of lore in the Black Book [286].
The Hyborian Age
Nameless Cults also tells of an age that Von Junzt said he had discovered, called the Hyborian age, which preceded recorded history. The book tells of the destruction of Atlantis and Lemuria; of the flight of a tribe of savages to the Arctic Circle, where they evolved into the Hyborians; of how the Hyborians were never able to conquer Stygia, in the area now known as Egypt; and of how a different barbarian Nordic race eventually overthrew the Hyborians and also the Stygians. [REH Untitled 37]
Nyarlathotep
Von Junzt, in Unassprechlichen Kulten, describes Nyarlathotep as "adorned with tentacles," much like another of the Great Old Ones (presumably Cthulhu). [AWD Lurker 125].
Surviving Copies and Modern Readers
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee consulted the Unaussprechlichen Kulten while possessed by a mind of the Great Race. He wrote corrections in the book in German, and also wrote something in the curvilinear hieroglyphs of the Great Race. [HPL Time (online text) 374, 384] Similarly, Amos Piper consulted a copy of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten while possessed by a member of the Great Race [AWD Space 234].
Among John Conrad's circle, at least Conrad himself, John Kirowan, Clemants, and Taverel had all read the book. According to John O'Donnel, Conrad and Kirowan had delved into the "Latin version." [REH Children (online text) 151-152] However, this is probably a mistaken reference to the Dusseldorf edition, which was likely in German; for it had a German title, and as mentioned above, Peaslee's corrections to the text were written in German.
The Thing on the Roof narrator (John Kirowan) obtained a copy of the Dusseldorf edition from Prof. James Clement of Richmond, VA. The narrator shared the book with Tussmann, who had previously consulted the Bridewell and Golden Goblin editions. [REH Roof (online text) 3-6].
When John Conrad explored the house in the oaks near Old Dutchtown, N.Y., he found a copy of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten [REH House (online text) 126].
Michael Strang read from a copy of the Dusseldorf edition [REH Hoofed 156].
Richard H. Johnson read the Golden Goblin edition, and was left dizzy and nauseated, but thankful that he had not seen the original unexpurgated text. [HPL Aeons 271]
Robert Blake found a copy of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the abandoned church of the Starry Wisdom sect. Blake previously had access to a different copy, for he had already read the book. [HPL Haunter (online text) 100].
Some figures in Rogers' Museum were drawn from the Unaussprechlichen Kulten [HPL Museum (online text) 216].
Edward Pickman Derby read the Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the Miskatonic University library [HPL Doorstep (online text) 279]. Walter Gilman also consulted a copy of the Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the Miskatonic University library [HPL WitchHouse (online text) 263, 290].
The tiny man told Doctor Wycherly that books such as Nameless Cults would not be found lying about in bookstores. Doctor Wycherly had a copy of the "criminally expurgated" Golden Goblin edition of 1909, which he found to be peurile [HH Guardian 288].
Laban Shrewsbury told Horvath Blayne that the Cthulhu Mythos sprang from old manuscripts including the Unaussprechlichen Kulten [AWD Island 180]. Shrewsbury also spoke to Andrew Phelan and Nayland Colum of various esoteric texts, including the Unaussprechlichen Kulten [AWD Curwen 20; Keeper 141].
Winfield Phillips borrowed either an original copy or a photostat of Unaussprechlichen Kulten from Dr. Seneca Lapham. It probably was borrowed or copied from the Miskatonic University library. [AWD Lurker 134].
The book shows up with disconcerting regularity in the collections of deceased occultists. Thus, Dan Harrop found a copy in the collection of his late cousin, Abel Harrop [AWD Whippoorwills 44]. Marius Phillips found a copy that had been hidden by his late uncle, Sylvan Phillips [AWD Seal (online text) 160]. The Gable Window narrator found a copy in the house of his late cousin, Wilbur Akeley [AWD Gable (online text) 206]. Alijah Atwood found one among Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere's books and papers [AWD Survivor (online text) 160]. Haddon found a copy among the books of Amos Tuttle [AWD Hastur 2].
