O

Oakland

HPL Test (online text) 23.

CAS Return suburbs of 33.

Oaths of Dagon

HPL Innsmouth (online text) 337.

Oberlin

Town and college in Ohio. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363.

O'Brien, John

Reincarnation of Conan the reaver. REH People (online text) narrator 161-162, 164-166, 168.

O'Brien, Kid

A boxer. HPL Herbert (online text) 146.

O'Brien, Moira

REH Dark (online text) 67, 69, 78-80, (81), 85-86: Daughter of Murtagh na Kilbaha, a chief of the Dalcassians. She had deep gray eyes, black hair, and fair skin. Thorfel the Fair captured her and took her to his skalli on the Isle of Slyne, intending to marry her. Although the Christian priest Jerome was present to perform the rites in her own faith, Moira stabbed herself to avoid the marriage. As she lay dying, Turlogh O'Brien brought her the severed head of Thorfel and promised her vengeance.

O'Brien, Turlogh Dubh

A Gael of the Dalcassian tribe, raised on the wild west coast of Ireland. He was black-haired with smoldering blue eyes. His favored weapon was an axe with a slim, graceful haft and a back spike. Once a chief of Clan na O’Brien, he was outlawed by his clan, due to the jealousy of a cousin and the spiteful intrigues of a powerful woman. He was accused of conspiring with the Danes, and his clan drove him out to starve in the heather. He had a fierce hatred of the Norse for their long history of attacks on the Irish. Men said there was madness in him. He traveled widely as a soldier of fortune, and learned many languages. He retained a strong clan loyalty, despite being outlawed. After Moira O'Brien was taken captive by Thorfel the Fair, Turlogh sailed single-handed to the Isle of Slyne to try to rescue her. When Moira stabbed herself to avoid marrying Thorfel, Turlogh went mad, shouted the war-cry of the O'Briens "Lamh Laidir Abu!" and attempted to kill all of Thorfel's party single-handed. Only the supernatural help of the Dark Man and the lucky arrival of Brogar's Picts saved him from certain death. He wounded Athelstane the Saxon but spared his life at the request of the priest Jerome. [REH Dark (online text) 64-90]

Later, while traveling on a French vessel, he was captured by the ship of Lodbrug the Viking, and his life spared in turn by Athelstane. By that point Turlogh had slain a hundred-odd Vikings. He and Athelstane washed up together on the Isle of the Gods and helped Brunhild regain the queenship. After her death, and amidst an invasion by red-skinned savages, they fled the island and joined up with Don Roderigo del Cortez of Castile, aboard the vessel Gray Friar, on a mission to harry Moorish Corsairs. [Gods (online text) 185~234]
Hun 151~173.

Observer

San Francisco area newspaper. HPL Test (online text) 25.

Occult Review, The

HPL Aeons (online text) published a highly learned article by Etienne-Laurent de Marigny regarding hieroglyphs on T'yog scroll 270.

AWD Gorge 109.

Occultus

By Heiriarchus. Little is known of this work but the Latin occultus means hidden, secret, occult, concealed, or mysterious.

Strange pondered a maggot-eaten volume of Heiriarchus' Occultus. [RB Tomb (online text)]

oceanids

RB Kiss (online text) 49.

ocean-man, the

REH Skull (online text): Legends fortold the coming of an ocean-man who would lead all the colored races of the world to vanquish the white race. Apparently these legends were in reference to Kathulos of Atlantis.

Och

One of seven Olympian spirits "mentioned in several Renaissance and post-Renaissance books of ritual magic/ceremonial magic... Och [is] 'the alchemist, physician, and magician'. He rules 28 provinces. His 'planet' is the Sun." [Olympian Spirits, Wikipedia]

One of the Seven Stewards of Heaven, invoked in White Magic. [RB Hell (online text)]

octopus-like entities

Images of Tulu (Cthulhu), made by the Old Ones of K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) 109, 114, 126-127.

