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File talk:Churchwood's interpretations of the Nacaal Glyphs.PNG

2009-02-07T18:58:36Z

Evans:

Sorry the sumary is ment to read ''A small chart showing some of James Churchwood's interpretations of what the Nacaal Glyphs look like. It comes from a book called The Sacred Symbols of Mu which is public domain due to the copyright forms being filled in incorectly'',

Naacal

2009-02-07T18:57:11Z

Evans: Added a picture

[[Image:Churchwood's_interpretations_of_the_Nacaal_Glyphs.PNG|thumb|''Churchwood's interpretations of the Nacaal Glyphs'']]
The Nacaal language is a fictional language system which was first suggested by Mayan scholar Augustus Le Plongeon. [[H.P. Lovecraft]] used the Nacaal language in a number of his stories, most notably [[Out of Aeons]].
==Description==
The Naacal language and its script were used by the early human inhabitants of the continent of [[Mu]] over 173,000 years ago. The letters are slightly similar in appearance to certain mesoamerican language systems. Some scholars have suggested that occasional similarities between Naacal and Mayan script are not coincidental. The occultist Harley Warren was supposedly an expert in deciphering and reading Naacal script.

==Examples==
The most notable examples are the [[Zanthu Tablets]] stored in the vaults of the Sanborne Institute for Pacific Studies and Captain Abner Exekiel Hoag's original palm leaf version of the Ponape Scripture. The Cabot Museum in Boston held a peculiar scroll which may be written in Naacal though it has vanished from the public eye after the 1932 scandal.

The [[Nameless Cults|Unaussprechlichen Kulten]] contains a key to deciphering Nacaal script and a rudimentary dictionary of Naacal phrases. Colonel James Churchward planned to release a monograph on prehuman languages called the Nacaal Key but it is unknown if it was ever published.

== External links ==
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Le_Plongeon
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Churchward
[[Category:Mythos:Languages|Nacaal]]

File:Churchwood's interpretations of the Nacaal Glyphs.PNG

2009-02-07T18:52:41Z

Evans: A small chart showing some of James Churchwood's interpretations of what the Nacaal Glyphs look like. It comes from a book called The Sacred Symbols of Mu which is public domain due to the copyright

A small chart showing some of James Churchwood's interpretations of what the Nacaal Glyphs look like. It comes from a book called The Sacred Symbols of Mu which is public domain due to the copyright

Category:Great Old Ones

2009-02-02T14:34:49Z

Evans: Adding a few more

{{CategoryHelper|Great Old Ones}}

==TODO==
The articles need to be completed. Once completed, remove from this list; make sure to add the category to the page.

[[Aphoom-Zhah]]

[[Bugg-Shash]]

[[Byatis]]

[[Chaugnar Faugn]]

[[Daoloth]]

[[Eihort]]

[[Glaaki]]

[[Iod]]

[[Ithaqua]]

[[Nug and Yeb]]

[[Nyogtha]]

[[Rhan-Tegoth]]

[[Tsathoggua]]

[[Y'golonac]]

[[Yibb-Tstll]]

[[Yig]]

[[Zhar and Lloigor]]

[[Category:Mythos:Entities]]

Cultes des Goules

2009-01-30T18:54:33Z

Evans: Adeed stats

The ''Cultes des Goules'' is the title of a fictional book created by [[Robert Bloch]]. Both [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[August Derleth]] have claimed to have been the books creater.
==Description==
TO DO
==Contents==
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==Original French Version==
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==Expurged French Version==
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==Itlatian Translation==
TO DO
==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Original French Version'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/1D4; Cthulhu Mythos +12 Percent. Average 22 weeks to study and comprehend/ 48 hours to skim.

; ''Expurged French Version'' : Sanity Loss 1D8/1D4; Cthulhu Mythos +10 Percent. Average 17 weeks to study and comprehend/ 34 hours to skim.

; ''Itlatian Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D8/1D4; Cthulhu Mythos +9 Percent. Average 15 weeks to study and comprehend/30 hours to skim.
[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|Cultes des Goules]]

Cultes des Goules

2009-01-27T17:34:07Z

Evans: Prepairing article

The ''Cultes des Goules'' is the title of a fictional book created by [[Robert Bloch]]. Both [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[August Derleth]] have claimed to have been the books creater.
==Description==
TO DO
==Contents==
TO DO
==Original French Version==
TO DO
==Expurged French Version==
TO DO
==Itlatian Translation==
TO DO
==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Original French Version'' : Sanity Loss D/1D; Cthulhu Mythos + Percent. Average weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Expurged French Version'' : Sanity Loss ?/?; Cthulhu Mythos + Percent. Average ? weeks to study and comprehend/ ?hours to skim.

; ''Itlatian Translation'' : Sanity Loss D/D; Cthulhu Mythos + Percent. Average weeks to study and comprehend/? hours to skim.
[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|Cultes des Goules]]

Category:Mythos:Tomes

2009-01-27T17:21:47Z

Evans: Added the Cultes des Goules

These are the tomes of the Mythos.

{{CategoryHelper|Mythos:Tomes}}
==TODO==
The articles need to be completed. Once completed, remove from this list; make sure to add the category to the page.

[[Book of Iod]]

[[Eltdown Shards]]

[[Cultes des Goules]]

[[G'harne Fragments]]

[[The King in Yellow (play)]]

[[Nyhargo Codex]]

[[Pnakotic Manuscripts]]

[[Testament of Carnamagos]]

[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos|Tomes]]

Eibon

2009-01-22T22:43:56Z

Evans: forgott to link to his book!

Eibon is a fictional sorcerer created by Clark Ashton Smith. He first appeared in the short story; [[Doorway to Saturn]]
==Personality==
Little is known about Eibon's personality. He was reputed to be a capable judge and law giver. He was allso found of poetry and sculpture though non of this survive.

==Biography==
The book of Eibon is work of the legendary magician and sage Eibon. Eibon lived towards the beginning of the later part of the Hyperborean age. His family died when he was very young but the necromancer Zylac took Eibon on as his prodigy after noticing the child allready growing enthusiasm for the magical arts.

After Zylac's death via a magical accident Eibon left his house and became a wander. He traveled the length and pretth of Hyperborea learning the secrets of the Voormi Shamans (a race many considered mindless at that time), the astrologers of the southern lands and the half mad wizard who dwelt on the slopes of [[Mount Vormadtih]]. It was during this period of time when Eibon first embraced the worship of the ancient god [[Tsathoggua]]

Eventually Eibon settled in the northern province of [[Mhu Thulan]] and built himself a tower from which he could survey the entire land of Hyperborea on the horizon. By this time Eibon had become re known as both a mighty sorcerer and venerable sage. Many sorcerers and other students of the magical arts travveled to Mhu Thulan to seek his wisdom. Even the kings of Hyperborea themselves would ocasionaly travel there to seek Eibon's council.

Throughout his life Eibon trained many others in the magic he had learnt. However the moods and political climate of Hyperborea changed over the years and the toad god Tsathoggua (Eibon's patron deity) feel out of favor. Eventualy threat of imminent execution by the priesthood of Yhounde forced Eibon to flee into the Dreamlands of Saturn using a magical gate given to him by Tsathoggua. His aprentice collected his notes, diaries and correspondence and produced a voloume known as [[The Book of Eibon]].

[[Category:Mythos:Characters|Eibon]]

Necronomicon

2009-01-19T17:01:31Z

Evans: Ahh that explains why the link was'nt working

The ''Necronomicon'' is the title of a fictional book created by [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. Numerous other authors including [[Clark Ashton Smith]], [[Brian Lumley]], [[Ramsey Campbell]] and [[Keith Herber]] have added to its contents over the years.
==Description==
The Kitab al Azif (original Arabic title of the Necronomicon) was written in the early 8th century by [[Abdul Alhazred]]. Alhazred was a poet in the court of a minor nobleman in the city of Sanaá. For reasons unknown he left the city and spent ten years wandering in the deserts. During this time he visited places such as [[Irim]]; City of the Pillars, the catacombs of Egypt and the temple of [[Nug and Yeb]] in the Crimson Desert. In his old age Alhazred lived in the great city of Damascus, where he produced the Kitab al Azif. In the long years that followed many translations of this great work have been made.

==Contents==
Alhazred's knoweldge is so extensive and wide ranging that describing all the al Azif's contents in such a short space would be nigh on impossible. However, I shall endeavour to give a short list of samples (note: there are many more spells I haven't listed).

*A section that mentions creatures beyond the threshold of space such as the [[Tomb Herd]].

*A description of the powers the Other Name of Azathoth gives the wielder (but not the name itself).

*Information on the [[Gulf of S'glhuo]].

*A chapter on a complicated and lengthy process capable of resurrecting the dead.

*A formula for temporarily banishing manifestations of [[Ahtu]].

*Page 984 contains a passage in the [[Naacal]], no translation is given.

*The Zoan Chant; a spell for reflected harmful powers sent against the caster.

*Stories about a [[Ghoul]].

*A formula for [[Mind Transference]].

*Instructions on how to make the [[Powder of Ibn Ghazi]].

*A foot note containing an untitled formula capable of opening a gateway to [[Cthugha]].

*A passage about the [[Crawling Ones]] and the Green Flame [[Tulzscha]].

*Page 751 contains a long chant capable of summoning [[Yog-Sothoth]] is used at the right time.

*Information on the Black Pharaoh [[Nephren-Ka]].

*A large amount of information on the Antarctic [[Elder Things]].

*Information on an ancient aquatic race Alhazred terms the [[Dwellers in the Depths]]. This page also features an astrological chart.

* Page 224 contains the [[Hoy-Dhin Chant]].

* Instructions on how to destroy an egg of [[Yig]] using a combination of musical notes.

*An illustration of the [[Furnace of Nug]].

*A prophecy foretelling the rebirth of the high priest [[Nophru Ka]].

* A chapter on [[Umr-At-Tawil]] and the ultimate gate.

==Quotes==
Here follows a small selection of quotes from various translations of the Necronomicon:

''And it was dreamed again of the priest Nophra-Ka and of the words he spake at his death, how the son would rise to claim the title, and the son would rule the world in his father’s name, and the son would revenge his father’s murder, and the son would call the Beast that is worshipped, and the sands would drink the blood of the seed of the Pharaoh. In this manner did Nophra-Ka prophecy.'' Excerpt from the Kitab al Azif.

''...Verily do we know little of the other universes beyond the gate which YOG-SOTHOTH guards. Of those which come through the gate and make their habitation in this world none can tell; although Ibn Schacabao tells of the beings which crawl from the Gulf of S'ghlhuo that they may be known by their sound. In that Gulf the very worlds are of sound, and matter is known but as an odor; and the notes of our pipes in this world may create beauty or bring forth abominations in S'glhuo. For the barrier between haply grows thin, and when sourceless sounds occur we may justly look to the denizens of S'glhuo. They can do little harm to those of Earth, and fear only that shape which a certain sound may form in their universe...'' Translated from the Latin version.

''...Men know him as the Dweller in Darkness, that brother of the Old Ones called Nyogtha, the Thing that should not be. He can be summoned to Earth's surface through certain secret caverns and fissures, and sorcerers have seen him in Syria and below the black tower of Leng: from the Thang Grotto of Tartary he has come ravening to bring terror and destruction among the pavilions of the great Khan. Only by the looped cross, by the Vach-Viraj incantation, and by the Tikkoun elixir may he be driven back to the nighted caverns of hidden foulness where he dwelleth...'' Translated from the Latin version.

''. . . from the space which is not space, into any time when the Words are spoken, can the holder of the Knowledge summon The Black, blood of YibbTstll, that which liveth apart from him and eateth souls, that which smothers and is called Drowner. Only in water can one escape the drowning; that which is in water drowneth not . . . ''Translated from the Latin version.

''Nor is it to be thought that man is either the oldest or the last of earth's masters, or that the common bulk of life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them, they walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They had trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread. By Their smell can men sometimes know Them near, but of Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man's truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them. They walk unseen and foul in lonely places where the Words have been spoken and the Rites howled through at their Seasons. The wind gibbers with Their voices, and the earth mutters with Their consciousness. They bend the forest and crush the city, yet may not forest or city behold the hand that smites. Kadath in the cold waste hath known Them, and what man knows Kadath? The ice desert of the South and the sunken isles of Ocean hold stones whereon Their seal is engraver, but who hath seen the deep frozen city or the sealed tower long garlanded with seaweed and barnacles? Great Cthulhu is Their cousin, yet can he spy Them only dimly. Iä! Shub-Niggurath! As a foulness shall ye know Them. Their hand is at your throats, yet ye see Them not; and Their habitation is even one with your guarded threshold. Yog-Sothoth is the key to the gate, whereby the spheres meet. Man rules now where They ruled once; They shall soon rule where man rules now. After summer is winter, after winter summer. They wait patient and potent, for here shall They reign again.'' Translated from the Latin version.

== Kitab al Azif==
The Arabic manuscripts are faithful reproductions of Abdul al Alhazred 's original. These version are written upon scrolls and preserved in codices. All in all its contents total over one thousand pages complete with star charts, formula tables and astrological maps.

==Greek Translation==
In 950 AD [[Theodore Philétas]] of Constantinople made a Greek translation of the Kitab al Azif. This volume was named the Necronomicon after its opening words. Despite a few errors Philétas's reproductions of the book's charts and tables are faithful to Alhazred 's original illustrations. In 1050 the Patriarch Michel had many of copies of the book burnt.

Sometime between 1501 and 1550 the Italian Aldus Manutius commissioned the printing of around one hundred folio sized copies of Philétas's Greek translation.

Interestingly, the Greek translation contains a spell not present in the original. It is a formula used to open a Gate under Memphis through which the black sphinx; one of the million favoured ones, may enter the world. It is unknown whether Philétas added this spell of his own accord or if it had been added to his Arabic version by a previous owner.

== Latin Translation ==
A Latin translation of Philétas's Greek version was made in 1228 by a Dominican monk named [[Olaus Wormius]] (no relation to the 16th century Danish physician Ole Worm). Unfortunately Wormius's beautifully stylised illustrations robbed many of the star charts of their accuracy. This edition was widely printed up until Pope Gregory IX
outlawed it, after which many copies were destroyed.

The Latin translation was reprinted in 1477 by a German publisher. The production was printed in black letter and a number of woodcuts were added.

Another reprint was made in Spain during the year of 1662. Both this and the above version were 802 page long folios.

==English “Dee” Translation ==
While staying at the home of a [[Baron Hauptman]] the famed occultist [[Doctor John Dee]] made an English translation from Hauptman's Greek copy. Dee's translation is garbled and in many places he has changed outright the meaning of certain things to fit with in his own Enochian beliefs. Never the less, his translations of many of the spells remains accurate. This version exists only in manuscript form.

==The Sussex Manuscript ==
Baron Frederic of Sussex produced a supposed translation in illuminated manuscript form. This translation is rife with inaccuracies and fanciful ideas added by the author. It contains such outlandish misconceptions as [[Cthulhu]] being a manifestation of [[Nyarlathotep]], and [[Abhoth]] having created the solar system. Although this "translation" is commonly called The Sussex Manuscript its proper title is Cultus Maleficarum.

== Das Verichteraraberbuch==
Doctor [[Friedrich Wilhelm von Junz]] made a translation from an unknown Greek copy. This translation may have been published eight years after his death 1840 but I have been unable to track down any further details.

== Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Necronomicon==
In 1901 the noted occultist [[ Joachim Ferry]] produced a pamphlet on the book. It is mostly made up of translated quotes from the Latin version, augmented by pages of notes and speculation on their meaning. The accuracy of this publication was called into question when Ferry freely admitted including excerpts from his own dreams.

==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Kitab al Azif'' : Sanity Loss 2D10/1D10; Cthulhu Mythos +18 Percent. Average 68 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Gothic Translation'' : Sanity Loss ?/?; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average ? weeks to study and comprehend/ ?hours to skim.

; ''Greek Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +17 Percent. Average 68 weeks to study and comprehend/? hours to skim.

; '' Latin Translation '' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average 66 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''English “Dee” Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D10/2D10; Cthulhu Mythos +15 Percent. Average 50 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''The Sussex Manuscript'' : Sanity Loss D/D; Cthulhu Mythos + Percent. Average weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; ''Das Verichteraraberbuch'' : Sanity Loss 2D10/1D10; Cthulhu Mythos +16 Percent. Average 66 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

; '' Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Necronomicon'' : Sanity Loss 1D6/1D3; Cthulhu Mythos +6 Percent. Average 8 weeks to study and comprehend/ hours to skim.

==links ==
[[Necronomicon Hoaxes]] 
[[The Necronomicon in Popular Culture]] 
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Necronomicon
[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|Necronomicon]]

S'glhuo

2009-01-19T16:59:33Z

Evans: S'glhuo moved to Gulf of S'glhuo: Just altering to suit another link

#REDIRECT [[Gulf of S'glhuo]]

Gulf of S'glhuo

2009-01-19T16:59:33Z

Evans: S'glhuo moved to Gulf of S'glhuo: Just altering to suit another link

S'glhuo is a fictional dimension which first appeared in [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s short story ''"The Plain of Sound" ''.
==Description==
S'glhuo is another dimension that only exists in our dimension as sound. In certain places, such as the plain in the Severn Valley, the dimension overlaps into our own, creating the effect of walking through jelly. Sounds from our world correspond to objects in S'glhuo, and sounds in our world can create things both living and non-living in S'glhuo. The location in the Severn Valley corresponds to a city of pillars on a planet composed of sound. It is implied there are other planets made of sound in S'glhuo and that the dimension is home to [[Tru'Nembra]], an Outer God made from pure sound. In S'glhuo, our dimension is only perceptible as odour. Details on S'glhuo are given in the [[Revelations of Glaaki]], along with a plans for a machine to contact the S'ghluoans.

== Inhabitants ==
It is not known if the blue skinned reptilians that live near the Severn Valley are the only type of S'glhoans, but it is likely that the dimension is home to other life forms. The denizens of S'glhuo may be friendly or hostile, but seem to have knowledge of both advanced science and the Mythos. In their own world they are blue skinned, tall, boneless reptiods, but in ours they are beings of pure sound.
[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]

Al Azif

2009-01-19T13:54:35Z

Evans:

#REDIRECT [[Necronomicon]]

Category:Mythos:Tomes

2009-01-19T13:17:56Z

Evans: ticking off the Cthäat Aquadingen

These are the tomes of the Mythos.

{{CategoryHelper|Mythos:Tomes}}
==TODO==
The articles need to be completed. Once completed, remove from this list; make sure to add the category to the page.

[[Book of Iod]]

[[Eltdown Shards]]

[[G'harne Fragments]]

[[The King in Yellow (play)]]

[[Nyhargo Codex]]

[[Pnakotic Manuscripts]]

[[Testament of Carnamagos]]

[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos|Tomes]]

Cthäat Aquadingen

2009-01-18T17:32:35Z

Evans:

The Cthäat Aquadingen is the title of a fictional book created by [[Brian Lumley]]. It first appeared in the short story ''The Caller of the Black''. It also featured heavily in ''The Horror at Oakdeene'' and ''The House of the Temple''.

==Description==
The Cthäat Aquadingen is the work of author or authors unknown. It first came to light during the fourth century in Northern Europe. The first copies were written in a mixture of the now extinct Gothic Language and a strange [[R'lyeh Glyphs|dot-like script]].
A Latin translation was made in the twelfth century. Through out the ages numerous personal translations have been made in languages such English, French and even Hindi.

The contents of the Codex Maleficum, the Codex Dagonensis and the Codex Spitalski may have been derived from the Cthäat Aquadingen.
==Contents==
The Cthäat Aquadingen deals primarily with the raising and putting down of water spirits. As well as [[Deep Ones]], [[Zoth-Ommog]] and the [[Star Spawn]] of [[Cthulhu]] it also mentions more obscure beings such as [[Othuum]]. Other contents include: a paragraph on [[Elder Sign|the creation of a certain sign]], four pages of rituals pertaining to the Great Old One [[Tsathoggua]], the Third and [[The Sixth Sathlattae]], and the words of the [[Nyhargo Dirge]].

The book talks at some length about [[Bugg-Shash]] and [[Yibb-Tstll]], two entities which it terms Drowners.

==Original version==
This version was written part in Gothic and part in [[R'lyeh Glyphs]]. All copies of this version are presumed lost.
==Latin Translation==
The Latin translation made during the 12th century. Most copies are preserved in folio style. This version is over seven hundred pages long.
==Hindi Translation==
This possible unique translation contains additional information on the [[Small Crawler]] avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]].
==Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Cthäat Aquadingen ==
The noted occultist Joachim Ferry produced a collection of annotated quotes from the Cthäat Aquadingen in 1930. It seems considerably more uncommon than the author's Notes on the Necronomicon.
==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Original Version '' : Sanity Loss 1D8/2D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 14 Percent. Average 52 weeks to study and comprehend/106 hours to skim.

; ''Latin Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D8/2D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 13 Percent. Average 46 weeks to study and comprehend/92 hours to skim.

; ''"Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Cthäat Aquadingen'' : Sanity Loss 1D4/1D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 6 Percent. Average 8 weeks to study and comprehend/16 hours to skim.

A player who sucessfuly studies any complete edition of the Cthäat Aquadingen gains skill checks in Anthropology, Natural History and Occult.
[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|Cthäat Aquadingen]]

The Barrier of Naath-Tith

2009-01-17T12:26:21Z

Evans:

The Barrier of Naath-Tith is a fictional incantation which first appeared [[Brian Lumley]]'s Dylath-Leen. It features heavily in another of his short stories The Horror at Oakdeene.
==Description==
The Barrier of Naath-Tith (allso known as the Wall of Naach-Tith or Naath-Tith's Barrier) is a powerful formula which may be used to create a barrier to build an invisible forcefield of great strength.
As well as being used to create protective fields the barrier can also be used as a temporary means of imprisoning an entity. It has even proven capable of holding a [[Great Old One]] captive on several occasions. Casters should be careful least the Barrier prove a prison as well as a safe guard.

I have been unable to find more than the first few words of the formula used to create this barrier. The words are as follows

''Lethiktros Themiel, phitrithte klep-thos'' -From the [[Cthäat Aquadingen]] - remaining text is corrupt and illegible.

This formula is often employed by the summoners of [[Yibb-Tstll]] to protect those within from the god's possible displeasure. For this reason the Barrier is referred to as Soul Sealing in a number of magical texts (the English Book of Eibon mistranslates this as Soul Searing).

==Locations==
The words required to raise the barrier are relatively obscure and may prove hard for the enterprising sorcerer. The Latin translation of the Cthaat Aquadingen mentions the spell but only in passing. Most copies of the [[The Book of Eibon|Liber Ivonis]] contain the correct formula though it is missing from the English Translation.

The spell may also be found in Chapter Ten of the [[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]]
[[Category:Mythos:Rituals|Barrier of Naath-Tith]]

Cthäat Aquadingen

2009-01-17T12:24:39Z

Evans: In honour of the recent interveiw I bring you ... The Cthäat Aquadingen!

The Cthäat Aquadingen is the title of a fictional book created by [[Brian Lumley]]. It first appeared in the short story ''The Caller of the Black''. It also featured heavily in ''The Horror at Oakdeene'' and ''The House of the Temple''.

==Description==
The Cthäat Aquadingen is the work of author or authors unknown. It first came to light during the fourth century in Northern Europe. The first copies were written in a mixture of the now extinct Gothic Language and a strange[[R'lyeh Glyphs|dot-like script]].
A Latin translation was made in the twelfth century. Through out the ages numerous personal translations have been made in languages such English, French and even Hindi.

The contents of the Codex Maleficum, the Codex Dagonensis and the Codex Spitalski may have been derived from the Cthäat Aquadingen.

==Contents==
The Cthäat Aquadingen deals primarily with the raising and putting down of water spirits. As well as [[Deep Ones]], [[Zoth-Ommog]] and the [[Star Spawn]] of [[Cthulhu]] it also mentions more obscure beings such as [[Othuum]]. Other contents include: a paragraph on [[Elder Sign|the creation of a certain sign]], four pages of rituals pertaining to the Great Old One [[Tsathoggua]], the Third and [[The Sixth Sathlattae]], and the words of the [[Nyhargo Dirge]].

The book talks at some length about [[Bugg-Shash]] and [[Yibb-Tstll]], two entities which it terms Drowners.

==Original version==
This version was written part in Gothic and part in [[R'lyeh Glyphs]]. All copies of this version are presumed lost.
==Latin Translation==
The Latin translation made during the 12th century. Most copies are preserved in folio style. This version is over seven hundred pages long.
==Hindi Translation==
This possible unique translation contains additional information on the [[Small Crawler]] avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]].
==Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Cthäat Aquadingen ==
The noted occultist Joachim Ferry produced a collection of annotated quotes from the Cthäat Aquadingen in 1930. It seems considerably more uncommon than the author's Notes on the Necronomicon.
==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Original Version '' : Sanity Loss 1D8/2D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 14 Percent. Average 52 weeks to study and comprehend/106 hours to skim.

; ''Latin Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D8/2D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 13 Percent. Average 46 weeks to study and comprehend/92 hours to skim.

; ''"Joachim Ferry's Notes on the Cthäat Aquadingen'' : Sanity Loss 1D4/1D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 6 Percent. Average 8 weeks to study and comprehend/16 hours to skim.

A player who sucessfuly studies any complete edition of the Cthäat Aquadingen gains skill checks in Anthropology, Natural History and Occult.
[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|Cthäat Aquadingen]]

Ptetholite

2009-01-17T12:22:23Z

Evans: Cthäat Aquadingen one final time

The Ptetholite language is a fictional language system which appeared in [[Brian Lumley]]'s short story ''The Caller of the Black''.
==Description==
The Ptetholite language and its subsequent script are one of the few existing remnants left by the [[Ptetholite people]]: a prehuman race which antedated the Hyperboreans. Though little is known about the language itself, we do know that the script was sometimes used for writing curses and incantations.

==Examples==
Few traces of the Ptetholites or their language remain. Fragmentary examples of the script may remain in such Hyperborean records as the [[The Book of Eibon|Liber Ivonis]] or the [[Testaments of Carnamagos]]. Earlier translations of the [[Cthäat Aquadingen]] contain a version of [[the Sixth Sathlattae]] written in Ptetholite script.

The best preserved examples of the Ptetholite script can be found upon the Broken Columns of Geph situated on the cost of Liberia. Inscribed upon the columns is a long narrative recording the Ptetholite peoples magic and its use in there wars. However the complete message is undecipherable since a number of the columns have been defaced and some of their contents erased by the [[Mi-Go]].

An item known as the Phitmar Stone is said to bear three inscriptions; two in Old Kingdom Egyptian dialects and one of a selection of letters copied from the above mentioned columns. Whether the Egyptian sections are actual translations of the columns transcripts or merely descriptions is unknown.
[[Category:Mythos:Languages|Ptetholite]]

The Sixth Sathlattae

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Evans: Cthäat Aquadingen again

The Sixth Sathlattae is a fictional incantation which first appeared [[Brian Lumley]]'s ''The Caller of the Black''. It features heavily in another of his short stories namely ''The Horror at Oakdeene''.
==Description==
The Sixth Sathlattae is a short incantation used to invoke the powers of [[Yibb-Tstll]]. It serves as the corner stone for several powerful pieces of magic. What follows is the closest phonetic representation.

''Ghe'phnglui, mglw'ngh ghee-yh, Yibb-Tstll,'' 
''Fhtagn mglw y'tlette ngh'wgah, Yibb-Tstll,'' 
''Ghe'phnglui mglw-ngh ahkobhg'shg, Yibb-Tstll;'' 
''Thabaithe -- Yibb-Tstll, Yibb-Tstll, Yibb-Tstll'' 

==Contacting Yibb-Tstll==
If the Sixth Sathlattae is repeated once before the caster falls asleep it may allow them to travel to the [[Jungles of Kled]] in the [[Dreamlands]] where Yibb-Tstll itself dwells. This effect is by no means certain and the use of certain drugs may also be required.

==Summoning Yibb-Tstll==
It is possible to use the powers of the Sixth Sathlattae to call [[Yibb-Tstll]] into this world in its physical form. In order to do so a gathering of thirteen must invoke the Sathlattae on the first night of the year. At least seven of the casters must be adepts (having cast the spell at least once before, whether it be to summon or contact Yibb-Tstll). A word of warning must be issued here, for summoning the god in no way guarantees its good temper or its willingness to assist its callers. [[The Barrier of Naath-Tith]] is often used to protect the casters from Yibb-Tstll possible displeasure.

==Calling the Black==
The Sixth Sathlattae can also be used to forge a link between a person and the black blood of Yibb-Tstll. In order to do so the caster must inscribe the Sixth Sathlattae in its original [[Ptetholite]] glyphs upon a wafer. This must be given to the intended victim (they need not eat it, only touch it). Reciting the [[Hoy-Dhin Chant]] within hearing distance of such a person will cause them to be attacked by The Black. This sticky black substance rather like tarry snow will start to materialise as if from nowhere and adhere to the victim. In the space of a few minutes they will begin to suffocate.

==Locations==
A copy of the Sixth Sathlattae can be found within the pages of the
[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]. The [[Ptetholite people]] were allso known to have used the Sixth Sathlattae on occasion and may have left records of it carved into the Broken Columns of Geph. Whether these records have survived up until the present day remain to be seen.

[[Category:Mythos:Rituals|Sixth Sathlattae]]

Cthulhu Mythos Timeline

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Evans: Changed Cthaat Aquadingen to Cthäat Aquadingen

==Snagged with permission==
*I asked before snagging; got permission, but this is to be published so we need to rewrite/paraphrase everything here. Maybe break it down into components. Wow, there's a lot of shit here. Also pending - data from author on crediting the original compiler/source. I really only expect Phobia, Winthrop and PoC to find this page, as none of the rest of you seem all that interested in this wiki and I haven't linked here from anywhere. In fact, I really don't PLAN to link here from anywhere. I plan to snag tidbits and spit them out onto target pages and then eventually delete this thingey for JEB's sake. --[[User:Squashua|Squashua]] 21:05, 17 February 2006 (EST)

* [http://www.dracandros.com/Jebgarg/Nidoking/cthuchrono.htm Original Source]

==CTHULHU MYTHOS TIMELINE==
by James "JEB" Bowman (JEB215AlphaZed@aol.com)

Extra special thanks to Daniel Harms, for his two Encyclopedia Cthulhiana reference books, as well as his additional help. The superb Encyclopedia Cthulhiana works (especially the 2nd Edition) were the main source for this Timeline, and excellent texts on top of that! Check out his website, The Necronomicon Files.

Much of the earliest events and certain events throughout the rest of the Timeline are derived specifically from Shannon Appel's excellent "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos" in the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana 2nd Edition's Appendix D. Further useful timeline information for game events was graciously provided by Lynn Willis.

I also give thanks to Daniel Harms, Guy Bock, Geoff Burling and docsavage80, who brought to my attention several necessary corrections and clarifications.

Of course, thanks also go to all the great Mythos authors, especially H.P. Lovecraft!

2 trillion years ago: According to the Eltdown Shards, a Yekubian cube lands on a planet near the Milky Way Galaxy's rim. [A translation error or an indication that scientific theory is greatly mistaken?] ("The Challenge from Beyond," Moore et al)

15 billion years ago: The universe is created in the Big Bang. According to some, Azathoth may be responsible for this. (Scientific theory; "The Plague Jar," Mackie)

4.5 billion years ago: The planet Earth forms. Cthugha and its fire vampires arrive on the Earth as it cools. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

3.8 billion years ago: Yidhra comes into being at the same time as life arises on Earth. ("Where Yidhra Walks," DeBill)

Shortly after the rise of Earthen life, Tsathoggua arrives. He settles in the dark gulf of N'kai. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

3 billion years ago: One of the Yekubians' cubes lands on a planet near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. ("The Challenge from Beyond," Moore et al)

2 billion years ago: Chaugnar Faugn incarnates in a primitive form on Earth. It evolves itself over the coming millenia. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

1 billion years ago: The Elder Things arrive on Earth. They land in the Antarctic Ocean and found their first city there. The Elder Things create the proto-shoggoth (which may be Ubbo-Sathla), which in turn produces other creatures that act as servitors and food. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; "Ubbo-Sathla," Smith; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

900 million years ago: By this time, Elder Thing cities have spread across the oceans of Earth. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

800 million years ago: The Elder Things adapt to land. Many remain in the oceans, however. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

750 million years ago: The Flying Polyps arrive on Earth, and build their basalt towers on the land. They try to expand into the oceans, sparking a bitter war with the Elder Things. Eventually, the Elder Things are victorious. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

450 million years ago: Elder Thing experiments lead to the first vertebrates, fish, which they permit to evolve. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

400 million years ago: The Great Race of Yith, fleeing catastrophe on their homeworld, transmit their minds into a race of cone-shaped creatures on Earth. They drive the Flying Polyps underground and imprison them there. Following that war, they build their first and greatest city, Pnakotus, in modern-day Australia. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft; ?? ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

370 million years ago: Amphibians arise on Earth. Chaugnar Faugn later creates the Miri Nigri from amphibian flesh, as a servitor race. (Factual; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

350 million years ago: A cataclysm raises numerous new land masses, such as Ponape and R'lyeh. The disaster also destroys several marine Elder Thing cities. Cthulhu and his kin arrive from the star Xoth, and settle on the newly-risen landmasses. The Elder Things war with Cthulhu, but they eventually make peace. Cthulhu is permitted to keep his current surface territories, and the Elder Things keep the rest of the planet. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

The Deep Ones enter the service of Cthulhu, and help build the city of R'lyeh. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

According to legend, the foundation of the underground civilization of K'n-yan dates back to this time. ("The Mound," Lovecraft and Bishop)

300 million years ago: A cosmic cataclysm (possibly a certain configuration of the stars, possibly a war with the Elder Gods) occurs, resulting in R'lyeh sinking beneath the waves. Cthulhu is imprisoned within the city. In all likelihood, the other Great Old Ones are imprisoned around the same time. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

Reptiles arise on Earth. Yig is allegedly involved in their creation. (Factual; CREATOR??)

275 million years ago: The Serpent People arise and found the kingdom of Valusia. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

Between 250 and 200 million years ago: If the G'harne Fragments are believed, the city of G'harne had been built by the Triassic period. The Fragments themselves also date from this time. ("Cement Surroundings," Lumley)

250 million years ago: The shoggoths rebel against the Elder Things, but are defeated. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

Atlach-Nacha rules its arachnid Children in the early Mesozoic.

225 million years ago: The dinosaurs arise and destroy the Serpent People civilization. Those that survive go into hiding. ("Timeline of the Mythos," Appel; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

The stone tablets that become the Celaeno Fragments are scribed around the middle Triassic. One set of the tablets is eventually taken to the Great Library of Celaeno, on the fourth planet around the star Celaeno.

160 million years ago: The mi-go set up a mining operation on Earth. The Elder Things try to battle them in space, but find they have devolved so much that they can no longer do so. The mi-go eventually control much of the northern portion of Earth. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

Some mi-go settle in the land that will become Mu, and worship Ghatanothoa. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

The mi-go also bring with them two objects, later known as the Black Seal of Iraan and the Shining Trapezohedron.

150 million years ago: The Great Race of Yith foils a Yekubian invasion attempt. Sometime thereafter, the tablets later known as the Eltdown Shards, which record this event, are buried in modern-day southern England. ("The Challenge from Beyond," Moore et al)

100 million years ago: Height of the Elder Thing civilization. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

65 million years ago: Dinosaurs are wiped out. How this affected or is connected to the alien races on the planet is unknown. (Factual)

50 million years ago: Another cataclysm strikes Earth. The Flying Polyps escape and take revenge on the Great Race, which sends its greatest minds to bodies on the planet Jupiter. From Jupiter, the Yithians proceed to bodies similar to their Earthly ones on a world orbiting a dark star near Taurus. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft; "The Shadow Out of Space," Lovecraft and Derleth; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

Many Elder Thing cities are also destroyed, including their original settlement in Antarctica. To replace it, a new Antarctic city is constructed. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

A race of pre-human Lemurians build the city of Shamballah in the Great Eastern Desert. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley; ? GREAT? POSSIBLY GOBI?)

20 million years ago: An early race of humans founds the land of Theem'hdra. The civilization soon dies out. Teh Atht, a wizard of the time, leaves behind a manuscript later known as Legends of the Olden Runes.

6 million years ago: A member of a race of "insect-philosophers" which hail from the fourth moon of Jupiter exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)?? INSECT PHILOSOPHERS?

5 million years ago: The Serpent People city of Yoth flourishes at this time under the guidance of their god, Yig. Their science has progressed to the point that they have created servant species, such as the gyaa-yothn and voormis. However, Yoth is destroyed by Yig when some of the Serpent People turn to the worship of Tsathoggua. A few Yig-worshipping survivors found a new civilization in Hyperborea. Tsathoggua probably journeys to Hyperborea following these events. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel; "The Children of Yig," Appel; )

The deep one city of Yatta-uc, beneath modern Lake Titicaca, is in its heyday at this time.

3 million years ago: The voormis gain their freedom. They create a kingdom on the surface of Hyperborea, based around the worship of Tsathoggua.

Rhan-Tegoth comes to Earth from Yuggoth, and comes to dwell in the Arctic. He feeds off sacrifices and worship made by primitive natives, but eventually they forget him and he enters a state of hibernation. Rhan-Tegoth eventually changes into a statue-like form. ("The Horror in the Museum," Heald and Lovecraft)

2 million years ago: As Elder Thing civilization continues to decline, they retreat to their cities on the southernmost tip of South America and the Antarctic regions. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel))

1.7 million years ago: Ithaqua appears in the northernmost regions of Earth, resulting in the decline of the voormis.

Between 1.6 million years ago and 10,000 years ago: The Sussex Fragments date from around this time, the Pleistocene era.

1.5 million years ago: Sarkomand, capital city of the men from Leng, is abandoned and falls into ruin when the moon-beasts enslave the Lengites and take them elsewhere. ("The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath," Lovecraft)

The being later known as Dr. Marc Souvate becomes the immortal vehicle for the worshippers of Nodens. He begins a series of jumps forward across long spans of time, heading towards the time when Nodens will return. ("Glimpses," Attanasio)

1 million years ago: The Ice Age is brought about by the combined power of Ithaqua and Aphoom Zhah. The voormis civilization in Hyperborea is destroyed first, replaced by equally ill-fated humans. Some great human sorcerers, including Zon Mezzamalech, live in this short-lived kingdom. The human civilization of Zobna falls next, moving to Lomar in the south and destroying the native cannibal gnophkehs. The much-devolved Elder Things, no longer able to resist intense cold as their ancestors did, develop artificial heating to try to survive. (; "Ubbo-Sathla," Smith; "At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

850,000 years ago: A king of Lomar is among those that exchange minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

750,200 years ago: The time of the wizard Eibon, greatest wizard of Hyperborea. During his life, the worship of Tsathoggua is driven from Hyperborea by priests of Yhoundeh. Eibon disappears at the age of 132 during the Yhoundeh inquisitions, and his assistant Cyron of Varaad correlates several of his sorcerous works into the Book of Eibon. Cyron also writes the Vita Ivonis, an account of Eibon's life. ("The Door to Saturn," Smith; "The Life of Eibon according to Cyron of Varaad," Carter; "History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon," Carter)

750,000 years ago: The great polar civilzations finally fall. The Elder Things retreat to deep within the Earth, and the people of Lomar are overwhelmed by the Inuto people. The human civilization in Hyperborea splinters, and its surviving peoples scatter across the planet. A secret brotherhood saves copies of the Book of Eibon from Hyperborea and takes them to mainland Europe. Some voormis begin worshipping Ithaqua, while the rest flee and become known as the Sasquatch and Yeti. The serpent people move to Lemuria and become known as the Dragon Kings. Tsathoggua returns to N'kai. ( ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft); "Polaris," Lovecraft; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel; ???; "History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon," Carter; "The Children of Yig," Appel; Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, Carter)

500,000 years ago: Homo sapiens, modern humanity, arises. These earliest true humans found the kingdom of Nemedis, and war for a thousand years with the Dragon Kings. The humans win, and the serpent people are driven south. (Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, Carter; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

The exiled serpent people form the second kingdom of Valusia. A few, however, hide instead among the islands of the sea of Neol-Shendis, awaiting their time to rise again. (Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, Carter; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

493,000 years ago: Thongor, a barbarian of Lemuria, opposes an attempt at Dragon King takeover with ancient magic. Thongor will later unite Lemuria in his Golden Empire of the Sun. (Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria, Carter; ?; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

393,000 years ago: Lemuria is shattered by volcanic eruptions, leaving only that which ultimately becomes Hyboria. Some survivors found the First Empire of Atlantis, centered around the capital city of Caiphul. Many years later, this first Lemurian Atlantis is replaced by The Second Empire, founded by the people of Shem, who make their capital the City of the Golden Gates. (The Black Star, Carter; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

300,000 years ago: Around this time, the female deep one Pht'thya-l'yi is born to Mother Hydra.

200,000 years ago: The human kingdom in Mu reaches its height. At this time, the Muvians worship many dark gods, including Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha, and Zoth-Ommog. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

173,148 BC: In the Year of the Red Moon, Ghatanothoa becomes the supreme god in Mu, following the god's destruction of a high priest of Shub-Niggurath. ("Out of the Aeons," Lovecraft and Heald)

161,844 BC: Ghatanothoa's worship has become so strong that other religions are outlawed. Zanthu, last high priest of Ythogtha, tries to free his god, destroying Mu. Zanthu flees to the Plateau of Tsang, where he scribes what are later known as the Zanthu Tablets. ("The Thing in the Pit," Carter; "The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter)

c. 80,000 BC: Pht'thya-l'yi, daughter of Mother Hydra, comes to live in the deep one city of Y'ha-nthlei. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

c. 50,000 BC: A race of "great-headed brown people" dominate South Africa. One of their generals is among those who exchange minds with one of the Yithians. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 24,000 BC: The City of the Golden Gates, capital of the Second Kingdom of Atlantis, sinks beneath the waves as a result of dark magics. This event also devastates much of the Atlantean continent. (The Black Star, Carter; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

After the loss of contact with Atlantis, the people of K'n-yan receive only limited knowledge of the outer world for the next 25,000 or so years. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

c. 20,000 BC: Many great countries have arisen in the Thurian continent, including Commoria, Grondor, Kamelia, Thule, and Verulia. The survivors of Lemuria and Atlantis have degenerated into barbarians; the Picts arise around this time. Valusia is taken over by humans. ("The Hyborian Age," Howard; "The Shadow Kingdom," Howard)

Some time later, the serpent people try to take back Valusia by subterfuge, but are stopped by King Kull. ("The Shadow Kingdom," Howard; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

c. 18,000 BC: A Great Cataclysm destroys the old world, bringing in the Hyborian Age.

The Atlantean continent's western regions sink, leaving only the islands that become Bal-Sagoth and Poseidonis. (??western; "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth," Howard; Poseidonis??)

The last Atlanteans, who flee northward, become the barbaric Cimmerians. The surviving Lemurians are enslaved by an unknown ancient race in the eastern part of the Thurian continent.