Soames Hemery found an esoteric book by a German doctor; possibly this was Von Junzt [AWD OutThere].
In the forger Alastair White's spurious catalog of esoteric books for sale, he offered a copy of Unaussprechlichen Kulten. The catalog also quoted Von Junzt as stating that the Necronomicon is the basis of Occult literature. However, the private detective Solar Pons dismissed both books as non-existent except in the imagination of some minor American horror writers [AWD Six 124]
Nameless Mist, The
An offspring of Azathoth, and an ancestor of Yog-Sothoth [HPL Family (online text)].
HPL Kadath (online text) 370, 375, (390).
HK Salem (online text) black tower of Leng (261/262).
Cerenarian sea. HPL Kadath (online text) 358-359, 371, 375, 380-382,...387, 390, (397).
Squid-like deity. HPL Diary (online text) 317, Nameless One 318.
HPL Case (online text) 130, 133.
Pacific. HPL Aeons (online text) megalithic masonry is possible vestige of Mu 267.
FL Terror2 286.
HPL Mountains (online text) 10.
HPL Sorceries (online text).
AWD Lurker 16.
RWC Repairer (online text) 37.
100 carven gates and domes of chalcedony. HPL Silver (online text) 409.
A stream or river. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 87; Kadath (online text) 352.
HPL White (online text) 40.
King of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 48-49.
Isles of, in Middle Ocean, in time of Sarnath. HPL Doom (online text) 48.
HPL Case (online text) N. indians 119, dairymen and horsebreeders 123, county 124, bay 129; Haunter (online text) bay 114; Sorceries (online text).
RB Steeple (online text) Bay 215, 219, 221, 225, 229.
AWD Lurker N. indians 9 & 16 & 34 & 112.
FL Terror2 Narragansett Bay 300.
Note: May be referenced in HPL Mist (online text).
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The
See: Edgar Allan Poe.
In harbor outside Mulligan's beach, near Partridgeville. FBL Eaters (online text) 106-107.
HPL Iranon (online text) 114.
Priest of dreamland. HPL Kadath (online text) 307-308, 345.
Africa. HPL Winged (online text) 244.
Incl: Durban.
Mississippi. AWD Gorge 118-119.
Nathaniel Derby Pickman Foundation
HPL Mountains (online text) 6.
A ceremony in ancient K'naa. HPL Aeons (online text) Imash-Mo precedes King Thabon at Nath-feast 273.
One of the Great Ones; a god worshipped by human beings in the dreamlands. In Celephaïs there is a turquoise temple to Nath-Horthath, where there are eighty priests wreathed with orchids. Nath-Horthath is the primary god worshipped in Celephaïs, though the priests there also honor the other Great Ones. [HPL Celephaïs (online text); Kadath (online text)]
AWD Seal (online text) 163.
Lima, Peru. AWD Curwen 10.
Manitoba. AWD Ithaqua 106; Wind (online text) Robert Norris wrote his last report from there, and his body was found four miles north after his disappearance. John Dalhousie flew there to investigate and write his report.
Incl: Navissa Daily; Jamison, Dr..
Of Navissa Camp; newspaper. AWD Wind (online text) reported the disappearance of all the inhabitants of Stillwater.
African tribe. HPL Medusa (online text) 190.
HPL Outsider (online text) 52.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 120.
Ruler of the undines, or water elementals [RB Hell (online text) 61].
HK Eater (online text) 13.
Necronomicon
View the full article on the Necronomicon.
Aka: Al-Azif.
Translator, Book of Iod. HK Bells (online text) 86.
Egyptian goddess. The Probilski Foundation had a statue of vulture-headed Nekhebet. [RB Strange]
Manitoba, a town. AWD Beyond2 172; Wind (online text) thirty miles south of Stillwater, connected by the Olassie Trail. Allison Wentworth and James Macdonald left from there for Stillwater.
Incl: Macdonald, James; Wentworth, Allison.
A poet? HPL Haunter (online text) 92.