AWD Valley (online text) Probably Cthulhu 137 & 147.

ocuru-lamps

Of Bel-Yarnak. HK Jest (online text) 60.

O'Dare, Lord Donal

An Irish lord. He was a tall dark man with a great scar on his jaw, caused by a wound from a rival chieftain. On midsummer night of 1600, he apparently ventured through a fairy ring in County Kerry to another world and stole a gold ring from Xathra of Balrahar, only to be stabbed to death by someone named Zaga. The next morning, O'Dare's dead body was found clutching the gold ring, which was eventually inherited by his descendant, John O'Dare. [REH Door]

O'Dare, John

A writer whose works were known for stark realism and a savage materialism. He was hardened by struggle in his youth and early manhood. Nevertheless, he had dreamed since childhood of shimmering kingdoms of tinsel and gossamer. His books included The Jaws of the Vise. He was a fan of Justin Geoffrey and Benjamin de Casseres. From his ancestor, Lord Donal O'Dare, he had inherited a gold ring with a blue stone and unknown carved characters, somewhat resembling Phoenician. One night while he was reading Towers in the Sky by Justin Geoffrey, Xathra of Balrahar burst in through his window, and claimed to be the owner of O'Dare's ring. Following the arrival of the villainous Begog, O'Dare and Xathra fell through a dimensional portal called the Door of the World, and O'Dare awoke in an alien landscape. [REH Door]

O'Donnel, John

REH Children (online text) (narrator) (149-159), 160-162, (163), 164: A friend of John Conrad. After Ketrick accidentally struck O'Donnel with an ancient Welsh flint mallet, O'Donnel remembered a past life in Bronze-age Britain as Aryara of the Sword People. On recovering consciousness, O'Donnel was instantly convinced that Ketrick was one of the Children of the Night, and attempted to strangle him. Although the attempt was interrupted, O'Donnel still nursed the intention to kill Ketrick some day. Dwellers (narrator) 113, 118, 120, 123, 127-128; Ring (online text) (narrator) (49-65), 50, 54, 57.
Manor: O'Donnel may have been the unnamed narrator who went with John Conrad to visit Tavarel (possibly the same as Taverel) at Dagon Manor and were greeted by the sinister Ketric.

Aka: O'Donnel, Black John?

O'Donnel, Black John

REH Bear (narrator) (35), 36-37.

Synonym for: O'Donnel, John?

Odysseus

HK Bells (online text) 87.

Of Evill Sorceries done in New-England of Daemons in no Humane Shape

See article at Of Evill Sorceries done in New-England of Daemons in no Humane Shape.

Ogden

CAS Return (online text) (narrator) 34.

Ogilvie

RFS Mists widow 26.

Ogrothan

A city. HPL Kadath (online text) 358, 360.

Ohio

AWD Seal (online text) 152.

Incl: Oberlin.

Okishuri Maru

A ship that Albert Keith and Ronald Abbott hired in Tahiti to voyage to the location of R'lyeh. Commanded by Captain Sato. The crew were cultists with the Innsmouth look, who fed Keith to Cthulhu. [RB Strange]

Oklahoma

HPL Mound (online text) 97-98, 116; Yig (online text) (throughout, and) 80-81, 84.

Incl:

Caddo Indians; Compton, Clyde; Compton, Joe; Compton, Sally; Davis, Audrey; Davis, Walker; Grey Eagle; Kukulcan; McNeill, Dr.; Moore, Major; Quetzalcoatl; Rigby, Tom and Jennie; Smith, Lafayette; Stevens; Tirawa; Wichita Indians; Wolf; Yig; Zeke

Binger; Caddo County; Canadian river; Creek country; El Reno; Guthrie; Kickapoo country; Newcastle; Okmulgee; Pawnee country; Scott County?; Wichita country; Wichita Mountains; Wichita River

Okmulgee

Creek County, Okalahoma. HPL Yig (online text) 85.