Mu rises again, and Ghatanothoa summons his servitors, the lloigor. The lloigor enslave the humans who came to live on the newly risen land. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson; ??YEAR THIS SOURCE SAYS B/T 20,000 AND 12,000)

Bokrug and the Thuum'ha come to Earth and found the kingdoms of Ib in the Middle East and Lh-yib in the land of the Cimmerians.

c. 17,500 BC: A lesser cataclysm breaks the Thurian continent in two.

c. 15,500 BC: In the eastern part of the shattered Thurian continent, the Lemurians free themselves from slavery. The Lemurians travel west and overwhelm the serpent people there, founding the kingdoms of Acheron and Stygia. They adopt the practices of the serpent people and worship many dark gods, including Nyarlat, Sebek, Set, Gol-Goroth, and Shuddam-El. The Stygians also cultivate a plant called the Black Lotus, which "enhanced" their worship of their deities. ("The Hyborian Age," Howard; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel; "The Children of Yig," Appel; "Dope War of the Black Tong," Price)

The surviving serpent people flee to the southern edge of the continent. ("The Children of Yig," Appel)

c. 15,000 BC: The Cimmerians, under the chieftain Crom-Ya, begin their ascent to glory. Crom-Ya is later deified as the god Crom. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 13,000 BC: The Hyborians, a northern people, conquer Acheron and form eight separate countries- Aquilonia, Argos, Brythunia, Corinthia, Koth, Nemedia, Ophir, and Zingara. Stygia, however, endures. ("The Hyborian Age," Howard; "Black Eons," Howard and Price)

The oldest copies of the R'lyeh Text, written on scrolls in a Chinese-esque language, date from at least this time, although they are probably older. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 10,000 BC: The time of Conan. The Cimmerian barbarian wipes out the last serpent people in their Hyborian city of Yanyoga. ("Timeline of the Mythos," Appel; "The Children of Yig," Appel)

c. 9600 BC: The Hyborian Age begins to end, as the nations and peoples of the era begin to fight. Aquilonia and Hyperborea battle, the Picts and Hyrkanians wreak havoc across the land, and the Vanir destroy Stygia. The Aesir settle in Nemedia, and the Cimmerians war against the Hyrkanians before retreating to the east. The Hyborians themselves are overwhelmed by another northern people. This is the time of the heroic Ghor Kin-Slayer of the Aesir, and the warlord Gorm of the Picts. ("The Hyborian Age," Howard; "Black Eons," Howard and Price)

c. 9550 BC: A final cataclysm destroys the Hyborian world and rises new land masses, moving the world into more or less its modern configuration. Portions of the Hyborian continent, Poseidonis, and Mu all sink beneath the waves. In later times, this event is remembered as the Great Flood. ("The Hyborian Age," Howard; "Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel)

The lloigor scatter across the world, settling in the Middle East, New England, Wales, and elsewhere. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

The Black Lotus is taken from the collapsing Stygia to the Plateaus of Leng and Sung, where it continues to be cultivated. In the remnants of Stygia, the Vanir found the country of Khem. ("Dope War of the Black Tong," Price; "Black Eons," Howard and Price)

The Brythunians emigrate to a land east of Khem and become the priests of Mitra, keeping their bloodline pure and separate from the local population. (The Winds of Zarr, Tierney)

The city of Sarnath is founded in Mesopotamia by another group of humans, near the Thuum'ha city of Ib. The people of Sarnath grow to dislike the people of Ib. ("The Doom that Came to Sarnath," Lovecraft; 9550???)

The province of Averoigne is founded by a people called the Averones (survivors of Atlantis) in modern-day France.

Between c. 9550 BC and c. 7000 BC: The First Dynasty of Khem falls. A race of human-alien hybrids takes their place, building the earliest pyramids. (Khai of Ancient Khem, Lumley)

c. 9000 BC: The men of Sarnath slaughter the Thuum'ha of Ib, and are visited thereafter by omens promising doom. ("The Doom that Came to Sarnath," Lovecraft; 9000??)

c. 8000 BC: Bokrug, god of the Thuum'ha, brings doom to Sarnath. ("The Doom that Came to Sarnath," Lovecraft; Encyclopedia Cthulhiana 2nd Ed., Harms)

Followers of the prophet Kish, who foretold Sarnath's doom, flee the city. The Testament of Kish, which tells of Sarnath's destruction, is written shortly afterwards- however, it is wholly lost. Kish's followers also translate the Book of Eibon into the Mnar language. (??; "History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon," Carter

c. 7000 BC: Khasathut, decadent sixth pharaoh of the Second Dynasty of Khem, is overthrown by Khai, a probable descendant of the Vanir. Khai brings about the Third Dynasty of Khem. However, the country has been doomed by the sorcerous battle with Khasathut to become a desert. (Khai of Ancient Khem, Lumley; ?Vanir)

c. 5000 BC: E-poh, leader of the Tcho-Tcho of the Plateau of Sung, is born.

c. 4200 BC: The Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are translated into ancient Chinese. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 4000 BC: The Seven Books of Tan, which may be one and the same as the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, date back to this time.

c. 2613 BC: Nephren-Ka, a truly foul pharaoh, rises to power in Third Dynasty Egypt. He revives the worship of dark gods such as Nyarlat, whom he renames Nyarlathotep. He also finds the Shining Trapezohedron and builds a temple around it. The pharaoh Snefru overthrows Nephren-Ka, and his name is utterly erased from Egyptian history. However, the dark religions he rediscovered are not forgotten again. (; "Fane of the Black Pharaoh," Bloch)

Nephren-Ka and his followers flee to the underground catacombs of Kish, where Nephren-Ka sacrifices a hundred victims to Nyarlathotep. In exchange, Nephren-Ka is given the gift of prophecy, and he spends the rest of his days drawing the future of the Earth on the walls of his tomb. ("Fane of the Black Pharaoh," Bloch)

c. 2200 BC: Queen Nitocris, the Ghoul-Queen, rises to power in Sixth Dynasty Egypt. She revives the worship of Nyarlathotep once more, and uncovers the Shining Trapezohedron. She engages in many unspeakable acts during her reign, weakening her nation sufficiently to usher in the First Intermediate Period of Egyptian history. She leaves behind an artifact known as the Mirror of Nitocris. (??; "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs," Lovecraft and Houdini; "The Mirror of Nitocris," Lumley)

c. 2150 BC: The Black Pharaoh, sometimes called Khotep, lives at the end of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt. ("Curse of the Black Pharaoh," Carter)

Between 2000 BC and 1750 BC: A reference to Leng is found in a papyrus written during Egypt's Middle Kingdom. ("Long Meg and Her Daughters," Finch)

Between 1991 BC and 1783 BC: Nyarlathotep is worshipped, in the form of the Bringer of Pests, during Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty.

Between 1783 BC and 1674 BC: The Thirteenth-Dynasty Egyptian high priest Luveh-Keraph, worshipper of Bast, writes the Black Rites in the Scroll of Bubastis.

c. 1733 BC: Nophru-Ka, a Nyarlathotep-worshipper, founds an Egyptian separatist movement. He tries to overthrow Pharaoh Khasekhemre Neferhotep I, but is slain by the ruler. Nophru-Ka's followers are later killed by Shudde-M'ell and his spawn, but his line continues on, eventually leading to the Brotherhood of the Beast.

Between 1640 and 1674 BC: Khephnes, who lives during the Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt, learns the secrets of Nyarlathotep. He is also among those who temporarily exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 1674 BC: The Hyksos, a nomadic people who may have Stygian blood, take over Egypt. The first Hyksos pharaoh travels to G'harne and brings back the worship of Shudde-M'ell.

c. 1600 BC: Syro-Phoenician scholar Imilcar Narba translates the Book of Eibon into Punic."History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon," Carter

c. 1370 BC: During the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, Akhenaten raises the mummy of Nephren-Ka, who converts him to the worship of "Aten." Aten is in truth a disguise for Yog-Sothoth, imprisoned in nearby Mt. Sinai. (?; The Winds of Zarr, Tierney)

c. 1290 BC: During the 19th Dynasty of Egypt, the Zarr come to Earth to free Yog-Sothoth. As they do so, they attack the great cities of Egypt. Yog-Sothoth returns to his other-dimensional home. (The Winds of Zarr, Tierney)

c. 1000 BC: The Phoenicians are at their height. They hold Atlach-Nacha in reverence. (Factual; ??

Between 1000 BC and 40 AD: The people of K'n-yan find a way to halt the aging process and prevent death by any means save violence, accident, or personal will. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

c. 300 BC: The Picts are shattered into several smaller tribes that feud among themselves. ("Worms of the Earth," Howard)

The R'lyeh Text is translated into Chinese. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

Between the Late 3rd Century BC and the Early 2nd Century BC: The R'lyeh Text is translated into Latin. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

213 BC: China's first emperor, Chin Shi Huang Di, orders the Burning of the Books, wherein many texts not in favor with the emperor are destroyed. Among these texts, according to some, are the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan. A few copies are reputedly confiscated and stored in the Imperial Library, only to be destroyed in that building's razing six years later. Subsequent Chinese authors compile corrupted versions of the Seven Cryptical Books, using their own memories and what few fragments can be found, to replace the Chinese originals. (Factual; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 200 BC: Theodotides, a Greco-Bactrian official, is among those that exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 100 BC: Possible first appearance of the Cabala of Sabaoth. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

The earliest known Greek translation of the Book of Eibon, the Peri ton Eibon, dates from this time. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Between 82 BC and 75 BC: During the time of the Roman dictator Sulla, a quæstor named Titus Sempronius Blaesus is among those that exchange minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 80 BC: Chaugnar Faugn is discovered by a Roman legion. It destroys the legion, but retreats with the Miri Nigri to the Plateau of Tsang. Faugn leaves its brothers behind.

Between 51 BC and AD 486: During the Roman period of Gaul, the towns of Simaesis and Avionium (later Ximes and Vyones) in Averoigne are feared due to worship of a god named Sadoqua.

AD 9: The battle of Teutoberger Wald occurs; among the Germanic tribesmen in the battle was Wolfred Herman Freimann, who later exchanged minds with a Yithian. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

c. AD 10: Simon of Gitta is born.

AD 27: Simon of Gitta accidentally helps to summon Cthulhu.

AD 31: Simon of Gitta disrupts a plot involving Shub-Niggurath. ("The Seed of the Star-God," Tierney)

AD 37: The Roman Emperor Tiberius acquires the Serpent Ring of Set through one of his nobles, shortly before he dies. Simon of Gitta is rumored to be connected to Tiberius' death.

Between AD 37 and AD 41: The Roman Emperor Caligula takes a copy of the Book of Thoth from Egypt, to experiment with it. Shortly before he dies, the book is destroyed. Simon of Gitta is rumored to be connected to Caligula's death.

Between AD 41 and 54: Simon of Gitta enters the service of the Roman Emperor Claudius.

AD 41: Simon of Gitta befriends some of the last of the serpent people.

AD 42: Simon of Gitta battles the forces of Cthugha.

Between AD 43 and AD 450: Roman legionnaires occupying the Severn Valley in Britain discover the Great Old One Byatis imprisoned behind a stone door in an ancient camp. Horrified, they imprison it behind a five-pointed star. However, from time to time, Byatis breaks free, stalking victims. This creates the legend of the "Berkeley Toad." ("The Room in the Castle," Campbell)

Between AD 69 and AD 79: During the reign of the Roman emperor Vespasian, the Priscus family is wiped out, and its name excised from Roman records. ("The Tomb of Priscus," Mooney)

c. AD 100: One source dates the Greek Testament of Carnamagos back to this time. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

2nd Century AD: According to some, the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are written by Hsan the Greater in this century. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

AD 125: Titus Tetericus, three-years-dead son of the retired Roman senator Felicius Tetricus of Eboracum (later to become York), seemingly returns to life for about a year before he returns "to the land of shades." (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

AD 126: A force of legionnaires travels north of Hadrian's Wall into Pictish territory on a mysterious mission. Their fate is never uncovered. (Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, Chaosium)

AD 138: Lollius Urbicus, a Roman scholar living near modern-day York, writes Præsidia Finium. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

c. AD 150: An Irish translation of the Book of Eibon is created by travelling Irish scholars. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. AD 165: Occultus is written by Hieriarchus.

c. AD 200: The Daemonolorum is written by an Egyptian sect. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

A Latin translation of the R'lyeh Text appears.

AD 206: Bran Mak Morn, great chieftain of the Picts, summons the Worms of the Earth (degenerate descendants of the Serpent People) to battle the Romans. ("Worms of the Earth," Howard; "The Children of Yig," Appel?? YEAR?)

AD 207: Bran Mak Morn calls back King Kull of Atlantis.

AD 208: Bran Mak Morn battles the Worms of the Earth, the same that he once called allies.

c. AD 210: Bran Mak Morn dies as a result of the treachery of a Roman general. A cult later springs up around the legendary Pict chieftain. (??; "The Children of the Night," Howard)

c. AD 300: Flavius Alesius' Annales make reference to the Liber Ivonis as a set of tablets held by the Averones. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley) NOT ORIGINAL SOURCE)

AD 389: The Serapiam of Alexandria is burned by Christians. In the process, several Greek and Latin versions of the Book of Eibon are destroyed. (Factual; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Between c. 390 and c. 400: Valerius Trevirus writes the poem De Noctis Rebus, which makes reference to the Liber Ivonis. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley) NOT ORIGINAL SOURCE

c. AD 400: The Codex Dagonensis, the Codex Maleficum, the Codex Spitalski, and the Cthäat Aquadingen are known in northern Germany by this date. The books all contain similar material, including various Sathlattae. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus is written by Clithanus himself. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

466: The wizard Azédarac and his manservant both disappear from Averoigne. ("The Holiness of Azédarac," Smith)

475: An individual named Brother Ambrose comes to live with the sorceress Moriamis in Averoigne. ("The Holiness of Azédarac," Smith)

6th Century: Nestar Mobedan Mobed, a self-proclaimed Zoroastrian prophet, leads a group of followers to break from their more orthodox contemporaries. During their self-imposed exile, Mobed writes the Letters of Nestar, which detail rituals to summon Cthugha and his servitors. Twenty years later, he and his now-numerous followers return to the city they left, and attempt to conquer it by summoning Cthugha. Nestar is slain by the city guard, and most of his followers captured. The rest flee, under his letters of instruction, to India and Russia.

592: The planet Shaggai is destroyed, possibly by Ghroth the Harbinger. The surviving members of the Shan race scatter; one group travels to the planet Xiclotl, and calls the other Shan from their planetary colonies to join them. ("The Insects from Shaggai," Campbell; "The Tugging," Campbell; Delta Green: Countdown, Detwiller, Glancy, and Tynes, et al (G)))

c. 595: The oldest known written copy of the Book of Dzyan is found by traders in a Chinese cave. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 600: The traders' Book of Dzyan comes into the possession of the Sui Dynasty's Prince of Shu, who is later exiled for practicing black magic. His copy of the Book is later donated to the Imperial Library by a famous poet; there it is copied before being returned. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

7th Century: The Arabian astrologer Ibrahim al-Araq refers to the star Algol as "the Demon Star" or "the star from whence the Demon comes." ("Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods," Carter)

640: The Great Library at Alexandria is burned. Certain texts escape the Library's destruction, and eventually make their way the the monastery of Perigon in Averoigne. (Factual; "The End of the Story," Smith)

655: Possible year of Abdul Alhazred's birth.

c. 700: U Pao, one of Burma's earliest scholars, writes the Black Sutra. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

c. 730: Abdul Alhazred writes the Kitab Al-Azif. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth) ORIGINAL SOURCE??)

738: Abdul Alhazred dies. According to popular lore, he is killed in the marketplace of Damascus by an invisible monster. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft)

760: Shortly before this time, a translation of the Kitab Al-Azif into Duriac (an obscure Middle Eastern dialect) is made.

c. 792: The Shan leave Xiclotl (taking servitors from among the planet's natives along) and travel to a planet they name Thuggon. However, they only remain there less than a year before they travel to L'gy'hx, known to humans as Uranus. ("The Insects from Shaggai," Campbell)

9th Century: Caius Phillippus Faber translates the Book of Eibon into Latin, retitling it Liber Ivonis. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

Sicily is a stronghold of Shub-Niggurath's cult during this century.

c. 900: The Kitab Rasul Al-Albarin is written by Ibn el-Badawi. An English translation is made some time later. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)); English???

935: A copy of the Testament of Carnamagos is found in a Graeco-Bactrian tomb, along with a copy of the Book of Eibon. Two copies of the former text, translated into Greek, are later made by a monk. ("History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon," Carter; ??ORIGINS OF CARNAMAGOS, MONK

950: Theodorus Philetas of Constantinople translates the Kitab Al-Azif into Greek, and renames it the Necronomicon. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft)

960: Theodorus Philetas has correlated several copies of the Book of Eibon into a medieval Greek translation by this time. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 1000: A "strange and powerful dynastic order" builds a stone priory atop an ancient temple in modern-day Anchester, the site of which eventually becomes Exham Priory. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

Between the 11th and 12th centuries: A Latin version of the Cthäat Aquadingen is made during this time. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

11th Century: The Christian Church tries to suppress the worship of Sadoqua in Averoigne. However, their efforts are ruined when local church officials also take up Sadoqua's worship.

1050: Patriarch Michael, disturbed by rumors about experimentation with the Necronomicon, has many copies of the book burned. According to Olaus Wormius in his introduction to the Latin edition, all known copies of the Arabic versions are destroyed as well. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft)

Between 1095 and 1099: During the time of the First Crusade, Norsemen land on the isle of Bal-Sagoth, reputed to be the last surviving fragment of Atlantis. At this point, the advanced natives worship a god named Gol-goroth. ("The Gods of Bal-Sagoth," Howard?? Atlantis Bal-Sagoth connect?)

1099: A copy of Al-Azif is found in Jerusalem. It is eventually placed in the hands of the Comte de Champagne, who forms an order of knights known as the Templars to guard it.

c. 1100: A Bulgarian translation of the Necronomicon is made. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

12th Century: The Brotherhood of the Beast is founded in the memory of Nophru-Ka.

Bartolomeo Corsi, a Florentine monk, is possessed by one of the Great Race of Yith, and subsequently goes mad. He is eventually exiled to the island of Stromboli and writes the Harmaticon. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft; Encyclopedia Cthulhiana 2nd Ed., Harms)

Ibn Khallikan writes a biography of Abdul Alhazred. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft)

Early 12th Century: The Vatican's only Averone version of the Book of Eibon disappears. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 1135: Construction is begun on the cathedral in Vyones. ("The Maker of Gargoyles," Smith)

1138: November A series of brutal murders and other disturbing events perpetrated by apparent "demons" occur in Vyones. In the middle of the month, they cease as abruptly as they began. ("The Maker of Gargoyles," Smith)

1166: A man named Azédarac comes to hold the position of bishop of Ximes. ("The Holiness of Azédarac," Smith)

1175: Summer A Brother Ambrose disappears in the Inn of Bonne Jouissance in Averoigne, after drinking a draught of red wine. ("The Holiness of Azédarac," Smith)

1198: Bishop Azédarac apparently dies. He is canonized as St. Azédarac. ("The Holiness of Azédarac," Smith)

13th Century: Adolphus Clesteros writes the Kagwamon K'thaat. The book is in a language of the author's invention called W'hywi, and only a single copy is made.

One of the two Greek copies of the Testament of Carnamagos is destroyed by the Inquisition.

The Necronomicon is translated into French, and enters the collections of several monasteries in southern France.

The local clergy in Avebury begins efforts to remove certain local standing stones, efforts that continue into the 14th century; many of the stones are destroyed. ("Cement Surroundings," Lumley)

The building later known as Delaware House is built by Sir Ranulf de la Weir on the site of Saxon ruins near modern-day Weirton in England. ("Dreams in the House of Weir," Carter)

1204: Sedefkhar, owner of the Simulacrum that bears his name, is killed when the Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople. During the same attack, Theodoros Philetos' original manuscript of the Necronomicon, along with a copy of Peri ton Eibon, is destroyed by Roman Catholic priests. (???; Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag's sonnet-cycle, Dreams from R'lyeh is published by Miskatonic University almost thirty years after their discovery among the poet's papers. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

1228: Olaus Wormius (a monk, not the famous doctor who came later) translates the Greek Necronomicon into Latin. He dubs his translation De Normis Necium. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 1230: The future sorcerer, Nathaire, is born. ("The Colossus of Ylourgne," Smith)

1230: A man claiming to be Brother Ambrose appears briefly in the Inn of Haute Esperance (formerly the Inn of Bonne Jouissance), then disappears. ("The Holiness of Azédarac," Smith)

1232: Pope Gregory IX bans the Greek and Latin Necronomicons. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft)

c. 1240: Gaspard du Nord translates the Book of Eibon into Norman French. Presumably, it is around the time of this translation that he writes his commentary Selections du Livre d'Ivon, which includes spells that protect a user of the Book from the forces of evil. (?? ORIGINAL SOURCE?? "History and Chronology of The Book of Eibon," Carter; ??

1261: King Henry III of England grants the site of Exham Priory to Gilbert de la Poer, also known as Baron Exham. The building itself is constructed atop the previously existing ruins some time thereafter. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

Between 1271 and 1272: The Ninth Crusade, last of the Crusades, occurs. According to Ludwig Prinn, he was the only survivor of that Crusade, but that claim is dubious at best, considering he died over 250 years later. (Factual; "The Shambler from the Stars," Bloch)

1278: Nathaire is stoned by an angry crowd for his alleged sorceries, and is permanently lamed as a result. He never forgives this incident. ("The Colossus of Ylourgne," Smith)

1281: Early Summer The wizard Gaspard du Nord of Vyones dispels the sorcerous works of his evil former master, Nathaire. This saves the city of Vyones, and gives him immunity from persecution by the Church. ("The Colossus of Ylourgne," Smith)

c. 14th Century: The Cthäat Aquadingen is translated into English. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

14th Century: According to some sources, the Hyperborean edition of the Book of Eibon survived up until this time.

1307: The Knights Templar in England are disbanded by King Edward II. ("The Curate of Temphill," Robert M. Price and Cannon)

Afterwards, some of the former Templars settle the village of Goatswood in the Severn River Valley. Other ex-Templars settle in the nearby town of Temple Hill (later Temphill) and try to assimilate themselves into the local religious community, with little success. ("The Curate of Temphill," Robert M. Price and Cannon)

A chronicle refers to the de la Poer family as "cursed of God." ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

1315: Enguerrand de Marigny, a court official and ancestor of Étienne-Laurent and Henri-Laurent de Marigny, is executed on trumped-up charges of sorcery.

1369: Summer A red comet heralds the coming of the "Beast of Averoigne." It is eventually defeated by the wizard Messire le Chaudronnier. ("The Beast of Averoigne," Smith)

1373: By this time, the Louvre's Latin copy of the Necronomicon had vanished.

15th Century: A flawed English translation of the Book of Eibon is made. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)

According to rumor, the Pnakotic Manuscripts are published in English by an anonymous translator in this century. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

c. 1400: A man described as a "ghoul" is buried in a Holland graveyard, along with a jade amulet of the "corpse-eating cult" of the Plateau of Leng. ("The Hound," Lovecraft)

1419: The Duc de Bourgoyne dies. Shortly before that, his copy of the Averone Book of Eibon disappears. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1472: A version of the Olaus Wormius Necronomicon is printed in Lyons, France.

Late 15th Century: A black-letter printing of the Latin Necronomicon is made in Germany. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft; "Out of the Ages," Carter)

1484: [According to some, this is the year De Vermis Mysteriis is written. However, most evidence renders this unlikely.] (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1490: [According to some, De Vermis Mysteriis is printed in this year.] ("The Plague Jar," Mackey)

c. 1500: [According to the 1484 source, a German-language edition of De Vermis Mysteriis is printed in Mannheim.] (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

A German edition of the Necronomicon is published in Wurttemburg. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

16th Century: Monstres and Their Kynde is compiled by an unknown author, probably using several other Mythos texts as sources. Only one copy is known to exist. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis (G)) SOURCE SAYS C. 16TH

A partial English manuscript of the Book of Dzyan begins circulating in this century. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1501: A folio edition of the Greek Necronomicon is made on printing presses in Italy, leading to its suppression by religious authorities. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft; Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

c. 1512: Future conquistador Pánfilio de Zamacona y Nuñez is born. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

1515: François I captures a copy of the Latin Necronomicon when he conquers Milan. He gives it to Leonardo da Vinci. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1519: Leonardo da Vinci dies, and his library is scattered. Among the lost books is his copy of the Latin Necronomicon. (Factual; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1526: A Muslim army marches into the area of modern-day Stregoicavar, Hungary. Disgusted by the abhorrent cult they find there, they wipe it and the locals out. ("The Black Stone," Howard)

1527: John Dee is born. (Factual)

c. 1530: The Chinese Imperial Library's original duplicate of the Book of Dzyan is stolen. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1532: Pánfilio de Zamacona y Nuñez leaves his native port of Luarca for the New World at age 20. He later accompanies Coronado in his expedition across the modern western United States. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

Between 1540 and 1808: Due to the Inquisition, the allegedly sorcerous ancestors of Simon Maglore leave Italy and travel to the new world. ("The Mannikin," Bloch)

1540: Ludwig Prinn is imprisoned by the Roman Inquisition. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1541: Coronado turns back from his explorations. However, on October 7, Pánfilio de Zamacona y Nuñez continues on, eventually finding the underground civilization of K'n-yan. He is forbidden to leave, and is eventually killed in an attempt to escape. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

1542: Ludwig Prinn writes De Vermis Mysteriis in his cell. Just before his death at the hands of the Inquisition, the book is somehow smuggled out. ("The Shambler from the Stars," Bloch; Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

John Dee enters Cambridge at age 15. (Factual)

1543: A Latin edition of De Vermis Mysteriis is published in Cologne. ("The Shambler from the Stars," Bloch)

c. 1550: The Portuguese first "glimpse" the city of the "Fishers from Outside" in Zimbabwe. ("The Fishers from Outside," Carter)

The Necronomicon is translated into Russian. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Between 1558 and 1610: A Sir Randolph Carter, ancestor of the man who will have the same name, studies magic during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

1558: Queen Elizabeth I ascends to the British throne. John Dee is high in her favor. (Factual)

1567: An Italian edition of the Greek Necronomicon is published.

1569: Pope Pius V bans De Vermis Mysteriis.

1573: Noted magician (and fraud) Edward Kelley's English translation of De Vermis Mysteriis is published in London. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Late 16th Century: A sect of Yog-Sothoth worshippers is founded in the mountains of Romania. Their leader is a man named Chorazos, and they are thus called the Chorazos Cult.

1576: Miguel Cervantes is held as a favored slave and prisoner in Algiers. While there, he writes Don Quixote. According to some, he also makes a (heavily expurgated) Spanish translation of the Necronomicon, which he titles El Libro de los Normos de los Perdidos. (Factual; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley; heavily expurgated??)

1579: Miguel Cervantes completes El Libro de los Normos de los Perdidos; later that year, his captivity ends. ("The Invisible Empire," van Pelt; factual)

1581: John Dee begins his experiments into crystal-gazing, which eventually leads to his first contact with "angels" through the medium of Edward Kelley. The "angels" dictate their language of Enochian to Dee. (Factual)

1583: John Dee and Edward Kelley begin their journeys across Europe. (Factual)

1586: John Dee and Edward Kelley arrive in Prague. While there, Dee finds a copy of the Latin Necronomicon, which he translates into English. He also adds material from a Greek manuscript in the possession of a Transylvanian noble, and his own commentary on certain subjects. (Factual; "Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter; Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G); commen??)

1587: John Dee's arrangement with Edward Kelley sours when a summoned "angel" commands them to share their wives in common. (Factual)

1589: John Dee returns to England to find his home and library has been ransacked by a mob. He is appointed to be the Warden of Christ's College in Manchester, but is unhappy and eventually returns home to Mortlake. (Factual)

1591: A man named Claes van der Heyl does something horribly spectacular later noted by occultist Alonzo Typer. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1593: Famous English playwright Christopher Marlowe dies in a tavern brawl. One of his works, The King in Yellow, is incomplete, with only the first two scenes written. William Shakespeare and John Croft attempt to complete it, but Shakespeare's scruples make the attempt fruitless.

1594: The Chorazos Cult is exiled from Romania and moves to England, building a temple in Finchley. Unusually, the Cult is popular with Queen Elizabeth.

1595: Late in this year, the Chorazos Cult's former patron forces them out of London. They move to a house known as the Oaks.

Remigius' Daemonolatreia is published in Lyons. ("The Festival," Lovecraft)

1596: The Oaks is burned down by angry villagers, and the few survivors of the Chorazos Cult (including their founder) retreat to Scotland. Soon after this, however, the locals in their new area destroy the sect once and for all following a number of disappearances.

1598: Baron Frederic of Sussex's partial (and confused) translation of the Latin edition of the Necronomicon is published, in an octavo edition, under the title Cultus Maleficarum. It later comes to be known as the Sussex Manuscript.

Konrad von Gerner's Fischbuch is published. ("Name and Number," Lumley)

c. 1600: A meteor containing an alien city crashes into the Severn Valley. The being known as Glaaki lives within. The meteor crater slowly fills with water, eventually becoming a lake. ("Timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos," Appel; "The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell)

According to rumors that Morgan Smith had lived over 300 years in exchange for eventually serving as a vessel for Nyarlathotep, Smith would have been born around this year.

17th Century: The small German town of Freihausgarten begins to worship the Great Old One Cyaegha. ("Darkness, My Name Is," Bertin)

According to some, it is in this century that Eberhard Ketzer, a member of the court of the King of Prussia who hailed from Schleswig-Holstein, writes Die Geschichte den Planeten. If this is true, then L'Histoire des Planetes is likely a French translation of this work.

An isle in the Severn River near the town of Severnford is the site of witches' sabbats during this century. ("The Stone on the Island," Campbell)

The book True Magik, by "Theophilus Wenn," is usually dated back to this time, though some say it comes from medieval times. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G)) SPOURCE SAUYS C. 17

Early 17th Century: According to rumor, at least two Tibetan copies of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are smuggled out of Tibet by Dominican priests, who give them to the Papal Library. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1600: Graf Gauberg's Unter Zee Kulten is written. According to more traditional accounts, most copies are destroyed by the end of this century. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G); ??? destroyed?)

1608: John Dee dies in Mortlake. (Factual)

Between 1610 and 1625: During the reign of King James I and after 1610, Walter de la Poer slays his decadent relatives and leaves his home of Exham Priory. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

Between 1610 and 1643: Pierre-Louis Montagny, an aged Frenchman living during the reign of Louis XIII, is among those that exchange minds with a Yithian. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 1611: During the reign of King James I, a scholar involved in the translation of the King James Bible translates the Book of Eibon into English. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1612: A Lancashire witch named Liz Southern is executed. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

1616: Captain John Smith, while exploring the New England coast, discovers Devil's Reef off the coast of modern Innsmouth and gives it its name. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1618: Most of the home of a family that dealt with the de la Poers of Exham Priory and the monks of Falstone Castle is destroyed in a fire. The property later comes into the possession of the Marriot family. ("Recognition," Lumley)

1623: A version of the Wormius Necronomicon is printed in Spain. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft; "Out of the Ages")

1627: A priest steals a copy of the Greek Necronomicon from Baron Hauptmann of Romania.

1630: March 10 Possible date of John Grimlan's birth, if one believes he was 300 years old when he died. ("Dig Me No Grave," Howard)

Between 1632 and 1680: Portions of the Necronomicon are circulated widely in France, and are used as ritual material for many black masses of the period. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1635: Antoine-Marie Augustin de Montmorency-les-Roches is born. According to some, he is later known as the Comte d'Erlette, author of Cultes des Goules. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1636: Jean-Francois Charriere is born in Bayonne, France. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1638: Hendrik van der Heyl emigrates to New-Netherland (later New York). ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1639: Settlers from southern England and the Channel Islands found Kingsport on the coast of Massachusetts, south of modern-day Arkham. Kingsport quickly becomes a major shipbuilding and overseas trade center. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

Between 1639 and 1692: A cult arises in Kingsport, with meetings held in the town's Congregational Church. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

1641: Joachim Kindler's My Understanding of the Great Booke is printed in the city of Buda. The book speaks of a version of the Necronomicon in Gothic, a language of an ancient Germanic tribe. This Necronomicon is reputedly missing all the allegory and obscurity of other versions, and is thus far more dangerous than any other.

1643: The town of Innsmouth is founded in Massachusetts. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

The Shan leave L'gy'hx and travel to Earth, landing near Goatswood; however, they find that they cannot leave. They and their Xiclotl servants begin to prey on nearby villagers. ("The Insects from Shaggai," Campbell; Delta Green: Countdown, Detwiller, Glancy, and Tynes, et al (G))

A mysterious coven begins congregating in worship in the woods outside Goatswood. ("The Insects from Shaggai," Campbell)

1644: Autumn Witch-finder Matthew Hopkins destroys a cult in Brichester and imprisons a "Hobgoblin Monstre" with the Elder Sign. ("The Awakening," Sumpter)

1647: Liber Damnatus Damnationum, by Janus Aquaticus, is published in London.

c. 1650: A Chinese copy of the Dhol Chants is found in an Asian monastery. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Between 1651 and 1658: During Oliver Cromwell's time as Lord Protector of England, James Woodville of Suffolk exchanges minds with a Yithian. After he is restored to his rightful body, Woodville writes a book called Wondrous Intelligences, which details his unusual sex life and the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft; "City in the Sands," DiTillio and Willis (G))

1652: Witch-hunter Matthew Hopkins comes to the Severn Valley. Among the victims of his inquisition are the entire membership of the Goatswood coven. ("The Insects from Shaggai," Campbell; Delta Green: Countdown, Detwiller, Glancy, and Tynes, et al (G))

1653: Chronike von Nath is written by Rudolf Yergler, a German mystic. Soon after he completes it, he goes blind. German authorities put Yergler in a Berlin madhouse after the work is published, and attempt to suppress the book. Soon afterwards, Yergler dies. ("Music of the Stars," Rimel; dies?)

Jean-Francois Charriere begins his studies in Paris, under the tutelage of Royalist exile Richard Wiseman. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1656: Jean-Francois Charriere ends his education under Richard Wiseman and sets out on his own. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1657: The Masters of the Silver Twilight are founded.

1662: A Latin text of the Book of Eibon is printed in Rome. It is probably based of Faber's 9th-century translation.

1663: The wizard Nicholas Zegrembi transcribes the book thereafter known as the Zegrembi Manuscript from the original, which was located in an alternate universe. He copies it in three languages- alien hieroglyphs, a rune-like script, and Latin. ("The Black Mirror," Glasby)

February 18 Joseph Curwen is born in modern-day Danvers, Massachusetts.

c. 1664: The Kaballist Nathan of Gaza circulates the Sepher ha-Sha'are ha-Daath among his brethren, which is a commentary on a work he calls the "Book of the Alhazred." (This is said by some to be a Hebrew translation of the Necronomicon.) ("The Necronomicon Anti-FAQ," Low)

c. 1665: If Antoine-Marie Augustin de Montmorency-les-Roches is indeed the Comte d'Erlette, then Cultes des Goules is probably completed around this time. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1666: Nathan of Gaza is discredited when the would-be Messiah Shabbetai Tzevi, whom he supported, converts to Islam. (Factual)

The Shakespeare/Croft sections of The King in Yellow are destroyed in a house fire, but the Marlowe sections are accidentally bound into a book of the house owner's wife's poetry and thus saved.

September 2 The Great Fire of London occurs. Some suggest that a summoning of one of Cthugha's servitors is what started the blaze. (Factual; ??

During the Great Fire of London, Nicholas Zegrembi flees with the Zegrembi Manuscript and his other papers, settling in the village of Torpoint. Several years later, he disappears, and his library is burned by the local clergy. Allegedly, however, a secretive cult saves the Zegrembi Manuscript for themselves. ("The Black Mirror," Glasby)

1670: Ward Phillips's lineage can be traced by genealogists to as far back as this date. ("The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)?? ORIGINAL SOURCE???

1674: Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere, a surgeon in the French army, goes on duty in Pondicherry, and later, the Caronmandall Coast of India. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Late 17th Century: The town of Arkham is founded in Massachusetts by free-thinkers.

The version of the Necronomicon that will become part of the University of Buenos Aires' collections is said to arrive in South America. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

1675: A Latin edition of Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus is published.

1678: Martin's shipyard begins building ships for Innsmouth's growing fishing and trade industry. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1680: The town of Agua Blanca is founded.

1681: Antoine-Marie Augustin de Montmorency-les-Roches vanishes. It is probable that he was taken to prison, as he was unpopular with the French nobility. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Joseph Glanvil's Saducismus Triumphatus is published. ("The Festival," Lovecraft)

1685: William Bain builds the Strange High House in the Mist on the highest mountain of Kingsport Head. He eventually shuns the town and comes to be known only as "the One." (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

c. 1686: A Greek translation of the Cabala of Sabaoth is made. ("The Mannikin," Bloch)

1690: The Geoffrey family of merchants moves to New York. They are ancestors of Justin Geoffrey. ("The House in the Oaks," Howard and Derleth)

According to some, the Salem Academy, which later becomes Miskatonic Liberal Seminary, is founded.

According to others, Arkham College is founded in this year instead. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

December 14 Reputed witch Abigail Prinn, a descendant of Ludwig Prinn, dies. She allegedly lays a curse on Salem before she expires. This prompts the people of Salem, in an attempt to avoid her wrath, to bury her with a stake through her heart. ("Wilbur Whateley Waiting," Price; "The Salem Horror," Kuttner)

1691: Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere moves to Quebec. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

December Believers living around Salem receive premonitions of danger and a need to move to a location northwest from the city. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1692: March A witch hysteria engulfs Salem, Massachusetts. Many innocent citizens are accused of witchcraft and executed. An ancestor of Richard Upton Pickman is among those that are hung. (Factual; "Pickman's Model," Lovecraft)

The danger drives Joseph Curwen to move to Providence, Rhode Island. Others, a group of Believers (including the Whateley and Bishop families), move to north-central Massachusetts. There, they found the town of New Dunnich. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft; "The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Edmund Carter, ancestor of Randolph Carter, is nearly hung in Salem and flees to the hills behind Arkham. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft; ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

The last known copy of the Greek Necronomicon is burned during the witch-hunt. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

Soon after the witch panic begins in Salem, it spreads to Arkham. As a result, they send one witch, Keziah Mason, to Salem for trial. However, Mason disappears from her cell before she can be executed. ("The Dreams in the Witch-House," Lovecraft)

The witch panic also spreads to Kingsport, which results in the hanging of thirteen reputed witches. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

c. 1693: Antoine-Marie Augustin de Montmorency-les-Roches dies, presumably in prison. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1693: Isaiah Hoag, ancestor of Abner Exekiel Hoag and Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag, and his family move to Arkham from Plymouth, England. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter)

Ward Phillips, first president of the future Miskatonic University, donates what becomes the nucleus of the Miskatonic University Library. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1696: Jeremiah Whateley, eldest son of Whateley patriarch Absalom, builds the first of several mills in New Dunnich. Dunwich (as the town is later known) prospers. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1697: Abner Exekiel Hoag is born in Arkham. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere leaves Quebec. He moves to Providence and builds a home (later known simply as the Charriere house) on Benefit Street. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1699: The branch of the Whateley family from which Cyrus and Aberath Whateley descend comes to Dunwich from England. ("The Watchers Out of Time" [incomplete], Lovecraft and Derleth)

c. 1700: An English translation of Præsidia Finium is published in London under the title Frontier Garrison. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

18th Century: Liyuhh, a German translation/analysis (with commentary) of the R'lyeh Text, is published in a limited 400-copy run.

Early 18th Century: The town of Agua Blanca changes its name to Castronegro.

Rumors that the slain witches of Kingsport have returned from the dead circulate. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

1700: Kazaj Heinz Vogel immigrates to America from Germany. He later returns and completes an untitled book (later known as Von denen Vertdammen). After it is published, the German authorities seize and destroy all but two copies, which are held in the restricted collections of German libraries. ("Darkness, My Name Is," Bertin; Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1702: Necrolatry, by Ivor Gorstadt, is published in Leipzig. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter)

1703: François-Honoré Balfour, if he is the Comte d'Erlette as some believe, probably publishes Cultes des Goules in this year, before shutting himself out from the world. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

Absalom Whateley, his assistant John Bishop, and his two sons Jeremiah and Jacob perfect an alchemical process that converts baser materials to gold. However, the process is prohibitively costly and difficult. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Sir Edward Orme builds a home in Dunwich that eventually comes into the possession of Cyrus Whateley and his descendants. ("The Watchers Out of Time" [incomplete], Lovecraft and Derleth)

1704: Goody Fowler is hung by an angry mob when she returns to Arkham.

Jacob Whateley has his first magical success when he summons a byakhee atop Wizard's Hill. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1705: The first sawmill in Dunwich is built by Jeremiah Whateley. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1706: John Bishop builds the old Bishop house. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1709: The first fulling mill in Dunwich is opened by the Whateley family, with the assistance of Lucas Frye. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

May 1 Jacob Whateley experiences a sudden change, and breaks with both his family and the Believers. A few Believers leave with Jacob and begin studies with him. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1710: Jerusalem's Lot, a religious community, is founded on the coast of Massachusetts. The people are members of a splinter Puritan group led by the charismatic James Boon. They follow Boon's unorthodox doctrines, and the town's inhabitants are soon quite decadent and deranged. ("Jerusalem's Lot," King)

1712: Abner Exekiel Hoag begins his life as a sailor. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

A glasshouse is constructed in Dunwich under the direction of Absalom Whateley. The influx of settlers who have come to work at Dunwich's mills drives Jacob Whateley to live outside the village. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1713: Abner Exekiel Hoag marries Bathsheba Randall Marsh of the Innsmouth Marshes. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter)

Joseph Curwen donates funds to help rebuild the Great Bridge in Providence. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1716: The wizard Sir Gilbert Morley purchases the Norman castle where Byatis had been chained, and begins giving sacrifices to the creature in exchange for communicating with the other Great Old Ones. ("The Room in the Castle," Campbell; Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places, Aniolowski and Sumpter, et al. (G))

1719: By this time, Abner Exekiel Hoag has become a ship captain. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1720: Simon Orne's ageless appearance attracts notice in Salem, prompting him to donate his books to the future Miskatonic University Library and move to Europe. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

c. 1721: The Akeley family comes to America.

1722: A raid is made on Kingsport's Congregational Church, to disperse a pagan cult holding ceremonies beneath it. Thirty of the pagans are captured. The raid is led by Mayor Eben Hall. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

John Bishop builds a house that later becomes the Dunwich meeting-house. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Absalom Whateley dies. He leaves his works and library to Jeremiah. Jacob demands to know the secret of the gold-making process, but following his father's warning, Jeremiah refuses. He instead gives his brother a share of the mill profits and limited access to Absalom's library. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1723: Sir Edward Orme disappears in Europe. ("The Watchers Out of Time" [incomplete], Lovecraft and Derleth)

1724: François-Honoré Balfour dies in Ardennes. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Mid-18th Century: Arkham becomes a thriving seaport. One of the more influential sea captains, Jeremiah Orne, donates the books and funds that lead to the foundation of Miskatonic Liberal College.

Richard Billington constructs a stone circle in the woods near Dunwich and engages in apparently dark rites there. After a year or so, Billington disappears, said by a local American Indian tribe to have fallen prey to an entity he had summoned. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

Between 1726 and 1760: During the reign of King George II of England, Sebastian Arkham is granted (by royal decree) the parcel of formerly Native American land upon which he plans to build his home. However, he encounters resistance from the natives, who consider the mountain centerpiece of his land sacred and refuse to leave. ("The Enchanting of Lila Woods," Lustig)

1728: Many flee to Castronegro from the persecution of the Masons in Madrid.

1729: An extremely poor English translation of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan appears. This version is disregarded by many scholars.

1731: Eben Hall, now Customs Inspector of Kingsport, attempts to board the Hellene, ship of suspected Kingsport cultist Douglas Corben. Corben resists, and after a brief battle, the Hellene is sunk with all hands aboard. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

c. 1732: A giant stone cross is erected in the campus of the future Miskatonic University. ("Beyond the Reef," Copper)

1732: Captain Abner Exekiel Hoag becomes one of the first New England traders to trade rum and copra among the Pacific islands, coming into contact with the people of Ponape. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1734: Captain Abner Exekiel Hoag discovers the work known as the Ponape Scripture on the isle of Ponape. He spends years thereafter attempting to translate it with the help of his half-Polynesian servant. Hoag succeeds, but an ecclesiastical outcry prevents his work from being published until after his death. Despite this, it is secretly circulated in occult circles for many years afterward. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter; "Out of the Ages," Carter; outcry??)