HPL Test (online text) 47, 58.
Rhode Island; hill near Providence. AWD Lamp (online text) 249, 253, 256.
HPL Diary (online text) 303; Gates (online text) 452; Whisperer (online text) 214.
Egyptian pharaoh. HPL Case (online text) 197; Haunter (online text) 106; Outsider (online text) catacombs of, in valley of Hadoth by the Nile 52.
RB Fane 132-137, 139-146; Steeple (online text) 213.
Aka: Black Pharaoh.
A god of the sea in Roman mythology. Neptune visited the Strange High House in the Mist, in company with Nodens [HPL Mist (online text) 283].
AWD Island 178.
A planet. Spotted with white fungi. HPL Gates (online text) 451; Whisperer (online text) 223, body type 258.
Hzioulquoigmnzhah emigrated from Yuggoth to Yaksh (Neptune) at an early age; but, wearying of the peculiar religious devotions of the Yakshians, went on to Cykranosh (Saturn) [CAS Pnom].
In Greek mythology, blue-haired sea-nymphs, said to be fifty in number, the daughters of Nereus and Doris. The nereids are often helpful to sailors in storms. Nereids visited the Strange High House in the Mist, in the company of Nodens [HPL Mist (online text) followers of Nodens 283].
RB Kiss (online text) 49.
A place in Russia. AWD Lurker 136.
HK Invaders (online text) 76.
Compare with: K'n-yan.
HPL Diary (online text) 306.
Prague. HPL Case (online text) 164.
RB Grinning 51.
RB Satan 6.
Massachusetts. [Newburyport, Massachusetts, Wikipedia; see map on Google Maps]
Enroute Portland to Arkham. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 305, public library 309-310, YMCA 310, Innsmouth bus 313, "same side of bus" implies north of Innsmouth 314, north of coast road/main road fork 315, 334-335, 341-343, 361; Doorstep (online text) 291.
AWD Curwen 30; Clay 377; Shuttered 272; Sky 61, 73, 85, 87.
Incl:
Hammond's Drug Store; High Street; Ideal Lunch; Lower Green; Market Square; Newburyport Historical Society; Parker River; State St.
AWD Curwen 15.
Newburyport Historical Society
HPL Innsmouth (online text) specimens of Innsmouth jewelry 310, curator 311.
Incl: Tilton, Anna.
Boston. HPL Pickman (online text) 15, 17-18.
AWD Gorge 100.
Oklahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 86.
Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 313, 320, 325, 336.
AWD Sky 72.
Incl: Order of Dagon Hall.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 123.
Synonym for Dunwich. AWD Lurker 14, 16, 18, 26, 48/49, 50, 141.
HPL Diary (online text) 306; Gates (online text) 451.
RB Satan 8, 11-12, 16-19; RB Shambler (online text) 179; Steeple (online text) 213, 224.
Simon Waverly said there were witch cults in New England whose volumes of black magic might have inspired H. P. Lovecraft. [RB Strange]
AWD Island 201; Sandwin 88; Survivor (online text) 149; Witches 294.
JVS Snouted 26.
Incl: Aylesbury; Dedham; Edgewood; Maine; Massachusetts; New York; Newport, Maine; Newport, Rhode Island; Partridgeville; Patucket Falls; Pawtuxet; Rhode Island; Rhodes-on-the-Pawtuxet; Riverpoint; Salem-Village; Salem; Vermont; Warren; Wrentham; mystic dreamer.
Vermont. Enroute Brattleboro to Townshend. HPL Whisperer (online text) 219, 224, 247.
HPL Case (online text) 123.
AWD Island 185-186; Gorge 100-101, 104-105, 110.
Incl: Sepik River.
HPL Whisperer (online text) 210, 212-213, 245.
AWD Sky 62.
Incl: Ambrym.
FL Terror2 295.
Includes: Asbury Park, Hunterdon County.