Olassie Trail

Manitoba. AWD Ithaqua 106, 108, 110-111, 115-116; Wind (online text) Allison Wentworth and James Macdonald used it to travel from Nelson to Stillwater, and later in an attempt to escape back. Ithaqua was sometimes seen against the sky by travelers on this trail.

Olathoe

Lomar. HPL Iranon (online text) 114; Kadath (online text) 310; Mound (online text) 141; Mountains (online text) 47; Polaris (online text) 21-23.

Old Dethshill Cemetery

JVS Dead 28-31, 36-37: Innsmouth is referred to as "nearby". Graveyard 227, 229, (230-232), 233-234, (235), 236-237, (238-240), 241.

Incl: Carmody, Russell; Carter family; Carter, Obediah; Harrod Place; Kent, Jeremy; Peabody, Benjamin; Witches' Hollow.

Old Dutchtown

New York. REH House (online text) 118-120, 128, 130.

Olde Bury'g Point

New England--Salem? HPL Case (online text) 194.

Old God

RB Faceless 39.

Synonym for: Nyarlathotep.

Older Gods

Synonym for Ancient Ones. AWD OutThere Mentioned in occult lore studied by Geoffrey Malvern and his friends.

Old Farmer's Almanac

AWD Whippoorwills 43.

old man

Manager or owner of the Stellar Brothers Circus [RB Elephant (online text) 39-44, 46-49, 51-52, 54].

Old Man of the Sea

RB Kiss (online text) 48.

Old Night

Associated with Zushakon. HK Bells (online text) 86.

Old Ones (1)

Crinoid beings who once inhabited Antarctica. See: Old Ones (1).

Old Ones (2)

Beings associated with Yog-Sothoth. Speaking of Wilbur Whateley's older brother, a spawn of Yog-Sothoth, Old Whateley said that "Only them from beyont kin make it multiply and work. . . . Only them, the old uns as wants to come back" [HPL Dunwich (online text) 167]. A long quote from the Necronomicon gives hints about the Old Ones. They have long existed; even now they live undimensioned and unseen, between the spaces we know. They have broken through to our world before and trodden earth's fields; they ruled here once, and will reign again. They have begotten offspring on humanity, but the appearance of such offspring varies from entirely human to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They are invisible to human eyes, but their foulness can be smelled. Yog-Sothoth is the gate or the keeper of the gate between the spheres, through which they will return [170]. 

Their form can perhaps be inferred from the brief glimpse that Curtis Whateley got of Wilbur's brother; See Yog-Sothoth.

Great Cthulhu is their cousin, yet he can spy them only dimly [170]. Perhaps the Old Ones represent a more alien mode of being than Cthulhu and his spawn? It is not clear whether the Old Ones are likely to be allies or  enemies of Cthulhu. Of the Old Ones, Alhazred says that "the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraven, but who hath seen... the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles" [170]. It may be implied that the Old Ones vanquished Cthulhu and left their seal on sunken R'lyeh to help keep him imprisoned. If this is true, then these might be the "One Ones" whose magic sign has power against the Deep Ones; See magic sign.

Old Ones (3)

Of K'n-yan. HPL Mound (online text) (97-98, 101, 103, 105, 108, 109), 117-118, original stock who peopled Earth as soon as the crust was fit to live on 131, great surface civilizations between glacial ages, esp. at South Pole near Mt. Kadath 131, traffic with upper world cut off 131, million or two years of cleavage 133.

Old Ones (4)

Synonym for: Ancient Ones (2). AWD Gable (online text) 213; Survivor (online text) 162.

Old Ones (5)

Synonym for: Great Old Ones (3). AWD Lair = Lloigor, Zhar and friends 132 & 133; Lurker =Great Old Ones? 60, 81, 83, 110, 133; Sky and immediate servitors 86.

Old Ones (6)

In Mt. Voormithadreth. CAS Coming (online text) subterrene, submarine, or supermundane dwellings 71, 79; Seven (online text) 50, 55.

Old Ones (7)

Synonym for: Elder Gods (1). AWD Lair = Elder Gods 126.