1737: According to some, Cultes des Goules by the Comte d'Erlette is published in Rouen, France.

1738: The "famous wit" Dr. Checkley calls on Joseph Curwen at his home, and leaves in a very disturbed state. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1743: Dunwich's first Congregation is formed by the mill worker families. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Elder Marsh of Innsmouth funds the construction of a building to store Arkham College's library. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1745: The Prescott and Dunlock families settle west of Dunwich. They only mix with the secretive townsfolk rarely. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1746: Benvento Chieti Bordighera, later to be a gifted young composer, is born in Rome.

John Merritt, an elderly and learned Englishman, visits Joseph Curwen. After seeing Curwen's farmhouse library, Merritt wants no more to do with him. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

John Bishop dies. He gives his property to his son Isaiah, and the secret of making gold to his other son Gabriel. Gabriel, a follower of Jacob Whateley, moves out of town to settle near Jacob's farm. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Construction begins on the Congregational Church in Dunwich. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

The van der Heyl family leaves Albany, New York after being suspected of witchcraft. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1747: The Congregational Church is completed. Reverend Abijah Hoadley preaches against the rumblings in the hills around Dunwich, decrying them as the work of the Devil. Soon after, Hoadley disappears, and the Congregation drifts apart. ("The Devil's Hop Yard," Lupoff; "The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1748: A larger grist mill is built by the Whateleys in Dunwich. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Sir Gilbert Morley seals Byatis' prison one final time and soon disappears. He leaves his diary behind, but his castle home is torn down. ("The Room of the Castle," Campbell; Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places, Aniolowski and Sumpter, et al. (G))

c. 1750: A cult devoted to Tulzscha, based in Kingsport, Massachusetts, is disbanded.

1750: Jedediah Orne, a son of Simon Orne who looks exactly like his father, returns to Salem and claims his father's estate. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1752: Peter Osborn borrows money from Jeremiah Whateley and founds a general store in the abandoned Congregational Church. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Jacob Whateley's eldest granddaughter disappears. Following that, Jacob and Jeremiah meet by chance and have a rather nasty argument in front of the general store. Jeremiah accuses Jacob of having a part in his granddaughter's vanishing and forbids him further access to Absalom's library. Three weeks later, Jeremiah dies in an apparent accident while retrieving books borrowed by Jacob. The surviving brother purchases Absalom's library some weeks later from Jeremiah's widow. The Widow Whateley is ruled unfit to manage her husband's properties, which are inherited by her sons. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Rumors of unnatural activities at the Whateley farm, and the participation of Gabriel Bishop's family, leads to the Believers' ceasing all contact with them. Several visitors come to Jacob's farm, including one Sermon Bishop. Bishop disappears en route to home.

1753: Jacob Whateley dies. Whether it is really of natural causes as claimed by his family is uncertain. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

The British Museum is founded, thanks in part to three libraries donated for the use of the English people. Among the books is one of the 15th-century German-printed Latin Necronomicons. (Factual; Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

1758: March and April Two regiments of Royal soldiers pass through Providence. While they are stopped there, a few of their troops disappear without a trace. Joseph Curwen is suspected to be involved. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

c. 1760: The van der Heyls build a family home near Attica, New York, around which the village of Chorazin grows. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1761: Joseph Curwen has a new home built. He also donates funds ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1762: Sebastian Arkham hires mercenaries that, six years later, finally clear his chosen lands and allow him to begin building Arkham House. ("The Enchanting of Lila Woods," Lustig)

1763: March 7 Joseph Curwen marries Eliza Tillinghast. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

Between 1765 and 1821: The Dena family builds a house in San Pedro during the Spanish era of California. The building is later home to the infamous Morella Godolfo, and eventually, to the artist Graham Dean. ("The Black Kiss," Bloch and Kuttner)

1765: According to some, Arkham College is reinvigorated thanks to a bequest from Jedediah Orne. After this it is renamed to Miskatonic College.

Sir Wade Jermyn, an early explorer of the Congo, is committed to a madhouse in Huntingdon. Before this time or by the end of the year, his work Observations on Several Parts of Africa is published. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft; (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)))

May 7 Joseph and Eliza Curwen's daughter, Ann, is born. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1768: Benvento Chieti Bordighera writes the opera Massa di Requiem per Shuggay. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G); ???)

Sir Wade Jermyn dies in the Huntingdon asylum. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1769: Pope Clement XIII bans Massa di Requiem per Shuggay after its first incomplete performance. (Delta Green: Countdown, Detwiller, Glancy, and Tynes, et al (G)))

According to some, Joseph Curwen donates funds to support Arkham College's library. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1770: Benvento Bordighera is imprisoned for heresy. (Delta Green: Countdown, Detwiller, Glancy, and Tynes, et al (G)))

It becomes obvious to many important figures in Providence that Joseph Curwen is involved in some kind of illegal acts. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1771: Benvento Bordighera is executed. (Delta Green: Countdown, Detwiller, Glancy, and Tynes, et al (G)))

Jedediah Orne vanishes following an action undertaken by some prominent people of Massachusetts. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

April 12 A raid is initiated on Joseph Curwen's Pawtuxet farm. In the aftermath, Curwen is never seen again. Curwen's copy of the Necronomicon- unique in having the title "Qanoon-é-Islam" on its cover- is spirited away. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft; spirited away?)

1772: A now widowed Eliza Curwen changes her last name, and that of her daughter, back to Tillinghast. She donates what remains of Joseph Curwen's books to the future Miskatonic University. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

Between 1775 and 1778: During the American Revolution, many of Kingsport's merchants act as privateers for the Colonies. These activities lead to a short-term British blockade of the town. Citizens of Innsmouth also aid the Revolution, either by joining the military or providing ships. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G); Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

Late 18th Century: Abner Exekiel Hoag's translation of the Ponape Scripture is published. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis (G))

1775: June 21 Junípero Serra of the Mission San Xavier buries a trio of bells, given to the Mission by the Mutsune tribe in an attempt to destroy the colonists. ("Bells of Horror," Kuttner)

1776: According to some, the Salem Academy moves to Arkham and is renamed to the Miskatonic Liberal Seminary.

1778: The British blockade of Kingsport's harbor is broken by the townspeople, inspired by a man named Argus Blaine. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

c. 1780: The Oklahoman American Indian Grey Eagle is born; he will live for around 150 years or more. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

1780: Philip Jermyn, son of Sir Wade Jermyn, marries the daughter of his gamekeeper. He becomes a sailor and leaves his home, just before the birth of his son Robert. Philip later disappears off the Congo Coast. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1781: James Sheffield translates Chronike von Nath into English, retitling it The Chronicles of Nath. ("Music of the Stars," Rimel)

An ancestor of Randolph Carter disappears mysteriously from a grove of trees near the Carter property near Arkham. ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

c. 1783: Soon after the end of the Revolutionary War, Miskatonic is presented the former Arkham town common in recognition of its achievements.

1783: The pamphlet On the Sending Out of the Soul circulates through the Salem occult community. ("Hydra," Kuttner)

1785: Welcome Potter, great-great-grandfather of Charles Dexter Ward, marries Ann Tillinghast, daughter of Joseph Curwen. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

1787: Reverend Jeptha Hoag holds a fiery sermon preaching against evil forces in Dunwich. Like Abijah Hoadley before him, Hoag disappears, within a month of the sermon. ("The Watchers Out of Time" [incomplete], Lovecraft and Derleth)

Around Candlemas, a Goodwife Doten of Duxbury encounters a horrible creature with the face of Robert Billington. The creature is captured by locals. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

c. 1788: Over twenty years after its construction begun, Arkham House is completed. ("The Enchanting of Lila Woods," Lustig)

1788: The Whateley glasshouse closes from lack of business. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

June 5 The beast with Robert Billington's face is burned by order of Duxbury's local High-Sheriff. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

1789: September 16 James Boon acquires a (probably) unique version of De Vermis Mysteriis, and incorporates it into his services. ("Jerusalem's Lot," King)

October 31 After attempting a ceremony described within De Vermis Mysteriis, the inhabitants of Jerusalem's Lot disappear without a trace. ("Jerusalem's Lot," King)

c. 1790: The Severnford island witch cult is disbanded. Individuals continue to visit the island through the next two centuries, some of which are prey to bizarre attacks; the island becomes a cneter of strange events. ("The Stone on the Island," Campbell)

A group of people come to the lake containing Glaaki's meteor from nearby Goatswood. Led by Thomas Lee, the cult builds houses there so they can be near their god. ("The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell)

1791: George Whateley constructs a new sawmill on the North Fork Miskatonic. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1792: L'Histoire des Planetes, by Laurent de Longnez, is written. (It may be a French translation of Ketzer's Die Geschichte den Planeten.) ("The Recurring Doom," Joshi)

c. 1793: The d'Erlettes flee France and settle in Bavaria at the time of the French Revolution. They change the family name to Derleth. (Factual)

1793: Juan Gonzalles, a Spanish explorer, visits the Temple of the Toad in the jungles of Honduras. ("The Thing on the Roof," Howard)

A boy enters an abandoned house near an Arkham burying-ground, and sees something there so terrifying that it drives him mad. ("The Unnamable," Lovecraft)

1794: Alexis Ladeau's father is killed during the Reign of Terror. Alexis' pregnant mother flees to Vienna.

Reverend Ward Phillips, great-grandson of the original Ward Phillips, writes Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-English Canaan. The complete first edition is published in this year. ("The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)?? NOT ORIGINAL SOURCE

October 28 Alexis Ladeau is born in Vienna.

c. 1795: Gottfried Mülder is born.

Around this time, legends circulate about strange sounds emanating from the van der Heyl home. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1795: Friedrich von Junzt is born in Cologne, Germany. ("The Black Stone," Howard)

1797: Obadiah Marsh, ancestor of Obed Marsh, is found in a rowboat in Innsmouth harbor with his first mate Cyrus Phillips. He claims that his ship and the rest of his crew were lost in the South Pacific. ("The Seal of R'lyeh," Derleth)

19th Century: The sea trade in Kingsport declines, and fishing becomes its major industry. However, its economy declines over the next century.

Early 19th Century: A "Clergyman X" publishes a heavily expurgated pamphlet in English, describing the contents of De Vermis Mysteriis's most famous chapter, "Saracenic Rituals." ("Lord of the Worms," Lumley)

The sea trade in Arkham fails, but now mills spring up on the banks of the Miskatonic River.

Most of Ithaqua's cults in the northern regions of Earth have died out by this time.

A necromantic cult exists among the people of Temphill. This cult later collapses.

The original version of the Revelations of Glaaki is said to have been written by this time. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis (G))

1800: James Phipps, an "unorthodox" scientist, moves into an empty house on Riverside Alley in the town of Clotton on the Ton River (a tributary of the Severn River). ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

1801: By this year, Alijah Billington lives on the family estate established by his ancestor in colonial times near Dunwich. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

The expurgated second edition of Thaumaturgical Prodigies in the New-English Canaan is released. Alijah Billington protests his ancestor Robert Billington's unfavorable portrayal in Prodigies, and engages in a brief and inconclusive dispute over the work with its author. (??; The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

The old grist mill in Dunwich is burnt down to almost nothing. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1802: Arkham industrialist Elihu Beckford founds the town of Aylesbury on the site of the former village of Broton. He also has the Aylesbury Pike built.

1804: Ezra Whateley, descendant of Jacob, demands that George Whateley return a piece of jewelery found by a farmer on Whateley property. George refuses, and Ezra swears revenge. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1805: Reverend Ward Phillips becomes the head librarian of Miskatonic University. According to some, Arkham College became Miskatonic University in this year. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Spring James Phipps leaves Clotton one night and does not return for some time. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)
Early November James Phipps returns to Clotton, having spent the past several months in Temphill. He brings with him his new wife, whom he met in that town. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

1806: A larger, more modern sawmill is built by George Whateley, and promises to bring economic prosperity to Dunwich. Four boys die in a tragic accident on the day of its opening however, an act for which Avern Whateley of the hill Whateleys is blamed. Avern is hung by an angry mob. The tragedy causes George Whateley to suffer a mental collapse, and while his family tries to run the sawmill, people are reluctant to work there. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

November Lionel Phipps is born to Mr. and Mrs. James Phipps. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

1807: A number of bizarre disappearances and murders, ending with the disappearance of Jonathan Bishop, occur throughout the area near Kingsport, Dunwich and Arkham. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

c. 1808: After some strange happenings and conflicts with certain locals, Alijah Billington leaves with his son Laban and moves to England. Reverend Ward Phillips, perhaps in regret, tries to acquire and destroy all copies of Thaumaturgical Prodigies afterward. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

1808: The new sawmill in Dunwich finally closes. This begins the downward spiral of Dunwich's economy. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Tracer Bishop dies, and leaves his home to the community of Dunwich. The old town meeting house is abandoned and replaced by Bishop's home, and the town records are moved there as well. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1809: An edition of De Vermis Mysteriis is published in Prague.

Remnants of Lost Empires, by Otto Dostmann, is published in Berlin by Der Drachenhaus Press. ("The Black Stone," Howard; ?? DER)

Benevolent Pickman donates the first of several legacies from the Pickman family to Miskatonic University's library, on the condition that the funds be used to purchase occult books. Benevolent's own library is later donated to Miskatonic after his death. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1811: A mysterious foreigner leaves a copy of the Latin Necronomicon at the Bibliotheque Nationale. He is found poisoned the next day in his apartment.

Between 1812 and 1814: During the War of 1812, the sea captains of Innsmouth turn privateer and attack the British fleet. Half of Innsmouth's sailors are killed, and the town loses its previous prosperity. After this point, Innsmouth's economy is dependent on the mills built on the banks of the Manuxet and, later, Captain Obed Marsh's trade in the Indies. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1814: Friedrich von Junzt enters the University of Berlin.

Father Jacque DeCasque disappears.

1815: Gottfried Mülder and Friedrich von Junzt meet, probably at the University of Berlin. They become good friends.

Sir Robert Jermyn, son of Philip Jermyn, marries the daughter of the Viscount Brightholme. They have three children, but two of them are deformed and never publicly seen. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1818: Gottfried Mülder and Friedrich von Junzt begin their travels through Asia.

The government destroys burrows around some of the more ancient homes in Arkham, as well as unearthing a particular graveyard, following the arrest of smuggler Jonathan Dark. ("The Creeper in the Crypt," Bloch)

1819: Famous architect Charles Bulfinch is hired to help design the western wing of the Cabot Museum of Archaeology, which is dedicated to mummies. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

After Gottfried Mülder and Friedrich von Junzt return from Asia, they grow apart.

Friedrich von Junzt writes his doctoral thesis, "The Origin and Influence of Semantic Magical Texts." After graduation, he goes to the University of Wurttemberg to teach.

1820: Innsmouth native Captain Gardner Averill learns a dangerous demon-summoning ritual from a Burmese sage, and records it in his captain's log. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

Captain Obed Marsh begins his business in the Pacific trade. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

A whaler named Scoresby observes strange mirages in the Arctic, which he later draws. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

1821: Charles Leggert translates an English version of De Vermis Mysteriis (Mysteries of the Worm) from a German translation. Only a few copies of this version were published. ("Lord of the Worms," Lumley)

1822: According to rumor, Lionel Phipps begins to be educated by his father in the ways of his science. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

1823: Friedrich von Junzt leaves his teaching post and travels throughout Europe, the Americas, and Africa, infiltrating and investigating numerous secret cults, and learning of their practices.

Late in the year, Lionel Phipps' education is rumored to be complete, and he and his father undertake a strange series of excavations near their home. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

Obed Marsh meets the Kanakys, and begins trading with them for their strange gold jewelery. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1824: The Hall School is founded in Kingsport. Many papers belonging to Eben Hall are stored here. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

Mid-19th Century: Captain Obed Marsh explores Devil's Reef. Reputedly, he is searching for pirate treasure.

1825: Early in the year, officials searching for a fugitive in Clotton search the Phipps home. One of their number has a disturbing experience in the cellar. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

Alexis Ladeau meets Friedrich von Junzt in Paris. The two become friends.

c. 1826: A Frenchman named Echard, accompanied by a few American Indians of the Huron tribe, goes on an expedition through some of the great forests of Canada. He later writes a manuscript detailing this journey, including mentions of ancient gods and a statue of a creature named "All-Eye." ("All-Eye," van Laerhoven)

1826: The ruins of Nan-Matal and Metalanim, located on the island of Ponape, are discovered by an Irish sailor named O'Connell or O'Connor. ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

1827: Alexis Ladeau and Friedrich von Junzt travel to America, settling in New York for a time.

Friedrich von Junzt publishes his short monograph Les Vampires.

1828: Friedrich von Junzt publishes another short monograph, Les Lupines.

c. 1829: The being which embodies the worshippers of Nodens arrives after another time-jump, and takes on the identity of Dr. Marc Souvate. He meets Armand Saadi, who becomes his apprentice and helps him adjust to his new time. ("Glimpses," Attanasio)

1829: Early in the year, Alexis Ladeau catches malaria while he and Friedrich von Junzt explore the Florida Everglades. Ladeau is forced to return home.

The Kingsport Chronicle newspaper is founded. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

1831: Zadok Allen of Innsmouth is born. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

Captain William Henry Parker of Innsmouth meets Lang-Fu, a Chinese sage, who entrusts him with a document meant for Captain Obed Marsh. The document, an English translation of the R'lyeh Text, terrifies Parker so much that he hides it in his library. (?; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1832: Abednego Mesach Akeley is born in Windham County, Vermont. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

Mid-1830s: Friedrich von Junzt contacts Gottfried Mülder, now operating a publishing house in Dusseldorf. Von Junzt makes arrangements with him to publish his work Unaussprechlichen Kulten.

1833: A second Dunwich is founded in the Flint Hills of Kansas, populated by immigrants from the original Dunwich. They are led by Reverend Ezekiel o'Sullivan, who was inspired by a vision of a golden city to the west. ("The Seven Cities of Gold," Burnham)

The Innsmouth Courier newspaper is founded. It is edited by "the fiery John Lawrence." (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1834: May 3 George Gammell Angell is born. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" (graphical adaptation), Lovecraft and Coulthart)

1835: Friedrich von Junzt returns to his family manor, and calls for Alexis Ladeau. The two live together for the next year while von Junzt works on his magnum opus.

1836: Friedrich von Junzt completes Unaussprechlichen Kulten. The day after he finishes it, von Junzt takes a train to St. Petersburg. This is the last time Alexis Ladeau sees him alive.

Oliver Whateley of the hill Whateleys leaves Dunwich and becomes a missionary in the American West. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Between 1837 and 1843: Missionary Oliver Whateley works among the Hotethk tribe in California. (Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, Chaosium)

1837: Gottfried Mülder receives Unaussprechlichen Kulten from Friedrich von Junzt- however, he chooses not to publish it at this time for unknown reasons. Mülder does contract von Junzt to write a second book, which he agrees to do.

1838: Obed Marsh's trading partners in the Pacific are killed by other local tribes, ending Marsh's source of revenue. As a result, Innsmouth's economy enters a depression. Soon after, Obed Marsh founds the Esoteric Order of Dagon, which becomes very popular. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1839: Folklorist Eli Davenport's monograph Legends of New England is released.

The first printing of Unaussprechlichen Kulten is released, with an introduction by Gottfried Mülder himself. ("The Black Stone," Howard; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

1840: Following his return from a six-month visit to Mongolia, Friedrich von Junzt is found dead by Alexis Ladeau and local authorities in his hotel room in Dusseldorf. Alexis takes a manuscript von Junzt had been working on, but after reassembling and reading it, he destroys it and slits his throat. (According to some, a few pages of this manuscript are buried with Ladeau.) ("The Black Stone," Howard; "The Thing on the Roof," Howard; ?? buried)

In the scandal following the death of von Junzt, Gottfried Mülder's publishing house eventually goes bankrupt. Many who own Unaussprechlichen Kulten destroy their copies after learning of von Junzt's fate.

Obed Marsh makes contact with the deep ones of Y'ha-nthlei, near Devil's Reef. They become part of the Esoteric Order of Dagon's rites, and also provide new gold to replace that of the Pacific islanders. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

Between 1840 and 1846: The Esoteric Order of Dagon runs every other church out of town, and becomes the sole religion of Innsmouth. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1841: The branch rail line from Innsmouth to Rowley is built. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

Between 1842 and 1860: Several male members of the Bishop family are buried in sealed, alcohol-filled coffins, as per the instructions of Nyarlathotep (as the Black Man). (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1842: Douglas Averill, son of Gardner Averill, is killed by a follower of Obed Marsh. The follower is freed thanks to Marsh's influence, but the Averills use the Burmese demon-summoning spell. The creature that manifests is sent to horribly slay the offender. The Averill family is not bothered for quite some time afterwards. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

A crew of Kingsport fishermen are lost in Innsmouth waters, with only young Danny Troughton surviving. A storm is blamed, but there are rumors that the seamen were slain by Innsmouth natives guarding their fishing grounds. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

The nine-volume edition of the Revelations of Glaaki begins to be compiled at this time. (Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places, Aniolowski and Sumpter, et al (G))

June 24 Ambrose Bierce is born. (Factual)

1843: Professor Enoch Bowen, an occultist and archaeologist from Providence, Rhode Island, excavates the crypt of Nephren-Ka. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft)

A French translation of Unaussprechlichen Kulten, by the Jesuit Pierre Sansrire, is published in St. Malo. No copies of this version are known to survive to the modern day.

Oliver Whateley leaves the Hotethk tribe. After his departure, the entire tribe vanishes.

1844: May Professor Enoch Bowen ceases his excavations of Nephren-Ka's tomb upon finding the Shining Trapezohedron, and returns to Providence. Once there, he founds the Church of Starry Wisdom. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft)

1845: M.A.G. Bridewall, a disreputable bookseller, finds a copy of the French translation of Unaussprechlichen Kulten in a London store. He translates it (badly) into English, and has this rather flawed version published under the title Nameless Cults. (??; "The Black Stone," Howard)

1846: Obed Marsh takes an unseen wife, as do other members of the Esoteric Order of Dagon. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

Obed Marsh and some of his followers are arrested and jailed on suspicion of kidnapping and murder. Two weeks later, a "plague" strikes Innsmouth. Half of the townspeople die, including Courier editor John Lawrence and Selectman Leonard Mowry. The surviving population is placed firmly under the control of Obed Marsh and the Esoteric Order of Dagon. Among the deceased is Zadok Allen's father. He takes it badly. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G); The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

Alexis Ladeau's book Reminiscences of Friedrich Wilheim von Junzt is published by Bridewall.

Disappearances begin in Providence that rumors link to the Starry Wisdom Church. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft)

1847: Gottfried Mülder's book The Secret Mysteries of Asia, with a Commentary on the "Ghorl Nigral" is printed in Liepzig. Its content was derived from conversations Mülder had with Friedrich von Junzt during their Asian travels, which he recalled under hypnosis. Most copies are seized and destroyed by the German government. ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

1848: According to rumor, Friedrich von Junzt's translation of the Greek Necronomicon, Das Verichteraraberbuch, is published posthumously in this year.

Randolph Delapore, cousin of Thomas Delapore, becomes a voodoo priest after returning from the Mexican War. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

1849: Nevil Jermyn, second son of Sir Robert, elopes with a "vulgar dancer." ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1850s: Leander Alwyn leaves Innsmouth and builds a mansion in the wilds of Wisconsin. ("Beyond the Threshold," Derleth)

1850: Nevil Jermyn returns to his family, a widower with an infant son named Alfred. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

Gene Mirandola, nephew of Armand Saadi, is born. ("Glimpses," Attanasio)

Graf von Könnenberg writes the monograph Uralte Schrecken. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

c. 1852: Noah Whateley is born. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis (G))

1852: October 19 Explorer Samuel Seaton provides Sir Robert Jermyn with certain papers and anecdotes of the Congo, which drive Jermyn to madness. He strangles the explorer and kills all his children, before being restrained. Robert's grandson, Alfred, is the only survivor of the family. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1854: Sir Robert Jermyn dies of apoplexy in his confinement, after repeated suicide attempts. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

c. 1855: Thomas Delapore (later Thomas de la Poer) is born in Virginia. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft; (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G)))

1855: Henry Armitage is born. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

Future occultist Alonzo Hasbrouck Typer is born. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1858: According to one source, Gottfried Mülder publishes a German translation of the Ghorl Nigral. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1859: Catskills native Joe Slater begins to exhibit bizarre behavioral patterns contrary to his normal personality. ("Beyond the Wall of Sleep," Lovecraft)

c. 1860: Harold Hadley Copeland is born.

1860: A young priest breaks up the Cyaegha-worshipping cult in Freihausgarten. ("Darkness, My Name Is," Bertin)

Professor William Channing Webb encounters a tribe of Cthulhu-worshipping Eskimos along the western coast of Greenland. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

Between 1861 and 1865: The American Civil War breaks out. (Factual)

Northern troops destroy the Delapore home in Carfax, Virginia. The Delapore family moves to Massachusetts. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

The Dunwich in Kansas takes a neutral stance in the Civil War.

Members of the Waite family of Innsmouth move to Kettlethorpe Farm in England. ("Dagon's Bell," Lumley)

1861: Miskatonic Liberal Seminary (or Miskatonic College) merges with Elder Faith Seminary to become Miskatonic University.

Between 1863 and 1864: Union conscription agents are sent to investigate Innsmouth's failure to make draft quotas. After seeing the degeneracy of the town and widespread deformities among its people, they leave it unmolested. Only natives are aware that these deformities come from breeding with the deep ones. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1863: At this point, the Starry Wisdom Cult in Providence had over 200 members. Presumably, Dr. Raymond Flagg had taken over the cult by this time, following Bowen's death. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft; Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Sawyer Whateley joins the Union army, and distinguishes himself in the course of two battles. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere investigates Innsmouth. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1864: Edward Hutchinson's work The Opener of the Way is published by Buzrael Press of Liverpool.

Laban Shrewsbury is born in Wisconsin. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

The whaling ship Nebuchadnezzar vanishes off the coast of Ponape, around the same time as the appearance of a bank of strange low-lying fog. ("Out of the Ages," Carter)

c. 1865: Erich Zann, future musician, is born. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

1865: Professor Enoch Bowen dies.

An escaped member of the cult of Glaaki leaks the manuscript of the eleven-volume Revelations of Glaaki, which details the practices of that cult. It is published, but certain material is not included, reducing the Revelations to nine volumes. The book becomes extremely rare, as the cultists of Glaaki make a point to buy as many copies as they can. ("The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell; Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places, Aniolowski and Sumpter, et al (G))

E.A. Hitchcock's Remarks upon Alchemy is printed, which makes mention of the "now unattainable secrets of the Aklo tablets." ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

By the end of the American Civil War, a cult known as the Esoteric Order of Dagon (apparently related to the Innsmouth version by name only) is well established in and around New Orleans. (The New Orleans Guidebook, van Lente et al (G))

The city of Kimbrough is settled in Texas, soon after the end of the American Civil War, by settlers from Georgia. Their initial difficulties are solved by an alliance with the local Comanche. ("Where Yidhra Walks," DeBill)

Between 1865 and 1870: The cult of Glaaki around its lake disappears. The lake is drained to search for the missing persons, but neither they nor any trace of Glaaki or its meteor are found. ("The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell)

1866: The federal government closes down Innsmouth's Custom House and rescinds the town's status as a port of entry. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

c. 1868: Josiah Alwyn, nephew of Leander Alwyn, is born. ("Beyond the Threshold," Derleth)

John Raymond Legrasse is born. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis (G))

1868: The Reverend Samuel Shadrach Solomon Akeley, father of Abednego Akeley, dies. Abednego succeeds him as reverend, but begins preaching the doctrines of the Starry Wisdom cult to his flock after travels through southern New England. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

The city of the "Fishers from Outside" is found by its first explorer. ("The Fishers from Outside," Carter)

1869: The "great immigrant panic" in Arkham leads to the destruction of Cyrus Hook's mansion. ("The Creeper in the Crypt," Bloch)

A group of Irish vandalize the Starry Wisdom Church, apparently in retaliation for their perceived involvement in kidnapping a fellow. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

c. 1870: Ambrose Dewart, descendant of Alijah Billington, is born.

Basil Elton, a traveller of the Dreamlands, is born.

1870: Alfred Jermyn joins "a band of music-hall performers." ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1871: Abednego Akeley dies, leaving behind a son, Henry Wentworth Akeley, conceived hours before his death. Abednego's congregation moves to Providence. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

c. 1872: Septimus Bishop, later a reputed warlock, is born. ("The Horror from the Middle Span," Lovecraft and Derleth)

The entire van der Heyl household- family and servants all- disappear, leaving the house empty. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1872: An Old French translation of Sorcerie de Demonologie, by the Comte Jean-Louis de Hammais, is printed.

Oakley Press publishes a version of True Magik.

The old John Bishop house is abandoned by his descendants. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1873: Randolph Carter is born. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

An Innsmouth man pawns a piece of jewelery from his hometown, shortly before he is killed in a brawl. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

1874: March 24 Erich Weiss, later known as Harry Houdini, is born. (Factual)

Between the Late 19th Century and the Early 20th Century: Two enciphered Tibetan copies of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are sent out of Tibet for safekeeping. One eventually returns to the Dalai Lama, and the other is acquired by Miskatonic University. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Late 19th Century: Zebulon Pharr, an occultist and anthropologist from the West Coast, is active during this time.

Missionaries in the Sepik River area in New Guinea begin struggling against a native cult devoted to "Zhmog-yaa." ("Out of the Ages," Carter)

Henry Armitage, recently hired as a librarian of the Miskatonic University Library, acquires a copy of the Necronomicon from Providence businessman Whipple Phillips, H.P. Lovecraft's grandfather. Coincidentally, this happens to be the same copy once used by Joseph Curwen. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

An English translation of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan is supposedly smuggled out of China at this time. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

c. 1875: William Dyer, future Professor of Geology at Miskatonic University, is born.

The Sanbourne Institute for Pacific Studies is founded in California by Philip Sanbourne. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

1875: Aleister Crowley is born. (Factual)

Caleb Hutchins makes an attempt to blow up the stone circle on Hutchins Mountain, near Dunwich. His plans are ruined by one of the hill Whateleys, and Hutchins goes insane and is locked away by his family. The Believers repair the damaged stones. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

1876: Morris Wheaton, an amateur archaeologist from Kingsport, visits an allegedly haunted Indian mound near the Miskatonic River and west of Arkham. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

c. 1877: Barnabas Marsh, grandson of Obed Marsh, takes an Ipswich woman as his wife. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

Lavinia Whateley is born to Noah Whateley and his wife. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

1877: May The Starry Wisdom cult in Providence is disbanded after threats from the locals. The cultists leave town by year's end. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft; "The Shadow from the Steeple," Bloch)

1878: Obed Marsh dies. His family continues to run the Esoteric Order of Dagon in his stead, and retain control of Innsmouth. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

May 11 The crew of the freighter Eridanus acquires a strange mummy on an unknown Pacific island. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

October 31 A Cthulhu cult located at Satan's Ledge near Arkham is scattered when a "cataclysm of God" destroys their settlement. ("The Madness Out of Space," Cannon)

1879: Seneca Lapham, future Professor of Anthropology at Miskatonic University, graduates from that same institution. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

The Cabot Museum of Archaeology acquires the mummy found by the Eridanus. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

Satan and His Works in Latter-Day New England is published privately by Arkham native Thomas Hazard Clarke, in which he discusses the Satan's Ledge cult. ("The Madness Out of Space," Cannon)

November The Cabot Museum puts the Pacific mummy on display. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

Between 1880 and 1890: A Starry Wisdom cult flourishes in Yorkshire, England.

c. 1880: Herbert West is born. ("Herbert West- Reanimator," Lovecraft)

Nathaniel Corey begins his practice in psychoanalysis.

The homes near Glaaki's lake are placed on sale again. They are named as the community of Lakeside Terrace. ("The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell)

Ghost stories centering around the former Starry Wisdom Church begin around this time. A Yorkshire branch of the cult arises, possibly founded by Dr. Raymond Flagg. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft; Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)))

Étienne-Laurent de Marigny is born. (The New Orleans Guidebook, van Lente et al (G))

1880s: Charles Clarendon, an aspiring doctor, goes on journeys across the world. Along the way, he visits U-tsang in Tibet (where he acquires samples of black fever and a large retinue of servants) and the Tuareg people of the Sahara (where he is joined by his strange manservant Surama). Upon returning to his sister in New York City, he becomes a renowned physician. ("The Last Test," de Castro and Lovecraft)

1880: A young Vienna scholar named von Boehnk becomes acquainted with John Grimlan. Due to Grimlan's apparent age at the time, von Boehnk later expresses surprise that Grimlan still lived in 1930. ("Dig Me No Grave," Howard)

Miskatonic's world-renowned medical school opens.

Warren Rice, future Miskatonic University professor, is born.

1881: Henry Armitage and Harold Copeland graduate from Miskatonic University. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Beatrice Arkham, last of her line, leaves Arkham House to the Brothers of St. Jerome. ("The Enchanting of Lila Woods," Lustig)

1882: The Eltdown Shards are found near Eltdown in southern England. ("The Challenge from Beyond," Moore et al; (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)))

The Dark Brotherhood, a group of occult experimenters, ceases meeting after one of its members is killed.

Armand Saadi dies. Gene Mirandola disappears some time afterward, along with Dr. Marc Souvate. ("Glimpses," Attanasio)

Daniel Upton, future architect and friend of Edward Derby, is born. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft)

June A strange meteor lands near Arkham, on the property of a farmer named Nahum Gardner. Henry Armitage later investigates, leading to his interest in acquiring the Necronomicon for the Miskatonic University library and studying it. ("The Colour Out of Space," Lovecraft; ???Armitage)

c. 1883: Future detective Thomas F. Malone is born. ("The Horror at Red Hook," Lovecraft)

Mid-1880s: Phineas Hoag of Foxfield, Massachusetts encounters a being called Moroni, who gives him a copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts and sets him on the path to a new religion. Hoag soon converts the whole of Foxfield, and over the next century, the town deliberately isolates itself from the rest of the world. ("The Shunpike," Robert M. Price)

1883: January/February Dr. Regis, a historian and scientist living near Goatswood Forest, investigates the Insects from Shaggai. ("The Queen," Sammarco)

November Nahum Gardner is the last of his family to fall to the strange blight that devastated his land. The farm and the land around it is left abandoned. ("The Colour Out of Space," Lovecraft)

October 7 After spending a day in the "Snake Den" cave near his home, young Randolph Carter begins to show a talent for prophecy. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

1884: Richard Upton Pickman is born.

An ape-like creature called "Jacko" is found in British Columbia. It is exhibited for a brief while, then escapes.

1886: Alfred Jermyn leaves his wife and son Arthur to join the "Greatest Show on Earth." He later dies following a disastrous incident with a circus gorilla. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

1887: The Kimbrough family, with several other families, leaves the town that bears their name and moves to California. Allegedly, this is because they refused to convert to the local Comanche cult venerating Yidhra. The town of Kimbrough changes its name to Milando. ("Where Yidhra Walks," DeBill)

1888: A flood sweeps through Arkham.

A major storm hits Dunwich, destroying the old John Bishop house and damaging Osborn's General Store's steeple. A similar (or perhaps the same) storm destroys the roof and steeple of Kingsport's Congregational Church. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G); (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G)))

A series of unexplained suicides in London end with the disappearance of one Mrs. Beaumont on July 25. ("The Great God Pan," Machen)

1889: The Innsmouth-Rowley rail line is abandoned. (Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

August 10 An investigator for the Tlaxcala Mining Company has a terrifying encounter with a madman aboard a Mexico City-bound train. ("The Electric Executioner," de Castro and Lovecraft)

October 31 Walker and Audrey Davis fall prey to the curse of Yig. ("The Curse of Yig," Bishop and Lovecraft)

Between 1890 and 1910: Witch-hunter and supernatural investigator Baron Ernst Kant lives around the turn of the century. His son is Joachim Feery.

c. 1890: The Shields family, owners of the van der Heyl home, allow the property to decay from neglect. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1890s: By this time, Aylesbury's formerly booming economy slumps and the village becomes one of many small manufacturing centers in New England.

Harold Copeland travels extensively throughout Asia and Polynesia. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

Ezekiah Morton makes an English translation of Sorcerie de Demonologie.

Dr. Alfred Clarendon is given the post of medical director at San Quentin Penitentiary in California. He is dismissed some time later, following a controversy surrounding his activities during an outbreak of black fever among the prisoners. Shortly after that, Clarendon dies in a fire, along with Surama. ("The Last Test," de Castro and Lovecraft)

1890: Edward Pickman Derby is born. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft; "Azathoth in Arkham," Cannon)

Noah Whateley's wife dies violently. The death is never investigated to any extent. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

By this time, the Yorkshire Starry Wisdom cult has fallen apart. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

August 20 Howard Phillips Lovecraft is born. (Factual)

1891: Halpin Chalmers is born.

An unknown playwright (possibly named Castaigne) rediscovers the Marlowe sections of The King in Yellow, and completes the play. He attempts suicide thereafter. ( ; "The Repairer of Reputations," Chambers; "The Yellow Sign," Chambers; ?)

A young man named Heaton goes insane after exploring inside the "haunted" mound near Binger, Oklahoma, and dies eight years later. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

1892: After entering the "mound region" of Oklahoma in pursuit of horse thieves, Marshal John Williams tells of a battle he saw between strange, ghostly warriors on horseback. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

1893: Reporter Edwin M. Lillibridge disappears after investigating the former church of the Starry Wisdom Cult. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft)

January 13 Clark Ashton Smith is born. (Factual)
February 24-25 "Globular lights" are observed by the H.M.S. Caroline between the ship and a mountain near the China sea. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

Between May and June The entire population of Dunwich, Kansas, disappears over the space of a few months. ("The Seven Cities of Gold," Burnham)

c. 1894: Future author Fred Carstairs is born in Partridgeville. ("It Was the Day of the Deep One," Cannon)

1894: Alfred Delapore, son of Thomas Delapore, is born. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

1895: An edition of De Vermis Mysteriis is supposedly published by Starry Wisdom Press, but no copies have been found.

The King in Yellow is published, and the play is quickly denounced by the governments and churches of Europe. The city of Paris even bans it. A more common English translation is produced afterward. ("The Repairer of Reputations," Chambers; ((Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee becomes an instructor in political economics at Miskatonic University. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

The book Analysis of the Manuscript of the Pnakotoi is compiled by Dr. J.T. Schwarzwalder. ("Principles and Parameters," Patterson)

1896: Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee marries Alice Keezar. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

August 23 Stanislaus Hinterstoisser is born.
November A genealogist has a frightening encounter in an abandoned part of the Miskatonic Valley. ("The Picture in the House," Lovecraft)

1897: Erich Zann suffers an accident in Paris which causes him to lose his hearing. After this, he moves to Stuttgart, marries, and has at least one child.

Randolph Carter foresees danger at a town named Belloy-en-Santerre. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

Paul Dunbar Lang is born in Bristol, England. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

Francis Morgan is born.

1898: Dr. Ambrose Dexter is born.

Justin Geoffrey is born. [According to some accounts, he is born with the name John Ernest Tyler. This is probably confusion with his friend, John Tyler, who some believe was the writer of his poetry.] (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G); ??? John Tyler???

A second edition of Ladeau's Reminiscences of Friedrich Wilheim von Junzt is printed by Kielkopf.

The only known copy of Monstres and Their Kynde is stolen from the British Museum. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

Robert Peaslee is born to Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee. Nathaniel Peaslee becomes an associate professor. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

A state surveyor dies of a heart attack when he tries to affix an identification marker to a "haunted" tree near Dunwich. (Return to Dunwich, Herber (G))

James Phipps dies. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

March 12 A frozen body found near Vancouver is identified as Father Jacque DeCasque, who had vanished 84 years earlier.
August Passengers on a train near Trenton, Missouri, see a "globular light." (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

1899: Alonzo Typer visits Easter Island. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

Future cult leader Edward Taylor is born in Brichester. ("The Mine on Yuggoth," Campbell)

Between January and February Early in the year, Lionel Phipps visits the British Museum and consults some of their rarer texts. Soon afterward, Mrs. Phipps walks out of the Phipps house and is never seen again. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

March Lionel Phipps begins a series of astronomical studies and other experiments, some in the outdoors. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

Early 20th Century: A London waxworks museum curator launches an expedition up the Noatak River in the Arctic. They find the ruined city where Rhan-Tegoth dwells, and take him- in the form of a statue- back to London. The curator disappears, and Rhan-Tegoth is sold to the Royal Ontario Museum. It is initially believed to be an Aleut carving, but a doctoral candidate judges it a fake. Thus, Rhan-Tegoth is put into storage. After that, it vanishes. ("The Horror in the Museum," Heald and Lovecraft; ??)

1900: Lionel Phipps makes another visit to the British Museum. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

Robert Allan McGilchrist's book Notes on Nessie: The Secrets of Loch Ness Revealed! is published in a limited run. After the book's publication, McGilchrist is found drowned in a pool on his property. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G); all facts except year 1900 and last name of author and first three words of title???

Wingate Peaslee is born. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

A new library building is built to house Miskatonic University's expanding collections. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1901: George Goodenough Akeley is born. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

The first printing of Joachim Feery's Notes on the Necronomicon is released. A second, heavily edited version is published later in the year. This original version becomes rare, and is later referred to as the Original Notes on the Necronomicon. (Keeper's Compendium says "prior to 1930)

According to some, Amery Wendy-Smith is knighted in this year. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Philip Chesterton, former British Museum librarian, moves to Clotton. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

Harold Hadley Copeland unearths a version of the R'lyeh Text during an expedition funded by the Pickman Foundation. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Between January and February 21 Joe Slater is taken to an institution following a murderous psychotic episode. ("Beyond the Wall of Sleep," Lovecraft)

February 21 Joe Slater dies. ("Beyond the Wall of Sleep," Lovecraft)

1902: Harold Copeland's work Prehistory in the Pacific: A Preliminary Investigation with Reference to the Myth Patterns of Southeast Asia is published. This establishes his reputation as an anthropologist. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter)

Charles Vaughan, a future playwright who incorporates fragments of The King in Yellow into his work, is born.

Cyrus Llanfer completes his education at Miskatonic University.(Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Alonzo Typer resigns from the Society for Psychical Research. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

Charles Dexter Ward is born. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

Nathaniel Peaslee becomes a full professor of political economics at Miskatonic University. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

An "eccentric missionary" returns to England from China, bearing with her the Imperial Library's duplicate of the Book of Dzyan and two 13th-century transcriptions of the same. She disappears soon after her return. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1903: Randolph Carter's nocturnal dream-journeys come to an end. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

A copy of the Rituals of Yhe is found in an Egyptian tomb.

Hannah Peaslee is born to Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

A "mysterious Eurasian" who visits the van der Heyl mansion is found bizarrely scarred and practically mindless. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

1904: Thomas Delapore's father dies. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

February 24 "Globular lights" are observed by the crew of the U.S.S. Supply. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

1905: A typhoid outbreak sweeps through Arkham. Herbert West is among those who help battle the epidemic. A mad killer strikes at the height of the outbreak in August, killing 14 before his arrest. The killer bears a strange resemblance to Dr. Allan Halsey, the Dean of the Miskatonic University School of Medicine, who had himself been a victim of the epidemic. ("Herbert West- Reanimator", Lovecraft)

Asenath Waite is born.