By Charles Fort. "New Lands is the second nonfiction book of the author Charles Fort, published in 1923. It deals primarily with astronomical anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the Super-Sargasso Sea – a place where earthly things supposedly materialize in order to rain down on Earth – as well as developing an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including strange 'mirages' of land masses, groups of people, and animals in the skies." [New Lands, Wikipedia]
Dr. Senece Lapham recommended New Lands to Winfield Phillips. [AWD Lurker 136]
HPL Case (online text) 143, 154.
HPL Mound (online text) 155.
HPL Diary (online text) 316.
Synonym for?: New York.
Lousiana. HPL Aeons (online text) famed New Orleans mystic Etienne-Laurent de Marigny 270; Call (online text) 128, 133, 144; Gates (online text) 421, 424, 450, 457; Medusa (online text) 169-170, 174.
RB Mummy 284-285; Sebek 115, 117.
AWD Gorge 97, 115-116, 118-120, 128; Survivor (online text) 149.
FL Terror2 296.
Incl: Coffin Club; Creoles; Delvin, Doctor; de Marigny, Etienne-Laurent; Royce, Richard; Vanning, Henricus; Weildan, Professor.
HPL Man (online text) 209.
Incl: Hasbrouck, Squire.
Original name for Plymouth, Massachusetts. HPL Sorceries (online text).
AWD Lurker 52.
HPL Case (online text) 120, candle-makers 123, 127-128, 133, 135, 139.
Incl: Vice-Admiralty Court; Wanton, Joseph.
RB Satan 8
HPL Call (online text) 126.
Chemical supply house; also name of the owner. RB Bargain (online text) 69-70, 72, 74, 76.
HPL Mound (online text) 115, 119, 137.
HPL Mound (online text) 115.
City and state. HPL Call (online text) 132; Case (online text) 117, 154, 165, 181; Diary (online text) 303; Man (online text) 211; Medusa (online text) 180, 182; Mound (online text) 116; Test (online text) 17, 20; Time (online text) 404; Winged (online text) friends of Slauenwite and Moore 251 & 254.
RB Brood 100; Creeper (online text) 108; Hell (online text) New York City 22, 43; Steeple (online text) city 220.
H. P. Lovecraft lived in New York for a time in the 1920s. [RB Strange]
HC Death (online text) 362; Isle (online text) 152.
AWD Curwen 44; Clay 372, 379; Lair 117; Middle 353; Peabody 179; Watchers 383-384; Wood 82.
REH Black (online text) city 56; House (online text) 117; Roof (online text) 4.
HK Frog (online text) 106; Hydra (online text) 127.
State incl: Albany; Arnold, Dorothy; Attica; Batavia; Buffalo; Catskills; Chorazin; Kingston; Old Dutchtown.
City incl: Brooklyn; Chalmers, Halpin; Columbia University; Golden Goblin Press; Hartley, Norman; Keith, Prof. Phillips; Ludwig, Robert; Moore, Henry Sargent; Ross, Dr. Lily; Slauenwite, Dr. Thomas.
AWD Curwen 15, 29, 32.
HPL Aeons (online text) Eridanus bound from New Zealand to Chile when risen island of Mu is sighted 265; Call (online text) 145.
An earthquake near R'lyeh was felt in New Zealand. [RB Strange]
AWD Island 185; Curwen 35; Gorge Maoris 100, Auckland 103.
Incl: Maoris.
HPL Electric (online text) 69.
A deity or place? HPL Whisperer (online text) 267.
AWD Hastur 22.
JVS Dead 34: Boys in the late Elmer Harrod's house heard the name N'gah-Kthun chanted from underground.
Wood of... AWD Dweller 137-138; Lurker 134.
On Oriab in Southern Sea of dreamlands. HPL Other (online text) gods of earth left carven image on 127; Kadath (online text) 312-313, 315-316, 324-325, 327-330, 332, 335, 345, 351, 357, 359, 364, 368, 372, 397;
AWD Lurker 134.
Another spelling for Nyarlathotep [HH Guardian].
A formula? or place. HPL Dunwich (online text) 184.
AWD Lurker a place beyond Kadath? 49; Middle 359.
