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• Cthulhu Mythos Timeline
  15 billion years ago: The universe is created in the Big Bang. According to some, Azathoth may be responsible for this. (Sci Shortly after the rise of Earthen life, Tsathoggua arrives. He settles in the dark gulf of N'kai. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)
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• Occult Books
  ...y real-world) are often mentioned side-by-side with fictional Mythos Tomes in work by Lovecraft and others. ..., element system, and the correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm. In its several Western recensions, the Tablet became a mainstay of medieval an
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• Cthulhu Mythos
  [[Image:cthulhu.jpg|thumb|Cthulhu in R'lyeh]] ...rs influenced by him. Together, they form the mythos that authors, writing in the Lovecraftian [[wikt:milieu|milieu]], have used—and continue to us
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• Edgar Allan Poe
  ...hort story and a progenitor of detective fiction, as well as crime fiction in the United States. Poe died at the age of 40, the cause of his death a fina ...gar Allan Poe is found at the University of Virginia, where he dropped out in 1826 due to gambling away his tuition funds.]]
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• The Dunwich Horror (fiction)
  ...les]]'' (pp. 481-508). It takes place in [[Dunwich]], a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. ...Massachusetts. (Lovecraft, letter to August Derleth, August 4, 1928, cited in Joshi, p. 101). (One such legend is the notion that whippoorwills can captu
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• H.P. Lovecraft
  ...ve become quite important and influential among writers and fans of horror fiction. ..., where he was on a business trip, and was brought back to Butler Hospital in Providence, where he remained for the rest of his life. His affliction was
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• Arkham
  ...sachusetts. The town is the creation of [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and is featured in many of his stories. ==Arkham in Lovecraft's fiction==
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• Lovecraft Country
  ...(See "[[Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)]]", "[[Dreams in the Witch House (fiction)]]"). ...wn, [[Innsmouth]], one would have a list of the most significant locations in Lovecraft Country.
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• Dunwich
  ...929]]). Dunwich is found in the fictional [[Miskatonic River]] Valley of [[Massachusetts]], part of the imaginary region sometimes called [[Lovecraft Country]]. The ...ich also appears in [[Arthur Machen]]'s [[novella]] ''The Terror'' ([[1917 in literature|1917]]), which Lovecraft is known to have read.
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• Miskatonic University (Location)
  ...ated in the equally fictional [[Arkham]], Massachusetts. It was introduced in the stories of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. ====[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)|Pabodie Expedition]]====
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• At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)
  ...h and April 1936 issues ''[[Astounding Stories]]''. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. ...1887 book ''The Frozen Pirate'', Lovecraft had written "several yarns" set in Antarctica.<ref>Joshi and Schultz, p. 132.</ref>
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• More Adventures in Arkham Country
  [[Image:More Adventures in Arkham Country.jpg|thumb|''Front Cover'']] ...e resort of Kingsport, in the depressed farming community of Foxfield, and in the decrepit squalor of Innsmouth, things are far from fine.
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• Dean's Corners
  Origin: "[[The Dunwich Horror fiction (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] ==In the Mythos==
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• Bleak Prospect
  '''Setting:''' [[1930s]] [[Crawley]], [[Massachusetts]] '''Appears in:''' [[Nameless Horrors (Supplement)]]
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• Esoteric Order of Dagon
  ...d elsewhere before Obed Marsh discovered it and founded the modern version in the 1830s. ...al and social lives of the folk of Innsmouth, reaching its height of power in that town by October, 1926, when intervention from the United States govern
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• City of the Dead (1960 film)
  ...to stay at a creepy hotel in his home town of witch-haunted [[Whitewood]], Massachusetts, where she discovers the professor's hidden cult of undying witches. Aside from some creepy, misty atmosphere in a fictional small town in rural Massachusetts, a witch-cult, and a couple nondescript old treatises on witchcraft, there'
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• Arkham Unveiled
  ...ecraft's [[The Dunwich Horror (fiction)]] and [[The Whisperer in Darkness (fiction)]]. ...Pertinent buildings, useful people, and important locations are described in depth.
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• 1921
  | in?= ...iversity of California]] defeats [[Ohio State University|Ohio State]] 28-0 in the [[Rose Bowl Game|Rose Bowl]].
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• Session 9 (2001 film)
  ....jpg|thumb|200px|right|Alternate personalities listed for a mental patient in ''Session 9 (2001 film)''...]] ...is a place". Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming b
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• Daemonigraphia
  ...ing witches and demons is fairly conventional for this sort of volume, and in many cases based on false conjecture or sheer fantasy, this particular tome ...were printed and distributed in the late 17th Century in or around Salem, Massachusetts, consequent with the Witch Trials)
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