Old Ones (Misc)

Miscellaneous references:  

Arthur Feldon mentioned the term "Old Ones" in connection with a number of gods of apparently Native American mythology [HPL Electric (online text) 68]. Later he babbled of European pagan deities [70] and even "Cthulhutl" [74], so it is possible that for Feldon, "Old Ones" was an encompassing term for old and pagan deities of whatever tradition.  

Magic signs of the Old Ones provide protection against the Deep Ones [HPL Innsmouth (online text) 331, 333]. The paleogean magic of the Old Ones might sometimes check the Deep Ones, but could never destroy them [367]. 

George Rogers said that if Rhan-Tegoth dies, the Old Ones can never come back [HPL Museum (online text) 235].

RB Faceless 44; Mummy 285.

HC Pits A secret cult in Haiti worships deities called Old Ones. The deities include at least Tulu (Cthulhu), Nigguratl-Yig, Nug, Yeb, and Yig. While the cult resembles Vodun (Voodoo), the Old Ones are more ancient than most of the Voodoo gods and have long since been banned from African religions.

AWD Dweller 133 = Great Old Ones, 134, 151; Hastur = Elder Gods in this story, good guys 11, nameless and always stronger than Evil Ones 11; Whippoorwills 47.

REH Bear 36.

HK Bells (online text) 86; Salem (online text) Nyogtha a brother of 261.

FBL Gift: The Ice-Goddess Ythillin spoke of a group of beings called the Old Ones, which include at least Cthulhu, Yog-Sothoth, and the Hounds of Tindalos. The Old Ones lie dreaming and sway in a way that only seems mindless. "A day will come when the Old Ones will awaken and earth will quake with their unchained rage, for they were cast into outer darkness by an accident of Time. But that day is far in the future . . . " According to Ythillin, the Old Ones cannot be influenced by lesser beings such as humanity or the Ice Gods. But animals, when in peril, have an instinctive ability to make use of the power of the Old Ones, and to bend it to their purpose. In humans, the faculty of reason blocks this ability. After the warrior Ghor was given the gift of lycanthropy, Ythillin told him that he would be able to access the powers of the Old Ones whenever he was in his wolf form.

RFS Warder 164.

CAS Holiness (online text) 119, 134.

DW Lady (online text) 105.

Old People

A race of snake-like subterranean cave dwellers in Texas. REH Lost (76, description 77, had once been human 78, 79), 81-83, (84, poisonous 85), 86, (87), 90.

Compare with: Little People.

Old Square

Innsmouth HPL Innsmouth 324, 336.

Old Testament

Laban Shrewsbury quoted the Old Testament as evidence for the battle between the Elder Gods and the Great Old Ones [AWD Island]. The quote comes from Josuah 10:11 and 10:13. Here is the full passage:

11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. [King James Version]

Incl: Book of Job.

See: Bible.

Old Town of King Harold Haardrada

HPL Call (online text) 148.

Old Town Street.

RB Creeper (online text) 103.

Oligocene epoch

35-25 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 18.

Oliphant

Owner of the North End Warehouse and Storage Company, Boston. He inherited it from his uncle. He received anonymous phonecalls asking about Richard Upton's effects. He showed Simon Waverly the area where Upton's things had been stored. [RB Strange]

Oliver's grandfather

HPL Pickman (online text) 12.

Ollantaytambo

South America. AWD Curwen 10; Gorge 125.

Olmstead, Robert

Name for the Shadow Over Innsmouth narrator in Lovecraft's preliminary notes for the story. For further information, see The Descent of Robert Olmstead.

Olney Court

Providence. HPL Case (online text) 111, 117, 127, 148, 152-154, 156, 174-175, 203, 227.

Olney, Epenetus

Of Providence. HPL Case (online text) 152, 188.

Olney, Thomas

Kingsport; Narragansett Bay. HPL Mist (online text) 278-285

O'Malley, Father

HPL Haunter (online text) 98, 103.