1906: Harold Copeland completes Polynesian Mythology, with a Note on the Cthulhu Legend Cycle. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter)

Kingsport's economy turns around when Mayor Stephen Cabot makes the town a tourist center. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

Edward Pickman Derby enters Miskatonic University at age 16. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft)

Robert Martin Olmstead is born. (Martin?; "The Weird Shadow Over Innsmouth," Lovecraft and Glasby)

The last known original French copy of Cultes des Goules resurfaces. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

April 18 A devastating earthquake hits San Francisco. The cthonians may have been involved. Some say an original Arabic Al-Azif appeared shortly before this event. (Factual; ??; (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

1907: Harold Copeland completes his translation of the Ponape Scripture. It is published by Miskatonic University Press. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Winfield Phillips, descendant of the Reverend Ward Phillips, is born. ("The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)?? ORIGINAL source??

Edith Brendall, a young woman with a photographic memory, gains access to one of the two copies of Kazaj Heinz Vogel's book. Memorizing it, she copies, rewrites, and adds to the original, releasing it (at her own expense) as Von denen Vertdammen. Most copies are bought or hastily stolen after its release, and Brendall soon suspects that she's being followed. She moves from city to city to evade her pursuers. ("Darkness, My Name Is," Bertin)

Robert Harrison Blake, future writer of weird tales, is born. ("Typo," Winkle)

November 1 John Raymond Legrasse, a New Orleans police inspector, leads a raid on a sacrificial rite of a bayou cult. Castro, a sailor who is a member of the cult, is captured, and reveals that they worship Cthulhu. He proves to be quite an informant on the nature of the cult. An idol of Cthulhu is also captured during the raid. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

November 27 L. Sprague de Camp, future science fiction and fantasy writer, is born. (Factual)

1908: Justin Geoffrey is allegedly inspired to become a poet after a strange experience in the Catskills. ("The House in the Oaks," Howard and Derleth)

Golden Goblin Press is founded in New York by Samuel and John Addleton.

Inspector John Legrasse takes the Cthulhu idol he found in the raid to a meeting of the American Archaeological Society, where he also tells his story. These are the first clues to the academic community of a worldwide Cthulhu cult. Professor William Channing Webb returns with Legrasse to New Orleans, and the pair organize a second raid to disrupt the re-formed cult. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft; "Patiently Waiting," Henderson)

According to less traditional accounts, Das Geheimnis Der Unterzeerunen, which is later known as Unter Zee Kulten, is published in Vienna.

According to some, Edward Pickman Derby's book of poetry, Azathoth and Other Horrors, is published when Derby is 18. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft.)

April 17 Alonzo Typer is last seen before his disappearance from the abandoned van der Heyl mansion. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

May 14 Nathaniel Peaslee abruptly undergoes a mysterious change in personality, and simultaneously develops amnesia. He begins studying history, anthropology, and mythology, apparently in an attempt to regain his memory. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

June 30 An explosion occurs near Tunguska, Russia. Most scientists believe it to be caused by the mid-air detonation of a meteor, but some believe it was caused by a seed of Azathoth.

1909: Golden Goblin Press prints a superior English translation of von Junzt's Unaussprechlichen Kulten, also under the title Nameless Cults. However, they also expurgate a quarter of the original material, and are forced to price it quite highly. ("The Black Stone," Howard; "The Thing on the Roof," Howard)

Starry Wisdom Press allegedly releases a version of Unaussprechlichen Kulten as well, but no copies are ever found.

A diver finds a figurine of the god Zoth-Ommog off the coast of Ponape. The statuette becomes known as the Ponape Figurine, and it eventually comes into the possession of Harold Copeland. ("Out of the Ages," Carter)

Paul Dunbar Lang moves to America. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

Edward Derby graduates from Miskatonic University, having majored in English and French literature. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft)

February 24 August Derleth is born. (Factual)

Between 1910 and 1912: The Congregational Church in Kingsport is torn down. It is replaced by the Kingsport Congregational Hospital. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))

1910: Harold Copeland completes The Ponape Figurine. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

John Grimlan moves to a small town just outside San Francisco. ("Dig Me No Grave," Howard; "Dope War of the Black Tong," Price)

Edward Derby Upton, son of Daniel Upton, is born. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft)

Alice Peaslee divorces the disturbingly changed Nathaniel Peaslee. Except for his middle son, Wingate, none of his family ever sees him again. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

Andrew Phelan, later Laban Shrewsbury's secretary, is born. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth)

Miskatonic University sends an expedition to Mesopotamia. ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

January Harry Houdini visits Egypt. While being guided by a man calling himself "Abdul Reis el Drogman," he is abducted and imprisoned in an underground tomb. After a disturbing experience, Houdini escapes to the surface. He later writes an account of these events with H.P. Lovecraft. ("Imprisoned with the Pharaohs," Houdini and Lovecraft)

March 27 Edith Brendall disappears in Bonn; eight days later, her body is discovered in the Rhine. ("Darkness, My Name Is," Bertin)

December 12 Dorothy Arnold disappears in Manhattan without a trace. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

c. 1911: A Portugese translation of the Necronomicon, illustrated by Joachim Mendoza, is created. ("The Likeness," Perez)

1911: Harold Copeland completes The Prehistoric Pacific in Light of the "Ponape Scripture." This work begins the ruination of Copeland's career. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter)

Arthur Jermyn's mother dies, and he takes up the investigations of his ancestors, Sir Wade and Sir Robert. He outfits an expedition to the Congo, and spends time among the Onga and Kaliri peoples. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

April 8 The French warship Versailles is reported to have vanished off the coast of Ponape, around the same time as the appearance of a bank of strange low-lying fog. ("Out of the Ages," Carter)

1912: Sussex clergyman Reverend Arthur Brooke Winters-Hall begins an attempt to translate the allegedly untranslatable Eltdown Shards. ("The Challenge from Beyond," Moore et al; Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis (G))

American bookseller Wilfred Voynich discovers an enciphered medieval manuscript in an Italian castle. Included along with it is a letter, asserting that it is the work of the famous scientist Roger Bacon. The manuscript comes to be known as the Voynich Manuscript. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

American millionaire Henry Widener adds a copy of the Necronomicon to his collection, just before his fatal trip on the Titanic. After his death, his books are donated to Harvard University. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))

Arthur Jermyn finds the ruined city of the "ape-men" which Sir Wade had investigated. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

The Chapel of Contemplation in Boston is closed after a police raid.

Future poet Georg Reuter Fischer is born. ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

Hiram Lapham Hoag, ancestor of Winthrop Hoag, moves to Boston from Arkham. ("Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods," Carter)

April 30 Loud noises in the Dunwich hills occur on the night of the conception of Wilbur Whateley. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

Summer Reverend Isaiah Ashton of the Dunwich Congregational Church mysteriously disappears. [Presumably, this followed a temporary re-establishment of the Congregational Church as a place of worship, or the construction of a new church.] ("The Devil's Hop Yard," Lupoff)

November According to some, the explorer Sir Howard Windrop publishes his controversial partial translation of the G'harne Fragments in the Imperial Archaeological Journal. The article destroys the explorer's career, and the Fragments become known as "Windrop's Folly." ("Cement Surroundings," Lumley; (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G); Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1913: An Investigation into the Myth-Patterns of Latter-Day Primitives with Especial Reference to the R'lyeh Text, a book by Laban Shrewsbury, is published by Miskatonic University Press. ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter; "The House on Curwent Street," Derleth)

Golden Goblin Press publishes Bayrolles' translation of Revelations of Hali. ("Typo," Winkle)

Abel Keane is born.

Ambrose Bierce disappears in Mexico. (Factual)

February 2 Wilbur Whateley is born to Lavinia Whateley and an unknown father. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)
May Harold Copeland and his colleague Ellington set off for the mountains beyond the Plateau of Tsang in central Asia. This is known as the Copeland-Ellington Expedition. The expedition is a disaster, and contact is lost with Copeland for three months- when he is found in Mongolia, raving, he has a set of tablets in his possession. Copeland claims that the tablets were inscribed with the words of the Muvian high priest Zanthu. Following his recovery, Copeland begins translating the Zanthu Tablets, as the objects become known. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter; "Out of the Ages," Carter; (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G)))

June The mummified goddess worshipped by the "ape-men" of the Congo is located and sent to Arthur Jermyn. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

August 3 Arthur Jermyn commits suicide by setting himself on fire, after receiving the mummified goddess. ("Arthur Jermyn," Lovecraft)

September 27 Nathaniel Peaslee regains his memory and original personality. Thereafter, Wingate is returned to his custody. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

1914: World War I begins. (Factual)

Between 1914 and 1918: Early in the War, a supercargo captured by Germans in the Pacific escapes in a raft. He soon finds himself on a recently uprisen island, where he has a terrifying encounter. After returning to civilization, the former supercargo makes inquiries into the nature of the Philistine god Dagon. After this, he disappears. ("Dagon," Lovecraft)

Randolph Carter serves in the French Foreign Legion during World War I. During that time, he meets Étienne-Laurent de Marigny. The two become good friends following explorations into the tunnels beneath the town of Bayonne. ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

A single British soldier survives a battle with Germans over the cathedral of Ste. Nigoureth in a strange French town. ("Mud," McNaughton)

Ambrose Dewart's only son dies during World War I, prompting him to move to his family's ancestral property in Arkham.

Golden Goblin Press is believed to close down during World War I.

1914: The Guildhall in Louvain, Belgium is burned by Germans. Inside were copies of the Necronomicon in seven languages. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Randolph Carter meets Harley Warren. The pair become close friends and investigate the unknown together. ("The Statement of Randolph Carter," Lovecraft)

January By this month, 11-month-old Wilbur Whateley is already able to speak. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)
February Nathaniel Peaslee regains his original post at Miskatonic. Beginning the following autumn, he begins to be plagued by nightmares of alien creatures and giant stone cities. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

1915: An occultist known as Captain Marsh lives in Cohasset and may meet with H.P. Lovecraft. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

Powerful tremors and bursts of flame erupt from Sentinel Hill twice a year for the next ten years. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

Late March By this time, Herbert West has volunteered for medical service with the Canadians. ("Herbert West- Reanimator", Lovecraft)

May 1 Henry Akeley records the sounds of disturbing rites on the slopes of Dark Mountain near his home in Vermont. ("The Whisperer in Darkness," Lovecraft)

June A party of amateur archaeologists enters the "haunted" mound near Binger, Oklahoma; they never return. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

September Laban Shrewsbury leaves a manuscript entitled Celaeno Fragments at the Miskatonic University Library. Shrewsbury disappears soon afterward. (According to one source, he also leaves a copy of Cthulhu in the Necronomicon at Miskatonic.) ( (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G)); ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth); The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth; (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)))

October By this time, Nathaniel Peaslee has given up his professorship. He begins an investigation into the cause of his bizarre amnesiac period. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 1916: Occultist Amos Tuttle begins to live a life of seclusion inside his house. ("The Return of Hastur," Derleth)

1916: According to one account, the first printing of Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Derby is released by a Cambridge firm. They produce several more editions before they go bankrupt. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Harold Copeland releases The Zanthu Tablets: A Conjectural Translation. His career is destroyed. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter; "The Thing in the Pit," Carter)

Harley Warren comes to distinction as a member of a Boston society that investigates psychic matters. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley? )

Aleister Crowley publishes a limited-edition English translation of the Necronomicon.

Randolph Carter is almost mortally wounded in the French town of Belloy-en-Santerre. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

May 11 Capt. George E. Lawton enters the "haunted" mound outside Binger, Oklahoma. A much younger, mutilated man claiming to be the same person appears over a week later and dies before dawn. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

December 2 Titus Crow is born to a well-to-do London family. ("Lord of the Worms," Lumley; "Inception," Lumley)

c. 1917: Barnabas Marsh ceases to be seen in public. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

Between 1917 and 1919: An American reporter sent to cover the battle between the Red and White Russian armies in Siberia encounters something horrible while accompanying a White-allied Czech unit. ("Footsteps in the Sky," Comtois)

1917: Reverend Winters-Hall publishes a thick pamphlet containing his translation of the Eltdown Shards. ("The Challenge from Beyond," Moore et al; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

April 6 America enters World War I. (Factual)

Following America's entry into the Great War, the draft board goes to Dunwich. It is unable to find the quota of recruits in that town, due to the degeneracy of its people. The Arkham Advertiser and Boston Globe pick up the story, and emphasize the area's weirdness to increase circulation. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

Alfred Delapore joins the military, and eventually becomes an aviation officer. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

June 18 The German U-boat U-29 torpedoes the British freighter Victory. At sunset, the crew finds a seaman's body, and take a strange ivory icon from him. ("The Temple," Lovecraft)

June 19-August 20 Conditions degenerate on the U-29, until it is wholly lost. Only Lt. Cmdr. Heinrich's bottled account is left behind, which eventually washes up on the coast of the Yucatan and comes into the possession of Robert Suydam. ("The Temple," Lovecraft; "The Horror at Columbia Terrace," Henderson)

[According to those that believe Justin Geoffrey's original name was John Ernest Tyler, he changes his name to Justin Geoffrey at this time.] (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

c. 1918: Both Halpin Chalmers and Fred Carstairs are members of the Partridgeville Amateur Press Club. ("It Was the Day of the Deep One," Cannon)

1918: Halpin Chalmers graduates from Miskatonic University. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Thomas Delapore purchases Exham Priory, his family's ancestral home in England. His son returns from World War I as a maimed invalid and enters his father's care, halting Thomas' plans to restore the home. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

Harley Warren takes up occult studies of a more personal nature, in the company of Randolph Carter. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley; ?; "The Silver Key," Lovecraft)

Charles Dexter Ward learns that he is descended from Joseph Curwen. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

Hadley Copeland is committed to a San Francisco insane asylum. ("Out of the Ages," Carter)

Edward Taylor enters Brichester University, and founds a cult that worships the Great Old Ones. ("The Mine on Yuggoth," Campbell; ?)

John Legrasse, no longer with the New Orleans P.D., becomes a recluse, ceasing all contact with all his friends and acquaintances. ("Where Shadow Falls," Henderson)

January 11 "Egyptian dreams" plague a man named Roger Carlyle. He becomes a patient of a Dr. Huston in the hopes of ending them. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

September 18 Roger Carlyle begins to obsess about a woman named M'Weru who appears in his "Egyptian dreams." (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

December 3 Carlyle decides to set out for Egypt, and blackmails Dr. Huston into accompanying him. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

1919: According to one account, the first printing of Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Derby is released by Onyx Sphinx Press of Arkham. (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G))?? ONYX SPHINIX? ARKHAM? (CoC says Boston)

Randolph Carter's book A War Come Near is published.

The last titled member of the Derleth line dies.

Cassilda Press secretly publishes a version of The King in Yellow. ("Typo," Winkle)?? secretly?

Scrolls containing the Dhol Chants are donated to Miskatonic University by a Shanghai merchant. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

According to one source, Sir Amery Wendy-Smith publishes a complete translation of the G'harne Fragments at this time. He is also said by some to have led his expedition to G'harne at this time. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

April 5 The Carlyle Expedition leaves New York. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))
April 11 Three men visit the Terrible Old Man of Kingsport. Their savaged bodies are found washed ashore the next day. ("The Terrible Old Man," Lovecraft; (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G)))

April 30 An English captain stationed on the island of Inishdriscol in Ireland disappears. ("Daoine Domhain," Tremayne)
May 4 The Carlyle Expedition arrives in Cairo. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))
June 1 The Carlyle Expedition engages in digs at Dhashur, and Carlyle finds the Red Pyramid. He breaks the seal on the Pyramid. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

June 30 Strange happenings begin to occur at Dhashur, and the dig there is ended. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

July 3 The Carlyle Expedition sets out for a "vacation" in Kenya. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))
August Charles Dexter Ward discovers the portrait and notes of Joseph Curwen. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

August 3 Carlyle and expedition member Jack Brady flee from the rest of their fellows. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

September 15 Brady and Carlyle arrive in Hong Kong. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))
October Charles Dexter Ward begins delving into the occult. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

December Harley Warren disappears while exploring a part of the Big Cypress Swamp of Florida with Randolph Carter. Randolph is held for questioning, but no definite evidence linking him to Warren's disappearance can be found, and he is released. ("The Statement of Randolph Carter," Lovecraft; YEARMONYTH???)

c. 1920: Harold Robinson, future blues legend, is born. ("Harold's Blues," Singer)

1920s: Edward Taylor's cult is broken up, and the students involved are expelled. (?; "The Mine on Yuggoth," Campbell)

A decade after World War I, Golden Goblin Press re-opens in Philadelphia.

A Los Angeles-area branch of the Starry Wisdom Cult reaches the peak of its popularity, lasting through the 1930s. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Early 1920s: Professor Eliphas Cordvip Fallworth begins his work on occult subjects.

A branch of the Starry Wisdom Cult is established in Arkham.

A branch of the Derby family has a house built in Chesuncook, Maine. ("The Pit of the Shoggoths," Rainey)

George Goodenough Akeley leaves Vermont and moves to San Diego, where he later founds the Spiritual Light Brotherhood after a meeting with Aimee Semple McPherson. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

1920: Aleister Crowley's (flawed) English translation of the Black Book of the Skull is published by Starry Wisdom Press.

Alfred Delapore, son of Thomas, dies from wounds inflicted during World War I. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

Charles Dexter Ward graduates from Moses Brown School, and begins an intensive three-year period of occult studies. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

Justin Geoffrey begins a tour of Europe. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

French and Russian translations of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan are published in Shanghai. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Asaph Waite supposedly writes the Invocations to Dagon at this time. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

March 11 Erica Carlyle arrives in Kenya and begins her search for the lost Carlyle Expedition. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

May 24 The savaged remains of the Carlyle Expedition are found. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))
September The Clay brothers enter the "haunted" mound outside Binger, Oklahoma; only one returns, three months later, who commits suicide before the next day and leaves behind a rambling manuscript. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

October Schoolteacher Mr. Williams, of District School Number Seven far west of Arkham, and occultist Prof. Martin Keene meet regarding the strange case of the Potter family. Soon after, the Potter home is burnt down, and the Potter family moves out of the area of Witches' Hollow. ("Witches' Hollow," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1921: Justin Geoffrey, while travelling Europe, stops in Stregoicavar, Hungary, where he experiences horrors in the presence of the Black Stone. His personality drastically changes, and he disappears shortly after returning to the United States. ("The Black Stone," Howard)

Professor W. Romaine Newbold declares that he has deciphered the Voynich Manuscript. He states that the Manuscript is a scientific treatise proving that Roger Bacon invented the microscope centuries before Leeuwenhoek. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

Herbert West disappears. ("Herbert West- Reanimator," Lovecraft)

Erich von Varstein's filming of The Prince of Babylon in the California desert leads to insanity and suicide among the cast and crew. The film is never shown. (Shadows of Yog-Sothoth, Chaosium)

Ephraim Waite, father of Asenath Waite, is locked in the attic of their Innsmouth home by his daughter. He soon dies, and Asenath becomes a ward of the principal of Kingsport's Hall School. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft; (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G)))

Wilbur Akeley moves into the abandoned Wharton farmhouse off the Aylesbury Pike. He has the home extensively remodeled, including installing "the glass from Leng" as its gable window. ("The Gable Window," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Future poet Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag is born. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter)

March Ambrose Dewart moves into his ancestral home, the Billington House, and begins restoring it. He also begins investigating its history. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

May Jackson Elias' work, The Black Power, is published. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))
December Thomas Delapore begins restoring Exham Priory. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

1922: Justin Geoffrey's Secrets of the Hanged Man, a treatise about the symbolism of a Tarot card, is published. However, Geoffrey's whereabouts remain unknown.

The results of Nathaniel Peaslee's research- wherein he drew parallels with his own case and those in the past- earn him a new job as a psychology professor with Miskatonic University. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

Vartan Bagdasarian is born. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

H.P. Lovecraft mentions the Necronomicon for the first time in his story "The Hound." (Factual)

The Pnakotic Manuscripts: A New Revised Study is published. ("Principles and Parameters," Patterson)

January Randolph Carter's short story "The Attic Window" is printed in the magazine Whispers. The story is so disturbing that many newsstands keep the issue off the shelves. ("The Unnamable," Lovecraft; "The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)

May 17 Captain James P. Orne captures the corpse of a fifty-foot-long sea monster. Over the next few months, he displays the creature's corpse up and down the Massachusetts coast. ("The Horror at Martin's Beach," Lovecraft and Greene)

June 17 A group of native Ponape fishermen are reported to have been attacked by unusually large "sea slugs" while passing through a thick fog. ("Out of the Ages," Carter)

July 20 Orne's sea monster mysteriously vanishes. ("The Horror at Martin's Beach," Lovecraft and Greene)
August 8 Captain Orne and a crowd on Martin's Beach are inexplicably drowned, scandalizing the local community. ("The Horror at Martin's Beach," Lovecraft and Greene)

December 21-22 A visitor to Kingsport walks off the cliffs at Orange Point, then is rescued, while raving about being from the past and taking part in a hideous subterreanean ceremony. He is confined to Arkham Sanitarium. ("The Festival," Lovecraft; (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G)))

c. 1923: Nathaniel Corey goes into semi-retirement and moves to Arkham.

Mid-1920s: Horvath Waite (later Horvath Blayne) is born. ("The Black Island," Derleth)

1923: Étienne-Laurent de Marigny's son, Henri-Laurent de Marigny, is born. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

According to some, The People of the Monolith is printed in New York in this year. The accuracy of this is suspect, since the author's whereabouts were unknown at the time.

Charles Dexter Ward, having exhausted local resources for his strange studies, travels to Europe. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

Stephen Bates visits his cousin Ambrose Dewart at the latter's request. After some odd events, Bates convinces Dewart to stay at his Boston home during the winter. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

By this time, ten-year-old Wilbur Whateley looks and acts like a full-fledged adult. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

July 16 Thomas Delapore moves into the fully restored Exham Priory. By or around this time, Thomas Delapore adopts the ancestral spelling of his name (de la Poer). ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft)

August 8 Thomas de la Poer goes homicidally insane following investigations into the crypts beneath Exham Priory, and is confined soon after. Exham Priory is destroyed by dynamite. ("The Rats in the Walls," Lovecraft; "Exham Priory," Robert M. Price READ THAT LKAST ONE)

c. 1924: The future Reverend Ambrose B. Mortimer is born. ("Black Man with a Horn," Klein)

1924: Robert Martin Olmstead enters Oberlin College.

For reasons known only to him, Erich Zann leaves his family and moves back to Paris.

Edward Taylor locates a complete edition of the Revelations of Glaaki, and uses it for a long-sought experiment- he is confined to the Camside Home for the Mentally Disturbed afterward. ("The Mine on Yuggoth," Campbell)

March Wilbur Akeley dies and leaves the Wharton farmhouse to his cousin Fred. ("The Gable Window," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Late March Ambrose Dewart and Stephen Bates return to the Billington House. Dewart's odd behavior intensifies. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth)

April Stephen Bates disappears. Shortly afterward, Dewart himself is killed. Seneca Lapham and his secretary Winfield Phillips investigate Ambrose Dewart's death, and also acquire several of his books for the Miskatonic University Library. Among these are a partial English manuscript entitled Al-Azif. (The Lurker at the Threshold, Lovecraft and Derleth; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

April 16 Fred Akeley moves into the Wharton home. He later has a harrowing experience in the gable room. Later that year, Wilbur Akeley's library is donated to Miskatonic University. ("The Gable Window," Lovecraft and Derleth; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

August 1 Noah Whateley dies. Thereafter, Lavinia Whateley grows apart from her son Wilbur. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

c. 1925: Erich Zann vanishes while playing one of his unearthly "experimental pieces." ("The Music of Erich Zann," Lovecraft; )

1925: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser graduates with a Ph.D. in political theory from the University of Dresden.

Georg Fischer's father dies. ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

Dr. Henry Armitage visits Wilbur Whateley's home in Dunwich. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

A mysterious twelfth volume of the Revelations of Glaaki is discovered by a Brichester bookseller. All copies of this volume are allegedly destroyed, as it refers to the foul deity Y'golonac. ("Cold Print," Campbell; Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places, Aniolowski and Sumpter, et al (G))

February 28 R'lyeh rises from the ocean. In short order, many cases of madness erupt worldwide. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

March 23 A group of sailors land on R'lyeh and have the misfortune of encountering Cthulhu himself. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

April 2 R'lyeh sinks beneath the waves once more. Many believe this begins an era of increasing Mythos activity. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

April 12 Gustaf Johansen, the sole survivor of the group of sailors that landed on R'lyeh, is found by rescuers. Johansen and his wife later move to Oslo, where Johansen dies in a dockside accident. His diary of the events on R'lyeh, later named the Johansen Narrative, comes into the possession of anthropologist Francis Thurston. The Narrative proves to be invaluable to investigators of the Cthulhu Mythos. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

May Charles Dexter Ward returns from Europe. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)
June By this time, New York detective Thomas F. Malone is investigating the disappearances of children in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn. The disappearances cease after Robert Suydam and his newlywed wife are murdered, and a group of buildings in Parker Place are destroyed. ("The Horror at Red Hook," Lovecraft; "The Horror at Columbia Terrace," Henderson)

Summer The Olney family vacations in Kingsport. Thomas Olney, the father of the family, visits the Strange High House in the Mist and is never quite the same. ("The Strange High House in the Mist," Lovecraft; (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G)))

1926: Justin Geoffrey reappears, half-crazed and addicted to alcohol and drugs. He is also holding the manuscript for his book of poetry, People of the Monolith, which is later published. Geoffrey, however, is committed to an insane asylum in Illinois, where he dies mysteriously. ("The Black Stone," Howard; (Call of Cthulhu 5th Ed., Petersen and Willis et al (G); Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

Richard Upton Pickman disappears. ("History of the Necronomicon," Lovecraft)

Before he can completely decipher the Voynich Manuscript, Professor W. Romaine Newbold dies. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

The newly-built Arkham reservoir submerges the Gardner farm, the site where the mysterious meteor landed in 1882. ("The Colour Out of Space," Lovecraft)

January 14 An upsurge of Mythos activity surrounds the occasion of a total solar eclipse. (Masks of Nyarlathotep, DiTillo and Willis (G))

May 15 Harold Copeland commits suicide. ("The Thing in the Pit," Carter; (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G)))

October 31 Lavinia Whateley vanishes, and may have been killed by her own son. Harry Houdini dies. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; factual)

November 23 George Angell dies of a heart attack. William Channing Webb has also died by this time. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft; "The Call of Cthulhu" (graphical adaptation), Lovecraft and Coulthart)

1927: Henry Armitage's work Notes toward a Bibliography of World Occultism, Mysticism, and Magic is published by Miskatonic University Press. ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

At this time, an Enoch Bowen different than the original is head of the Arkham branch of the Church of Starry Wisdom. He dies, and the cult disbands.

S'ngac, a gaseous extraterrestrial being, may have come to Earth on an asteroid that landed near Arkham in this year. If so, he soon returns to space.

Visions from Yaddith, a book of poetry by "Ariel Prescott," is published in a limited edition by Charnel House Publishers of London. "Prescott"'s family later purchases and destroys most copies of the book, and soon move out of their home, Delaware House. "Prescott" herself is confined in Oakdeene Sanitarium. ("Dreams in the House of Weir," Carter)

Dr. Jean-Francois Charriere dies, leaving his Providence home to any male heir who may claim it. He also leaves enough funds to keep the house standing for about half a century. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Winfield Phillips meets his cousin, Brian Winfield, for the first time in the Widener Library at Harvard. ("The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)

Between January and March Professor William Channing Webb is believed dead by this time. ("The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft)

July Charles Dexter Ward begins trafficking with a Mr. Allen. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)
July 15 Robert Olmstead visits Innsmouth, Massachusetts. He has a disturbing experience there, prompting him to convince the government to investigate. Zadok Allen, who spoke with Olmstead about Innsmouth's history, vanishes. The government later states that they were investigating bootlegging in the town. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft)

November Sculptor Jeffrey Corey moves into a cottage on the coast south of Innsmouth. ("Innsmouth Clay," Lovecraft and Derleth)

November 3 Floods in Vermont bring to light several allegedly inhuman bodies, which later become a subject of debate. Albert N. Wilmarth is among those who argue that the dead creatures did not exist. ("The Whisperer in Darkness," Lovecraft)

December Throughout the next few months, Wilbur Whateley begins consulting Miskatonic University's copy of the Necronomicon. He attempts to borrow the text, only to be refused by Henry Armitage. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; Return to Dunwich, Herber (G)??)

1928: The Feaster from the Stars, a collection of the work of Robert Harrison Blake, is published by Miskatonic University Press. ("Typo," Winkle)

A Greek Necronomicon is found in the library of Ivan the Terrible, and is walled up beneath the Kremlin. Later, Stalin finds it and has it translated into Russian for himself.

Aberath Whateley dies. Increase Brown, his apparent manservant, maintains Whateley's home in Dunwich. ("The Watchers Out of Time" [incomplete], Lovecraft and Derleth)

The last painter imitating the style of Richard Upton Pickman moves on to the Expressionist style. ("Principles and Parameters," Patterson)

Professor Newbold's The Cipher of Roger Bacon is published posthumously. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

Between January and Mid-February John Legrasse comes out of his seclusion, soon before a fire destroys his home. The same night Legrasse loses his home, a pitched battle in New Orleans' harbor leads to an oil fire in the waters. ("Where Shadow Falls," Henderson)

February 9 Charles Dexter Ward attempts to end his arrangement with Mr. Allen, and seeks the help of his father. Soon afterward, Ward undergoes a shocking change of personality. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)

Mid-February The U.S. government raids the town of Innsmouth, attacking Devil Reef, and bombing the underwater city of Y'ha-nthlei. They also capture many deep one half-breeds, taking a number of them to a camp in Oklahoma. During the raid, Asaph Waite, author of the Invocations to Dagon, is killed. Most of the Marsh family escapes to Ponape, though a few remain behind or go elsewhere. As a result of this raid, the government becomes aware of the existence of Mythos activity. They continue to occupy and block off access to Innsmouth through the next year, destroying more buildings and taking numerous town records. Miskatonic University acquires numerous books from the Esoteric Order of Dagon's library, including a copy of the Codex Dagonensis. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; "The Doom that Came to Innsmouth," McNaughton; "The Big Fish," Newman; "The Black Island," Derleth; "The House in the Valley," Derleth; "The Watcher from the Sky," Derleth; "Beyond the Reef," Copper; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

Following the raid and attack on Devil Reef, Jeffrey Corey finds "a peculiar blue clay" washed up on the shore near his cottage. He begin using it to make a sculpture he entitles "Sea Goddess." ("Innsmouth Clay," Lovecraft and Derleth)

The soldiers involved in the attack on Devil Reef are given an unheard-of four weeks' leave. Among those soldiers is Daniel Hacket, who visits his ancestral land of Ireland and never returns. ("Daoine Domhain," Tremayne)

Some time later, Jason Carpenter moves from ruined Innsmouth to Kettlethorpe Farm in England. ("Dagon's Bell," Lumley)

Early February Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics at Miskatonic University, begins to experience strange dreams and bouts of sleepwalking while staying at Arkham's "Witch-House." ("The Dreams in the Witch-House," Lovecraft; Arkham Unveiled, Herber (G))

March Uriah Garrison, a reclusive Arkham native, dies. He leaves his home and a small inheritance to his great-nephew Adam Duncan, on the stipulation that he spend the next summer there. ("The Shadow in the Attic," Lovecraft and Derleth)

March 8 Charles Dexter Ward is taken to a private hospital. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft)
Late March-Early April Jeffrey Corey disappears following a series of increasingly vivid and disturbing dreams, connected to the "Sea Goddess." ("Innsmouth Clay," Lovecraft and Derleth)

April The Ponape Figurine, and other artifacts which are part of the Copeland Bequest, are given to the Sanbourne Institute of Pacific Antiquities. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter)

Abel Harrop disappears from his home seven miles off the Aylesbury Pike. ("The Whippoorwills in the Hills," Derleth)

April 13 Charles Dexter Ward disappears from his hospital room. Miskatonic University negotiates with his estate to acquire his large collection for their library. ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," Lovecraft; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

April 30 Dan Harrop, cousin of Abel Harrop, takes over the latter's home. Some time later, Dan goes insane and is arrested for murder by Aylesbury authorities. ("The Whippoorwills in the Hills," Derleth)

May 1 Walter Gilman dies in a bizarre rodent attack. ("The Dreams in the Witch-House," Lovecraft; (The Compact Arkham Unveiled, Herber (G))

May 25 Henry Akeley sends his first letter to Albert N. Wilmarth, leading to a lengthy correspondence. ("The Whisperer in Darkness," Lovecraft)

June Adam Duncan moves into Uriah Garrison's home. A short time later, the house burns to the ground. ("The Shadow in the Attic," Lovecraft and Derleth)

The Journal of Pacific Antiquities prints a series of excerpts from Harold Copeland's journal of the Copeland-Ellington Expeditition. ("The Dweller in the Tomb," Carter)

July 3 Halpin Chalmers is found dead in his apartment, apparently murdered. The case is never solved. ("The Hounds of Tindalos," Long)

August An ethnologist has a frightening experience within the "haunted" mound near Binger, Oklahoma. ("The Mound," Bishop and Lovecraft)

August 3 Wilbur Whateley of Dunwich dies while trying to steal the Necronomicon from the Miskatonic University Library. Thereafter, public access to Miskatonic's Necronomicon is forbidden. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft; "Azathoth in Arkham," Cannon)

August 4 Henry Stephenson Blaine goes mad after months of working on the Copeland Bequest. ("Out of the Ages," Carter; "The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

Late August Wilbur Whateley's holdings are acquired by Miskatonic, including a fragmentary copy of the Dee Necronomicon. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

[One other source suggests that a acquaintance of Whateley took the Dee Necronomicon and two of Wilbur's other occult texts to the Sesqua Valley. ("The Tree-House," Pugmire and Price)]

Autumn The Arkham Advertiser begins work on a new wireless station atop Kingsport Head. (Kingsport: City in the Mist, Ross (G))
September Henry Akeley disappears under mysterious circumstances. ("The Whisperer in Darkness," Lovecraft)
September 9 The "Dunwich Horror" begins. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

September 15 Henry Armitage, along with Professors Warren Rice and Francis Morgan of Miskatonic, exorcizes the "Dunwich Horror." Afterward, the town of Dunwich is willfully forgotten by its neighbors. ("The Dunwich Horror," Lovecraft)

October 7 Randolph Carter disappears after visiting the ruins of his family's ancestral mansion outside Arkham. Allegedly, he becomes a king of the Dreamlands. ("The Silver Key," Lovecraft; ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

Mid-November Bryant Hoskins is found in a cabin in the woods north of Arkham, thoroughly insane, after having stolen and translated portions of the R'lyeh Text. ("Behind the Mask," Carter)

c. 1929: Professor Paul Lang begins teaching English literature at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

1929: Cthulhu Among the Victorians, by Laban Shrewsbury, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

Jared Fuller disappears from his cabin in the hills north of Arkham. ("Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods," Carter)

Edward Pickman Derby marries Asenath Waite a few months after they meet. The union is at first harmonious, but soon tensions develop. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft; "The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Early March Bryant Hoskins dies in the County Sanitarium near Arkham. ("Behind the Mask," Carter)
Early Spring A "chained and particularly obscure tome" is stolen from the locked section of Miskatonic University Library. A few weeks later, a fire destroys seventeenth and eighteenth-century records at Arkham Public Library. ("Beyond the Reef," Copper)

March 12 An explorer named Slauenwite encounters the ruins once ruled by beings known as the "Fishers from Outside." ("Winged Death," Heald and Lovecraft)

March 26 The Ponape Figurine disappears from the Sanbourne Institute, soon before it would have been placed on public display. ("The Horror in the Gallery," Carter)

June A series of disappearances occur in Dunwich, ending with the vanishing of Septimus Bishop. ("The Horror from the Middle Span," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1930s: Gerhard Schrach, a Viennese dream-interpreter, does much of his work in this decade.

During this time, a "magneto-optic" detection technique is highly regarded, and is even credited with the discovery of the "new elements" alabamine and virginium. However, the technique is later discredited, as are the two new elements it "detected." ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

A city thought to be Irem is found in northern Saudi Arabia; however, its status as Irem is later disproven by Professor Yuni Abdalmajid of the University of Baghdad. ("The Plague Jar," Mackey)

Miskatonic University's loses much of its fortunes and prestige during the Great Depression. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

Early 1930s: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser accompanies a German expedition into the Antarctic.

c. 1930: A Study of the Book of Dzyan, by Joachim Feery, is published. (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G))

1930: Swami Sunand Chandraputra takes up residence in Boston's West End. ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

Georg Fischer enters UCLA. ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

Alijah Atwood leases the Charriere house. After a brief stay and inquiries into the past of its former owner, Atwood flees Providence entirely, after a shocking incident at the house one evening. ("The Survivor," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Amos Piper suffers a nervous collapse in a theatre, and undergoes a major change in personality. ("The Shadow Out of Space," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Aimee Doyle Akeley is born to George Akeley and his wife in San Diego. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

January Professor Arnold Hird has a falling-out with Brichester University, and retires into a largely secluded life near his home in Severnford; after December, he is never seen again. ("The Plain of Sound," Campbell)

February 25 The entire population of the town of Stillwater in Manitoba disappears, and only one body is found. ("The Thing that Walked on the Wind," Derleth)

March 10 John Grimlan apparently dies in a house fire. ("Dig Me No Grave," Howard)
June 9 Lin Carter, future science fiction and fantasy writer, is born. (Factual)
September 2 The Pabodie Expedition, from Miskatonic University, sets off for Antarctica. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

Autumn A "great tidal bore" causes flooding along the Manuxet River, accompanied by a phenomenon described as "white lightning." Simultaneously, a whirlwind causes damage in Arkham and Innsmouth. ("Beyond the Reef," Copper)

October 20 The Pabodie Expedition crosses into the Antarctic Circle. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)
November 9 The Pabodie Expedition lands, and begins their research. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

Winter Robert Olmstead and a cousin in an asylum both disappear. In all likelihood, they were spirited away by Innsmouth agents. (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, Lovecraft; Escape from Innsmouth, Ross (G))

1931: If one believes the 1916 account, the Cambridge firm that published Azathoth and Other Horrors goes bankrupt. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Golden Goblin Press prints C.A. Smith's The Dream of the Spider and the Awakening.

A Professor Manly, examining Newbold's notes on deciphering the Voynich Manuscript, deduces that his supposed "cipher" came from the fading of the Manuscript's ink. Newbold's work is discredited. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

A monograph on the Pnakotic Manuscripts is published. ("Principles and Parameters," Patterson)

Enos Harker disappears when his rented cabin at Cairn's Point is destroyed. ("The Strange Doom of Enos Harker," Carter and Price)

The Sanbourne Institute for Pacific Antiquities temporarily closes. Dr. Armitage negotiates with them and acquires the Copeland Bequest for Miskatonic, where an anonymous donor funds its housing in the new Copeland Wing of the library.(Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

January 22 The "Mountains of Madness" are discovered by the Pabodie Expedition. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

January 23 The Pabodie Expedition find the fossils of a remarkable unknown species. Soon afterwards, disaster befalls the expedition. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

February The survivors of the Pabodie Expedition leave the Antarctic, prepared to tell the world what they have found. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft)

March Following its being severely damaged in a gale, Arkham's Witch-House is demolished. The bones of numerous human beings and a rat-like creature are found. ("The Dreams in the Witch-House," Lovecraft)

March 7 Constable Robert Norris of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police disappears from Navissa Camp, soon after finding two short-lived survivors of the events of Stillwater. ("The Thing that Walked on the Wind," Derleth)

March 21 A tenant at Delaware House strangles his wife before committing suicide; when found by the authorities, their corpses seem strangely "shrunken and depleted." ("Dreams in the House of Weir," Carter)

Spring The Cabot Museum of Archaeology displays curious mummies from the crypts beneath the Chateau des Faussesflames near Averoigne. As an accidental result of this press attention, the Museum's strange Pacific mummy is thrust into the public spotlight, and the Cabot Museum attracts inordinate numbers of visitors- some of which are rather unusual. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

June By this time, Étienne-Laurent de Marigny has published an article in the Occult Review about the Cabot Museum's mummy exhibit. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

September 2-3 Frightening events occur at the village of Clotton. These events (which are later never spoken of) cause the locals to tear down many riverfront buildings and erect a huge concrete pillar. Lionel Phipps also dies during the first day of these events. ("The Horror from the Bridge," Campbell)

October 17 Constable Robert Norris' body is found buried in a snowbank four miles from Navissa Camp. ("The Thing that Walked on the Wind," Derleth)

November Swami Chandraputra visits the Cabot Museum's mummy exhibit. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

1932: Increase Brown disappears and is presumed dead.

Twice during the year, Father Brisbois of Cold Harbor, Manitoba reports the disappearances of North American Indian children. ("The Snow-Thing," Derleth)

After his inauguration as president, Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the camp where many natives of Innsmouth were imprisoned. ("The Doom that Came Came to Innsmouth," McNaughton)

Australian Robert Mackenzie discovers a grouping of strangely marked and ancient stones in the Great Sandy Desert. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

January A powerful storm causes great damage to Innsmouth, with its effects reaching as far inland as Arkham. ("Beyond the Reef," Copper)

January 24 Slauenwite is found dead, under an assumed name, in his hotel room at the Orange Hotel in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He leaves behind an even stranger account of events, which eventually come into the possession of Miskatonic University. ("Winged Death," Heald and Lovecraft; "The Fishers from Outside," Carter)

Spring Strange events occur surrounding the discovery of a set of tunnels leading from Miskatonic University to Innsmouth. The occurrences end when the tunnels are bombed, during which Captain of Detectives Cornelius Oates, of the State Police, disappears. ("Beyond the Reef," Copper)

Between October 7 and December Swami Chandraputra attends the reading of Randolph Carter's will, to attest to the fact that Carter is alive. During the proceedings, the Carter family lawyer dies and Chandraputra disappears. ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

Mid-October Asenath Waite disappears, and Edward Pickman Derby files for divorce. Derby moves in with Daniel Upton. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft)

December 1 Two intruders die trying to steal the Pacific mummy at the Cabot Museum. Within the next year, several members of the staff die mysteriously, beginning a decline in the museum's success. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

Late December Edward Derby has a nervous breakdown and is committed to Arkham Sanitarium. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft)

December 20 The Starkweather-Moore Expedition, which seeks to investigate the Pabodie group's claims, begins to be organized. ("At the Mountains of Madness," Lovecraft; Beyond the Mountains of Madness, ??? (G))

1933: Dr. Eric Williamson leads an expedition into the Belize jungle to find the fabled city of Bendal-Dolum. He disappears. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

Stanislaus Hinterstoisser suffers a nervous breakdown and moves to Zurich, where he is treated by Carl Jung. Jung inspires an interest in the occult in Hinterstoisser.