See: Tablets of Nhing.
Contemporary artist. AWD Seal (online text) 156.
AWD Valley (online text) 116-118.
A black cat. HPL Case (online text) 166, 173.
A cat belonging to Delapore. Of Bolton, Mass. and later Exham Priory. HPL Rats (online text) 32-40, 43, (44), 45.
Nigguratl-Yig
See: Niguratl-Yig.
By Edgar Gordon. The author's first book, it was a failure, due to the morbidity of its theme. This was soon after he began that phase of writing which brought him into general disfavor. [RB Demon 64]
Of the dreamland. Thin, black, winged beings that dwell in caves near the peak of Mt. Ngranek. The night-gaunts sometimes kidnap the lava-gatherers on Mt. Ngranek's lower slopes, and those that were taken are never seen again. The people of Oriab are unsure that night-gaunts are altogether fabulous. The night-gaunts are most prone to haunt the dreams of those who think too often of them. [HPL Kadath (online text)]
The night-gaunts have cold, damp, slippery, rubbery black skin. They have only a blank surface where a face should be. Lacking eyes, they see with the whole surface of their bodies. On their heads are two horns that curve inward toward each other. They have prehensile claws and two-pronged tails. Their membraneous bat-wings make no sound, neither do they ever speak or laugh. While carrying their kidnapped victims through the air, the night-gaunts tickle them with subtlety and deliberation. [Kadath (online text); Fungi XX]
The duty of the night-gaunts is to capture any who venture too near the peak of Ngranek, and bear the interloper through the caves near the summit, to a dark inner realm. There they pass the fabled Peaks of Throk, and finally deposit their victim in the Vale of Pnath. [Kadath (online text)]
The night-gaunts also dwell in caves near the top of the peaks that divide Inganok from the plateau of Leng, where they cause great fear among the shantak-birds.
Even the Great Ones fear the night-gaunts, for the latter own not Nyarlathotep but only hoary Nodens as their lord. Nevertheless, the Other Gods are able to control the night-gaunts when they must.
The night-gaunts are bound by solemn treaties with the ghouls. The night-gaunts and ghouls communicate by means of ugly gestures.
The night-gaunts do not care to fly over water, but are able to overcome their fear when necessary.
Randolph Carter wondered if the night-gaunts were responsible for killing his zebra, whose blood was drained from a wound in its throat during the night. The beings responsible also stole Carter's shiny knick-knacks and left great webbed footprints.
Randolph Carter was kidnapped by the night-gaunts and left in the Vale of Pnath. Later, the ghoul Richard Upton Pickman taught Carter a password that would be recognized by the night-gaunts. The night-gaunts helped Carter to rescue three ghouls from the moon-beasts, then participated in an attack on the moon-beasts. They accompanied Carter to Kadath to confront the Great Ones, but vanished from Kadath due to the intervention of the Other Gods.
Rogers' Museum had a figure of a lean, rubbery night-gaunt [Museum (online text)].
RB Grinning 53.
Aka: Gaunts.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 162.
HPL Case (online text) 154.
Synonym for Halloween. RB Satan 17.
HPL Electric (online text) 74.
HC Pits: A secret cult in Haiti worships deities called the Old Ones, including Niguratl-Yig.
Also spelled: Nigguratl-Yig.
Compare with: Shub-Niggurath; Yig.
Egypt. HPL Outsider (online text) near Valley of Hadoth 52; Pyramids (online text) 218, cryptic 220, 221, 223, 226, elder Nile sorcery 230.
RB Faceless Upper 36, secret caverns beneath 41; RB Lotus the Black Lotus grows beneath the Nile; Opener Upper Nile 156; Sebek 124.
REH Hyborian (online text); Untitled 38.
RB Sorcerer (online text) 149-155, plump 156, 157, (158), 159-163.
Another name for the Nile. REH Hyborian (online text).
A name of the goddess Ishtar in Nineveh. [FBL WereSnake (online text)]
An ancient Assyrian city.
REH Fire (online text) 38, 40.