Oman

AWD Keeper 148, 156, 171.

Ommiade Caliphs

HPL History (online text) 1.

Ompallios, Tirouv

Of Hyperborea. CAS Tale (online text) 3-5, (6-8), 9, 11, 16-17.

One Medicine Three-Hat

Indian man, of Cold Harbor. AWD Ithaqua 107.

One Over All

A name mentioned in the Invocations to Dagon, in the line "By all the depths of Y’ha-nthlei—and the dwellers thereof, for the One Over All". [AWD Island] In context, "One Over All" seems likely to be a reference to Cthulhu, though it conceivably could refer to Dagon.

Ones whom Solomon knew of old

HPL Diary (online text) 317.

On the Beam

A show that Eve Vernon sang in [RB Hell (online text) 39].

On the Sending Out of the Soul

[HK Hydra (online text)]: A pamphlet found by Robert Ludwig in swap shop in San Pedro, CA. It was about four by five inches, bound in coarse brown paper, and yellowed and crumbling with age. The printing—in Eighteenth Century type with the long S—was crudely done, and there was neither a date-line nor a publisher’s imprint. There were eight pages; seven of them filled with the usual banal sophisms of mysticism, and the eighth giving specific directions for projecting one’s astral to visit another person.

According to occultist Kenneth Scott, the pamphlet was printed in Salem in 1783. Scott had believed that there were no copies surviving. Scott said that the pamphlet is a trap, created by the worshippers of the Hydra to lure victims to their god. The experimenter, following the instructions, inhales the fumes of a drug and concentrates upon the person whom he wishes to visit. The Hydra, using the experimenter’s astral as a host, comes to earth and takes its prey—which is the person whom the experimenter was trying to visit. The experimenter is not harmed, but the other is taken by the Hydra for its own. The victim is doomed to eternal torment, except in certain unusual cases where he can maintain a psychic link with an earthly mind. When the booklets were first distributed, through secret underground channels, there was an epidemic of deaths in New England. Dozens of men and women were found headless, with no trace of any human murderer.

After Ludwig found the pamphlet, he and Paul Edmond began experiments that ultimately led to the death of Edmonds and the stranding of Ludwig and Scott in alien dimensions.

None of the local booksellers has heard of it, and Russell Hodgkins, California’s most noted bibliophile, declared that the title and the volume must have originated in the mind of the ill-fated Paul Edmond.

Onyx Sphinx Press

Arkham, Massachusetts. Publishers of Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Pickman Derby [FL Terror2 267].

Oonai

A place in dream, beyond the Karthian hills. HPL Iranon (online text) 111, 113-116.

Ooth-Nargai, Valley of

Where Celephaïs is. HPL Celephaïs (online text) 85-89; Kadath (online text) 309, 333, 338-339, 345, 352-353, 356.

AWD Lurker 134.

Opener of the Way

Synonym for Anubis. RB Opener 156-157, 160-161, 167.

openings

AWD Sky 68.

Ophiel

One of seven Olympian spirits "mentioned in several Renaissance and post-Renaissance books of ritual magic/ceremonial magic... Ophiel... 'commanded one hundred thousand legions of spirits'. He rules 14 provinces. His planet is Mercury." [Olympian Spirits, Wikipedia]

One of the Seven Stewards of Heaven, invoked in White Magic. [RB Hell (online text)]

Ophir

HPL Cats (online text) the cat is bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Ophir 55.

oppressor, the

A mysterious blazing being who had done a terrible wrong to Joe Slater's dream self, and which shook and laughed and mocked at him. Algol is the blinking beacon of the oppressor [HPL Sleep (online text) (27, 28), 34]

Orabona

Dark foreign attendent at Rogers' Museum. HPL Museum (online text) (218-219), 220-221, 223-227, 231-232, 234, 238-241.

Orange Hotel

Of High Street, Bloemfontein. HPL Winged (online text) 242, 260, 262.