The original Zanthu Tablets are stolen from the Sanbourne Institute. Some time later, the Sanbourne Institute closes thanks to the Depression. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

Amateur anthropologist and occultist Paul Tregardis acquires a crystal, one supposedly held by the Hyperborean wizard Zon Mezzamalech. Soon after, he disappears. ("Ubbo-Sathla," Smith)

Amos Piper's original personality returns, simultaneous with amnesia regarding the time since his personality shift. A week afterwards, he begins having terrible dreams and visions, that result in his seeing psychoanalyst Nathaniel Corey. Piper has an abrupt recovery after three weeks of treatment, but Corey suffers a breakdown of his own some weeks later and is committed to the Larkin Institute insane asylum. ("The Shadow Out of Space," Lovecraft and Derleth)

Late January Edward Derby recovers and stands to be released, but his friend Daniel Upton shoots him in what seems to be a fit of madness. A few days later, during Edward's funeral, Upton has a breakdown of his own and is committed. ("The Thing on the Doorstep," Lovecraft; "Azathoth in Arkham," Cannon)

[According to another source, Upton is given a "clean bill of mental health" and his crime is judged "justifiable homicide." He goes on to design several buildings for Arkham and Miskatonic University. However, the bulk of evidence contradicts this course of events.] ("To Arkham and the Stars," Leiber)

March 3 Constable James French of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police disappears while investigating the events surrounding the disappearance, reappearance, and death of one Henry Lucas, and the connection to certain North American Indian religious practices near Cold Harbor, Manitoba. ("The Snow-Thing," Derleth)

Spring Sir Amery Wendy-Smith sets out an expedition to locate G'harne. During the expedition, all of Wendy-Smith's companions are killed in an earthquake; five weeks later, he finds his way to a village in a deranged state, and later returns to England. From there, he retires to a house on the Yorkshire moors. ("Cement Surroundings," Lumley; (Keeper's Compendium, Herber et al (G)))

April 22 Cabot Museum curator Dr. Johnson is the last member of the museum's staff to suffer a strange death. ("Out of the Aeons," Heald and Lovecraft)

May 7 Constable James French's battered and frozen body is found in a deep snow bank. ("The Snow-Thing," Derleth)
May 11 John Dalhousie, James French's superior in the RNMP, disappears while attempting to break up the Cold Harbor cult; like French, his body is found frozen three nights later. ("The Snow-Thing," Derleth)

August Titus Crow has his first nightmares connected to the Great Old Ones. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)
Autumn Simon Maglore's father dies, forcing him to leave school and return to his home. ("The Mannikin," Bloch)

September The Starkweather-Moore expedition sets off for the Antarctic. Sir Amery Wendy-Smith and his author nephew, Paul Wendy-Smith, disappear during a series of earth tremors in Yorkshire. (Beyond the Mountains of Madness, ??? (G); "Cement Surroundings," Lumley)

1934: Joachim Feery, occult researcher and son of Baron Ernst Kant, dies.

Vartan Bagdasarian finds a copy of Azathoth and Other Horrors, sparking his interest in the works of Edward Derby. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Spring Unknown thieves break into the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England, and steal the original manuscript of the John Dee Necronomicon.

July 10 Nathaniel Peaslee receives a letter from Robert Mackenzie about the stones discovered by the Australian. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

1935: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser ends his treatment under Carl Jung.

Laban Shrewsbury reappears, with no account of his whereabouts for the past twenty years. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth)

Nicholas Walters inherits the home of Aberath Whateley in Dunwich. His fate is unknown. ("The Watchers Out of Time" [incomplete], Lovecraft and Derleth)

Simon Maglore dies. ("The Mannikin," Bloch)

January to February Robert Harrison Blake returns to Providence and takes up residence in an apartment on College Street. He writes some of his most famous stories there. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft; "The Shadow from the Steeple," Bloch)

Spring to Summer Robert Blake becomes obsessed with a deserted church on Federal Hill in Providence. Inside, he finds the Shining Trapezohedron. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft)

March 28 The Peaslee Expedition leaves Miskatonic for Australia. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
May 31 The Peaslee Expedition reaches the Great Sandy Desert. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
June 3 The Peaslee Expedition locates the first signs of ruins. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)
July 17 Nathaniel Peaslee is driven insane by an encounter in the desert, and later returns home. His son Wingate continues the expedition until a huge sandstorm forces them to leave. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

August 8 Robert Blake is found dead from electric shock in his apartment after a thunderstorm. Shortly after, his physician, Ambrose Dexter, bears away the Shining Trapezohedron and the Starry Wisdom cult's books. Inexplicably, he spends the next 16 years as a nuclear physicist. ("The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft; "The Shadow from the Steeple," Bloch)

Early Fall Winthrop Hoag inherits the cabin of his cousin, Jared Fuller, in the hills north of Arkham. ("Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods," Carter)

November 12 A powerful wind-storm results in the collapse of the van der Heyl mansion. A local from Chorazin discovers a diary that once belonged to Alonzo Typer in the wreckage. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer," Lovecraft and William Lumley)

December Winthrop Hoag disappears. ("Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods," Carter)
December 31 Bizarre and horrible events occur at Oakdeene Sanitorium, near Glasgow. (The Burrowers

1936: According to some, an edition of Shrewsbury's An Investigation into the Myth-Patterns of Latter-Day Primitives with Especial Reference to the R'lyeh Text is published by Miskatonic University Press. [This same source suggests this is the first printing, but it's probably just another edition.] (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Golden Goblin Press publishes Wingate Peaslee's book The Shadow Out of Time, in which he writes about his father's experiences.

H.P. Lovecraft's novel The Shadow Over Innsmouth is published. (Factual)

Chinese buyers acquire the two 13th-century transcriptions of the Book of Dzyan taken by the English missionary. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

January 1 A number of inmates die at Oakdeene Sanitarium outside Glasgow.
Late February/Early March Amos Tuttle dies. Tuttle leaves his house to his nephew Paul. Some time later, Paul vanishes. Tuttle's books, including a copy of the R'lyeh Text, are bequeathed to the Miskatonic University Library. By this time, Cyrus Llanfer has taken over from Henry Armitage as head librarian at Miskatonic University. ("The Return of Hastur," Derleth; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Spring Georg Reuter Fischer graduates from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in English literature, and a minor in history. Around a month later, Fischer's book of poetry, The Tunneler Below, is published at his own expense. Later that summer, his mother dies. ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

Early Spring Winthrop Hoag's briefcase is found in a farmer's field south of Townshend, Vermont. The fairly damaged briefcase contains Hoag's strange journal. ("Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods," Carter)

June Winfield Phillips leaves the service of Seneca Lapham, and goes to live on the estate of his late uncle Hiram Stokeley. ("The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)

Late 1930s: Étienne-Laurent de Marigny sends Henri-Laurent to England, where he meets Titus Crow. ("Name and Number," Lumley)

c. 1937: Future horror author Errol Undercliffe is born.

1937: The documentary film Malaya Today is filmed. In one of its deleted scenes, preserved in a transcript of the film, a Malayan child speaks of the demon Shugoran. ("Black Man with a Horn," Klein)

After Sir Amery and Paul Wendy-Smith are both declared dead, a manuscript left behind by the latter is taken for fiction and published as the short story "Cement Surroundings." (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)

Albert N. Wilmarth visits George Akeley in San Diego, and helps him with research into his father's studies. He next goes to visit Georg Reuter Fischer. ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

Winfield Phillips dies. ("The Soul of the Devil-Bought," Price)

March 13 H.P. Lovecraft dies. (Factual)
March 16 Georg Fischer dies in an earthquake that destroys his West Coast home. ("The Terror from the Depths," Leiber)

Albert Wilmarth returns home, overwrought by his experiences. He takes ill, and eventually lies in his deathbed. Before he passes on, he forms the Wilmarth Foundation, to combat Mythos activity on Earth. It is centered at Miskatonic, and later headed by Wingate Peaslee. (?; The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)

Summer A sailor named Timoto Fernandez, later interviewed by Laban Shrewsbury, sees something strange and terrible in the vicinity of Machu Picchu. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth)

Late Summer Professor Francis Morgan leads a Miskatonic expedition to British Honduras, searching for a site called "El Cacao" and mythical "sea peoples." The expedition is a disaster, with all but one member disappearing, dying of sickness, or being murdered. Morgan himself goes insane and disappears, though he does reappear some time later. This latest failure, after a string of other troubled expeditions, leads to the Morgan expedition being the last of its kind. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G); reappear??; last of its kind??)

1938: April 27 Asa Sandwin disappears from his home along the Innsmouth road. ("The Sandwin Compact," Derleth)

June Andrew Phelan becomes the secretary of Laban Shrewsbury. In Dunwich, Earl Sawyer marries Zenia Whateley. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth; "The Devil's Hop Yard," Lupoff)

August Zenia Whateley dies giving birth to Hester Sawyer on the night of a powerful thunderstorm. Thereafter, increasingly powerful earth tremors and other phenomena occur in the area of the Devil's Hop Yard. ("The Devil's Hop Yard," Lupoff)

August 13 Fantasy author Giles Angarth and his recent visitor, artist Felix Ebbonly, both disappear from Angarth's cabin south of Crater Ridge in the Sierras. Angarth leaves his journal behind for his friend, Philip Hastane. (The City of the Singing Flame, Smith)

August 17 Nayland Massie, a London dockworker who disappeared seven months before, reappears, speaking in a language later identified as R'lyehian. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth)

Mid-August Laban Shrewsbury completes the manuscript for the first portion of Cthulhu in the Necronomicon. This is sent to the publisher by Andrew Phelan, and some days later, Shrewsbury has Phelan take his papers and texts to Miskatonic University. Soon after, Laban Shrewsbury disappears in a mysterious fire. Andrew Phelan returns to Boston. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth)

September 1 Two weeks after Shrewsbury's apparent death, Andrew Phelan vanishes. He leaves behind a document dubbed the Phelan Manuscript, which comes into the possession of the Miskatonic University Library. ("The House on Curwen Street," Derleth)

Between 1938 and 1947: Asaph Waite, formerly Miskatonic University professor, is killed in a riot in Limehouse in London. A few months later, his great-nephew Claiborne Boyd investigates Waite's death and disappears in Peru, leaving behind a manuscript later acquired by the University of Buenos Aires. ("The Gorge Beyond Salapunco," Derleth; "The Black Island," Derleth)

Nayland Colum, author of Watchers on the Other Side, and Laban Shrewsbury disappear off the ship Sana in the Red Sea. Colum leaves behind a manuscript later published by the British Museum. ("The Keeper of the Key," Derleth; "The Black Island," Derleth)

Laban Shrewsbury is rumored to have taken an incomplete Arabic Al-Azif from Abdul Alhazred's tomb during this time. ("The Keeper of the Key," Derleth; "The Black Island," Derleth)

Between 1939 and 1945: The British War Department hires Titus Crow as an advisor on the occult and a code-breaker. ("Lord of the Worms," Lumley)

c. 1939: Harold Robinson's first record, the Blue Star Company's Lost Highway Blues, is released. ("Harold's Blues," Singer)

1939: The incomplete Cthulhu in the Necronomicon is published.

Arkham House is founded, which publishes the works of H.P. Lovecraft and other similar writers. (Factual)

May 15 Henry Armitage dies while trying to save the Rare Book collection of Miskatonic from a fire. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

Early Summer Philip Hastane goes to Crater Ridge in search of Angarth and Ebbonly; he locates the former, but the latter remains missing. (The City of the Singing Flame, Smith)

September Vartan Bagdasarian enters Miskatonic University, and soon joins the "Dead Edward Derby Society." ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Late September During a visit by his grandson Tony, an assistant librarian at Miskatonic, Josiah Alwyn disappears during a ferocious windstorm. Josiah and Leander Alwyn's books are donated to Miskatonic University. ("Beyond the Threshold," Derleth; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

October Edward Derby Upton begins hosting meetings of Miskatonic University's "Dead Edward Derby Society" at his home. ("Azathoth in Arkham," Cannon; "The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Late November Edward Upton's mother dies from complications during a routine operation. ("Azathoth in Arkham," Cannon; "The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

December Edward Upton permits Vartan Bagdasarian to begin examining Edward Derby's manuscripts. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

1940: The Cabot Museum of Archaeology's decline is halted when its collection is taken over by Miskatonic University.(Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Silver Key Press of Boston publishes Étienne-Laurent de Marigny's superior English translation of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan. ("Typo," Winkle)superior??

Late January Edward Upton undergoes a striking change in personality, soon after an equally striking personality change in his father Daniel. ("Azathoth in Arkham," Cannon; "The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

February Edward Upton's new and much cruder behavior eventually causes all the members of the Dead Edward Derby Society but Vartan Bagdasarian to stop visiting. Edward begins pursuing a relationship with Wendy Babson, an Innsmouth native, while his relations with with Vartan grow more and more hostile over the next few years. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

April Josiah Alwyn's unusually cold body is found buried in the sand on an island southeast of Singapore. ("Beyond the Threshold," Derleth)

June Professor Upton Gardner travels to the woods around Rick's Lake in Wisconsin to investigate strange happenings there. ("The Dweller in Darkness," Derleth)

Summer Abel Keane, a student lodging in Andrew Phelan's former apartment, investigates Phelan's disappearance. He also consults some of the same texts Phelan himself consulted at Miskatonic, and visits Innsmouth. Soon after, Keane himself disappears. ("The Watcher from the Sky," Derleth)

July 3 The mutilated bodies of several Arkham citizens are found on the shores of Devil Reef near Innsmouth. The same day, the similarly murdered bodies of tourists are found in Tahiti. ("The Recurring Doom," Joshi)

September Contact with Professor Gardner ceases. ("The Dweller in Darkness," Derleth)

October Investigators searching for Professor Gardner narrowly escape a fire in the woods around Rick's Lake. ("The Dweller in Darkness," Derleth; "Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter)

1941: Summer To avoid the draft, Edward Upton marries Wendy Babson. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

December 7 The Japanese launch a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, pulling the United States into World War II. (Factual)

Between 1942 and 1945: Dr. Ambrose Dexter serves as an advisor on the Unites States' Manhattan Project. ("The Shadow from the Steeple," Bloch)

c. 1942: Harold Robinson disappears. ("Harold's Blues," Singer)

1942: Following the creation of the Office of Strategic Services (O.S.S.) in the U.S., the P Division (which was made aware of the Mythos in the Innsmouth raid) becomes Delta Green.

The Nazis dig up the corpse of Alexis Ladeau in hopes of finding knowledge of sorcery. (They may also spirit away the pages of the von Junzt manuscript supposedly buried with Ladeau.)

February A branch of the Esoteric Order of Dagon based in Bay City, California and led by Janice Marsh, is broken up by a multi-government action. ("The Big Fish," Newman)

Mid-February Following the fall of Singapore to the Japanese, Edward Upton is given a draft notice. The night before he would be sent to Parris Island, he suffers a sort of breakdown, following which he is committed to Arkham Sanitarium. On the second night of Upton's incarceration, his former butler Soames strangles him to death. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

Late February Vartan Bagdasarian is drafted into the United States army. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

April 27 Ephraim Waite Upton, child of Wendy and Edward Upton, is born. ("The Revenge of Azathoth," Cannon)

1943: Stanislaus Hinterstoisser's magnum opus on the occult, Prolegomena zu Einer Geschichte der Magie, is published. Shortly thereafter, the Nazis destroy every copy they find.

Lama Dordji Ram (possibly with the assistance of explorer Alexandra David-Neel) makes a French translation of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Occultist Uriah Horby is committed to Dunhill Sanitarium in Santiago, California. ("Something in the Moonlight," Carter)

April 30 Hester Sawyer disappears under strange circumstances. The phenomena emanating from the Devil's Hop Yard cease after this night. ("The Devil's Hop Yard," Lupoff)

1944: Nazi occultists supposedly uncover the Gothic Necronomicon. It is translated, but they are unable to use it before the Allies conquer them.

A man named Wheeler discovers Sanskrit tablets in the Indus Valley that make reference to Leng. ("Long Meg and Her Daughters," Finch)

September 13 Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag disappears. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter)

1945: Delta Green is disbanded.

June British soldier Harold Briggs and his fellow operatives have a terrifying encounter with the Tcho-Tcho while conducting operations against the Japanese in Thailand. ("Drums," Trotter)

Autumn Following the end of World War II, Horvath Blayne begins travelling across the Pacific Ocean. ("The Black Island," Derleth)

1946: A Professor Mayhew searches for the city of the "Fishers from Outside," and dies under particularly grotesque circumstances. ("The Fishers from Outside," Carter)

January 4 Ramsey Campbell is born. (Factual)
Spring Vartan Bagdasarian's imprint Azathoth House publishes a new edition of Azathoth and Other Horrors. New York bookseller Philip C. Duschnes advertises a Latin copy of the Necronomicon in his spring catalog. ( ; factual)

1947: Delta Green is reformed in the wake of the Roswell incident.

Abel Keane reappears, and enters the clergy.

Azathoth House prints Forever Azathoth, a collection of Edward Pickman Derby's work.

Aleister Crowley dies. (Factual)

Mr. and Mrs. Marius Phillips disappear in the Polynesian Isles; the former leaves behind an unbelievable manuscript. ("The Seal of R'lyeh," Derleth)

Colonel Lionel Urquart makes his first discoveries regarding Mu. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

September Horvath Blayne is sighted in Singapore with scholar Laban Shrewsbury, and is believed to take place in a secret government action in the Pacific. ("The Black Island," Derleth)

1948: Abel Keane dies. Horvath Blayne disappears. ("The Black Island," Derleth)

Azathoth House prints Son of Azathoth, a collection of "posthumous collaborations" with Edward Pickman Derby.

Ambrose Bishop, great-nephew of Septimus, comes to Dunwich to claim his great-uncle's property. A series of disappearances begins some time afterwards, culminating in that of Ambrose himself. Ambrose leaves behind a manuscript behind describing these events as he saw them. ("The Horror from the Middle Span," Lovecraft and Derleth)

1949: Azathoth House publishes The Derby-Geoffrey Letters. Some time later, Vartan Bagsadarian disappears.

Spring Uriah Horby disappears under disturbing circumstances. ("Something in the Moonlight," Carter)

1950s: The Mau Mau campaign of terror occurs in Kenya. It may be caused by the Cult of the Bloody Tongue, a sect of Nyarlathotep-worshippers. (Factual;

1950: The cypher used to encode the Tibetan versions of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan is broken. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Miskatonic University begins making regular attempts to collate their papers of von Junzt with that of his family and literary executors, hoping to create a definitive scholarly copy of Unaussprechlichen Kulten. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Early 1950s: Jacob Lamar Derby moves into his family's Chesuncook home, where he dies many years later. ("The Pit of the Shoggoths," Rainey)

1951: Dr. Cyrus Llanfer's catalogue of Miskatonic University's folkloric and occult books, as well as its incunabula, is published posthumously. Around the same time, Miskatonic University's foundations, libraries, and museums are extensively reorganized. Planning begins soon afterwards for a refurbished library building. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley; A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

Late Spring Dr. Ambrose Dexter returns to his Providence home. A bizarre incident later occurs there, but the police do not detain him. Shortly afterward, he disappears, and is believed to have defected to the Russians. ("The Shadow from the Steeple," Bloch; )

1953: After receiving reports of continued activity in Y'ha-nthlei, Delta Green bombs the underwater city.

1955: The Aldwinkle sinks off the coast of Dawton, England. Remarkably, all of the passengers survive thanks to a compartment that remained airtight. ("To See the Sea," Michael Marshall Smith)

1956: Henrietta Montague completes her translation of the British Museum's Necronomicon into English, for the Museum's directors. This abridged translation is later published in an edition intended for scholars. Montague succumbs to a wasting disease shortly after the project's completion. ( (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley); wasting disease?? The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)

Late 1950s: The Armitage Library, named in honor of the former head librarian, replaces the old Miskatonic University library. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

1958: A set of the Revelations of Glaaki is donated to Brichester University.

The deaths of seven Wilmarth Foundation recruits leads to an effort to mass-produce the protective star-stones of ancient Mnar. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)

A book on the Pnakotic Manuscripts is published. ("Principles and Parameters," Patterson)

Summer Three Brichester University students happen upon the abandoned home of Prof. Arnold Hird; one goes mad. ("The Plain of Sound," Campbell)

Winter The Natural History Museum in New York City holds an exhibition of Asian artifacts. Among these is a 19th-century robe depicting the demon Shugoran, made by the Tcho-tchos. ("Black Man with a Horn," Klein)

1959: The Wilmarth Foundation sends out a series of secret expeditions to research the Great Old Ones. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)

Aimee Doyle Akeley marries Hiram Wesley and settles in Indiana. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

John F. Kennedy delivers a commencement address to the Miskatonic University Class of '59 in which he denounces the government actions in Innsmouth in 1928. ("The Doom that Came to Innsmouth," McNaughton)

Chinese forces invade Tibet. Most Tibetan-language copies of the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan disappear, and the Chinese are only able to capture two. Six other copies are dispersed, along with other valuable antiquities from the Sakya Library, to various universities and private collections across the world. (Factual; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

c. 1960: Fred Carstairs marries. ("It Was the Day of the Deep One," Cannon)

Jason Carpenter disappears, and Kettlethorpe Farm is bought by newlyweds David Parker and June Anderson. After strange happenings occur there, the Farm collapses into underground caverns beneath it; David disappears, and June goes mad before dying eight months later, along with her child, in labor. ("Dagon's Bell," Lumley)

1960s: [According to some, Albert N. Wilmarth survives to this time. However, this is unlikely given the well-known circumstances of his death.]

Erika Zann, granddaughter of Erich Zann, disappears in a fire that destroys the Purple Blob nightclub in San Francisco. ("The Silence of Erika Zann," Wade)

Reverend John Rogers, curate of Temphill, begins expousing an unorthodox set of religious views that divide the local religious community. ("The Curate of Temphill," Robert M. Price and Cannon)

1960: Every member of the Wilmarth Foundation is given a replica star-stone, but they are found to be useless unless fragments of original star-stones are incorporated into their mass. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)

September "Morbid" artist Thomas Cartwright moves into a house in Lakeside Terrace. ("The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell)

October to November A series of nightmares and weird events lead Thomas Cartwright to ask a friend to help him leave Lakeside Terrace. Before his friend can do so, he is murdered. ("The Inhabitant of the Lake," Campbell)

1961: Elizabeth Maude Pelley is born in Indiana. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

April 3 A man named Roy Leakey visits euthanasia-favoring Dr. Linwood to ask for assisted suicide. He is recorded as relating, as the background for his desire for suicide, a terrifying experience in the town of Goatswood. After Linwood asks for further proof of Leakey's need to die, he is found by other doctors and nurses, screaming and alone. ("The Moon-Lens," Campbell)

August Clark Ashton Smith dies. His copy of the Book of Eibon, a more recent French translation than Gaspard du Nord's, is lost soon after. (Factual;

Between 1962 and 1973: The United States becomes heavily involved in the Vietnam War. The CIA arms the Tcho-tcho people in Indochina during this crisis. (Factual;

1962: The Kennedy-Keaton Act is passed into law, offering compensation to natives of Innsmouth or their descendants for the government's actions in 1928. ("The Doom that Came Came to Innsmouth," McNaughton)

The Annotated Necronomicon, a combined Latin/English text translated by A. Philip Highgas, is issued by Miskatonic University. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

April Anderson Tharpe, owner of a freak-show in a travelling carnival in England, revises his attraction, renaming it the "Tomb of the Great Old Ones." This, combined with advertisements appealing to people with knowledge of the Cthulhu Cult, attracts many erudite (and many more questionable) individuals to him. After April, however, interest begins to wane. ("The Fairground Horror," Lumley)

May Numerous cases of insanity erupt across England. Chandler Davies, a master in the field of horror art, completes a work called G'harne Landscape. His mistress sets the work on fire immediately thereafter, sending Davies into a fit of rage that leads to his being committed to Woodholme Sanitorium. He dies some time later. Julian Haughtree is committed to Oakdeene Sanitarium. ("Rising with Surtsey," Lumley)

October 31 As crowds to the "Tomb of the Great Old Ones" dwindle even further, Anderson Tharpe disappears after meeting with one particular individual on this night. ("The Fairground Horror," Lumley)

1963: Roland Franklyn founds a cult of young men around Brichester, England. They advocate drug use and journeys to locations of occult power in the Severn Valley. They are believed to be responsible for stealing Brichester University's copy of the Revelations of Glaaki.

July Professor Gordon Walmsley of Goole claims to have deciphered the G'harne Fragments. Julian Haughtree recovers from his madness and is released to his brother Phillip. ("Rising with Surtsey," Lumley)

November 15 Julian Haughtree is shot dead by his brother. ("Rising with Surtsey," Lumley)
November 16 The island of Surtsey rises, and a volcano during the event throws out a mysterious golden box. Inside is a manuscript later entitled Legends of the Olden Runes. Thelred Gustau discovers it and begins translating it, sometimes assisted by Titus Crow. ("Rising with Surtsey," Lumley; ???)

1964: Despite the efforts of the Wilmarth Foundation, the cthonians invade the Americas. This leads to an intense campaign against the cthonians in America and Great Britain that continues through 1969. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley; The Transitition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

January Roland Franklyn's book We Pass from View, which describes the doctrine of his cult, is published. ("The Franklyn Paragraphs," Campbell)

1965: The Annotated G'harne Fragments, a translation by Ryan Millbue, is published by Miskatonic University Press. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

Errol Undercliffe attends the 1965 Brichester Fantasy Convention. ("The Franklyn Paragraphs," Campbell)

1966: Charles Vaughan dies.

Texan telepath Hank Silberhutte is recruited by the Wilmarth Foundation, along with a number of other telepaths. (; The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley; The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

1967: Professor Paul Dunbar Lang makes an attempt to decipher the Voynich Manuscript. He later discovers that it is written in Greek and Latin using Arabic letters. Lang's work eventually proves that the Manuscript is a commentary on certain passages of the Necronomicon, by a monk named Martin Gardener. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson; ???)

L. Sprague de Camp purchases a manuscript in Duriac while sightseeing in Baghdad. He learns that it was found by looters in ruins near Duria, and that three Iraqi scholars had attempted to translate it and subsequently disappeared.

Professor Yuni Abdalmajid disappears after beginning studies on an unidentified manuscript. ("The Plague Jar," Mackey)

Miskatonic University publishes the notes of an anonymous collator of the Pnakotic Manuscripts. (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

July 4 Roland Franklyn dies. Later in the month, Errol Undercliffe disappears after investigating Franklyn's demise. However, Undercliffe was supposedly sighted at least once afterward. ("The Franklyn Paragraphs," Campbell; Ramsey Campbell's Goatswood and Less Pleasant Places, Aniolowski and Sumpter, et al. (G); sight8ing??)

October Professor Lang travels to Llandalffen, Wales, and meets Colonel Urquart. Some time later, the "Great Llandalffen Explosion" occurs. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

1968: March 29 A "vampire cult" leads a massacre in Panagyurishte, Bulgaria. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

May 18 The Glasgow edition of the Daily Express prints a story on a sea-devil worshipping witch-cult. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

June Titus Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny join the Wilmarth Foundation, and eventually serve as the heads of the Foundation's English branch. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley; The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

August 19 Professor Paul Lang and Colonel Urquart hold a meeting of intellectuals in London, where they reputedly attempt to pull off an elaborate practical joke. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson)

c. 1969: Reverend Ambrose B. Mortimer begins serving as a missionary. He eventually is sent to establish a mission in "Chaucha" territory. ("Black Man with a Horn," Klein)

1969: January 22 Hank Silberhutte, and the crew of the plane he was on, all disappear while investigating Ithaqua. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley; The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley; ?)

February 19 Professor Paul Dunbar Lang disappears. His work on the Voynich Manuscript is taken up by other scholars. ("The Return of the Lloigor," Wilson; ??)

April 14 The Wilmarth Foundation leads an attack on Shudde-M'ell that ends in disaster. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley)
October 4 Titus Crow's home of Blowne Manor is destroyed by a "freak storm." Both Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny disappears. (The Burrowers Beneath, Lumley; The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

1970s: The first reputable translation of the G'harne Fragments is made by the Wilmarth Foundation, based on the notes of Prof. Gordon Walmsley of Goole.

According to some, prosperity comes to Innsmouth when local company Deepnet Communications becomes a leader in the burgeoning PC software industry. This prosperity lasts into at least 1990. ("Deepnet," Langford)

Early 1970s: Communist insurgent Chin Lai allies with the Tcho-Tcho to lead raids in Malaya. The alliance is later destroyed, thanks in part to Major Harold Briggs and his allies. ("Drums," Trotter)

Between 1970 and 1975: A Professor Winslow leads an expedition into the jungles of war-torn Cambodia, where he investigates a strange temple. ("Wrath of the Wind-Walker," Ambuehl)

1970: Delta Green is disbanded again following a botched operation in Cambodia.

An offshore earthquake takes place near Peru. The cult of Ghatanothoa credits their god with the disaster.

The United States government secretly begins to bomb all confirmed or suspected Tcho-tcho settlements in Indochina.

1971: George Goodenough Akeley dies, leaving the Spiritual Light Brotherhood's leadership in the hands of his granddaughter Elizabeth Akeley (formerly Elizabeth Pelley). ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

The United States government ceases its bomb raids on the Tcho-tcho.

July 4 August Derleth dies. (Factual)

1972: Thelred Gustau vanishes after a mysterious explosion at his house in Woolwich.

c. 1973: Reverend John Rogers is forced to resign due to the controversy he has caused. ("The Curate of Temphill," Robert M. Price and Cannon)

1973: Owlswick Press of Philadelphia publishes the version of Al-Azif discovered by de Camp. A copy is placed in the Brown University library.

December 28 A British Intelligence agent kills Ambrose Dexter somewhere in the South Pacific.

1974: Reports of continued activity in Y'ha-nthlei lead the Wilmarth Foundation to bomb it a third time. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

1975: Professor L.N. Isinwyll's work Yog-Sothoth in the Eastern Pacific is published by the University of California Press.

A former associate of Professor Winslow dies in a mountain-climbing accident. ("Wrath of the Wind-Walker," Ambuehl)

Wilbur Nathaniel Hoag's sonnet-cycle, Dreams from R'lyeh (edited by Lin Carter), is published by Miskatonic University almost thirty years after their discovery among the poet's papers. ("Dreams from R'lyeh," Carter; (Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley))

1976: The Wilmarth Foundation locates and explores a portion of R'lyeh. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

1977: The Kester Library of Salem, Massachusetts, is acquired by Miskatonic University. They move their collections of books on American history, religion, and folklore there, and in turn acquire a Wormius Necronomicon and the original text of the Ponape Scripture.(Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

A former associate of Professor Winslow dies by drowning. ("Wrath of the Wind-Walker," Ambuehl)

1979: Leonard Dingle, a professor who lectured on the meaning of dreams, dies. He continues on in the Dreamlands as the hero Eldin the Wanderer.

Phileus P. Sadowsky, Professor of Arabic Literature and Philopseudology at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, finds a page from the Kitab Al-Azif in a shop in Egypt. He acquires and studies it, but the page is lost on the way through Customs. Sadowsky later tracks down the only complete copy of the Al-Azif in Europe and begins a study of it.

Federal agencies investigate the Spiritual Light Brotherhood during a series of odd events surrounding Elizabeth Akeley. ("Documents in the Case of Elizabeth Akeley," Lupoff)

September 4 Henri-Laurent de Marigny is found clinging to a buoy in the Thames, with all of his limbs broken and no recollection of the past ten years' events. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

c. 1980: Terrified by experiences among the "Chauchas," Reverend Mortimer returns to the United States, and later disappears. An author, who was once a correspondent of H.P. Lovecraft, investigates and soon disappears himself. ("Black Man with a Horn," Klein)

1980: Phileus Sadowsky dies in a house fire. His Further Notes on the Necronomicon is published by Miskatonic University Press. (??; Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

The last of the Brothers of St. Jerome dies, and Miskatonic University acquires Arkham House. ("The Enchanting of Lila Woods," Lustig)

By this time, philanthropist Kathleen Lewis has helped re-establish the Sanbourne Institute. (A Resection of Time, Johnson et al (G))

March 11 Henri-Laurent de Marigny disappears again, and leaves a lengthy manuscript and a number of audio tapes to Wingate Peaslee of the Wilmarth Foundation. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

March 25 The Wilmarth Foundation initiates Project Cthylla. A nuclear bomb is sent burrowing beneath Devil's Reef, where it is intended to destroy Cthylla. After it is detonated, a hateful psychic assault is sent from R'lyeh. Over the next three days, many are driven insane, the Miskatonic Valley is decimated by natural disasters, Miskatonic University itself is destroyed, and Wilmarth Foundation director Wingate Peaslee is killed. The University is rebuilt, but Cthylla survives, and the anti-Mythos organizations must look on their foes with new humility. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

Wingate Peaslee is succeeded by Arthur Meyer as the director of the Wilmarth Foundation. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley)

1981: Lamp-Eft Anatomy and Physiology, by Professor Herbert Hike, is published by University of Michigan Press.

1982: A film version of The People of the Monolith, adapted by celebrated director Corman Abbè, premieres in a New York theater. During that first showing, the theater collapses. The film is never released to the public.

August Infamous serial rapist Alun Caleb, also known as the Black Goat of the Woods, is finally captured after terrorizing much of northern England. ("Long Meg and Her Daughters," Finch)

1983: A Preliminary Celaeno Catalog, by Prof. Herbert Hike, is published by University of Michigan Press.

1985: The Barton-Doherty Expedition goes in search of Atlach-Nacha in the Andes. They do not return.

1986: Claiborne Boyd, a student of Creole culture, dies in Ft. Myers, Florida.

An associate of Professor Winslow dies in a cyclone. ("Wrath of the Wind-Walker," Ambuehl)

1987: Fallworth Festscrift, a collection of essays in honor of Prof. Eliphas Fallworth, is published by Miskatonic University Press.

The Shadow in the Wood, by Prof. L.N. Isinwyll, is published by Oxford University Press.

An individual named Laban Shrewsbury (apparently unrelated to the man who disappeared in 1938) is teaching at Miskatonic University at this time.

c. 1988: Danforth, a survivor of the Pabodie Expedition of 1930-1931, dies.

1988: Elegant Symmetry: Inversion and Reversion in Dark Dimension Demi-Life, by Miskatonic's Professor Peter Dannseys, is published by Houghton and Mifflin.

Golden Goblin Press is still producing books by this time.

February 7 Lin Carter passes away. One of his unfinished works is a partial manuscript of the John Dee Necronomicon. (Factual)

c. 1990: The Vatican Codex is found in the Vatican library.

August Researcher Jonathan Creighton steals Miskatonic University's copy of Liber Damnatus Damnationum. He later disappears after visiting the New Jersey Pine Barrens. ("The Barrens," F. Paul Wilson)

1990s: Howard Willet, an inspector for a grocery store chain, rediscovers the town of Foxfield. ("The Shunpike," Robert M. Price)

1990: The Candlemas issue of Crypt of Cthulhu prints Lin Carter's segments of the John Dee Necronomicon. (Factual)

Cyrus Llanfer's catalogue is revised for the second time.(Ex Libris Miskatonici, Stanley)

1991: An associate of Professor Winslow dies in a plane crash. ("Wrath of the Wind-Walker," Ambuehl)

April 30 Tom Hacket receives a letter written 63 years ago by his grandfather Daniel, telling of his experiences on the island of Inishdriscol. ("Daoine Domhain," Tremayne)

Mid-1990s: Certain congressmen allow for the immigration of some 40,000 Tcho-tchos to the United States.

c. 1993: Morgan Ackerley becomes the new curate of Temphill, the first since John Rogers 20 years ago. ("The Curate of Temphill," Robert E. Price and Cannon)

1993: At this time, Professor Francis Morgan is still active in the affairs of Miskatonic University.

Late March An expedition from Kansas University meets with disaster when they investigate the ruins of Dunwich, Kansas. ("The Seven Cities of Gold," Burnham)

June 15 Professor Edmund Samuel and his wife Louise of Kansas University disappear mysteriously. ("The Seven Cities of Gold," Burnham)

1994: A copy of the Gothic Necronomicon is found beneath the former KGB headquarters. It is stolen by a Neo-Nazi group.

January President Bill Clinton issues an Executive Order releasing any Innsmouth natives still held prisoner by the federal government, following the public revelation of the events in Innsmouth in 1928. A week later, Fred Carstairs dies. ("It Was the Day of the Deep One," Cannon)

Later that year, the Kennedy-Keaton Act is amended. ("The Doom that Came Came to Innsmouth," McNaughton)

1995: Horror writer Carl Dreadstone disappears soon after his attendance at the 1995 Brichester Fantasy Convention. ("The Undercliffe Sentences," Cannon)

1996: The Necronomicon is published by Chaosium Inc. The book includes much fiction about the Necronomicon, as well as parts of the 1973 Owlswick Press version, Lin Carter's translation, and Fred Pelton's translation of the Sussex Manuscript. (Factual)

Late 1990s: Professor Winslow dies in a house fire. ("Wrath of the Wind-Walker," Ambuehl)

2000: May Alun Caleb escapes to a stone circle outside the town of Barrowby, where he is found dead by authorities. Nick Brooker, a police officer who helped capture Caleb in 1982, investigates Barrowby and narrowly escapes with his life. ("Long Meg and Her Daughters," Finch)

November 6 L. Sprague de Camp passes away. (Factual)

2002: The Book of Eibon is published by Chaosium Inc., which includes translated portions of the text from Clark Ashton Smith, Lin Carter, and Robert M. Price, among others, as well as some additional material such as Eibon's letters. (Factual)

2169: Pickman Carter, descendant of Randolph Carter's family line, uses "strange means" to repel Mongol hordes from Australia. ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key," Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price)

c. 2350: Fthaggua and its fire vampires are due to arrive on Earth.

2518: Australian physicist Nevel Kingston-Brown dies. In his life, he was one of those who exchanged minds with a Yithian. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 4400: According to legend, Nephren-Ka will rise again seven thousand years after his death. ("Fane of the Black Pharaoh," Bloch)

c. 5000: The empire of Tsan-Chan comes into being. The scholar Yiang-Li, known for his "overviews" and among those who exchanges minds with a Yithian, lives in this empire. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. 16,000: The wizard Nug-Soth is one of many across time who exchanges minds with one of the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

The Far Future (c. AD 8,000,000?): The time of Zothique, last continent of Earth, and home to the dying remnants of the human race. The culture is on a barbaric level, and magic has become dominant over science.

c. AD 18,000,000: A "half-plastic denizen" of the interior of a planet beyond Pluto is among those that exchanges mind with the Great Race of Yith. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. AD 50,000,000: Following the final end of humanity, a new race of beetle-like insects arises. These are possessed by the Great Race of Yith, leaving their previous home on a planet orbiting a dark star near Taurus. Eventually, even the beetles die out, and the Yithians send their collective minds into a vegetable species living on Mercury. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

c. AD 500,000,000: The first primitive life develops on Venus. One Venusian is among those that exchanges minds with the Great Race of Yith. (The Transition of Titus Crow, Lumley; "The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

The Further Future (c. AD 1,000,000,000?): The last inhabitants of Earth, a species of arachnids, live within the interior of the dying world. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

Internal Inconsistencies and Consequent Reconciliations in the Data from the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd Edition):

* This particular section should be omitted in the version printed in the Call of Cthulhu core rulebook- it is only to establish contradictions and corrections for the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana and nothing more.
* The year of the destruction of Blowne Manor is given as 1968 in Crow, Titus and 1969 in de Marigny, Henri-Laurent. I chose to use the latter date since it's ten years before de Marigny's reappearance.
* The date of Khem being taken over by alien-human hybrid pharaohs is stated as around 7200 BC in Appendix D and the eighth century BC in Khem. I chose the former date because the latter isn't even internally consistent (perhaps they meant eightieth century BC, but that's 700 years older than the date in Appendix D, and six generations would hardly stretch 1000 years).
* Golden Goblin Press states that The Shadow Out of Time was written by Wingate Peaslee; however, the entry on Peaslee, Nathaniel Wingate states that he wrote it. According to Mr. Harms, Wingate Peaslee was the author.
* The year of Justin Geoffrey's visit to Xuthtlan is given as 1921 in Geoffrey, Justin and 1922 in People of the Monolith, The. I chose the former date, because it was stated in the entry of Geoffrey himself, and the other entry is not focused on him.
* Nug-Soth states that the wizard hails from 14,000 AD; however, "The Shadow Out of Time" states the year as 16,000 AD. I went with the original source.
* Allen, Zadok states that he disappeared in the summer of 1926. However, he disappeared after Robert Olmstead talked with him on July 15, 1927, according to Olmstead, Robert Martin. Numerous other entries correlate the latter date, so I have chosen to use it.
* In the Phillips, Winfield entry, it lists him as living from 1907-1937; however, in the entry itself it states that he died "a year later" than 1929 (1930). I followed the entry text, and assumed the 1907-1937 text to be a simple error.
* Glaaki states that its cult disappeared in the 1860s; Revelations of Glaaki states that they disappeared in the 1870s. I chose the former entry's data because it focused on the source, rather than a work based on it. However, since Revelations of Glaaki was printed in 1865, I narrowed the span down to 5 years rather than 10.
* The Shining Trapezohedron entry states that the events of "The Haunter of the Dark" took place in 1934, but Blake, Robert Harrison and Dexter, Ambrose both state that the story took place in 1935. Majority rules.
* Derby, Edward Pickman states that Azathoth and Other Horrors was written when Derby was 18 (1910 by my chronology); however, the entry on Azathoth and Other Horrors itself contradicts this with both its possible dates, 1916 and 1919. I included all three possibilities- perhaps the 1910 printing was self-published.
* Arkham says the 1905 epidemic was of cholera; West, Dr. Herbert states that the epidemic was of typhoid. "Herbert West- Reanimator" confirms the latter.
* The entry for Sanbourne Institute of Pacific Antiquities states the more likely date of its closing at 1931, and states 1933 as an alternate. Zanthu Tablets confirms the Institute was still active by 1933, so I chose that year.
* Pánfilio Zamacona's first name is "Pánfilio" in K'n-yan and "Panfilio" in Zamacona y Nuñez, Panfilio de. According to Mr. Harms, "Pánfilio" is the correct spelling.
* The events of "The Colossus of Ylourgne" are given as taking place in 1232 in du Nord, Gaspard, but the text gives the date as 1281.
* The climax of "Out of the Aeons" is stated to occur in 1931 in related entries, but the story says 1932.
* Regarding the Necronomicon- I decided to ignore the listings in Appendix A that contradicted the majority, gave unnecessary explanations, or added unnecessary complications, including those of the following years: c. 1000 BC; 850; 1487; 1929; 1932; 1972; 1977; 1978.

