He is the so-called " Mad Arab " credited with authoring the imaginary book Kitab al-Azif ( the Necronomicon ), and as such is an integral part of Cthulhu Mythos lore.

A reference to the " Mad Arab " in Cthulhu Mythos fiction is invariably a synonym for Abdul Alhazred.

Like his creation the Necronomicon, Alhazred is often referenced in works that are not generally considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos, either as a subtle nod to Lovecraft or to create a connection to his world.

Category: Mortals in the Cthulhu Mythos

Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos.

The range of times and places in which the horrors of the Mythos can be encountered was also expanded in late 2005 onwards with the addition of Cthulhu Dark Ages by Stéphane Gesbert, which gives a framework for playing games set in eleventh-century Europe, Secrets of Japan by Michael Dziesinski for gaming in modern day Japan, and Secrets of Kenya by David Conyers for gaming in interwar period Africa.

The d20 system also made it possible to use Dungeons & Dragons characters in Call of Cthulhu, as well as to introduce the Cthulhu Mythos into Dungeons & Dragons games.

Mythos was a collectible card game ( CCG ) based on the Cthulhu Mythos that Chaosium produced and marketed during the mid-1990s.

* Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game-CCG based on the Cthulhu Mythos and the Chaosium pulp horror setting.

* Yog-Sothoth, A CoC fansite with a mostly-complete listing of all products produced for the game and a Cthulhu Mythos wiki.

Category: Cthulhu Mythos games

Robert M. Price described in his essay " H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos " two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos.

The first stage, termed the " Cthulhu Mythos proper " by Price, was formulated during Lovecraft's lifetime and was subject to his guidance.

Lovecraft himself humorously referred to his mythos as " Yog Sothothery " ( Mosig coincidentally suggested the term Yog-Sothoth Cycle of Myth be substituted for Cthulhu Mythos ) and at times had to remind readers his mythos creations were entirely fictional.

Many of Howard's original unedited Conan stories also form part of the Cthulhu Mythos.

— August Derleth, " The Cthulhu Mythos "

Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, partially inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation ( from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature ) that " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Call of Cthulhu has a reputation as a game in which it is quite common for a player character to die in gruesome circumstances or end up in a mental institution.

Call of Cthulhu does not use levels, but is completely skill-based, with player characters getting better with their skills by succeeding at them.

Shadows of Yog-Sothoth is important not only because it represents the first published addition to the boxed first edition of Call of Cthulhu, but because its format defined a new way of approaching a campaign of linked RPG scenarios involving actual clues for the would-be detectives amongst the players to follow and link in order to uncover the dastardly plots afoot.

Call of Cthulhu differs from Trail of Cthulhu in that Trail of Cthulhu's system is more mystery oriented and focuses mostly on interpreting clues.

Call of Cthulhu, the Living Card Game is a second collectible card game ; currently it is produced by Fantasy Flight Games.

Chaosium is the publisher of Call of Cthulhu, based on the stories of H. P.

In " The Call of Cthulhu ", Lovecraft's characters encounter architecture which is " abnormal, non-Euclidian, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours ".

This took on a dark tone with the creation of what is today often called the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of alien extra-dimensional deities and horrors which predate humanity, and which are hinted at in aeon-old myths and legends.

* Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos ( ISBN 0-586-04166-4 ), written by Lin Carter in 1972, is a survey of Lovecraft's work ( along with that of other members of the Lovecraft Circle ) with considerable information on his life.

* The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos by S. T. Joshi ( Mythos Books, 2008 ) is the first full-length critical study since Lin Carter's to examine the development of Lovecraft's Mythos and its outworking in the oeuvres of various modern writers.

The premise is that you play one of the Illuminati groups ( the Adepts of Hermes, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Bermuda Triangle, the Discordian Society, the Gnomes of Zürich, The Network, the Servants of Cthulhu, Shangri-La, and the UFOs ) bent on world domination.

Author H. P. Lovecraft is alluded to often, with many mentions of characters ( e. g., Robert Harrison Blake, Henry Armitage, Klarkash-Ton ), monsters ( e. g., Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth ), books ( Necronomicon, Unaussprechlichen Kulten ) and places ( Miskatonic University ) from his Cthulhu Mythos.

Lovecraft's celebrated short story, The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), the titular entity emerges from the vast and ancient alien city of R ' lyeh, which is described in terms of " non-Euclidean geometry " and contains angles which are " all wrong " ( appearing acute but behaving as if obtuse, for example ) and planes which could be horizontal or slanted depending on how the observer looks at them.

After his death, many writers have contributed stories and enriched the shared mythology of the Cthulhu Mythos, as well as making numerous references to his work.

Tsathoggua ( the Sleeper of N ' kai ) is a fictional supernatural entity in the Cthulhu Mythos shared fictional universe.

" Crouch End " is written in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, referencing the shared body of lore invented by H. P. Lovecraft and other writers.

There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon " – from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).

R ' lyeh is a fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928.

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity who first appeared in the short story " The Call of Cthulhu ", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

The character is commonly known in association with its role as a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe, where it is known as the Crawling Chaos.

Arkham is a fictional city in Massachusetts, part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft and is featured in many of his stories, as well as those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.

Cthugha is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction, the creation of August Derleth.

Glaaki is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos.

The Pnakotic Manuscripts ( or Pnakotic Fragments ) is a fictional manuscript in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Yog-Sothoth is a cosmic entity in the fictional Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Cthylla ( the Secret Daughter of Cthulhu ) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

Ancient astronaut theory has been used as background or main topic in many fictional works such as Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), the movie Stargate ( 1994 ), the movie Knowing ( 2009 ), the movie Prometheus ( 2012 ), the TV show Earth: Final Conflict, and innumerable comic books, manga books and video games.

Yuggoth ( or Iukkoth ) is a fictional planet in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

* Esoteric Order of Dagon, a fictional cult in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft

Nightgaunts ( also Night-Gaunt or night-gaunt ) are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

The Elder Things ( also known as the Old Ones and Elder Ones ) are fictional extraterrestrials in the Cthulhu Mythos.

Lomar is a fictional land in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first mentioned in his short story " Polaris " ( 1918 ).

Innsmouth, Massachusetts is a fictional town in the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Lovecraft Country setting of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Leng ( or Y ' Pawfrm e ' din Leng ) is a fictional cold arid plateau in the Cthulhu Mythos, whose location seems to vary entirely from story to story.

A Hunting Horror is a fictional monster in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.