Orange Point

Kingsport. HPL Festival (online text) 216.

Order of Dagon

Synonym for Esoteric Order of Dagon. AWD Clay 378.

Order of Dagon Hall

Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 320, 325, 339, 350.

AWD Shuttered 271; Sky 65, 74-75, (76), 80, 83-84.

Aka: Dagon Hall.

See also: Esoteric Order of Dagon.

Ord family

Of Texas. REH Lost 188.

Ord, Bill and Peter

Of Texas. REH Lost 65-79, 88-89.

Ordovician period

500-425 million years ago. HPL Mountains (online text) 18.

Oriab

Isle, in Southern Sea of dreamland. HPL Kadath (online text) 312-313, 315, 324-328, 332, 334, 345.

Orient

HPL Aeons (online text) burst of activity among Oriental religious cults 278.

RB Demon 65.

AWD Gorge 99; Seal (online text) 153.

Orient Shipping Company

HPL Aeons (online text) Cabot Museum acquired T'yog mummy from 265.

Orion

Constellation. AWD Island 182; Keeper 141; Lair 124, 126, 134; Lurker 106; Hastur 27, 32.

Oris, Om

RFS Casket mightiest of wizards 11; Mists 25.

Orkneys

Islands off Scotland. REH Gods (online text) 195, 213-218.

Incl: Brunhild; Thorfin, Rane.

Orme, Sir Edward

Of Dunwich. AWD Watchers 400.

Orne family

Family of Arkham and Innsmouth. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 363-364.

AWD Sky 64, 83-84.

Orne, Benjamin

Father of Eliza. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 362.

Orne, Eliza

Ancestor of Innsmouth narrator. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 362.

Orne, Granny

Of Kingsport. HPL Mist (online text) 279.

Orne, Jebediah

Letters. HPL Case (online text) 112, 138-139, 147, 149, 150-151, 157, 161, 195, 208.

Orne, Simon

Synonym for Orne, Jebediah, alias Nadek, Joseph. HPL Case (online text) 138, 149-151, address 152, Simon 162, Simon O. 194, 195-197, 203-204, 208, 222-223, 233.

Orne's Gangway

HPL WitchHouse (online text) 288.

Orrendorf

Miskatonic University Antarctic Expedition. HPL Mountains (online text) 20.

Orthodox Church of the Massachusetts Bay

RB Satan 6.

Orwell, George

Author. AWD Wood 82.

Osborn, Clem and Marie

Arkham area. AWD Whippoorwills 38, 54, farm 57, 58, 67-69.

Osborn, Jason

Of Dunwich. AWD Lurker 56, 72, 95, 97-99, 101.

Osborn, Joe

HPL Dunwich (online text) 191, 197.

Osborne, (Cousin) Frank

Cousin of Willie Osborne. RB Notebook (online text) 236-245, 248-249.

Osborne, Mehitabel

Salem witch; ancestor of Willie Osborne on father's side. RB Notebook (online text) 233.

Osborne, Willie

Nephew of Aunt Lucy and Uncle Fred; descendent of Mehitabel Osborne. RB Notebook (online text) (narrator) 231, 240, 243-244, 248.

Osborn's general store

The sole retail establishment in Dunwich, located in a broken-steepled former church. The proprietor in 1928 may have been Joe Osborn (the only Osborn who is specifically mentioned in the story). Wilbur Whateley used the telephone at the store once, and bought a cheap valise there before his first trip to Arkham. [HPL Dunwich (online text)]

The store was later run by Tobias Whateley. It is not clear whether the name of the store changed, or whether it ever had a formal name in the first place.