Sources:
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd Edition) by Daniel Harms. (The primary source.)
Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (1st Edition) by Daniel Harms. (Only consulted for data omitted from the 2nd Edition.)
Call of Cthulhu: Arkham Unveiled.
Call of Cthulhu: Beyond the Mountains of Madness.
Call of Cthulhu: Complete Masks of Nyarlathotep.
Call of Cthulhu: Escape from Innsmouth.
Call of Cthulhu: Kingspost: City in the Mist.
Call of Cthulhu: Return to Dunwich.
Call of Cthulhu: Shadows of Yog-Sothoth.
"Glimpses" by A.A. Attanasio.
"Darkness, My Name Is" by Eddy C. Bertin.
"The Shadow from the Steeple" by Robert Bloch.
"The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch.
"The Horror from the Bridge" by Ramsey Campbell.
"The Inhabitant of the Lake" by Ramsey Campbell.
"The Insects from Shaggai" by Ramsey Campbell.
"The Moon-Lens" by Ramsey Campbell.
"The Room in the Castle" by Ramsey Campbell.
"Azathoth in Arkham" by Peter Cannon.
"Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods" by Lin Carter.
"The Last Test" by Adolphe de Castro (with H.P. Lovecraft).
"Where Yidhra Walks" by Walter C. DeBill, Jr.
"The Black Island" by August Derleth.
"The Dweller in Darkness" by August Derleth.
"The Gorge Beyond Salapunco" by August Derleth.
"The House in the Valley" by August Derleth.
"The House on Curwen Street" by August Derleth.
"The Keeper of the Key" by August Derleth.
"The Return of Hastur" by August Derleth.
"The Seal of R'lyeh" by August Derleth.
"Something in Wood" by August Derleth.
"The Watcher from the Sky" by August Derleth.
"The Gable Window" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Horror from the Middle Span" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"Innsmouth Clay" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Shadow in the Attic" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Shadow Out of Space" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Survivor" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Watchers Out of Time" (incomplete) by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"Witches' Hollow" by August Derleth (in "posthumous collaboration" with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Horror at Martin's Beach" by Sonia H. Greene (with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Mound" by Hazel Heald (with H.P. Lovecraft).
"Out of the Aeons" by Hazel Heald (with H.P. Lovecraft).
"The Black Stone" by Robert E. Howard.
"Black Man with a Horn" by T.E.D. Klein.
"All-Eye" by Bob van Laerhoven.
"The Terror from the Depths" by Fritz Leiber.
"Arthur Jermyn" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Colour Out of Space" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"Dagon" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Dreams in the Witch-House" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Dunwich Horror" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Festival" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Haunter of the Dark" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"Herbert West- Reanimator" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Hound" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" by H.P. Lovecraft (with Harry Houdini).
The Lurker at the Threshold by H.P. Lovecraft, with August Derleth.
"Pickman's Model" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Shadow Out of Time" by H.P. Lovecraft.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Silver Key" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Temple" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Thing On The Doorstep" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Unnamable" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Whisperer in Darkness" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" by H.P. Lovecraft.
"The Fairground Horror" by Brian Lumley.
"Rising with Surtsey" by Brian Lumley.
"The Big Fish" by Kim Newman.
"The Invisible Empire" by James van Pelt.
"Dope War of the Black Tong" by Robert M. Price.
"The Shunpike" by Robert M. Price.
"The Beast of Averoigne" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"The Colossus of Ylourgne" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"The End of the Story" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"The Holiness of Azédarac" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"The Maker of Gargoyles" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"Ubbo-Sathla" by Clark Ashton Smith.
"The Silence of Erika Zann" by James Wade.
"The Return of the Lloigor" by Colin Wilson.
"The Barrens" by F. Paul Wilson.

The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun. (Supplied historical dates for inspecific time spans, i.e. "during the Inquisition.")
http://kurellian.tripod.com/spprs7.html (Supplied conjectural dates for distant future events.)

(Below links supplied information on real-life Mythos authors who definitely existed [or at least the creations thereof] in the Cthulhu Mythos universe.)
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/8164/Mythos/HPL.html (H.P. Lovecraft)
http://www.oceanstar.com/cas/biooutof.htm (Clark Ashton Smith)
http://members.aol.com/lkbknwondr/html/jrcampbell.html(Ramsey Campbell)
http://members.tripod.com/~gwillick/carter.html (Lin Carter)
http://www.lspraguedecamp.com/newsletter/ (L. Sprague de Camp)
http://www.derleth.org/ (August Derleth)
http://members.tripod.com/~gwillick/derleth.html (August Derleth)
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/as/Portraits/bierce.html (Ambrose Bierce)

(Below links provided concrete historical dates for unspecified events and eras [the reigns of Roman Emperors, the Dynasties of Egypt, the Tunguska explosion, etc.].)
http://www.ipgroup.com/sadigh/phoe.htm (The Phoenicians)
http://www.beyond.fr/history/ (French history)
http://www.dinosaur.org/timeline.htm (Geologic Eras of Earth)
http://geology.er.usgs.gov/paleo/geotime.shtml (More on the Geologic Eras of Earth)
http://www.geocities.com/amenhotep.geo/ (Egyptian Dynasties)
http://homepages.iol.ie/~coolmine/typ/romans/table.html (Roman Emperors)
http://www.vicb.fsnet.co.uk/ (The Romans in Britain)
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dimension/6993/tunguska.html (The Tunguska explosion)
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/info/1906/ (The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906)
http://www.salemweb.com/memorial/stones1.htm (The Salem Witch Trials)
http://www.zoomschool.com/explorers/page/s/smith.shtml (John Smith's explorations)
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/chron/40/1940s.html (The Manhattan Project)
http://www.bartleby.com/65/cr/Crusades.html(The Crusades)
http://www.microserve.net/~magicusa/houdibio.html (Harry Houdini)
http://peicommerce.com/HISTORY/ROMAN/SULLA/SULLA.HTM(Roman dictator Sulla)
http://users.tibus.com/the-great-war/events.htm (World War I dates)
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Chumash/ (Early California history)
http://www.lbdb.com/TMDisplayBattle.cfm?BID=248 (Teutoberger Wald)

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[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos]]

Nyarlathotep

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'''Nyarlathotep''' (the ''Crawling Chaos'') is a [[fictional character]] in the [[Cthulhu mythos]] of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]. He is one of the cosmic [[Outer God]]s and appears in the works of Lovecraft and [[August Derleth]], among others.


==Nyarlathotep in the mythos==
{{SectOR}}
Nyarlathotep differs from the other beings in a number of ways. Most of them are exiled to stars, like [[Yog-Sothoth]] and [[Hastur]], or sleeping and dreaming like [[Cthulhu]]; Nyarlathotep, however, is active and frequently walks the [[Earth]] in the guise of a human being, usually a tall, slim, joyous man. Most of them have their own cults serving them, while Nyarlathotep seems to serve them and take care of their affairs in their absence. Most of them use strange alien languages, while Nyarlathotep uses human languages and can be mistaken for a human being. Finally, most of them are all powerful yet purposeless, yet Nyarlathotep seems to be deliberately deceptive and manipulative, and even uses [[propaganda]] to achieve his goals. In this regard, he is probably the most human-like among them.

Nyarlathotep enacts the will of the Outer Gods, and is their messenger, heart and soul; he is also a servant of [[Azathoth]], whose wishes he immediately fulfills. Unlike the other Outer Gods, causing madness is more important and enjoyable than death and destruction to Nyarlathotep.{{Rn|Harms-218}} In this sense, he strongly resembles the traditional role of the [[devil]].{{fact}}

According to the Necronomicon, Nyarlathotep will play some part in the End Time. It is stated that he will allow [[Nygotha]] to wipe the Earth clean in preparation for the return of the Great Old Ones - although it doesn't specify how Nyarlathotep will accomplish this. It also fails to mention any timeframe for this to occur, although it would presumably be after the fall of Xothique some 5,000 years in the future.{{fact}}

==Table of Nyarlathotep's forms==

Nyarlathotep has many forms (some literature refers to these forms as Masks and claims that he has a thousand of them) and is thus known by different avatars.

===Overview===

This table is organized as follows:

* ''Name''. This is the name of Nyarlathotep's form.
* ''Region''. This is the geographical location where Nyarlathotep's form is active.
* ''Description''. This entry describes Nyarlathotep's form.
* ''Notes''. This field contains additional information.
* ''References''. This field lists the sources that contain references to Nyarlathotep's form. If the source is a story, it is denoted by a two-letter code—the key to the codes is found [[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|here]]. Otherwise, the source is denoted as follows:
**''rpg'' means a [[role-playing game]] and includes a footnote to the source.
**''MofN'' means the ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' web site.
:If an entry appears in '''bold''', this means that the reference introduces Nyarlathotep's form.

===Table-a (A–D)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Ahtu || [[Congo]]
| Appears as a gelatinous mass extruding golden tentacles.
| Ahtu 's cult is made of crippled and disfigured natives (though [[European]]s with similar deformities can join). He can be called by a magical, golden bracelet, which is kept separated into two halves to prevent accidental summonings. Also knowns as the Spiralling Worm.
| rpg{{Ref|Ahtu}}, '''UD''', '''SoK'''
|-
| All-Seeing Eye || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Beast || Worldwide
| Manifests through the [[Sphinx]].
| In this form, Nyarlathotep is worshipped by the [[Brotherhood of the Beast]]. This manifestation can only appear in a specific location in [[Egypt]].
| '''rpg{{Ref|TheBeast}}'''
|-
| The Black Demon || <center>—
| Appears as a black, furry, snouted creature which fears light but is not harmed by it.
| Although special [[talisman]]s can be used to control the Black Demon, there is still the risk that the summoner will be attacked.
| '''rpg{{Ref|TheBlackDemon}}'''
|-
| The Black Lion, Destroyer of Egypt || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| {{fact}}
|-
| Black Man || [[England]]
| Appears as a hooved, hairless, [[wikt:swarthy|swarthy]] man.
| Nyarlathotep is worshipped by [[witch]] [[wikt:coven|coven]]s in this form.
| '''DW''', FG
|-
| Black Messenger of Karneter || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Black One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Black Pharaoh || [[Egypt]]
| Appears as a haughty [[Egyptian]] pharaoh wearing a brightly colored robe.
| The [[Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh]] worships Nyarlathotep in this form.
| '''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]''', rpg{{Ref|BlackPharaoh}}
|-
| Black Wind || [[Kenya]]
| Manifests as a devastating storm.
| <center>—
| IK, '''rpg{{Ref|BlackWind}}'''
|-
| Blind Ape of Truth || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Bloated Woman || [[China]]
| Appears as a five-mouthed, morbidly obese woman with numerous tentacles.
| The Bloated Woman hides behind the ''Black Fan'' to conceal its great bulk from unwary victims.
| '''rpg{{Ref|BloatedWoman}}'''
|-
| Bringer of Pests || Egypt
| Appears as a swarm of preternatural [[locust]]s.
| This avatar had a following in Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty. Today it is worshipped by the Knights of the Silver Twilight.
| '''rpg{{Ref|BringerofPests}}'''
|-
| Crawling Mist || [[Dreamlands]]
| Appears as a putrid, living fog.
| <center>—
| '''EL'''
|-
| Dark Demon || <center>—
| Appears as a larger version of the Black Demon yet more treacherous.
| Those who study the black arts are sometimes contacted by this avatar. In return for entering their bodies, the Dark Demon promises them great rewards. Unfortunately, Nyarlathotep never makes good on this promise.
| '''KD'''
|-
| Dark One || [[California]], [[Louisiana]]
| Appears as a pitch-black, eight-foot-tall, faceless man who can walk through any physical barrier.
| <center>—
| '''MK'''
|-
| Demon Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Dweller in Darkness || Wood of N'gai (somewhere in northern [[United States|America]])
| Appears as a hideous, howling giant with a tentacle in place of a face.
| <center>—
| '''DD'''
|}

===Table-b (E–M)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Earth Creature || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Effigy of Hate || [[Africa]]
| A winged creature that manifests through a war [[totem]].
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|EffigyofHate}}'''
|-
| Elder One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Faceless God || [[Ancient Egypt]]
| Appears as a winged, faceless sphinx.
| This avatar has the ability to send its worshippers back through time.
| '''FG'''
|-
| Faceless One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Father of the Million Favored One || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN'', '''WD'''(?)
|-
| The Floating Horror{{Ref|Harms-222}} || [[Haiti]]
| Appears as a bluish, red-veined jellyfish-like creature.
| <center>—
| '''AP'''
|-
| God of the Bloody Tongue, Howler in Darkness || [[Kenya]]
| Appears as gigantic monster with a red tentacle in place of a face.
| In this form, Nyarlathotep is worshipped by the [[Cult of the Bloody Tongue]].
| '''rpg{{Ref|GodofBloody}}'''
|-
| God of the Desert || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Green Man || [[Celts]]
| Appears as an animated, man-like [[wikt:effigy|effigy]] made of plant material.
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|GreenMan}}'''
|-
| The Haunter of the Dark || [[Australia]]; [[Providence, Rhode Island]]; [[Yuggoth]]
| A bloated, batlike creature with a single, burning, three-lobed eye which appears able to kill by fear alone. This avatar is destroyed by light.
| Its most important cult is the [[Church of Starry Wisdom]], based in Providence, which can summon the avatar using the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. It is also worshipped by some modern [[Indigenous Australians|Aborigines]]. Its other epithets include Face Eater, Father of All Bats, Dark Wing, Sand Bat, and Fly-The-Light.
| CD, '''HD''', rpg{{Ref|HaunterofDark}}, S5
|-
| The Horned Man || [[Celt]]s
| Appears as a man with [[stag]]-like horns.
| This avatar can only be viewed while under the influence of certain [[Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants|hallucinogenic]] drugs.
| '''rpg{{Ref|HornedMan}}'''
|-
| The Howler at the Moon, Howler in the Night (?) || ?
| Appearance is the same as the God of the Bloody Tongue.
| <center>—
| '''DD'''(?)
|-
| Lord of the Desert || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| L'rog'g (also Lrogg), Bat God of L'gy'hx || The [[planet]] [[L'gy'hx]] ([[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]])
| Appears as a two-headed bat (debatable).
| Avatar worshipped by the cuboid inhabitants of L'gy'hx and by a group of renegade [[Insect from Shaggai|Shan]].
| '''IS''', rpg{{Ref|Lrogg}}
|-
| Many-legged Goat || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Masked Messenger || [[Morocco]] [[Kenya]]
| Human Female aspect with acid skin.
| Avatar worshipped by the Sisterhood of the Masked Messenger.
| '''SoK''', rpg{{Ref|MaskedMessenger}}
|-
| Master of Evil || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Messenger of the Old Ones ||<center>—
| Appears as an enormous black mass that seems to creep across the sky.
| This form is manifast only during occasions of cosmic importance, such as the awakening of [[Cthulhu]].
| rpg{{Ref|MessengerOldOnes}}, '''WA'''
|-
| Mighty Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Mr. Skin || [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]]
| Indistinguishable imitation of an [[African American]] [[pimp]].
| This avatar is closely associated with certain worshippers of [[Shub-Niggurath]].
| '''MK'''
|}

===Table-c (N–W)===

{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Nyarlathotep's forms'''
|-
!Name
!Region
!Description
!Notes
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| Narla || Worldwide
| A [[The Woman in the Red Dress (Matrix character)|Woman in the Red Dress]]-like [[virtual reality]] entity.
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Nyarlatophis, the Sorcerer || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| {{fact}}
|-
| Narlato || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Narlotep || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| N'hyarlothatep || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Night Messenger || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| Old God || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| The Pool of Shadow || [[Druid]]s
| ?
| This avatar was worshipped for thousands of years by a small druidic cult.
| '''rpg{{Ref|PoolofShadow}}'''
|-
| Prince of Darkest Dark || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| [[Set (mythology)|Set]] || Egypt
| ?
| This avatar is worshipped by the Majestic Order of the Great Dark One, a cult which may still be active in Egypt.
| '''rpg{{Ref|Set}}'''
|-
| Shugoran || [[Malaysia]]
| Appears as a black human-like creature playing a horn.
| This form is worshipped by the [[Tcho-tcho people]]. They sometimes summon this avatar to punish offenders.
| '''MH''', rpg{{Ref|Shugoran}}
|-
| Skeletal Horror || Egypt
| Manifests as a twelve-foot-tall living skeleton with enormous claws and the head of a human [[embryo]].
| <center>—
| '''rpg{{Ref|SkeletalHorror}}'''
|-
| Skinless One, [[Xipe Totec]] || [[Middle East]]
| Appears as a skinned corpse.
| This avatar was worshipped by an abhorrent cult in [[Turkey]] and its environs. The [[Aztecs]] revered this avatar as Xipe Totec.
| '''rpg{{Ref|SkinlessOne}}'''
|-
| The Small Crawler || [[India]]
| A small human figure with four arms and three tentacles for legs.
| This avatar is described in the ''[[Cthäat Aquadingen]]'' and has a small cult in India.
| '''rpg{{Ref|SmallCrawler}}'''
|-
| Stalker Among the Stars || ?
| ?
| <center>—
| ''MofN''
|-
| [[Tezcatlipoca]] || [[Mexico]]
| Dark-skinned man with a foot that looks like a smoking mirror.
| This avatar was a prominent deity among the Aztecs.
| '''rpg{{Ref|Tezcatlipoca}}'''
|-
| The Thing in the Yellow Mask || Dreamlands
| A creature clothed in yellow [[silk]].
| This avatar is only known to manifest in the city of [['Ygiroth]] in the Dreamlands. Some claim that it is the lone occupant of the remote, unnamed [[monastery]] on the [[Plateau of Leng]] (see [[High Priest Not to Be Described]]).
| '''CE''', FY, YG
|-
| The Tick-Tock Man || Any technologically advanced civilisation
| An advanced piece of machinery for the time period.
| This avatar is most commonly found in technologically advanced races, or at times when science begins to supersede religion. It can manifest itself from something as mundane as a complex carriage clock to an extremely advanced artificial intelligence. Sources claim it was Nyarlathotep that gave humanity the final keys to unlock the atomic age, unwittingly ushering in the time of their own destruction.
| {{fact}}
|-
| The Wailing Writher || ?
| A column of writhing black tentacles and screaming mouths.
| This avatar has no known worshippers.
| '''rpg{{Ref|WailingWrither}}'''
|-
| The White Man || [[New England]]
| Appears as a blonde man in a shiny white robe.
| <center>—
| '''NS'''
|}

==Quotations==
<blockquote>
And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt. Who he was, none could tell, but he was of the old native blood and looked like a Pharaoh. The fellahin knelt when they saw him, yet could not say why. He said he had risen up out of the blackness of twenty-seven centuries, and that he had heard messages from places not on this planet. Into the lands of civilisation came Nyarlathotep, swarthy, slender, and sinister, always buying strange instruments of glass and metal and combining them into instruments yet stranger. He spoke much of the sciences - of electricity and psychology - and gave exhibitions of power which sent his spectators away speechless, yet which swelled his fame to exceeding magnitude. Men advised one another to see Nyarlathotep, and shuddered. And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished; for the small hours were rent with the screams of a nightmare.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "Nyarlathotep"
</blockquote>

<blockquote>What his fate would be, he did not know; but he felt that he was held for the coming of that frightful soul and messenger of infinity's Other Gods, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''
</blockquote>

<blockquote>There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers - the 'Black Man' of the witch cult, and the 'Nyarlathotep' of the Necronomicon.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House"
</blockquote>

<blockquote>There are references to a Haunter of the Dark awaked by gazing into the [[Shining Trapezohedron]], and insane conjectures about the black gulfs from which it was called. The being is spoken of as holding all knowledge, and demanding monstrous sacrifices.
 —H.P. Lovecraft, "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
*Outside the Lovecraft mythos, Nyarlathotep appears in the ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]]'' series of [[PlayStation]] games as a god symbolic of the destructive potential of [[Carl Jung]]'s collective unconsciousness, humanity's collective soul. He is the ally/enemy/[[doppelganger]] (it is complicated) of the Philemon character, and appears in various forms.
*Nyarlathotep appears as "Nylonathatep, the laddering horror" in the ''[[Discworld]]'' game ''[[Discworld Noir]]''.
*[[Stephen King]]'s character [[Randall Flagg]] was also known as Nyarlathotep; Flagg used a wide variety of names.
*Magic spells in [[Conan the Barbarian]] [[comic book]]s feature [[invocation|invocations]] to "Nyarla Thotep".
*[[Brad Strickland]], a writer of children's stories, used Nyarlathotep as the primary antagonist in his book ''The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost''.
*In an issue of [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]], the turtles find themself in a tower which inhabits forgotten deities. They found their enemy in the deceitful [[Loki]] who, in an ensuing battle, summons Nyarlathotep, "tearer of souls, ripper of flesh"
*Appears as Nyarlathotep, N., Priest of the Ether, Chaos Made Flesh, etc. as a character in the webcomic [http://www.friendlyhostility.com Friendly Hostility] where he is a friend of several main characters and his entrance preceded (his whereabouts known) by the occurrence of strange, random, usually gruesome events.
* Appears as a God card in the trading card game [http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=ht/welcome Hecatomb] by Wizards of the Coast.

==See also==
*[[References to the Cthulhu Mythos]]

==References==
* {{cite web | title=Masks of Nyarlathotep | url=http://www.psci.net/nyarla/Masks%20of%20Nyarlathotep.htm | accessdate=January 25 | accessyear=2006 }}
*Harms, Daniel. "Nyarlathotep" in ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'' (2nd ed.), pp. 218–222. Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

===Role-playing game material===

* Aniolowski, Scott D.
** "The Sundial of Amen-Tet" in ''Lurking Fears'', Lockport, NY: Triad Entertainments, 1990.
** ''Ye Booke of Monstres'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1994. ISBN 1-568-82019-4.

* Conyers, David. ''Secrets of Kenya'', Chaosium Inc, 2006.

* Detwiller, Dennis, Adam Scott Glancy, and John Tynes. ''Delta Green: A Call of Cthulhu Sourcebook of Modern Horror and Conspiracy'', Tynes Cowan Corp, 1997. ISBN 1-887-79708-4.

* Diaper, John, ''et al''. ''The Arkham Evil'', Theatre of the Mind, 1983.

* DiTillio, Larry and Lynn Willis.
** "City beneath the Sands" in ''Terror Australis'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1987. ISBN 0-933-63540-0.
** ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1996. ISBN 1-568-82069-0.

* Gillian, Geoff.
** "Regiment of Dread" in ''Tales of the Miskatonic Valley'', , Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1991. ISBN 0-933-63583-4.
** —''et al''. ''Horror on the Orient Express'', 1991.

* Hallet, David and L.N. Isinwyll. "Eyes for the Blind" in ''Dark Designs'', 1991.

* Hamblin, William. "Thoth's Dagger" in ''Different Worlds #27'', 1983.

* Herber, Keith.
** "Dead of Night" in ''Arkham Unveiled'', 1990.
** ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'', 1984.
** ''Return to Dunwich'', 1991.

* Johnson, Sam. ''A Resection of Time'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82095-X.

* Lyons, Doug and Isinwyll, L.N. "One in Darkness" in ''The Great Old Ones'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1989.

* Petersen, Sandy
** "The Rise of R'lyeh", 1982) in ''Shadows of Yog-Sothoth''.
** —and John B. Monroe. "The Ten Commandments of Cthulhu Hunting" in ''The Cthulhu Casebook'', 1990.

* Ross, Kevin. ''Escape from Innsmouth'' (2nd ed.), Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82115-8.

* Williams, Chris and Sandy Petersen. ''The Complete Dreamlands'' (4th ed.), Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1997. ISBN 1-568-82086-0.

===Notes===


#{{Note|Harms-218}}Harms, "Nyarlathotep", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. 218–9.

#{{Note|Ahtu}}Detwiller ''et al'', ''Delta Green''; Herber, "Dead of Night".

#{{Note|TheBeast}}Herber, ''The Fungi from Yuggoth''.

#{{Note|TheBlackDemon}}Lyons & Isinwyll, "One in Darkness".

#{{Note|BlackPharaoh}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''.

#{{Note|BlackWind}}Ibid.

#{{Note|BloatedWoman}}Ibid.

#{{Note|BringerofPests}}Petersen & Monroe, "The Ten Commandments of Cthulhu Hunting".

#{{Note|EffigyofHate}}Gillian, "Regiment of Dread".

#{{Note|Harms-222}}Harms, ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', "The Floating Horror", pp. 222. This name was created by Harms.

#{{Note|GodofBloody}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (first appeared in this scenario?); Johnson, ''A Resection of Time''.

#{{Note|GreenMan}}Hallet & Isinwyll, "Eyes for the Blind".

#{{Note|HaunterofDark}}DiTillio ''et al'', "City beneath the Sands"; Petersen ''et al'', ''The Complete Dreamlands''.

#{{Note|HornedMan}}Herber, ''Return to Dunwich''.

#{{Note|Lrogg}}Aniolowski, ''Ye Booke of Monstres''.

#{{Note|MessengerOldOnes}}Ibid; Petersen, "The Rise of R'lyeh".

#{{Note|PoolofShadow}}Diaper ''et al''. ''The Arkham Evil''.

#{{Note|Set}}Aniolowski, "The Sundial of Amen-Tet".

#{{Note|Shugoran}}Ross, ''Escape from Innsmouth''.

#{{Note|SkeletalHorror}}Hamblin, "Thoth's Dagger" in ''Different Worlds #27''.

#{{Note|SkinlessOne}}Gillan ''et al'', ''Horror on the Orient Express''.

#{{Note|SmallCrawler}}DiTillio & Willis, ''Masks of Nyarlathotep''.

#{{Note|Tezcatlipoca}}Johnson, ''A Resection of Time''.

#{{Note|WailingWrither}}Ross, ''Escape from Innsmouth''.

[[Category:Outer Gods]]

Cthulhu Mythos

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Evans: just changing links very slightly for the Cthäat Aquadingen

[[Image:cthulhu.jpg|thumb|Cthulhu in R'lyeh]]

'''Cthulhu mythos''' is the term coined by the writer [[August Derleth]] to describe the shared themes, characters, and elements in the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft]], his protegés, and writers influenced by him. Together, they form the [[mythos]] that authors, writing in the Lovecraftian [[wikt:milieu|milieu]], have used—and continue to use—to craft their stories.{{Rn|Harms-viii-a}}
Although this mythology is sometimes called the ''Lovecraft Mythos''—most notably by the Lovecraft scholar [[S. T. Joshi]]{{Rn|Joshi-31ff}}—it has long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception. Still, purists who wish to discuss Lovecraft's work, rather than the modifications and expansions of it written by others, consider this to be the most accurate term. Lovecraft himself occasionally referred to it as the ''[[Arkham, Massachusetts|Arkham]] cycle''{{Rn|Joshi-50}}, after the main fictional town in his world, or ''[[Yog-Sothoth]]ery''{{Rn|Joshi-51}}, after one of its primary gods.

==Lovecraft and the mythos==

In his essay "The Lovecraft Mythos", S. T. Joshi defines four key elements in Lovecraft's mythos: (1) the fundamental principle of ''cosmicism'', (2) an imaginary New England setting, (3) recurring "pseudomythological" entities, and (4) works of arcane literature. Joshi points out, however, that Lovecraft never fully realized his mythos at any time in his career, but instead developed it gradually, adding elements to it with each story he wrote.{{Rn|Joshi-32}}

===Cosmicism===

Common themes in Lovecraft's fiction are the insignificance of [[humanity]] in the [[universe]]{{Rn|Price-247}}and the search for knowledge ending in disaster{{Rn|Price-xviii}}. Humans are often subject to powerful beings and other cosmic forces, but these forces are not so much malevolent as they are indifferent toward humanity{{Rn|Price-249}}. Lovecraft called this viewpoint ''Cosmicism'', a doctrine which holds that humankind's religious beliefs are a mere conceit and that ultimately humanity is alone and defenseless in an uncaring universe.{{Rn|Tremlett-tum}}

===Imaginary New England setting===

Many of Lovecraft's tales take place in a fictional New England setting which may be connected to what Lovecraft called his "Arkham cycle". These ficticious locales may also parallel real-life places in [[Massachusetts]] (see table below).{{Rn|Joshi-31}}

{|class="wikitable"
|+'''Lovecraft's parallels to real places'''
!Fictional town or city
!Actual location in Massachusetts
|-
|Arkham||[[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]]
|-
|Dunwich||Vicinity of [[Hampden, Massachusetts|Hampden]], [[Wilbraham, Massachusetts|Wilbraham]], and [[Monson, Massachusetts|Monson]]
|-
|Innsmouth||[[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]]
|-
|Kingsport||[[Marblehead,Massachusetts|Marblehead]]
|}
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===Lovecraft's pantheon===

[[Image:CthulhumythosShrefflerchart.gif|frame|right|Lovecraft's original pantheon]]
When Lovecraft conceived his imaginary mythology, he apparently never laid out a definitive plan to follow. Instead, he simply launched into writing his stories, adding matter-of-fact references to the various deities and monsters of the mythos. Furthermore, Lovecraft often used these references capriciously, indicating that he probably favored drama over consistency (a noteworthy example is Lovecraft's use of ''[[Old One]]s'', a term whose meaning varied from story to story). Nonetheless, Phillip A. Schreffler, in his book ''The H. P. Lovecraft Companion'', argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges for a pantheon of beings (see figure at right).{{Rn|Shreffler-156}}Not included in this chart is [[Nodens (Cthulhu mythos)|Nodens]]{{Rn|Shreffler-157}}, a member of a rival group of potent deities known as the "Elder Gods" (never expanded by Lovecraft) that were more or less benign.{{Rn|Mosig-24}}

Lovecraft's central deities are [[Azathoth]] and [[Yog-Sothoth]], both representing opposing cosmic principles. Azathoth, the "blind and idiotic" ruler of the pantheon, occupies the literal center of the universe, whereas Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth's co-ruler, embodies the infinite, existing in all places and in all times. Next in the hierarchy is [[Shub-Niggurath]] (whom Lovecraft mentions but never describes in his stories), representing a kind of [[paganism|pagan]] fertility god. Attending Azathoth at his court are the Other Gods, mysterious beings that dance mindlessly around Azathoth's throne in cadence to the piping of a demonic flute, and [[Nyarlathotep]], the avatar and messenger of Azathoth and the Other Gods. Nyarlathotep is the only being that can interact intelligently with human beings, though he often manifests himself in human form to disguise his true appearance.

The topmost tier of deities is served by earthbound, non-human beings. [[Cthulhu]] is regarded as the priest of the gods, while [[Dagon]] appears to be his subordinate. The lowest tier consists of the [[Elder Thing]]s and the [[Mi-go]], both [[extraterrestrial]] races, and the [[Deep One (Cthulhu mythos)|Deep Ones]], ocean-dwelling humanoids, which serve Cthulhu and Dagon.{{Rn|Shreffler-158}}

Because of the additions of later authors, the mythos pantheon has grown considerably and is now populated by deities and beings never conceived of by Lovecraft. Nevertheless, the original schema, which places Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth at the top of the pantheon, is still widely recognized by many mythos writers.

====Gods and devils====

According to Robert M. Price in his essay "Lovecraft's 'Artificial Mythology'", Lovecraft never intended his pantheon of beings—occasionally referred to as the ''Old Ones''—to be supernatural creatures but instead powerful [[extraterrestrial]]s. For naive humans to worship these beings as ''gods'' or to deride them as ''devils'' was to feebly attempt to [[wikt:anthropomorphize|anthropomorphize]] them and thus render them into mundane and explainable terms. What early humans could not understand they characterized as divine; thus, prescientific cultures deified incomprehensible entities like [[Azathoth]]. Though humans might try to placate or earn the favor of these beings by worshiping them, the Old Ones were not welcoming of such veneration and moreover were quick to exploit the gullibility of their worshipers to further their own agenda.

Lovecraft's inspiration was to tear humanity from its supposedly vaunted place in the universe by forcing his characters to confront alien beings far older and wiser than humankind. Unfortunately, August Derleth, as well as other writers who followed after him, misinterpreted Lovecraft's original conception and took the Old Ones to be literally supernatural and godlike. Derleth further distorted Lovecraft's vision by concocting a parallel to the [[Christianity|Christian]] narrative of [[Satan]] warring against [[Heaven]], pairing the ''devils'' of Lovecraft's mythos (the Old Ones) against a race of benevolent ''[[Elder God]]s'' with humanity's fate hanging in the balance. In Price's view, "religious fiction" of this sort could not be further from Lovecraft's fundamental notion of an indifferent, nihilistic universe.{{Rn|Price-248}}

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===Cthulhuian pseudobiblia===
{{main|Cthulhu mythos arcane literature}}

A hallmark of Lovecraft's mythos is the various mystical books and other writings of arcane lore which Edward Lauterbach calls "Cthulhuian pseudobiblia"{{Rn|Lauterbach-96ff}}. These tomes were invented by Lovecraft and his imitators to lend more believability to their stories. A good measure of humor was also employed in their creation; for example, ''Cultes des Goules'' is credited to the fictional writer Comte d'Erlette, an obvious pun of August Derleth's name.{{Rn|Lauterbach-96}}

{|class="wikitable"
|+'''Selected fictional works''' '''created by mythos authors'''
!Author
!Fictional book
|-
|[[Robert Bloch]]||Cultes des Goules, De Vermis Mysteriis
|-
|[[Ramsey Campbell]]||Revelations of Glaaki
|-
|[[Lin Carter]]||Ponape Scripture, Zanthu Tablets
|-
|August Derleth||Celaeno Fragments, R'lyeh Text
|-
|[[Robert E. Howard]]||Unaussprechlichen Kulten
|-
|H. P. Lovecraft||Dhol Chants, Necronomicon, Pnakotic Manuscripts, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan
|-
|[[Brian Lumley]]||Cthäat Aquadingen, G'harne Fragments
|-
|[[Clark Ashton Smith]]||Book of Eibon
|}

==Structure of the mythos==
The mythos is centered on the [[Great Old One]]s, a fearsome assortment of ancient, powerful [[deity|deities]] that once ruled the Earth. They are presently [[wikt:quiescent|quiescent]], having fallen into a death-like sleep at some time in the distant past. {{Rn|Harms-viii-b}}The most well-known of these beings is [[Cthulhu]], who currently lies "dead [but] dreaming" in the submerged city of [[R'lyeh]] somewhere in the Southeast [[Pacific Ocean]]. One day, "when the stars are right", R'lyeh will rise from beneath the sea, and Cthulhu will awaken and wreak havoc on the earth.{{Rn|Lovecraft-tcoc}}
Despite his notoriety, Cthulhu is not the most powerful of the deities nor is he the [[Theology|theological]] center of the mythos{{Rn|Mosig-25}}. Instead, this position is held by the demon-god Azathoth, an [[Outer God]], ruling from his cosmically-centered court. Nonetheless, Nyarlathotep, who fulfills Azathoth's random urges, has intervened more frequently and more directly in human affairs than any other Outer God. He has also displayed more blatant contempt for humanity, including his own worshipers, than almost any other Lovecraftian deity.

A number of different authors have applied different methods of structuring the entities of the Mythos. In part, this is an excellent manifestation of the ideas originated by Lovecraft, where contradictions were deliberately introduced to make the Mythos feel more naturalistic. However, some individuals like to choose one particular structuring form for their own use, whether private, for gaming, for fiction, or for whatever other use. To this end, a number of articles describing some of these structuring forms will be linked from here.

<center>Mythos Structures</center>
{| class="wikitable" style="margin: 1em auto 1em auto"
|-
| bgcolor=silver|[[Chaosium Mythos]] ||bgcolor=silver| [[Derleth Mythos]] || bgcolor=silver|[[Lumley Mythos]] || bgcolor=silver|[[Tierney Gnostic Mythos]] || bgcolor=silver|[[Tynes Mythos]]
|}

==Derleth's involvement==

Derleth had his own take on the mythos and tried to make it conform to his own [[Catholic]] values and [[dualism]]. Instead of a universe of meaninglessness and chaos, Derleth's mythos is a struggle of ''good versus evil''.{{Rn|Bloch-9}}Derleth once wrote:

<blockquote>

As Lovecraft conceived the deities or forces of his mythos, there were, initially, the Elder Gods... [T]hese Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefully at or near [[Betelgeuse|Betelgeuze]] in the constellation [[Orion (constellation)|Orion]], very rarely stirring forth to intervene in the unceasing struggle between the powers of evil and the [[race (fantasy)|race]]s of Earth. These powers of evil were variously known as the Great Old Ones or the Ancient Ones...
 —August Derleth, "The Cthulhu Mythos"{{Ref|Derleth-vii}}
</blockquote>

Lovecraft was an [[atheist]]{{Rn|Joshi-II}}and claimed that [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]'s ethical system "is a joke."{{Rn|Derleth-unknown}}Because of this, Derleth's theories about the ''Cthulhu mythos'' are inconsistent with Lovecraft's design. The mythos was never intended to be a cohesive, singular entity; instead, it should be regarded as simply a collection of ideas that can be used in separate works to provoke the same emotions.{{Rn|Turner-x}}
Another problem with Derleth's mythos is that the Elder Gods never appear in Lovecraft's writings; except for one or two who appear as "Other Gods", such as [[Nodens]] in Lovecraft's "[[The Strange High House in the Mist]]" (though perhaps this is an example of how "very rarely [they stir] forth"; i.e., usually never). Furthermore, the Great Old Ones, or ''Ancient Ones'', have no unified [[pantheon (gods)|pantheon]]{{Rn|Tremlett-tbq}}. Indeed, the term "Ancient Ones" appears in only one Lovecraft story, "[[Through the Gates of the Silver Key]]" (moreover, the story is actually a collaboration between Lovecraft and his friend and correspondent [[E. Hoffman Price]]).

Derleth also introduced the concept of ''[[elemental]]s'', tying the deities of the mythos to the four elements of "air", "earth", "fire", and "water". This system left gaps which Derleth filled in by creating the beings [[Cthugha]] and [[Ithaqua]], representing the spheres of "fire" and "air", respectively. However, the system is fraught with problems. For example, Derleth classified Cthulhu as a ''water elemental'', but if this were so, how could he be trapped beneath the ocean and how could his [[Telepathy|psychic emanations]] be blocked by water? Another problem is that Derleth matched the "earth" beings against the "fire" beings and the "air" beings against the "water" beings, which is not consistent with the traditional elemental dichotomy (namely, that ''air'' opposes ''earth'' and ''fire'' opposes ''water'').{{Rn|Harms-101}}

{|class="wikitable"
|+'''Derleth's elemental deities'''{{Ref|Price-72}}
!Air
!Earth
!Fire
!Water
|-
|[[Hastur]] [[Ithaqua]] [[Zhar (Great Old One)|Zhar and Lloigor]]
|[[Nyarlathotep]] [[Shub-Niggurath]] [[Tsathoggua]] [[Yog-Sothoth]]
|[[Cthugha]]
|[[Cthulhu]]
|}

To his credit, Derleth became a [[publisher]] of Lovecraft's stories after his death{{Rn|bloch-8}}. Lovecraft himself was very critical of his own writings and was often easily discouraged, especially when faced with any rejection of his work{{Rn|Joshi-I}}. Were it not for Derleth, Lovecraft's writings and the Cthulhu mythos might have remained largely unknown.

== Elements of the mythos ==

====Overview====

Tables appearing under these entries are organized as follows:

* ''Name''. This is the commonly accepted name of the being or mythos element.
* ''Epithet(s), Other name(s)''. This field lists any epithets or alternate names. These are names sometimes mentioned in [[Cthulhu mythos arcane literature|books of arcane literature]], but may also be the names preferred by cults.
* ''Description''. This entry gives a brief description of the being or mythos element.
* ''References''. This field lists the stories in which the being or mythos element makes a ''significant'' appearance or otherwise receives important mention. A simple two-letter code is used (the key to the codes is found '''[[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|here]]'''). If a code appears in '''bold''', this means that the story introduces the being or mythos element.