AWD Island 181.
In Nineveh, a manifestation of Ishtar hired camel-drivers and destroyed them with kisses [FBL WereSnake (online text)].
Incl: library of Asshurbanipal, Nina.
Egypt. RB Faceless 41; Opener 158.
AWD Whippoorwills 46.
A village, of dreamlands. HPL Cats (online text) travelers in Nir tell of the the law in Ulthar against killing cats 58; Other (online text) men of Nir climb Hatheg-Kla by day to look for Barzai 131, people of fear eclipses since Barzai disappeared on Hatheg-Kla132; Kadath (online text) 310-311, 334-335, 346, 380.
RB Grinning demon-haunted Nis 54.
Of Ulthar. HPL Cats (online text) lean notary of Ulthar, declares cotter & wife likely suspects in disappearance of cats 57, remarks that cotter & wife have not been seen since the night the cats were missing 58.
HPL Mound (online text) 147, 151.
A planet. HPL Fungi (online text) XIV.
A river? in dreamlands. HPL Iranon (online text) 112, 115-117.
Egyptian queen. HPL Outsider (online text) has unnamed feasts beneath the Great Pyramid 52; Pyramids (online text), 226, ghost queen who lives underground with Khephren, ruling over composite man/beat mummies 235, 240, beautiful but one half of her face eaten away 241.
HPL Mound (online text) 115-116.
Subterranean realm of Tsathoggua, beneath Yoth. HPL Mound (online text) 140-142, 148-149; Whisperer (online text) 254.
AWD Curwen 21-22; Dweller 138; Gorge 126; Keeper 141; Lurker 133-134.
FL Terror2 301, 311.
CAS Pnom: Tsathoggua first entered Earth by means of the lightless inner Gulf of N'kai. He lingered there for cycles, before moving to caverns nearer the surface (presumably K'n-yan and Yoth). After the coming of the ice he returned to N'kai.
RB Grinning lightless N'ken 54.
Africa. HPL Winged (online text) visited by Thomas Slauenwite 254.
HPL Winged (online text) of M'gonga, one of the Galla boys at the post 245.
Alaska. HPL Museum (online text) 221.
See: Nodens.
Alaska. HPL Museum (online text) 221-222.
AWD Gorge 98.
DW Fire2 (online text) 75-88.
Of Darwich University. RAL Abyss (online text) 284-290.
HPL Diary (online text) 313.
Los Angeles. The Starry Wisdom Temple was located at 1726 South Normandie. [RB Strange]
Of Royal Northwest Mounted Police. Visited Stillwater. AWD Beyond2 a constable (172); Wind (online text) While staying with Dr. Jamison at Navissa Camp, witnessed Allison Wentworth, James Macdonald, and the body of Irene Masitte fall from the sky. Listened to Wentworth's delerious ravings and spoke to him during his brief interval of consciousness. Learned thus of the deity Ithaqua and the truth behind the Stillwater mystery. Later disappeared for seven months. When his body was recovered at Navissa Camp, the ancient plaque in his pocket showed that he had spent that time in travel as a prisoner of Ithaqua.
Family. HPL Rats (online text) 26.
HPL Rats (online text) 28-29, 31-33, 35-37, 45.
REH Gods (online text) 187, 189, 192, 195.
Incl: Indians.
North Burying Ground, North Burial Ground
HPL Case (online text) 137, 169, 176, 228, 230.
HPL Pickman (online text) 13, 15-16.
Providence. HPL Case (online text) 177.
North End Warehouse and Storage Company
Boston. Richard Upton stored a painting and personal papers there a week before killing himself. Oliphant inherited the business from his uncle and sold off blind lots of abandoned items to clear the place out for demolition. A lot including Upton's items was sold to Felipe Santiago. Oliphant received several anonymous phone calls asking about Upton's material, there was an attempted break-in, and strangers were seen lurking around the parking lot. Simon Waverly visited later and found Lovecraft's map of the location of R'lyeh. [RB Strange]
Town enroute Greenfield to Brattleboro. (Page and story ref lost; presumably HPL Whisperer (online text).)