Osiris

"Osiris was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. He was one of the first to be associated with the mummy wrap. When his brother Set cut him up into pieces after killing him, Osiris' wife Isis found all the pieces and wrapped his body up, enabling him to return to life." [Osiris, Wikipedia]

Harry Houdini referred to Osiris as one of the deeper mysteries of primal Egypt. According to the Egyptians, the soul of the deceased was weighed by Osiris, and after approval dwelt in the land of the blest. Osiris also restored the deceased person's ka so it could wander the upper and lower worlds and receive offerings. [HPL Pyramids (online text)]

Captain Cartaret felt that the ghost of Osiris still lurked in the Egyptian desert. [RB Fane]

Osiris was depicted as one of the seven heads on a silver symbol in the tomb of the Master. [RB Opener]

According to Ludvig Prinn's Saracenic Rituals, Great Osiris is one of the Egyptian gods who were based on secret realities. [RB Sebek]

The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Osiris, King of the Dead. [RB Strange]

Oslo

Norway. HPL Call (online text) 148.

Ossadagowah

See article at Ossadagowah.

Osteolaemus

Genus of saurians. AWD Survivor (online text) 152.

Otaheité

An old name for Tahiti. HPL Innsmouth (online text) 329.

Other, the

See article at The Other.

Other Gods

See: Other Gods.

Ottawa

Canada. HPL Herbert (online text) 154.

Oukranos

R. Carter boyhood realm. HPL Gates (online text) 431, 440; Kadath (online text) 334, 348-349; Silver (online text) 408.

Outer Extension

HPL Gates (online text) 434.

Outer Ones

See: Outer Ones.

Outer Powers

HPL Man (online text) 209.

Out of the Old Land

Poem by Justin Geoffrey. A portion describes giant winged creatures with "mastodonic" hoofs. Since mastodons did not have hooves, the description probably simply implies hooves that are very large, possibly as large as an elephant's feet. The Thing on the Roof narrator prefixed a portion of Geoffrey's poem to his account. The narrator may have believed that the poem refers to creatures such as the hoofed, toad-like being worshipped at the Temple of the Toad in Honduras. [REH Roof (online text)]

Outsider narrator

HPL Outsider (online text) 46-52; lived in an ancient castle underground, with no memory of birth or upbringing 46-47; on escaping to the surface, discovered himself to be a monstrosity and recovered his memory 49-52; mentions "those who are still men" - perhaps was human once himself 52; thereafter haunts varous Egyptian settings, incl. catacombs of Nephren-Ka, rock tombs of Neb, feasts beneath the Great Pyramid 52.

Dustjacket Illustration for The Outsider and OthersOutsider and Others, The

By H. P. Lovecraft. "The Outsider and Others is a collection of stories by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was released in 1939 and was the first book published by Arkham House. 1,268 copies were printed. It went out of print early in 1944 and has never been reprinted." [The Outsider and Others, Wikipedia, retrieved 06/24/2024]

Josiah Alwyn had a copy (with no dustjacket), and Tony Alwyn had also read it. Tony Alwyn found that the mythology so clearly put down in The Outsider and Others was even more horribly narrated in the Pnakotic Manuscripts, the R’lyeh Text, and the terrible Necronomicon. Further, he thought this mythology was related to the disappearance of two residents of Nelson, Manitoba, and a constable of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. [AWD Beyond2; c.f. AWD Wind (online text)]

Upton Gardner ordered a copy of The Outsider and Others, which he believed would complement his study of the Necronomicon, the Pnakotic Manuscripts, and the R’lyeh Text. Sadly, The Outsider and Others arrived after Gardner's disappearance, but Jack found parallels between the book and notes that Gardner had already written. [AWD Dweller]

Out There

HH Guardian 296: A transdimensional place, realm of the Evil Ones (2).

Oxford

England. HPL Descendant (online text) attended by Lord Northam.

AWD OutThere Soames Hemery, Geoffrey Malvern, Duncan Vernon were among a group of five students sent down after a scandal arising from their sorcerous practices.

Incl. Hemery, Soames; Malvern, Geoffrey; Northam, Lord; Vernon, Duncan.

Oxford-Field Museum Expedition

HPL Mountains (online text) 42.

Oxus

A river? HPL Nameless (online text) 103.

Ozarks

HPL Yig (online text) 84.

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