===Beings===

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====Great Old Ones====
{{main|Great Old One}} (includes a table listing all the Great Old Ones in the mythos)

The Great Old Ones are powerful and ancient creatures worshiped by deranged human [[cult]]s. Many of the Great Old Ones are made of an unearthly substance having properties unlike normal matter. A Great Old One's influence is often limited to the [[planet]] on which it dwells. If a Great Old One is based on a planet outside the [[solar system]], it can only extend its influence to earth when the [[star]] of its [[planetary system]] is in the night sky. In such cases, the help of cultists performing various rituals may be required.
----

====Outer Gods====
{{main|Outer God}} (includes a table listing all the Outer Gods in the mythos)

The Outer Gods have unlimited influence, unlike the Great Old Ones, and function on a cosmic scale{{Rn|Harms2-2.1-para4}}. They include a subgroup known as the Lesser Outer Gods, or Other Gods.
----
==== Elder Gods ====
{{main|Elder God (Cthulhu mythos)}} (includes a table listing all the Elder Gods in the mythos)

The Elder Gods are beings who oppose the Outer Gods and the Great Old Ones. Many consider them to be non-Lovecraftian, because they introduce a "good versus evil" dichotomy into the cosmic indifference of Lovecraft's fiction{{Rn|Harms2-2.1-para6}}. However, others argue that these beings have no more concern for human notions of morality than the beings they oppose, and that humanity and the human world are beneath their regard{{Rn|misc-eldergods}}.
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====Great Ones====
{{main|Dreamlands#The Great Ones}}

The Great Ones are the so-called "gods" of the [[Dreamlands]], but they are not as powerful as the Great Old Ones and are not even as intelligent as most humans. However, they are protected by the Outer Gods, especially Nyarlathotep.{{Rn|Harms2-2.1-para7}}
----
====Other supernatural beings====


{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Supernatural beings'''
|-
!Name
!Epithet(s), Other name(s)
!Description
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| [[Alala]] || ? || Being made of living sound that dwells in the [[S'glhuo|Gulf of S'glhuo]]. || PL, '''WP'''
|-
| [[Ammutseba]] || ''Devourer of Stars'' || ? || ?
|-
| [[Beast in the Pit]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Beast of Averoigne]] || ? || ? || '''BA'''
|-
| [[Droom-Avista]] || ? || ? || '''JD'''
|-
| [[The Dunwich Horror]] || ''Son of Yog-Sothoth'' || An invisible monstrosity with some human features. || '''[[The Dunwich Horror|DH]]'''
|-
| The [[Eater of Souls]] || ? || ? || EA
|-
| [[Fthaggua]] || ''Lord of Ktynga'' || Appears as a bluish ball of energy. || '''FV''', [[The Horror in the Gallery|HG]]
|-
| [[Gnoph-Keh]] || <center>— || Appears as huge [[gnophkeh]]; possibly an avatar of [[Rhan-Tegoth]]. || '''HM'''
|-
| [[God of the Red Flux]] || ? || Monstrous, red flowing creature. || '''TR'''
|-
| [[The Green God]] || ? || Appears as a [[moai]] covered with foliage. || '''HR'''
|-
| The [[High Priest Not to Be Described]] || <center>— || Humanoid wearing a silken mask. || '''[[Celephaïs|CE]]''', [[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]
|-
| The [[Hoppwood Tenant]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Kali (supernatural being)|Kali]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Knygathin Zhaum]] || <center>— || Appears as a quasi-humanoid Voormi. || FT, '''TM'''
|-
| [[K'thun]] (female) and [[Noth-Yidik]] (male) || ? || Abhorrent, [[wikt:malodorous|malodorous]] beings whose mating spawned the Hounds of Tindalos. || '''HM''', MT
|-
| [[Mappo no Ryujin]] || ''Coatlicue'', ''Mother of All Serpents'' || A gigantic, [[wikt:serpentine|serpentine]] monstrosity covered in small white snakes || ?
|-
| [[M'Bwa]] || ? || ? || '''TR'''
|-
| [[Million Favored Ones]] || <center>— || Beings said to be [[Nyarlathotep]]'s spawn. || MF, '''WD'''
|-
| [[Mlandoth|Mlandoth and Mril Thorion]] || ''The Source'', ''The One'' || Unknown. || '''WY'''
|-
| [[Our Ladies of Sorrow]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Pharol the Black]] || <center>— || Appears as a black, fanged [[demon]] with tentacles instead of arms. || '''HY''', AG
|-
| The [[Prisoner of Vornai]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Saboth the Elder]] || ''The Grinning Ghoul'' || ? || ?
|-
| [[Shaurash-Ho]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Sss'haa]] || Sssaaa || Leader of the serpent people of Valusia. || [[The Horror in the Gallery|HG]], '''TH''', VY
|-
| [[Sthood]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| The [[Thing Hanging in the Void]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Ubb (Cthulhu mythos)|Ubb]] || ''Father of Worms'' || Leader of the Yuggs. || '''OA''', PI, UV, [[The Thing in the Pit|TP]]
|-
| [[Cyäegha|The five Vaeyen]] || <center>— || Quintet of [[vulture]]-like statues that both guard and sequester the Great Old One [[Cyäegha]] || '''DM'''
|-
| The [[Vale Which is the Night]] || ? || ? || ?
|-
| [[Vibur]] || ? || A green, [[wikt:tendril|tendril]] covered orb. || ?
|-
| [[The Dunwich Horror|Wilbur Whateley]] || <center>— || Mostly-human twin of the aforementioned Dunwich Horror. || '''[[The Dunwich Horror|DH]]'''
|-
| [[Wuthoqquan's Bane]] || ? || A large, shapeless beast lurking in the sewers of [[Commoriom]]. || '''WQ'''
|-
| [[Xathagorra]] || ? || Vile, multiform creature with a vast wingspan. || '''CH'''
|-
| [[Xexanoth]] || ''Bane of Aforgomon'' || ? || '''CM'''
|-
| [[Xiurhn]] || ''Guardian of the Dark Jewel'' || A slothlike, winged thing with a terrible face. || '''XI'''
|-
| [[Yegg-Ha]] || ''Lord of Nightgaunts'' || A huge, faceless humanoid with tiny wings. || '''IE''', TC, WI
|-
| [[Y'hkmaat]] || ''Queen of One Thousand Eyes'' || ? || ?
|-
| [[Zyhumé]] || ? || A gigantic, spectral elk. || ?
|-
|}

====Non-human species of the mythos====

=====Table-a (A–F)=====
{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Non-human species A–F'''
|-
!Name
!Description
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| [[Adumbrali]] || [[wikt:extradimensional|Extradimensional]] beings that appear as orbs of darkness. || '''AB'''
|-
| [[Aihais]] || Humanoids from [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. || '''VU'''
|-
| [[Antehumans]] || Slender, tall, gaunt proto-humans of great intelligence. || SG
|-
| [[Being of Xiclotl|Beings of Xiclotl]] || Horrifying, oddly plant-like, carnivorous giants, native to the planet Xiclotl, and the slaves of the Insects from Shaggai (the Shan). || '''IS'''
|-
| [[Dhole (Cthulhu mythos)|Bhole]]s || Gigantic, worm-like creatures that inhabit the earth's Dreamlands. || DL, '''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]'''
|-
| [[Blupe]]s || Translucent, bluish, oval-shaped creatures that can float through the air. || DL
|-
| [[Brothers of Chaugnar Faugn]] || Beings that resemble smaller versions of [[Chaugnar Faugn]]. || '''HF'''
|-
| [[Byakhee]] || Resemble bat-like, hornet-like human corpses. || '''FE''', GS, HC, WS
|-
| [[Cat from Saturn|Cats from Saturn]] || Cat-like beings from the Dreamlands with abstract, multi-hued bodies. || DL, '''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]'''
|-
| [[Cat from Uranus|Cats from Uranus]] || Like those from Saturn, but far more terrible. || DL
|-
| [[Chatoka]] || ? || ?
|-
| [[Children of the Sphinx]] || Sub-cult of the [[Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh]]. || ''n/a''{{Ref|DiTillio-a}}
|-
| [[Chthonian]]s (''The Burrowers Beneath'') || Gigantic, squid-like worms. || BU, '''CS'''
|-
| [[Colour out of Space]] || Appears as a shapeless, plastic entity glowing with the colors of an unknown [[Optical spectrum|spectrum]]. || '''CO''', CT
|-
| [[Crawling One]]s (''The Worms that Walk'') || Appear as human-sized worms. || '''FE'''
|-
| [[Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath]] || Appear as ropy, black tentacles on a pair of stumpy, hooved legs. || MK, '''NF'''
|-
| [[Deep One (Cthulhu mythos)|Deep One]]s || Ocean-dwelling humanoids that appear to be half-frog and half-fish. || BU, DO, GS, HC, [[The Horror in the Gallery|HG]], RD, SA, '''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth|SI]]'''
|-
| [[Dhole (Cthulhu mythos)|Dhole]]s || Gigantic, worm-like creatures. || DR, TG, '''WP'''
|-
| [[Dimensional Shambler]]s || [[Dimension]]-hopping humanoids with rough, leathery bodies and huge claws. || '''HM'''
|-
| [[Doel]]s || Tiny, extradimensional, flesh-eating creatures. || '''HN'''
|-
| [[Elder Things]] (''Old Ones'') || Appear as five-sided, oval-shaped barrels with starfish-like appendages at each end. || '''[[At the Mountains of Madness|AM]]''', IV, PW
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Fire vampires]]
| 1. (Flame Creatures of Cthugha) Appear as tiny points of light that ingite everything they touch. || '''DD'''
|-
| 2. (Fire Vampires of Fthaggua) Appear as bursts of crimson lightning that set fire to sentient beings. || '''FV''', [[The Horror in the Gallery|HG]]
|-
| [[Fishers from Outside]] || Enigmatic, prehistoric, flying race associated with [[Gol-Goroth]] and the Shantaks. || '''FO'''
|-
| [[Flying polyp]]s || Appear as floating, semi-visible, polypous horrors capable of controlling great winds. || PW, '''ST''', SY, WF
|-
| [[Formless spawn]] of Tsathoggua and Knygathin Zhaum || Appear as gelatinous, shape-shifting, black goo. || MO, '''TS'''
|}

=====Table-b (G–M)=====
{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Non-human species G–M'''
|-
!Name
!Description
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| [[Underworld (Dreamlands)#Ghasts|Ghasts]] || Fearsome, underground-dwelling humanoids with kangaroo-like legs that inhabit the earth's Dreamlands. || '''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath|DQ]]'''
|-
| [[Ghoul]]s || Corpse-eating, [[wikt:canine|canine]]-like humanoids. || DQ, IC, '''PM'''
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Gnophkeh]]
| 1. Six-legged, furry, [[rhinocerous]]-like creatures with an affinity for cold climes. || '''HM''', LT, SM
|-
| 2. Hairy cannibals that once dwelt in Lomar. || '''PO'''
|-
| [[Gnorri]] || Resemble [[Merman|mermen]] with possibly one or two additional arms. || '''SK'''
|-
| [[Shub-Niggurath|Gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath]] || [[wikt:transmogrified|Transmogrified]], once-human cultists of Shub-Niggurath. || '''ML'''
|-
| [[Great Race of Yith]] || Resemble tall, rugose cones with four appendages: two claws, a trumpet-like limb, and a yellow, globe-like organ. || CF, PW, SO, '''ST''', SY
|-
| [[Underworld (Dreamlands)#Gugs|Gugs]] || Horrifying, furry giants of the Dreamlands with a mouth that opens sideways. || '''DQ'''
|-
| [[Gyaa-Yothn]] || Quasi-human, rhinocerous-like [[wikt:quadruped|quadrupeds]] used as [[wikt:beast of burden|beasts of burden]] by the denizens of K'n-yan. || '''MO'''
|-
| [[Haemophores]] || Small, vampiric creatures with webbed hands and feet. || DL
|-
| [[Hounds of Tindalos]] || Extradimensional horrors that can enter our universe through any three-dimensional corner. || EL, '''HN''', MT, TC
|-
| [[Hunters from Beyond]] || ? || ?
|-
| [[Hunting Horrors]] || Resemble huge, immaterial serpents with bat wings. || '''DQ''', LT
|-
| [[Hyperboreans (Cthulhu mythos)|Hyperboreans]] || A race of early pre-humans. || DS, SG, '''TS''', UB
|-
| [[K'n-yan|K'n-yan, Natives of]] || Technologically and psychically advanced humanoids who dwell underground. || OE, '''MO'''
|-
| [[Kyresh]] || Vicious, wolven creatures of the Dreamlands. || '''YG'''
|-
| [[Larvae of the Outer Gods]] || [[Proteus|Protean]] beings spawned by the Outer Gods. || DQ
|-
| [[Lamp-Eft]]s || Resemble small, flying [[iguana]]s. || DL
|-
| [[Leeches of Yoh-Vombis]] || Parasitic Martian creatures. || ?
|-
| [[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#L'gy'hx|L'gy'hx, Natives of]] || Cube-shaped, multi-legged, metallic beings that inhabit the planet L'gy'hx (Uranus). || '''IS'''
|-
| [[Lloigor (Cthulhu mythos)|Lloigor]] || Beings that may alternately appear as vortices of energy or dragon-like dinosaurs (Ghatanothoa may be a particularly powerful one). || IU, '''RL'''
|-
| [[Men of Leng]] || [[Satyr]]-like beings that inhabit the Plateau of Leng. || DQ
|-
| [[Mi-go]] (''Fungi from Yuggoth'', ''Outer Ones'') || Resemble human-sized, winged [[crustacean]]s with globular heads covered with [[cilia]]. || DT, OW, '''WD'''
|-
| [[Miri Nigri]] || Amphibious humanoids created by Chaugnar Faugn. || '''HF'''
|-
| [[Moon-beasts]] || Plump, toad-like humanoids. || '''DQ''', MD
|}

=====Table-c (N–Z)=====
{|class="wikitable"
|+ '''Non-human species N–Z'''
|-
!Name
!Description
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]]
|-
| [[Cyäegha|Nagäae]] || Toadish servants of Cyäegha. || '''DM'''
|-
| [[The Nameless City|Nameless City, Denizens of]] || Alligator-like, seal-like humanoids. || '''NC'''
|-
| [[Great Race of Yith|New Great Race of Yith]] (''Coleopterous Race'') || Resemble human-sized beetles. || '''ST'''
|-
| [[Nightgaunt]]s || Faceless, bat-like humanoids. || '''DQ''', HE, OK, WI
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Nioth-Korghai]]
| 1. Extraterrestrial, carnivorous monster held in captivity by king Ossaru in Zothique. || '''TB'''
|-
| 2. Extraterrestrial, aquatic creatures that feed on the life-force of human beings. || '''PS'''
|-
| [[Ny'ghaan-grii]] || ? || ?
|-
| [[Rat-Thing]]s || Tiny, rat-like creatures with human-like faces. || '''DW'''
|-
| [[Sand-dweller]]s || Appear as sand-encrusted, skeleton-like humanoids with large claws. || '''GW'''
|-
| [[Serpent people]] || Serpent-like humanoids. || [[The Horror in the Gallery|HG]], '''HK''', IU, OW, SG,
|-
| [[Servant of Glaaki|Servants of Glaaki]] || Undead [[zombie]]s that serve the being Glaaki. || '''IL'''
|-
| [[Servitors of the Outer Gods]] || Beings of varied form that dance mindlessly about Azathoth's throne at the center of the universe. || '''AZ'''
|-
| [[S'glhuo|S'glhuo, Denizens of]] || Tall, bluish humanoids with blank eyes and boneless fingers; actually entities made of living sound. || '''PL'''
|-
| The [[Shan]] (''Insects from Shaggai'') || Resemble large insects. || '''IS''', QU
|-
| [[Shantaks]] || Elephantine, reptilian birds of the Dreamlands. || '''DQ''', FO, RY
|-
| [[Shoggoth]] || Resemble gigantic amoebae with numerous floating eyes. || '''[[At the Mountains of Madness|AM]]''', GC, NE, PG, [[The Shadow Over Innsmouth|SI]], TC
|-
| The [[Space-Eaters]] || ? || '''PE'''
|-
| [[Spawn of Ubbo-Sathla]] || Large, formless, black [[wikt:protean|protean]] beings. || ?
|-
| [[Spiders of Leng]] || Giant purple spiders that inhabit the Plateau of Leng. || DL
|-
| Star-spawn of Cthulhu (''Cthulhi'') || Resemble smaller versions of Cthulhu himself. || '''AM''', PW, TC
|-
| [[Star vampire]] (''Shambler from the Stars'') || Invisible, levitating, vampiric horror with a myriad of suckers and two huge claws. || '''SF'''
|-
| [[Tcho-Tcho]] || Mutated humanoids descended from the Miri-Nigri. || BK, EH, '''LS''', MH
|-
| [[Terrors from Beyond]] || ? || ?
|-
| [[Thuum'ha]] (''Beings of Ib'') || Green, toad-like humanoids with gelatinous bodies and emerald eyes || BM, '''DC''', NL
|-
| [[Tree Men of M'Bwa]] || ? || '''TR'''
|-
| [[Voonith]] || Huge lizards of the Dreamlands. || DL
|-
| [[Voor]] || Degenerate wormlike creatures; survivors of a now-fallen civilisation in Hyperborea. || ?
|-
| [[Voormis]] || Yeti-like bipeds that inhabit Mount Voormithadreth in Hyperborea. || AF, SG, SM, '''TM'''
|-
| [[Xo Tl'mi-go]] || Pale, eyeless, leech-mouthed, and sterile [[hominid]]s. || '''CK'''
|-
| [[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Yaddith|Yaddith, Natives of]] || Humanoid inhabitants of the planet Yaddith that resemble a cross between mammals and reptiles. || DR, [[The Horror in the Gallery|HG]], '''TG''', VI
|-
| [[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Yekub|Yekubians]] || Technologically-advanced, centipede-like beings that inhabit the planet Yekub. || '''CF'''
|-
| rowspan=2 | [[Yuggya]]
| 1. (Yuggs or Yuggya) Beings that resemble white, [[planarian]]-like flatworms. || '''OA''', WI
|-
| 2. (Yuggya) The offspring of a mating between a Yugg and a Deep One hybrid. || PI, WF
|-
| [[Zoogs]] || Creatures of the Dreamlands that resemble small, [[elf]]in rodents. || '''DQ''', HE
|}

===Cults in the mythos===

''See'' [[Cthulhu Mythos Cults]]

===Arcane literature and other media===

{|border=0 width=100%
|+'''Arcane media'''
|valign=top width=48%|
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|Ref.]]*
|-
|[[Book of Azathoth]]
!DW
|-
|[[Book of Dzyan]] (the Stanzas of Dzyan)
!S4
|-
|[[Book of Eibon]] (Liber Ivonis, Livre d'Eibon)
!UB
|-
|[[The Book of Iod]]
!BH
|-
|[[Celaeno Fragments]]
!HC
|-
|[[Cthäat Aquadingen]] (possibly Things of the Water)
!YE
|-
|[[Cultes des Goules]] (Cults of the Ghouls)
!SU
|-
|[[De Vermis Mysteriis]] (Mysteries of the Worm)
!SF
|-
|[[Dwellers in the Depths]]
!AQ
|-
|[[Eltdown Shards]]
!EC
|-
|[[The Ford Translation]] of the [[Voynich Manuscript]]
!RL (?)
|-
|[[G'harne Fragments]]
!CS
|-
|[[The King in Yellow]]
!YS
|}
|valign=top width=48%|
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Ref.
|-
|[[Massa Di Requiem per Shuggay]] ("Requiem for Shaggai")
!''n/a''{{Ref|Aniolowski-MM}}
|-
|The [[Necronomicon]] ("An Image [or Picture ''sic''] of the Law of the Dead")
!HO
|-
|[[Kitab Al-Azif]] (equivalent to the Necronomicon)
!LA
|-
|[[The Pnakotic Manuscripts]] (Pnakotic Fragments)
!PO
|-
|[[Ponape Scripture]]
!OA
|-
|[[Revelations of Glaaki]]
!IL
|-
|[[The R'lyeh Text]]
!RH
|-
|[[Saracenic Rituals]] (infamous chapter from ''De Vermis Mysteriis'')
!SF
|-
|[[The Testament of Carnamagos]]
!XE
|-
|[[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]] (interpreted as "Unspeakable Cults", also: Black Book, Nameless Cults)
!CN
|-
|[[Zanthu Tablets]]
!DT
|}
|}
* Reference to first appearance.

===Fictional locations===

{|border=0 width=100%
|+'''Locations'''
|valign=top width=48%|
{|class="wikitable"
!Name
!What or where
![[Cthulhu mythos reference codes and bibliography|Ref.*]]
|-
|[[Arkham]]
|A city in [[Massachusetts]].
!PH
|-
|[[Brichester]]
|A town in [[England]].
!UH
|-
|[[Carcosa]]
|On the shores of [[Lake Hali]], on a [[planet]] in the [[Hyades (star cluster)|Hyades]].
!IH
|-
|[[Celephaïs]]
|A city in the Dreamlands.
!CE
|-
|[[Commoriom]]
|The capital of Hyperborea.
!TS
|-
|The [[Court of Azathoth]]
|At the center of the universe.
!AZ
|-
|[[Cykranosh]]
|The planet [[Saturn (planet)|Saturn]].
!DS
|-
|The [[Dreamlands]]
|In another [[dimension]].
!CE
|-
|The mountain [[Cyäegha|Dunkelhügel]]
|Near [[Cyäegha|Freihausgarten]], [[Germany]].
!DM
|-
|[[Dunwich (H. P. Lovecraft)|Dunwich]]
|A village in Massachusetts.
!DH
|-
|[[Elysia]]
|The homeland of the Elder Gods.
!TC
|-
|[[G'harne]]
|A primeval city in Africa.
!CS
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Glyu-Uho|Glyu-Uho]]
|The star [[Betelgeuse]].
!S4
|-
|[[Hyperborea (Cthulhu mythos)|Hyperborea]]
|A now-vanished kingdom in [[Greenland]].
!TS
|-
|[[Ib]]
|A pre-human settlement in Mnar.
!DC
|-
|[[Innsmouth]]
|A coastal town in Massachusetts.
!SI
|-
|[[Kadath]]
|The home of the Great Ones.
!OG
|-
|[[Kingsport (fictional town)|Kingsport]]
|A coastal town in Massachusetts.
!FE
|-
|[[K'n-yan]]
|Blue-litten realm beneath [[Oklahoma]].
!MO
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Ktynga|Ktynga]]
|A large comet near [[Arcturus]].
!FV
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Kythanil|Kythanil]]
|A double planet.
!TG
|-
|The [[Plateau of Leng]]
|A cold, arid [[plateau]].
!HO
|-
|[[Lomar]]
|An ancient region.
!PO
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#L'gy'hx|L'gy'hx]]
|The planet [[Uranus (planet)|Uranus]].
!IS
|-
|[[Miskatonic University]]
|In Arkham, Massachusetts.
!WR
|-
|[[Mnar]]
|Probably in the Dreamlands.
!DC
|-
|[[Mu (Cthulhu mythos)|Mu]]
|A sunken continent.
!OE
|-
|[[Naat (fictional)|Naat]]
|?
!?
|-
|[[The Nameless City]]
|A buried city.
!NC
|-
|[[N'kai]]
|A lightless cavern beneath Yoth (or possibly underneath Mt. Voormithadreth).
!MO
|-
|[[Olathoë]]
|A city in Lomar.
!PO
|-
|[[Pnakotus]]
|A [[wikt:primeval|primeval]] city in the [[Great Sandy Desert]] in [[Australia]].
!ST
|}
|valign=top width=48%|
{|class="wikitable"
!Name
!What or where
!Ref.
|-
|[[Vale of Pnath]]
|In the [[Underworld (Dreamlands)|Underworld]].
!EM
|-
|[[R'lyeh]]
|The sunken island/city where Cthulhu is entombed.
!CC
|-
|[[The Doom that Came to Sarnath|Sarnath]]
|A destroyed city in Mnar.
!DC
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Shaggai|Shaggai]]
|A planet orbiting twin emerald suns.
!HD
|-
|[[Gulf of S'glhuo|S'glhuo, Gulf of]]
|An alternate dimension.
!PL
|-
|The [[Zhar (Great Old One)#Alaozar|Plateau of Sung]] (or "Tsang"?)
|Possibly a region of Leng.
!HF
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Thuggon|Thuggon]]
|A planet.
!IS
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Thyoph|Thyoph]]
|A planet.
!IS
|-
|[[Ulthar]]
|A cat-laden town in the Dreamlands.
!CU
|-
|[[Uzuldaroum]]
|A city in Hyperborea.
!TS
|-
|[[Valley of Do-Hna]]
|In Xinaián (K'n-yan).
!MO
|-
|[[Valusia]]
|The ancient land of the Serpent people.
!HK
|-
|[[Mount Voormithadreth]]
|Four-coned extinct volcano in Hyperborea; contains the Cavern of Archetypes and the Web of [[Atlach-Nacha]].
!SG
|-
|[[Xiccarph]]
|?
!?
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Xiclotl|Xiclotl]]
|The sister planet to Shaggai.
!IS
|-
|[[Xinaián]], or K'n-yan
|Composed roughly of the kingdom of [[Tsath]].
!MO
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Xoth|Xoth]]
|A [[binary star]].
!FT
|-
|[[Yaanek]] / Yarak
|Legendary mountain/[[volcano]] at the [[North Pole]].
!UL
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Yaddith|Yaddith]]
|A planet.
!TG
|-
|[[Mount Yaddith-Gho]]
|Dwelling place of [[Ghatanothoa]] in Mu.
!OE
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Yaksh|Yaksh]]
|The planet [[Neptune (planet)|Neptune]].
!FT
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Yekub|Yekub]]
|A planet in a distant [[galaxy]].
!CF
|-
|[[Plateau of Leng|'Ygiroth]]
|In the Dreamlands.
!YG
|-
|[[Y'ha-nthlei]]
|An undersea city.
!SI
|-
|[[Abyss of Yhe]]
|In a Muvian province.
!HC?
|-
|[[Yian-Ho]], or Yian
|A deserted city.
!TG
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Ylidiomph|Ylidiomph]]
|The planet [[Jupiter (planet)|Jupiter]].
!UA
|-
|[[Yoth]]
|Red-litten cavern beneath K'n-yan.
!MO
|-
|[[Hyperborea (Cthulhu mythos)|Y'quaa]]
|A gray-litten cavern, the dwelling place of [[Abhoth]].
!HG
|-
|[[Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies#Yuggoth|Yuggoth]]
|The planet [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]](?).
!FY
|-
|[[Vaults of Zin]]
|In N'kai.
!EM
|-
|[[Zothique]]
|A continent in the distant future.
!EN
|}
|}
* Reference to first appearance.

===Non-fictional elements of the mythos ===

The Cthulhu mythos incorporates many historical, astronomical, and mythological elements from the real world.

* [[Aldebaran]], a star
* [[Bast_(goddess)|Bast]], cat goddess of ancient [[Egypt]]
* [[Book of Dzyan]]
* [[Celaeno]], a star in the [[Pleiades (star cluster)|Pleiades]]
* [[Dagon]], the [[Mesopotamia]]n fish god of vegetation and fertility
* [[John Dee]], a historical person
* [[Fomalhaut]], a star
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]], as himself
* [[Hypnos]], the god of [[sleep]] in [[Greek mythology]]
* [[Irem of the Pillars|Irem]], City of Pillars, a legendary buried city from [[Islamic mythology]] (possibly the lost city of [[Ubar]])
*[[Lemuria (continent)|Lemuria]], a fabled land bridge, but a lost continent in the mythos
* [[Nodens]], the Hunter, a [[Celtic mythology|Celtic]] deity worshiped in [[Britain]]
* [[Olaus Wormius]], Danish antiquary cited as translator of the Necronomicon
* [[Pluto (planet)|Pluto]], identified by Lovecraft as Yuggoth
* [[Ponape]], an island, spelled "Pohnpei" in modern orthography
* The [[Severn Valley]], in England
* [[Tunguska]], in [[Siberia]]
* The [[Voynich Manuscript]]
* [[Wendigo]], borrowed from [[Native American mythology]]

==See also==

* Elements of the Cthulhu mythos have become part of [[popular culture]]. See [[References to the Cthulhu mythos]] for a list.

* For a list of characters, see [[Cthulhu mythos biographies]].

==References==

===Books===

*Bloch, Robert. "Heritage of Horror" (1982) in ''The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre'' (1st ed.), Ballantine Books, 1982. ISBN 0-345-35080-4.

*Derleth, August. "The Cthulhu Mythos" in ''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'', Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1969.

*DiTillio, Larry and Lynn Willis. ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'', Oakland, CA: Chaosium, 1996. ISBN 1-568-82069-0.

*Harms, Daniel. ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'' (2nd ed.), Chaosium, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

*Joshi, S.T.
**''H. P. Lovecraft'' (1st ed.), Mercer Island, WA: Starmont House, 1982. ISBN 0-916-73236-3 / ISBN 0-916-73235-5 (paper).
**(ed.) ''H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism'', Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1980. ISBN 0-821-40442-3 (cloth) / ISBN 0-821-40577-2 (paper).
:—and David E. Schultz. ''An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia'', Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. ISBN 0-313-31578-7.

*Mosig, Yozan Dirk W. ''Mosig at Last: A Psychologist Looks at H. P. Lovecraft'', 1st printing, West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1997. ISBN 0-940-88490-9.

*Price, Robert M.
**(ed.) ''Black Forbidden Things: Cryptical Secrets from the "Crypt of Cthulhu"'', San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1992. ISBN 1-557-42248-6 / ISBN 1-557-42249-4.
**"Introduction" in ''The New Lovecraft Circle'', Robert M. Price (ed.), New York, N.Y.: Random House, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-345-44406-X.
**"Lovecraft's 'Artificial Mythology'" in ''An Epicure in the Terrible: a centennial anthology of essays in honor of H.P. Lovecraft'', David E. Schultz and S.T. Joshi (ed.), Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1991. ISBN 0-838-63415-X.

*Shreffler, Phillip A. ''The H. P. Lovecraft Companion'', Westport, CT / London, England: Greenwood Press, 1977. ISBN 0-837-19482-2.

*Turner, James. "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!" in ''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'' (1st ed.), Random House, 1998. ISBN 0-345-42204-X.

===Web sites===

* {{Web reference | author=Harms, Daniel | title=Part 2: Mythos Lore | work=The Official Cthulhu Mythos FAQ | url=http://www.necfiles.org/part2.htm | date=August 19 | year=2005 }}

* {{Web reference | author=Joshi, S. T | title=H. P. Lovecraft | work=The Scriptorium | url=http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/lovecraft.html | date=July 20 | year=2005 }}

* Tremlett, J. Edward. {{Web reference | title=A Color Out of Space, A Shadow Out of Time: H.P. Lovecraft & His Works | url=http://www.nocturnis.net/articles/genwod/printable/51/page1.html | date=October 14 | year=2005 }}

===Notes===
#{{Note|Harms-viii-a}}Harms, "A Brief History of the Cthulhu Mythos", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', pp. viii–ix.
#{{Note|Joshi-31ff}}Joshi, "The Lovecraft Mythos", ''H. P. Lovecraft'', pp. 31ff.
#{{Note|Joshi-50}}Although Lovecraft sometimes mentioned the "Arkham cycle" in his correspondence, he never explained its meanings; it is possible that he was referring to his stories that take place in his mythical [[New England]] setting. (Joshi & Schultz, ''An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia'', pp. 50.)
#{{Note|Joshi-51}}Lovecraft's flippant use of ''Yog-Sothothery''—a veiled reference to [[Yog-Sothoth]], one of the mythical beings in his tales—probably indicates that he never took his mythos very seriously. In a letter to [[Frank Belknap Long]] in early 1931, Lovecraft wrote "that 'Yog-Sothoth' is a basically immature conception [and] unfitted for really serious literature". (Joshi & Schultz, ''An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia'', pp. 51.)

#{{Note|Joshi-32}}Joshi's characterizations are a followup to George T. Wetzel's assertion that Lovecraft's mythos stories can be thought of as chapters of a long novel (Joshi, "The Lovecraft Mythos", pp. 32). See also Wetzel's essay "The Cthulhu Mythos: A Study" (''H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism", pp. 79–95).
#{{Note|Price-247}}Price, "Lovecraft's 'Artificial Mythology'", ''An Epicure in the Terrible'', pp. 247.
#{{Note|Price-xviii}}Price, "Introduction", ''The New Lovecraft Circle'', pp. xviii–xix. Price writes: "One seeks forbidden knowledge, whether wittingly or, more likely, unwittingly, but one may not know till it is too late... The knowledge, once gained, is too great for the mind of man. It is [[Promethean]], [[Faustian]] knowledge. Knowledge that destroys in the moment of enlightenment, a [[Gnosis]] of damnation, not of salvation."
#{{Note|Price-249}}Price, "Lovecraft's 'Artificial Mythology'", pp. 249.
#{{Note|Tremlett-tum}}Tremlett, 'The Unknown Mind', "A Color Out of Space, A Shadow Out of Time: H.P. Lovecraft & His Works".
#{{Note|Joshi-31}}Joshi, "The Lovecraft Mythos", pp. 31.

#{{Note|Shreffler-156}}Shreffler, "The Hierarchy of Monsters", ''The H. P. Lovecraft Companion'', pp. 156–7.
#{{Note|Shreffler-157}}Nodens, the Lord of the Abyss, holds a singular place in Lovecraft's writings because he is the only god to intervene on behalf of human beings. (Shreffler, pp. 158.) Examples of this are found in ''[[The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' (1926) and "The Strange High House in the Mist" (1931).
#{{Note|Mosig-24}}This view of the "Elder Gods" conflicts with those held by Dirk W. Mosig. In his essay "H. P. Lovecraft: Myth-Maker", Mosig asserts that Lovecraft never intended the "Elder Gods" to be benign, protective deities; instead, they are actually ineffectual beings synonymous with Lovecraft's "weak gods of the earth". (Mosig, "H.P. Lovecraft: Myth-Maker", ''Mosig at Last'', pp. 24–5.)
#{{Note|Shreffler-158}}Shreffler, pp. 158–162.

#{{Note|Price-248}}Price, "Lovecraft's 'Artificial Mythology'", pp. 248–50.

#{{Note|Lauterbach-96ff}}Edward Lauterbach, "Some Notes on Cthulhuian Pseudobiblia", ''H. P. Lovecraft: Four Decades of Criticism'', pp. 96ff.
#{{Note|Lauterbach-96}}Ibid, pp. 96–97.

#{{Note|Harms-viii-b}}Harms, "A Brief History of the Cthulhu Mythos", pp. viii.
#{{Note|Lovecraft-tcoc}}Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928).
#{{Note|Mosig-25}}Mosig argues that Cthulhu "is perhaps one of the weakest and least important of the main entities [in the mythos]—save for his immediacy". He also notes that in the Necronomicon passage in Lovecraft's "The Dunwich Horror" (1929), Cthulhu is demoted to "their cousin". (Mosig, "H.P. Lovecraft: Myth-Maker", ''Mosig at Last'', pp. 25.)

#{{Note|Bloch-9}}Bloch, "Heritage of Horror", pp. 9.
#{{Note|Derleth-vii}}Derleth, "The Cthulhu Mythos", ''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'', pp. vii.

#{{Note|Joshi-II}}Joshi, ''The Scriptorium'', "H. P. Lovecraft", section II.
#{{Note|Derleth-unknown}}This quote lacks a reference. You can improve this article by providing one.
# {{Note|Turner-x}}Turner, "Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!", ''Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos'', pp. viii. Turner writes: "Lovecraft's imaginary [[wikt:cosmogony|cosmogony]] was never a static system but rather a sort of [[wikt:aesthetic|aesthetic]] construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests... [T]here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated by the [[wikt:pasticheur|pasticheur]]... [T]he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude."

#{{Note|Tremlett-tbq}}Tremlett, 'The Big Question', "A Color Out of Space, A Shadow Out of Time: H.P. Lovecraft & His Works".
#{{Note|Harms-101}}Harms, "Elemental Theory", pp. 101.
#{{Note|Price-72}}Price, "August Derleth: Myth-Maker", ''Black Forbidden Things'', pp. 72.

#{{Note|Bloch-8}}Bloch, "Heritage of Horror", pp. 8.
#{{Note|Joshi-I}}Joshi, ''The Scriptorium'', "H. P. Lovecraft", section I.


#{{Note|Harms2-2.1-para4}}Harms, ''The Official Cthulhu Mythos FAQ'', "Part 2: Mythos Lore", section 2.1, "Outer Gods".

#{{Note|Harms2-2.1-para6}}Harms, "Part 2: Mythos Lore", section 2.1, "Elder Gods".

#{{Note|misc-eldergods}}Harms, Ibid. Harms writes: "Others consider their inclusion proper and fitting within their own interpretation of Lovecraft." Lovecraft views humanity as being insignificant in the universe; thus, the Elder Gods share little concern for humankind's fate.

#{{Note|Harms2-2.1-para7}}Harms, "Part 2: Mythos Lore", section 2.1, "Great Ones", "Other Gods".

# {{Note|DiTillio-a}}These beings appear in the [[role-playing game]] supplement ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (DiTillio & Willis).

#{{Note|Herber-FY}}Keith Herber, ''The Fungi from Yuggoth'' (1984). Role-playing game material.
# {{Note|DiTillio-b}}This cult appears in ''Masks of Nyarlathotep'' (DiTillio & Willis).
#{{Note|DiTillio-c}}Ibid.

#{{Note|Aniolowski-MM}}Scott D. Aniolowski, "Mysterious Manuscripts" in ''The Unspeakable Oath #3'', John Tynes (ed.), Seattle, WA: Pagan Publishing, August 1991. Periodical (role-playing game material).

==External links==

* [http://www.hplovecraft.com/ The H.P. Lovecraft Archive]
*[http://www.tmoct.co.uk/lovecraftlibrary.html The Online Lovecraft Library at The Ministry of Certain Things]
* [http://lovecraft.cjb.net The ULTIMATE Cthulhu Mythos Book List], listing of all mythos novels, anthologies, collections, comic books, and more
* [http://www.clare.ltd.new.net/cryptofcthulhu/ Crypt of Cthulhu], online version of the [[magazine]]
* [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/C/cthulhic.html cthulhic], entry in the Jargon File
* [http://www.cthuugle.com/ Cthuugle], the H.P. Lovecraft search engine
* [http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/9879/lurker.htm The Lurker at the Threshold of Interpretation: Necronomicon Hoaxes and Paratextual Noise]
* [http://members.fortunecity.com/johnsilence/issue.htm Mythos Online], short stories relating to the Cthulhu mythos
* [http://www.necfiles.org/mythos.htm The Official Cthulhu Mythos FAQ], by Daniel Harms
* [http://www.epberglund.com/RGttCM/contents.htm Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos], maintained by E.P. Berglund
* [http://members.shaw.ca/csstrowbridge/Tulzscha/MainPage.htm Servants of Tulzscha], information about the gods and creatures of the Cthulhu mythos
* [http://www.shoggoth.net/ Shoggoth.net], a Cthulhu mythos [[blog]]
* [http://www.templeofdagon.com/ The Temple of Dagon], general Lovecraftian information and repository for Cthulhu mythos stories by modern writers
* [http://www.macguff.fr/goomi/unspeakable/home.html Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)], WebComic drawn by French artist Francois Launet

==Further reading==

* Carter, Lin. ''Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos'', New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1972. ISBN 0-345-25295-0-150.

[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos]]

Category:Mythos:Prehistoric civilizations

2009-01-15T21:07:45Z

Evans: Ticking things off

==TODO==
The articles need to be completed. Once completed, remove from this list; make sure to add the category to the page.
[[Atlantis]]

[[Cimmeria]]

[[Hyborea]]

[[Lemuria]]

[[Lomar]]

[[Mu]]

[[Stygia]]

[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos|Prehistoric civilizations]]

The Sixth Sathlattae

2009-01-15T19:03:35Z

Evans: updating links a little

The Sixth Sathlattae is a fictional incantation which first appeared [[Brian Lumley]]'s ''The Caller of the Black''. It features heavily in another of his short stories namely ''The Horror at Oakdeene''.
==Description==
The Sixth Sathlattae is a short incantation used to invoke the powers of [[Yibb-Tstll]]. It serves as the corner stone for several powerful pieces of magic. What follows is the closest phonetic representation.

''Ghe'phnglui, mglw'ngh ghee-yh, Yibb-Tstll,'' 
''Fhtagn mglw y'tlette ngh'wgah, Yibb-Tstll,'' 
''Ghe'phnglui mglw-ngh ahkobhg'shg, Yibb-Tstll;'' 
''Thabaithe -- Yibb-Tstll, Yibb-Tstll, Yibb-Tstll'' 

==Contacting Yibb-Tstll==
If the Sixth Sathlattae is repeated once before the caster falls asleep it may allow them to travel to the [[Jungles of Kled]] in the [[Dreamlands]] where Yibb-Tstll itself dwells. This effect is by no means certain and the use of certain drugs may also be required.

==Summoning Yibb-Tstll==
It is possible to use the powers of the Sixth Sathlattae to call [[Yibb-Tstll]] into this world in its physical form. In order to do so a gathering of thirteen must invoke the Sathlattae on the first night of the year. At least seven of the casters must be adepts (having cast the spell at least once before, whether it be to summon or contact Yibb-Tstll). A word of warning must be issued here, for summoning the god in no way guarantees its good temper or its willingness to assist its callers. [[The Barrier of Naath-Tith]] is often used to protect the casters from Yibb-Tstll possible displeasure.

==Calling the Black==
The Sixth Sathlattae can also be used to forge a link between a person and the black blood of Yibb-Tstll. In order to do so the caster must inscribe the Sixth Sathlattae in its original [[Ptetholite]] glyphs upon a wafer. This must be given to the intended victim (they need not eat it, only touch it). Reciting the [[Hoy-Dhin Chant]] within hearing distance of such a person will cause them to be attacked by The Black. This sticky black substance rather like tarry snow will start to materialise as if from nowhere and adhere to the victim. In the space of a few minutes they will begin to suffocate.

==Locations==
A copy of the Sixth Sathlattae can be found within the pages of the
[[Cthaat Aquadingen]]. The [[Ptetholite people]] were allso known to have used the Sixth Sathlattae on occasion and may have left records of it carved into the Broken Columns of Geph. Whether these records have survived up until the present day remain to be seen.

[[Category:Mythos:Rituals|Sixth Sathlattae]]

Talk:Ptetholite people

2009-01-14T17:53:05Z

Evans:

The similarity between Ptetholite and Ptathlia suggests that Ptetholite may have been the name of a place as well as the name of a people. This is just speculation but I felt it worth adding.

Ptetholite people

2009-01-14T17:13:24Z

Evans: Fictional archeology. Sounds like a good idea to m

The Ptetholites are a fictional people created by [[Brian Lumley]]. They appear in his short story ''The Caller of the Black''.

==Description==
The Ptetholites were a primitive race of proto-humans who lived in the early Hyperborean period (estimated some 900,000 to one million years ago). Little is known about their culture or traditions save that they practised basic magic and warred with the fledgeling [[Hyperborea|Hyperborean]] civilisation.

==Civilisation==
The Ptetholite civilisation was most likely formed into primitive tribal systems and alliances. They were rumoured to have worshipped [[Iquatha]] and [[Arwassa]], though whether this was true worship or merely propitiation is unknown. During wars with rival tribes the Ptetholite shamens often called upon the powers of the Black; the blood of [[Yibb-Tstll]], to kill their enemies. This incantation (later known as [[the Sixth Sathlattae]]) is the Ptetholites most enduring legacy.

Despite being one of the very first humanoid races to feature in the histories of the world they were remarkable in that they possessed a written language system.

==Downfall and remains==
In the end it was the constant wars with the neighbouring Hyperborean peoples that brought the already waning civilisation to its end. The sorcerer Edril Ghambiz turned the power of the Black against them, destroying most of their population. The few survivors fled far to the south. There they erected a great series of Columns baring inscriptions that told of the former powers of their people and the doom which befell them.

It is from these Columns that we learn much of the Ptetholites histories. An artefact known as the Phitmar Stone which supposedly bears an inscription in [[Ptetholite]] was discovered in the Seventies.

An unnamed Old Dynasty Egyptian magical text (possibly a translation of [[the Book of Eibon]]) mentions the Nyahites of Ptathlia and their worship of certain underground deities.
[[Category:Mythos:Prehistoric civilizations|Ptetholite people ]]

Ptetholite

2009-01-14T17:11:18Z

Evans: Amending articles for new links

The Ptetholite language is a fictional language system which appeared in [[Brian Lumley]]'s short story ''The Caller of the Black''.
==Description==
The Ptetholite language and its subsequent script are one of the few existing remnants left by the [[Ptetholite people]]: a prehuman race which antedated the Hyperboreans. Though little is known about the language itself, we do know that the script was sometimes used for writing curses and incantations.

==Examples==
Few traces of the Ptetholites or their language remain. Fragmentary examples of the script may remain in such Hyperborean records as the [[The Book of Eibon|Liber Ivonis]] or the [[Testaments of Carnamagos]]. Earlier translations of the [[Cthaat Aquadingen]] contain a version of [[the Sixth Sathlattae]] written in Ptetholite script.

The best preserved examples of the Ptetholite script can be found upon the Broken Columns of Geph situated on the cost of Liberia. Inscribed upon the columns is a long narrative recording the Ptetholite peoples magic and its use in there wars. However the complete message is undecipherable since a number of the columns have been defaced and some of their contents erased by the [[Mi-Go]].

An item known as the Phitmar Stone is said to bear three inscriptions; two in Old Kingdom Egyptian dialects and one of a selection of letters copied from the above mentioned columns. Whether the Egyptian sections are actual translations of the columns transcripts or merely descriptions is unknown.
[[Category:Mythos:Languages|Ptetholite]]

Ptetholite people

2009-01-14T17:10:05Z

Evans: first article for the new catergory

The Ptetholites are a fictional people created by [[Brian Lumley]]. They appear in his short story ''The Caller of the Black''.

==Description==
The Ptetholites were a primitive race of proto-humans who lived in the early Hyperborean period (estimated some 900,000 to one million years ago). Little is known about their culture or traditions save that they practised basic magic and warred with the fledgeling Hyperborean civilisation.

==Civilisation==
The Ptetholite civilisation was most likely formed into primitive tribal systems and alliances. They were rumoured to have worshipped [[Iquatha]] and [[Arwassa]], though whether this was true worship or merely propitiation is unknown. During wars with rival tribes the Ptetholite shamens often called upon the powers of the Black; the blood of [[Yibb-Tstll]], to kill their enemies. This incantation (later known as [[the Sixth Sathlattae]]) is the Ptetholites most enduring legacy.

Despite being one of the very first humanoid races to feature in the histories of the world they were remarkable in that they possessed a written language system.

==Downfall and remains==
In the end it was the constant wars with the neighbouring Hyperborean peoples that brought the already waning civilisation to its end. The sorcerer Edril Ghambiz turned the power of the Black against them, destroying most of their population. The few survivors fled far to the south. There they erected a great series of Columns baring inscriptions that told of the former powers of their people and the doom which befell them.

It is from these Columns that we learn much of the Ptetholites histories. An artefact known as the Phitmar Stone which supposedly bears an inscription in [[Ptetholite]] was discovered in the Seventies.

An unnamed Old Dynasty Egyptian magical text (possibly a translation of [[the Book of Eibon]]) mentions the Nyahites of Ptathlia and their worship of certain underground deities.
[[Category:Mythos:Prehistoric civilizations|Ptetholite people ]]

Category:Mythos:Prehistoric civilizations

2009-01-14T15:33:46Z

Evans: Making a to do list

==TODO==
The articles need to be completed. Once completed, remove from this list; make sure to add the category to the page.
[[Atlantis]]

[[Cimmeria]]

[[Hyborea]]

[[Hyperborea]]

[[Lemuria]]

[[Lomar]]

[[Mu]]

[[Ptetholite people]]

[[Stygia]]

[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos|Prehistoric civilizations]]

Category:Mythos:Prehistoric civilizations

2009-01-14T12:15:09Z

Evans:

[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos|Prehistoric civilizations]]

Hyperborea

2009-01-14T12:14:12Z

Evans:

To Do

[[Category:Mythos:Prehistoric civilizations|Hyperborea]]

Category:Cthulhu Mythos

2009-01-14T12:10:37Z

Evans: Just experamenting

This is the group for items related directly to the [[Cthulhu Mythos]].
[[Prehistoric civilizations]]
{{CategoryHelper|Cthulhu Mythos}}

[[Category:Master Category]]

Category:Cthulhu Mythos

2009-01-14T12:10:15Z

Evans: Just experamenting

This is the group for items related directly to the [[Cthulhu Mythos]].
Prehistoric civilizations
{{CategoryHelper|Cthulhu Mythos}}

[[Category:Master Category]]

Ptetholite

2009-01-13T16:34:24Z

Evans: Found some new info

The Ptetholite language is a fictional language system which appeared in [[Brian Lumley]]'s short story ''The Caller of the Black''.
==Description==
The Ptetholite language and its subsequent script are one of the few existing remnants left by the Ptetholite people: a prehuman race which antedated the Hyperboreans. Though little is known about the language itself, we do know that the script was sometimes used for writing curses and incantations.