HPL Descendant (online text) 361.
HPL Descendant (online text) (358), 359-361.
HPL Descendant (online text) 361.
AWD Island 178-179.
Near Kingsport, Massachussetts. HPL White (online text) 36: Location of the North Point light tended by Basil Elton.
HPL Case (online text) 128.
HPL Descendant (online text) 359.
Boston. HPL Time (online text) 375.
Monk's Hollow. HK Frog (online text) 106-107, 109, 118, 120, 122.
AWD Seal (online text) 151, 163.
Incl: Northwest Coast Indians; Quatsino Sound.
Of Northwest Coast. AWD Space 246; Survivor (online text) 159.
Incl: Kwakiutl Indians; Tlingit Indians.
AWD Depths (online text) 229.
HPL Mound (online text) 103.
HPL Call (online text) 144, 146, 148.
AWD Spawn 19, 26.
See also: Lofoten Islands; Oslo.
Connecticut. See Stamford-Norwalk area.
AWD Curwen 20.
HPL Museum (online text) "spawn of" an epithet of disgust 234.
HPL Polaris (online text) 21-23.
HPL Pickman (online text) 14.
JVS Snouted 25.
A god, the husband of Shub-Niggurath, according to the Old Ones of K'n-yan [HPL Mound (online text)]. Elsewhere, Lovecraft's family tree of the gods lists Yog-Sothoth as the husband of Shub-Niggurath. [HPL Family (online text)] This would seem to imply that the Old Ones used "Not-to-be-Named One" as a euphemism for Yog-Sothoth.
Compare with: Hastur the Unspeakable.
A new star that appeared near Algol in 1901. Apparently it marked Joe Slater's attempt to wreak vengeance on the "oppressor," whose beacon is the star Algol. Nova Persei faded over the course of a few months, perhaps marking the failure of Slater to achieve his desired vengeance [HPL Sleep (online text) 35].
A story by Arthur Machen which posits the existence of a hidden race who inspired the legends of the Little People. See the online text.
REH Children (online text) 151: John Conrad regarded it as one of the three master horror-tales.
Cultivated male human voice. HPL Whisperer (online text) 225-227, named 245, 246, 250-251, 260-261, 263, 266-267, 269-270.
HK Bells (online text) 81.
Nug and Yeb
See: Nug and Yeb.
16,000 A.D. HPL Time (online text) 395.
Runes of Nug-Soth [FL Terror2 284].
Nush the Eternal
A descendent of Yabou, and an ancestor of Gilles Grenier. [HPL Family (online text)]
A being spoken of in the Song of Yste. Two of its priests fell prey to the adumbrali. RAL Abyss (online text) 291. RAL Nyaghoggua (online text) described as lying deep in the heart of time, hideous in dread malignancy, and replete with galaxies devoured.
Congo. HPL Winged (online text) 248.
Incl. Vandervelde, Dr.
See: Nyarlathotep.
An incarnation of Nyarlathotep as an intensely dark black man in modern Los Angeles. He preached at the Starry Wisdom Temple, talking of the coming return of the Great Old Ones, and mesmerizing the audience with the Shining Trapezohedron. He recruited Kay Keith for a modeling job. Despite her escape, he eventually recaptured her on Easter Island, where he gave her as a mate to Cthulhu. Nye escaped the bombing of Easter Island and the destruction of Cthulhu, then arranged for Kay's son Mark Dixon to be raised as the foster son of Judson Moybridge. Nye led a secret group of terrorist assassins called the Black Brotherhood. He hired Moybridge to write a book denying the existence of the Black Brotherhood. When Mark Dixon grew up, Nye used the Shining Trapezohedron to transform Dixon into Cthulhu. [RB Strange]
AWD Lurker 133.
See also: wood nymphs.
A god. HK Salem (online text) worm-eating, crescent-horned image 250, 255, 261, black thing 263, (264-265).
Visited by Zkauba. HPL Gates (online text) 450.
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