==Examples==
Few traces of the Ptetholites or their language remain. Fragmentary examples of the script may remain in such Hyperborean records as the [[The Book of Eibon|Liber Ivonis]] or the [[Testaments of Carnamagos]]. Earlier translations of the [[Cthaat Aquadingen]] contain a version of [[the Sixth Sathlattae]] written in Ptetholite script.

The best preserved examples of the Ptetholite script can be found upon the Broken Columns of Geph situated on the cost of Liberia. Inscribed upon the columns is a long narrative recording the Ptetholite peoples magic and its use in there wars. However the complete message is undecipherable since a number of the columns have been defaced and some of their contents erased by the [[Mi-Go]].

An item known as the Phitmar Stone is said to bear three inscriptions; two in Old Kingdom Egyptian dialects and one of a selection of letters copied from the above mentioned columns. Whether the Egyptian sections are actual translations of the columns transcripts or merely descriptions is unknown.
[[Category:Mythos:Languages|Ptetholite]]

De Vermis Mysteriis

2009-01-12T19:12:58Z

Evans: forgot something

The De Vermis Mysteriis (allso know as the Mysteries of the Worm) is the title of a fictional book created by [[Robert Bloch]]. [[H.P. Lovecraft]] prodivded the latin name of the title.

==Description==
De Vermis Mysteriis is the work of one [[Ludvig Prinn]]; a Flemish alchemist and supposed sorcerer. Prinn had spent a great deal of time traveling in the east (particularly in Syria and Eygpt) and claimed to have obtained a great age through the use of his sorcery. Eventualy Prinn was captured by the Inquisition and sentanced to death. While awaiting execution in his cell he wrote the volume he called De Vermiss Mysteriis. How Prinn managed to have the blasphemous manuscript smuggled past his captors is unknown though the nobleman and sorcerer [[Baron Hauptman]] is supposed to have had a hand in it. The book was published in Cologne during the next year, by Eucharius Cervicornnus.

==Contents==
The De Vermis Mysteriis is slightly over seven hundred pages long and split into sixteen chapters. These chapters deal with subjects such as Irim City of the Pillars, [[The Brotherhood of the Black Pharaoh|The Priesthood of Nephren Ka]] and the avatars of Nyarlathotep worshipped in the east. Part of the last chapter deals with a bizarre time drug that alters one's perception of time The same section allso contains the instructions for creating the Pnakotic Pentangle.

Another of the later chapters entitiled the Saracenic Rituals, focuses on the summoning and controlling other worldly beings. The layout of this chapter is a good example of Prinn's some what sadistic sense of humour since some of the spells required to control these summoned beings are written in totally different sections of the book.

Other supposed spells in the De Vermis Mysteriis include a ritual for summoning a [[Dark Young|child of Shub-Niggurath]], a formula for calling up the spirit from the remains of its corpse, and instructions on how to craft a certain symbol Prinn claims to be a powerful aid in banishing entities.
==Eucharius Cervicornnus==
The De Vermis Mystreriis was first published in Brussels in 1542 at the press of Cologne. This edition is written in Latin.
==German Translation==
In 1587 a German translation of the De Vermis Mysteriis was published in Hamburg. The contents were abridged and some parts censored.
=="Kelly" Translation==
In 1573 an English translation of the Latin De Vermis Mysteriis was published. Allthough this translation is sometimes said to be the work of Edward Kelly it was likely produced by an unamed scholar.
==The Mystries of the Worm ==
An Italian gentleman named Charles Leggett produced another English translation entitled The Mystries of the Worm. It was published in London during 1821.

==Clergyman X's translation==
Sometime in the Eighteen Hundreds an individual known only as "Clergyman X" made an English translation of the Saracenic Rituals. It was published in monograph form. The test is highly censored.

==Role Playing Game Stats==

; ''Eucharius Cervicornnus edition '' : Sanity Loss 1D6/2D6; Cthulhu Mythos + 12 Percent. Average 48 weeks to study and comprehend/196 hours to skim.

; ''German Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D4/1D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 9 Percent. Average 32 weeks to study and comprehend/64 hours to skim.

; ''"Kelly" Translation'' : Sanity Loss 1D6/2D6; Cthulhu Mythos + 10 Percent. Average 36 weeks to study and comprehend/72 hours to skim.

; ''The Mystries of the Worm'' : Sanity Loss 1D4/1D8; Cthulhu Mythos + 8 Percent. Average 38 weeks to study and comprehend/56 hours to skim.

; ''Clergyman X's translation'' : Sanity Loss 1/1D3; Cthulhu Mythos + 6 Percent. Average 6 weeks to study and comprehend/

A player who sucessfuly studies any edition of the De Vermis Mysteriis gains skill checks in Astronomt, History and Ocult.
[[Category:Mythos:Tomes|De Vermis Mysteriis]]

User talk:PoC

2009-01-11T11:03:48Z

Evans:

==[[User:Squashua|Squashua]]==
*Hey Paul; check out http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:Main_Page . I recommend clicking "Recent changes" on a daily basis, or at least set pages to your watchlist. If you want any other tips, just ask. --[[User:Squashua|Squashua]] 09:05, 19 January 2006 (EST)

==[[User:PoC|PoC]]==

Done!

==[[User:Evans|Evans]]==
Just a quick message to let you know I'm going to sort some of the Locations in to sub-catergories such as Severn Valley, Dreamlands and Miskatonic Region. Hope thats ok

==[[User:PoC|PoC]]==

Also done. Due to the volume of spamming I've restricted Wiki editing for the moment to sysop users, so you should still be able to edit, but hopefully the spammers will be stopped. After a while I'll reset the permissions to normal again.

==[[User:PoC|PoC]]==

Absolutely fine! I wonder if they're somehow managing to directly insert the code or using old spammer accounts that haven't been blocked yet? Either way, feel free to block them!

==[[User:Evans|Evans]]==
Most of the acounts I deleted seemed to have been made in early to mid December. Either way it seems to have calmed down on that front.

Writers

2009-01-08T22:36:32Z

Evans: Spam removal

==STYLE GUIDE==
Cut-n-Paste the following for each Writer.
Remove irrelevant sections.
Combine properly if Writer is also an [[Artists|Artist]].

<nowiki>
==Biography==
[[Image:portrait_of_writer.jpg|thumb|''Name of Page'']]
[[Image:name_of_additional_optional_image.jpg|thumb|''Name of Image'']]

List an unbiased historical biography,
notable contributions, history.

==Comments / Trivia==
Any additional fun-facts.

==Bibliography==

'''Fiction:''' [[Fiction1]], [[Fiction2]]

'''Campaign(s):''' [[Campaign1]], [[Campaign2]]

'''Scenario(s):''' [[Scenario1]], [[Scenario2]]

'''Article(s):''' [[Article1]], [[Article2]]

'''Contributor:''' [[Book1]], [[Supplement1]]

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
*[Link 1]
*[Link 2]

[[Category:Writers|LAST_NAME, FIRST_NAME]]
</nowiki>

[[Category:Writers]]
[[Category:Style Guides]]

Category:Artists

2009-01-08T18:07:14Z

Evans: removing more spam

[[Category:Master Category]]

Category:Eras

2009-01-08T18:06:33Z

Evans: More food for the spam devouring Arwassa

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Horror on the Orient Express Game Audio Recording

2009-01-08T15:41:10Z

Evans: Removing Spam

[[Image:hotoe-podcast-logo.jpg|thumb|''Horror on the Orient Express'' Game Audio]]
"Intrepid Investigators of the jazz era battle against a great evil as they travel across Europe in luxury & style, in this roleplaying rendition of Lovecraftian locomotive adventure."

A series of [[Binaual audio recordings]] in [[MP3]] format, of game play sessions conducted by [[Call of Cthulhu role-playing game|Call of Cthulhu]] players from [[Bradford]] (UK) as they run through the ''[[Horror on the Orient Express]]'' campaign.

Audio downloads and resources can also be found for the game by visiting: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/express http://www.yog-sothoth.com/express]

== Podcast Feeds ==
''HotOE'' Podcast feed: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/express.xml http://www.yog-sothoth.com/express.xml]

Feedburner alternative: [http://feeds.feedburner.com/hotoe http://feeds.feedburner.com/hotoe]

iTunes Directory: [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=219970194 Orient Express Audio Game on iTunes]

== Keeper of Arcane Lore ==
[[Paul Maclean]]

== Players ==
[[Finlay Patterson]], [[Val Robertson]], [[Jim McStravick]], [[Neil Young]] , [[Helen of Cthulhu]] & [[Claire Simpson]]

== Trailers, Handouts & Miscellany ==

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-teaser.mp3 Trailer for ''Horror on the Orient Express''] 835 KB MP3 Recorded: ''Sun 26 November 2006'' Running time: 00:00:51

Video file: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EigL0cfnoKE&fmt=18 Video intro. for ''Horror on the Orient Express''] YouTube Video link. Running time: 00:01:15

[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-handouts.pdf PDF Document of Handouts] 14.5 MB

Episode #22: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-milan-newspaper-1.jpg Newspaper clipping from ''Corriere della Sera''] 59 KB JPEG

Episode #25: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-milan-newspaper-2.jpg Newspaper clipping from ''Corriere della Sera''] 76 KB JPEG

'''Unrelated, but gives a flavour of the ''Orient Express''...'''

Video file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/misc-the-last-express-trailer.mp4 ''The Last Express'' video game trailer] 6.9 MB, MP4

Video file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/misc-the-last-express-making-of.mp4 ''The Last Express'' video game 'Making of' documentary] 28.1 MB, MP4

== Episode Guide ==
[[Image:horror-orient-express-cover.jpg|thumb|Front cover of ''Horror on the Orient Express''.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-back-cover.jpg|thumb|Back cover of ''Horror on the Orient Express''.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-box-contents.jpg|thumb|Box contents of ''Horror on the Orient Express''.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-player-table-locations.gif|thumb|Locations of Players around the table.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-players-1.jpg|thumb|Players of the Game from Session #02.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-phillips-head-table.jpg|thumb|Recording Head & Green Screen.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-horror-orient-express-ems-fire-to-the-scroll.gif|thumb|Session #11: ''Fire to the Scroll''.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-milan-il-duomo-1925.jpg|thumb|Milan: Il Duomo, 1925.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-gravestone.jpg|thumb|Retirement.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-players-3.jpg|thumb|Players from episode #12 onwards.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-venice-dice.jpg|thumb|The dice fall where they may. Venice Chapter.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-campaign-pieces.jpg|thumb|Campaign pieces.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-hamper-21.jpg|thumb|Fortnum & Mason Hamper from episode #21.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-hamper-21-table.jpg|thumb|Festivities ensue in episode #21.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-jelly-babies.jpg|thumb|Jelly Baby Players.]]
[[Image:horror-orient-express-final-session.jpg|thumb|Bradford Players complete HotOE.]]
'''Episode X - An Introduction to the Orient Express'''

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-introduction.mp3 Episode X Introduction to the Orient Express] 22 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Sat 27 January 2007'' Running time: 00:32:14

'''Episode 00 - Character Creation'''

"The Keeper's Shilling"

The character creation session that produced the original investigators. (Not full binaural experience as this is a back-up recording.)

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-00-character-creation.mp3 Episode 00 Character Creation] 24 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Sat 13 January 2007'' Running time: 01:33:24

[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-characters-1.pdf PDF Document of Characters] 4.9 MB

'''Episode 01 - The Auction'''

"A favour to a friend..."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-01-auction.mp3 Episode 01 - The Auction] 92 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 25 January 2007'' Running time: 02:13:45

'''Episode 02 - The Auction'''

"The Langorous, restrained bidding goes normally..."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-02-auction.mp3 Episode 02 - The Auction] 112 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 15 February 2007'' Running time: 02:43:41

'''Episode 03 - The Auction'''

"Shaven white zombie apes, you say..."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-03-auction.mp3 Episode 03 - The Auction] 86 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 1 March 2007'' Running time: 02:04:55

'''Episode 04 - The Auction'''

"At the sign of the three balls."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-04-auction.mp3 Episode 04 - The Auction] 83 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 15 March 2007'' Running time: 01:59:54

'''Episode 05 - London'''

"The Beginning."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-05-london.mp3 Episode 05 - London: The Beginning] 98 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 29 March 2007'' Running time: 02:23:13

'''Episode 06 - Paris'''

"To dine, perchance to shop..."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-06-paris.mp3 Episode 06 - Paris] 72 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 19 April 2007'' Running time: 01:44:51

'''Episode 07 - Paris'''

"Chez Lorien"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-07-paris.mp3 Episode 07 - Paris] 85 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 3 May 2007'' Running time: 02:03:53

'''Episode 08 - Lausanne'''

"Stuff this?"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-08-lausanne.mp3 Episode 08 - Lausanne] 82 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 10 May 2007'' Running time: 01:59:10

'''Episode 09 - Lausanne'''

"Max"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-09-lausanne.mp3 Episode 09 - Lausanne] 123 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 31 May 2007'' Running time: 02:59:43

'''Episode 10 - Lausanne'''

"Grace Under Pressure"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-10-lausanne.mp3 Episode 10 - Lausanne] 106 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 14 June 2007'' Running time: 02:34:38

'''Episode 11 - Milan'''

"Smoked Herring"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-11-milan.mp3 Episode 11 - Milan] 88 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 28 June 2007'' Running time: 02:07:53

'''Episode 12 - Milan'''

"A Death in the Family"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs/horror-orient-express-12-milan.mp3 Episode 12 - Milan] 107 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Fri 13 July 2007'' Running time: 02:35:52

'''Episode 13 - Milan'''

"Smutty for Some!"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-13-milan.mp3 Episode 13 - Milan] 81 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Fri 27 July 2007'' Running time: 01:58:09

'''Episode 14 - Venice'''

"Ahhh... Venice!"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-14-venice.mp3 Episode 14 - Venice] 89 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 16 August 2007'' Running time: 02:09:17

'''Episode 15 - Venice'''

"Bedhops & lockpicks"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-15-venice.mp3 Episode 15 - Venice] 93 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 6 September 2007'' Running time: 02:15:14

'''Episode 16 - Venice'''

"A grave situation"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-16-venice.mp3 Episode 16 - Venice] 85 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 13 September 2007'' Running time: 02:03:28

'''Episode 17 - Venice'''

"An arm or a leg?"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-17-venice.mp3 Episode 17 - Venice] 78 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 20 September 2007'' Running time: 01:52:51

'''Episode 18 - Trieste'''

"Where the wind blows."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-18-trieste.mp3 Episode 18 - Trieste] 86 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 4 October 2007'' Running time: 02:04:23

'''Episode 19 - Trieste'''

"Hotel California"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-19-trieste.mp3 Episode 19 - Trieste] 85 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 18 October 2007'' Running time: 02:03:47

'''Episode 20 - Trieste'''

"The Longest Day"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-20-trieste.mp3 Episode 20 - Trieste] 80 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 8 November 2007'' Running time: 01:55:30

'''Episode 21 - Trieste'''

"The Hamper House of Horror"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-21-trieste.mp3 Episode 21 - Trieste] 79 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Fri 30 November 2007'' Running time: 01:54:57

'''Episode 22 - Train'''

"More than one way to skin a cat."

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-22-train.mp3 Episode 22 - Train] 87 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 10 January 2008'' Running time: 02:06:23

'''Episode 23 - Belgrade'''

"Mrs. Sunderland's ''Boys''"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-23-belgrade.mp3 Episode 23 - Belgrade] 97 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 17 January 2008'' Running time: 02:20:10

'''Episode 24 - Belgrade'''

"Fair & Fowl"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-24-belgrade.mp3 Episode 24 - Belgrade] 87 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 31 January 2008'' Running time: 02:05:45

'''Episode 25 - Belgrade'''

"Saint Valentine's Day Massacre?"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-25-belgrade.mp3 Episode 25 - Belgrade] 83 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 14 February 2008'' Running time: 02:20:10

'''Episode 26 - Sofia'''

"An Eye for an Eye"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-26-sofia.mp3 Episode 26 - Sofia] 78 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 28 February 2008'' Running time: 01:53:04

'''Episode 27 - Sofia'''

"Paranoia, and the Eyes have it"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-27-sofia.mp3 Episode 27 - Sofia] 90 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 13 March 2008'' Running time: 02:10:36

'''Episode 28 - Sofia'''

"Changes"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-28-sofia.mp3 Episode 28 - Sofia] 103 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thurs 27 March 2008'' Running time: 02:30:21

'''Episode 29 - Train'''

"Fenalik"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-29-train.mp3 Episode 29 - Train] 104 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Fri 18 April 2008'' Running time: 02:31:07

'''Episode 30 - Constantinople'''

"Keeping it in the Family"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-30-constantinople.mp3 Episode 30 - Constantinople] 81 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thu 1 May 2008'' Running time: 01:58:02

'''Episode 31 - Constantinople'''

"Blood, Sweat & Tears"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-31-constantinople.mp3 Episode 31 - Constantinople] 111 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thu 22 May 2008'' Running time: 02:00:47

'''Episode 32 - Constantinople'''

"Head Games"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-32-constantinople.mp3 Episode 32 - Constantinople] 84 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thu 5 June 2008'' Running time: 02:02:09

'''Episode 33 - Constantinople'''

"Darkest before the Dawn"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-33-constantinople.mp3 Episode 33 - Constantinople] 85 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thu 19 June 2008'' Running time: 02:03:50

'''Episode 34 - Return'''

"A Fourgon Conclusion"

Audio file: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/docs2/horror-orient-express-34-return.mp3 Episode 34 - Return] 131 MB MP3 Recorded: ''Thu 17 July 2008'' Running time: 03:10:53

'''This concludes the ''Horror on the Orient Express'' campaign. Thanks for sharing our table!

== Further Information & Links ==

[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=9292 ''Horror on the Orient Express'' Audio General Release] Forum discussion.

[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=79 YSDC Community Patron scheme] Includes advance-release and extra files.

[[Game Audio Recording]] (Methodology)

[[Masks of Nyarlathotep Game Audio Recording]]

[[Walker in the Wastes Game Audio Recording]]

See also: [[Yog Radio]]

[[Category:Audio]]

User talk:PoC

2009-01-08T14:27:24Z

Evans: little update

==[[User:Squashua|Squashua]]==
*Hey Paul; check out http://www.yog-sothoth.com/wiki/index.php/Talk:Main_Page . I recommend clicking "Recent changes" on a daily basis, or at least set pages to your watchlist. If you want any other tips, just ask. --[[User:Squashua|Squashua]] 09:05, 19 January 2006 (EST)

==[[User:PoC|PoC]]==

Done!

==[[User:Evans|Evans]]==
Just a quick message to let you know I'm going to sort some of the Locations in to sub-catergories such as Severn Valley, Dreamlands and Miskatonic Region. Hope thats ok

==[[User:PoC|PoC]]==

Also done. Due to the volume of spamming I've restricted Wiki editing for the moment to sysop users, so you should still be able to edit, but hopefully the spammers will be stopped. After a while I'll reset the permissions to normal again.

==[[User:Evans|Evans]]==
A few more spammers appear to have returned. I have blocked their acounts with an infinate time. I hope thats ok.

Yog Radio

2009-01-08T14:25:45Z

Evans: Cleaning up the spam

[[Image:yog-radio-hpl-logo.jpg|thumb|Yog Radio logo]]
Yog Radio (aka YSDC-R Bradford) is a semi-regular Cthulhu Podcast coming out of [[Yog-Sothoth.com]].

''Yog Radio'' deals with all things ''[[Call of Cthulhu role-playing game|Call of Cthulhu]]'', [[H.P. Lovecraft|Lovecraftian]] and gaming in general, along with (un)healthy doses of gamer chit chat from the quite insane show hosts.

Shows # 1-6 were encoded using the [[MP3pro]] standard and so will sound OK in any [[MP3]] player, but feature much better audio quality using MP3pro compatible players. For Windows users, an MP3pro [http://www.winamp.com WinAmp] plug-in is available. For Macintosh users, [http://www.panic.com/audion/ Audion] may be a suitable choice.

Show # 7 dropped the MP3pro encoding for straight MP3 at 48KBPS.

Shows # 17 onwards were produced in 96KBPS stereo.

Shows # 7-12 and # 18-23 were sponsored by [http://www.gencon.com/ Gen Con LLC]. ''Yog Radio'' won a ''Gen Con EN World RPG Award'' ('[http://www.ennieawards.com/ ENnie]') in 2007 for 'Best Podcast'.

== Show Hosts ==

[[Paul Maclean|Paul (of Cthulhu) Maclean]]

[[Finlay Patterson|Fin (Gerout) Patterson]]

[[Neil Young|Neil (N-kun) Young]]

== Podcast Feeds ==
[[Image:yog-radio-tin-can-set-up.jpg|thumb|Yog Radio Tin Can setup.]]
[[Image:yog-radio-research.jpg|thumb|Research into new audio.]]
[[Image:yog-radio-3-under-covers.jpg|thumb|The Halloween 2005 special got hot & steamy under the covers.]]
[[Image:yog-radio-5-dragonmeet-05-london.jpg|thumb|''Yog Radio'' 5, Dragonmeet 2005 special.]]
YSDC's Cthulhu Podcast feed: [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/podcast.xml http://www.yog-sothoth.com/podcast.xml] - which includes ''Yog Radio''.

Feedburner alternative: [http://feeds.feedburner.com/cthulhu http://feeds.feedburner.com/cthulhu] (nicely formatted)

The Cthulhu Podcast is [http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=73900363&s=143455 also available through iTunes].

Other audio presentations in the Cthulhu Podcast feed include recordings of ''Call of Cthulhu'' game sessions and a variety of ''CoC''-related seminars recorded at conventions.

== Show Notes ==

Show Notes for each episode of ''Yog Radio'' are available via [http://www.yogradio.com http://www.yogradio.com]

== Show Notes ==

Recent shows have also featured ''Yog RadioVision'' with the use of a HD video camera filming in support of the audio shows. ''Yog RadioVision'' features are delivered as 640x360p 16:9 widescreen presentations, using the H.264 codec.

== Equipment ==

The first episode of ''Yog Radio'' was recorded simply enough on an iRiver IFP 790. This is the same iRiver that's been used previously to record the ''World's Largest Dungeon' [[Podcasting|podcast]] from [[RPGMP3.com]] and the [[Masks of Nyarlathotep Game Audio Recording]] on [[Yog-Sothoth.com]].

The next two episodes were recorded using the same iRiver but connected to single Lavalier (lapel) condenser mic. Using the old tin can for support. Show # 2 featured a Skype interview using a PC laptop also recording to the iRiver.''Yog Radio'' # 3 was also recorded under a duvet (literally) on advice that it would improve the audio response, which it did, but at some cost to the hosts' working conditions.

Show # 4 used three Lavalier mics into a very cheap ÃÂ£10 mixer, this proved not to be a wise move and better equipment was sought.

Show # 5 was a field recording and used a newly acquired Marantz PMD 670 digital audio recorder, two Lavalier mics and a Shure SM58 microphone.

Show # 6 back in the studio used the PMD 670 linked to a Behringer UB1202 mixer and two Lavalier mics.

Show # 7 was the first of 2006 while testing newly borrowed equipment including an AKG C444 PP headset, and Audio Technica AT892cW micro headset with ATW 2110 wireless receiver. Bit rate boosted to 48KBPS.

Show # 8 featured a similar set-up as Show #7 save for the addition of an OPUS54 Beyerdynamic Headset which allowed three hosts to participate.

''Yog RadioVision'' uses a Sanyo HD2 High Definition solid state video camera. Capable of recording several hours of HD video at 1280x720p resolution.

Additional equipment includes a set of Giant Squid Audio Lab stereo (cardioid) microphones, Audio Technica ATR-288W portable wireless microphone, Audio Technica ATR-55 condenser shotgun microphone and a Zoom H2 Handy Recorder among other things.

== Contact ==

If you'd like to get in touch about the show either:

Email us at: [mailto:yogradio@yogradio.com yogradio@yogradio.com] | [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewforum&f=38 Post in the ''Yog Radio'' forum]

or

Leave Voicemail via Skype. (username: yogradio)

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Visit: [http://www.yogradio.com Yog Radio Central]

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1920s

2009-01-08T14:06:09Z

Evans: more removal

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"
|-
| align="center" | '''Centuries:''' 19th century - '''20th century''' - 21st century <hr>
|-
| align="center" colspan=2 | '''Decades:''' 
1890s 1900s 1910s - [[1920s]] - 1930s 1940s 1950s
|-
| align="center" colspan=2 | '''Years:''' 
1920 1921 1922 [[1923]] 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929
|}

{{EraHeader}}
Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties.

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==Events and trends==

Since the closing of the 20th Century, the [[1920s]] has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both decades were considered very economically prosperous times, and a prosperity which lasted throughout almost the entire decade following a tremendous event at the closing of the previous decade (World War I and Spanish flu in the late 1910s, and the end of the Cold War in the late 1980s). In Australia, this decade was known as the ''Roaring Twenties''.

Despite the comparisons, however, there were a number of differences. First of all, Germany, like many other European countries, had to face a severe economic downturn in the opening years of the decade, due to the enormous debt caused by the war as well as the one-sided Treaty of Versailles. Such a crisis would culminate with a devaluation of the Mark in 1923, eventually leading to economic prosperity during the remainder of the period.
Second, the decade was characterized by the rise of radical political movements, especially in regions that were once part of empires. Communism began attracting large numbers of followers following the success of the October Revolution and the Bolsheviks' determination to win the subsequent Russian Civil War. The Bolsheviks would eventually adopt semi-capitalist policies-- New Economic Policy-- from 1921 to 1928.
The 1920s also experienced the rise of the far-right in Europe and elsewhere, starting with Italy, and were perceived by some in the Western world as an antidote to Communism.

The Stock Market collapsed during October 1929 (see Black Tuesday) and drew a line under prosperous 1920s.

===Technology===
* John T. Thompson invents Thompson submachine gun, also known as "Tommy gun"
* John Logie Baird invents the first working mechanical television system (1925)
* Charles Lindbergh becomes the first person to fly solo non-stop across the Atlantic Ocean (20 May-21 May 1927)
* Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming (1928)
* Philo T. Farnsworth invents the modern electronic cathode ray tube|CRT television
* Insulin is discovered by Frederick Banting during the winter of 1921-1922

===Science===
* Great advances in quantum mechanics
** Wave mechanics and the SchrÃÂ¶dinger equation
** Werner Heisenberg formulates the uncertainty principle
* Prediction and discovery of the expanding universe

===War, peace and politics===
* Rise of communism after World War I
* The Red Scare in the United States (1920-1921)
* In the United States, peak of the Ku Klux Klan (about five million members)
* In the United States, KKK auxiliaries established.
* Irish Civil War
* The Irish Free State gains independence from the United Kingdom in 1922
* Marie C. Brehm becomes temperance movement leader.
* Turkish War of Independence
* Moderation League of New York worked for repeal of prohibition.
* Polish-Soviet war
* First UK Labour Government of Ramsay MacDonald formed in the United Kingdom
* Kellogg-Briand Pact to end war
* Prohibition leaders were at the height of their power.
* The Qajar dynasty ended under Ahmad Shah Qajar and Reza Pahlavi formed the Pahlavi Dynasty, which would later become the last monarchy of Iran.

===Economics===
* Economic boom ended by "Black Tuesday" (October 29, 1929); the stock market crashes, leading to the Great Depression

===Culture, religion===
* Prohibition — legal attempt to end consumption of alcohol in Canada, the United States, and Finland
* Youth culture of '''The Lost Generation'''; flappers, the Charleston, and bobbed hair
* "The Jazz Age" — jazz and jazz-influenced dance music widely popular
* F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes the some of the most enduring novels characterizing the Jazz Age. ''This Side of Paradise'', ''The Beautiful and Damned'', and ''The Great Gatsby'', as well as three short story collections, were all published in these years.
* Women's suffrage movement continues to make gains as women obtain full voting rights in the United States in 1920, in Denmark in 1921, and in England in 1928; and women begin to enter the workplace in larger numbers
* In the US, gangsters and the rise of organized crime, often associated with bootleg liquor, in defiance of Prohibition.
* Rum rows are established to import bootleg alcoholic beverages into U.S.
* First commercial radio station in the U.S. goes onair in Pittsburgh, in 1920, and radio quickly becomes a popular entertainment medium
* Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition, and Public Morals defends alcohol prohibition in U.S.
* Start of motion pictures with sound tracks in 1927
* Beginning of surrealist movement
* Beginning of the Art Deco movement
* Fads such as dance marathons, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles and pole-sitting are popular
* The height of the clip joint
* The Harlem Renaissance
* The Scopes Monkey Trial (1925) which questioned evolution, creationism, and the right to teach
* Bishop James Cannon, Jr. becomes a U.S. temperance movement leader.
* The Group of Seven (artists)
* Repeal organizations organized to fight national prohibition in U.S.
* Minister Daisy Douglas Barr heads Women's Ku Klux Klan (WKKK).

==People==
===World leaders===
* Prime Minister Stanley Bruce (Australia)
* Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
* President Sun Yat-sen (Republic of China)
* President Chiang Kai-shek (Republic of China)
* President Paul von Hindenburg (Germany)
* Ahmad Shah Qajar of Qajar dynasty (Persia/Iran)
* Reza Shah Pahlavi of Pahlavi Dynasty (Iran)
* King Victor Emmanuel III (Italy)
* Prime Minister Benito Mussolini (Italy)
* President W.T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
* President Mustafa Kemal(Ataturk) (Turkey)
* Emperor Hirohito (Japan)
* Pope Pius XI
* Vladimir Lenin (Soviet Union)
* Joseph Stalin (Soviet Union)
* King Alfonso XIII (Spain)
* King George V (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister David Lloyd George (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
* Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald (United Kingdom)
* President Woodrow Wilson (United States)
* President Warren G. Harding (United States)
* President Calvin Coolidge (United States)
* President Herbert Hoover (United States)

===Entertainers===
* Charlie Chaplin
* George Gershwin
* Duke Ellington
* Fletcher Henderson
* Al Jolson
* Jelly Roll Morton
* Cole Porter
* Bessie Smith
* Rudy Vallee
* Paul Whiteman
* Louis Armstrong
* Eddie Cantor
* Helen Kane
* Buster Keaton

===Sports figures===
* Alex James (Arsenal & Scotland footballer)
* Babe Ruth (American baseball player)
* Bill Tilden (American tennis player)
* Bobby Jones (American golfer)
* Gordon Coventry (Australian Rules Football player)
* Herbert Sutcliffe (Yorkshire & England cricketer)
* Jack Dempsey (American boxer)
* Jack Hobbs (Surrey & England cricketer)
* Red Grange (American football player)
* Warwick Armstrong (Australian cricket captain)
* Wilfred Rhodes (Yorkshire & England cricketer)
* Helen Wills Moody (American tennis player)
* Johnny Weissmuller (American swimmer)

== External links ==
*[http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/games/game_0_1920s/ Quiz: Life in the Roaring Twenties]
*[http://www.tr20s.com/ Music from the Roaring 20's]

Wiki Source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Wikipedia]

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[YSDC] Into The Deep:About

2009-01-08T14:05:15Z

Evans: More Spam removal

The ''CthulhuWiki'' is an open source site for information relating to 20th Century Horror and Weird Fiction writer [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and works inspired by his writing.

Category:Games

2009-01-08T14:04:33Z

Evans: Spam removal

''Games'' are categories of playable systems that have [[Cthulhu Mythos]] aspects to them.

{{CategoryHelper|Games}}

[[Category:Media]]

Category:Mythos:Locations

2009-01-04T19:09:28Z

Evans: minor update

{{CategoryHelper|Mythos:Locations}}

==TODO==
The articles need to be completed. Once completed, remove from this list; make sure to add the category to the page.

[[Brichester]]

[[Carcosa]]

[[City of the Elder Gods]]

[[Clotton]]

[[Foxfield]]

[[Goatswood]]

[[Temphill]]

[[Sesqua Valley]]

[[Severnford]]

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Miskatonic University (Location)

2009-01-01T14:08:17Z

Evans: should be the last one

'''Miskatonic University''' is a fictional university located in the equally fictional [[Arkham]], Massachusetts. It was introduced in the stories of [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and continues to figure prominently in [[Cthulhu Mythos]] stories written since his death, as well as in [[role-playing games]] based on the mythos.

Miskatonic University is famous for its collection of occult books. The stories describe the library at the university as holding one of the few genuine copies of the ''[[Necronomicon]]''. Other tomes known to be in its library include the ''[[Unaussprechlichen Kulten]]'' written by [[Friedrich von Junzt]] and the fragmentary ''[[Book of Eibon]]''. According to the stories, Miskatonic has a medical school, which figures prominently in Lovecraft's short story "Herbert West—Reanimator" ([[1922]]). Some real-life retailers sell merchandise such as bumper stickers displaying the school's supposed mascot, the Fighting Cephalopods.

The [[horror movie]] ''[[Re-Animator]]'', directed by [[Stuart Gordon]] and based on a Lovecraft story, took place at Miskatonic University. As a tribute to Lovecraft, [[Bill Pullman]]'s character in 'Brain Dead' attended the university, as did some characters in the film ''[[Dagon (movie)|Dagon]]''.

The Millennium comics series ''[[H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu]]'' introduces [[The Miskatonic Project]] (created by [[Mark Ellis]] with art by [[Darryl Banks]], [[Daryl Hutchinson]] and [[Don Heck]]), a group of investigators who follow up on the loose ends of Lovecraft's original stories, such as "The Whisperer In Darkness".

Also, the [[DC Comics]] character [[Zatanna]], a female magician, uses the alias "Miss Katonic". [[John M. Ford]]'s ''[[Star Trek]]'' novel ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' puts "Princess [[Diane Duane|DeeDee]] the First" into a Miskatonic U. sweatshirt at one point. "[[Dreams in the Witch House]]" (a short film for the SHOWTIME network's "Masters of Horror" series), also based on a [[H.P. Lovecraft]] story and directed by [[Stuart Gordon]], focuses on a Miskatonic University student and takes place in and around the university.

It is speculated that the word "Mis-katonic" is derived from Greek [[chthonic]], since many of Lovecraft's monsters and gods were chthonic.
==External links==
*[http://www.miskatonic-university.org/ A Miskatonic University website]
*[http://www.miskatonic.net/ A mock Miskatonic University site]
*[http://www.yankeeclassic.com/miskatonic/ Another mock Miskatonic University site]
*[http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22Miskatonic+University%22 Other Miskatonic University websites] ([[Google]] search)
Original Wiki source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]

[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]
[[Category:Miskatonic Region]]

Category:Miskatonic Region

2009-01-01T14:04:59Z

Evans: Adding alittle note

The area of Massachusetts containing Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth. Allso refered to as Lovecraft County, Arkham County and the Miskatonic Valley Region.

[[Category:Mythos:Locations]]

Innsmouth

2009-01-01T14:02:11Z

Evans: allmost finished

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

Lovecraft first used the name "Innsmouth" in his 1920 [[short story]] "[[Celephaïs]]"<ref>[[S. T. Joshi]]'s notes on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", ''The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories'', p. 411.</ref> ([[1920 in literature|1920]]), where it refers to a fictional town in [[England]]. Lovecraft's more famous Innsmouth, however, is found in his ([[1936 in literature|1936]]) story "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]", set in [[Massachusetts]].

Lovecraft called Innsmouth "a considerably twisted version of [[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]]," Massachusetts.<ref>Lovecraft, ''Selected Letters V'', p. 86.</ref>

==Location==
Lovecraft placed Innsmouth on the coast of [[Essex County, Massachusetts|Essex County]], [[Massachusetts]], south of [[Plum Island (Massachusetts)|Plum Island]] and north of [[Cape Ann]]. The town of [[Ipswich, Massachusetts]] is said to be a near neighbor, where many Innsmouth residents do their shopping; [[Rowley, Massachusetts]], another neighboring town, is said to be to the northwest. This would place Innsmouth in the vicinity of Essex Bay.

==Description==
In "The Shadow Over Innsmouth", the protagonist describes his first sight of the place:

:It was a town of wide extent and dense construction, yet one with a portentous dearth of visible life. From the tangle of chimney-pots scarcely a wisp of smoke came, and the three tall steeples loomed stark and unpainted against the seaward horizon. One of them was crumbling down at the top, and in that and another there were only black gaping holes where clock-dials should have been. The vast huddle of sagging [[gambrel]] roofs and peaked gables conveyed with offensive clearness the idea of wormy decay, and as we approached along the now descending road I could see that many roofs had wholly caved in. There were some large square [[Colonial house|Georgian houses]], too, with hipped roofs, cupolas, and railed "widow's walks". These were mostly well back from the water, and one or two seemed to be in moderately sound condition....

:The decay was worst close to the waterfront, though in its very midst I could spy the white belfry of a fairly well-preserved brick structure which looked like a small factory. The harbour, long clogged with sand, was enclosed by an ancient stone breakwater....

:Here and there the ruins of wharves jutted out from the shore to end in indeterminate rottenness, those farthest south seeming the most decayed. And far out to sea, despite a high tide, I glimpsed a long, black line scarcely rising above the water yet carrying a suggestion of odd latent malignancy. This, I knew, must be Devil's Reef.

==History==
Lovecraft writes that Innsmouth was "founded in [[1643]], noted for shipbuilding before the [[American Revolution|Revolution]], a seat of great marine prosperity in the early nineteenth century, and later a minor factory centre." The loss of sailors due to shipwrecks and the [[War of 1812]] caused the town's profitable trade with the [[South Seas]] to falter; by [[1828]], the only fleet still running that route was that of Captain [[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Marsh, Obed|Obed Marsh]], the head of one of the town's leading families.

In [[1840]], Marsh started a cult in Innsmouth known as the ''Esoteric Order of Dagon'', basing it on a religion practiced by certain [[Polynesia]]n islanders he had met during his travels. Shortly thereafter, the town's fishing industry experienced a great upsurge.

Records indicate that in [[1846]] a mysterious plague struck the town, causing mass depopulation. In reality, the deaths were caused by the [[Deep One]]s themselves. Obed Marsh had entered into a compact with the aforementioned creatures, offering them sacrifices in exchange for plentiful gold and fish. When Obed and his followers were arrested, the sacrifical rites ceased and the Deep Ones retaliated. However, the cult activity subsequently resumed, and the interbreeding policy greatly increased, resulting in numerous deformities. Consequently, Innsmouth was shunned for many years, until [[1927]] when it came under investigation by Federal authorities for alleged [[rum-running|bootlegging]].

==Esoteric Order of Dagon==

The '''Esoteric Order of Dagon''' was the primary religion in Innsmouth after Marsh returned from the South Seas with the dark religion circa [[1838]]. It quickly took root due to its promises of expensive gold artifacts and fish, which were desired by the primarily-fishing town.

The central beings worshipped by the Order were the [[Deep One#Father Dagon and Mother Hydra|Father Dagon and Mother Hydra]], and, to a lesser extent, [[Cthulhu]]. Dagon and Hydra were seen largely as intermediaries between the various gods, rather than as gods themselves. Even so, the cultists sacrificed various locals to the Deep Ones at specific times in exchange for a limitless supply of gold and fish.

The Esoteric Order of Dagon (which masqueraded as the local [[Masonic]] movement) had three oaths which members had to take. The first was an oath of secrecy, the second, an oath of loyalty, and the third, an oath to marry a Deep One and bear or sire its child. Due to the latter oath, interbreeding became the norm in Innsmouth, resulting in wide-spread deformities and many half-breeds.

The Esoteric Order of Dagon was seemingly destroyed when one of Obed Marsh's "lost descendants" sent the [[U.S. Treasury Department]] to seize the town. As a result, the town was more or less destroyed, and the Order was thought disbanded.

==Other appearances==
* The Esoteric Order is also featured in many ''[[Call of Cthulhu]]'' [[role-playing game]] supplements.

* The video game ''Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth'' is et in Innsmouth.

* The Lovecraftian musical ''A Shoggoth on the Roof'' features [[Obed Marsh]] as a main character, along with the head cultist of a chapter of the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

* The graphic novel ''The Five Fists of Science'' features an "Innsmouth Tower" being built in turn of the century New York City. While seemingly benign, the skyscraper's true purpose is to summon a demon known as Leviathan.

* In the ''Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion'', the player can visit a town called Hackdirt in a quest called "A Shadow Over Hackdirt," which is based on Innsmouth.

* The writer [[Neil Gaiman]] has written several short stories set in the town.

==Manuxet River==
The Manuxet River is a fictional river that runs through Massachusetts and empties into the sea at the town of Innsmouth. Although there is a Manuxet River in [[Worcester, Massachusetts]], Will Murray believes that Lovecraft based his fictional Manuxet on the [[Merrimack River]] and probably invented the name from root words of an [[Algonquian]] language.

To support his claim, Murray gives two reasons. First, even though Newburyport was the inspiration for Innsmouth, it is clearly a separate location since Lovecraft himself placed the real-life Newburyport to the north of Innsmouth in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". Based on his research, Murray thinks that Lovecraft actually based Innsmouth on [[Gloucester, Massachusetts]], BEGINS....
In 1987, Will Murray took a field trip to Newburyport and Gloucester to research locales from Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth". In Newburyport there is a State Street (the street where the narrator of the story boards a bus to Innsmouth) and a State Street [[YMCA]] (where the protagonist roomed and where Lovecraft himself may have stayed during his visit to the town). When he visited Gloucester, Murray found a Gilman House — more formally, the Sargeant-Murray-Gilman-Hough House — a hotel in the story but in real life a [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]]-era mansion turned into a public museum. He also found other landmarks mentioned in the story, including streets named Adams Church, Babson, Main, and Fish, and a building adorned with large, white wooden pillars on its front and side — the Legion Memorial Building — that looks remarkably like the story's [[freemasonry|Masonic]] Lodge (the meeting place for the Esoteric Order of Dagon). The Legion Building, built in [[1844]]–[[1845|45]], served as the Gloucester Town Hall until [[1867]] when it became the Forbes School. Saving it from demolition, the [[American Legion]] took over the building in [[1919]] and, a year later, added a columned [[portico]] to the Middle Street side to match the Washington Street frontage. It has never been a Masonic Lodge, however. (Murray, "I Found Innsmouth!", ''Crypt of Cthulhu #57''.)
which is located on [[Cape Ann]] on the coast. Secondly, Lovecraft is known to have come up with the name for his fictional [[Miskatonic River]] by combining Algonquin root words.<ref>Lovecraft, ''Selected Letters III'', p. 432.</ref> Murray believes that Lovecraft used a similar method to come up with ''Manuxet''. In Algonquin, ''man'' means "island" and ''uxet'' translates to "at the large part of the river"; thus, when combined ''Manuxet'' means "Island at the large part of the river". Murray contends that this meaning is well suited to Innsmouth's placement at the mouth of the Manuxet. And Cape Ann itself (the alleged site of Innsmouth) is connected to the mainland by only a thin strip of land and might be thought of as an island.<ref>Murray, "Roots of the Manuxet", ''Crypt of Cthulhu #75''.</ref>

As stated earlier, the town was taken by the U.S. Treasury Department. During the assault, the Manuxet allowed the personnel to cross during February and take the town when it froze over.

==See also==
* [[Arkham]]
* [[Dunwich (Lovecraft)|Dunwich]]
* [[Kingsport (Lovecraft)|Kingsport]]
* [[Lovecraft Country]]
* [[Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth]]

==References==
===Books===
*{{cite book|last=Harms|first=Daniel|chapter=Esoteric Order of Dagon|title=The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana|edition=2nd ed.|pages=pp. 103–4|year=1998|publisher=Chaosium|location=Oakland, CA|id=ISBN 1-56882-119-0}}
:—"Innsmouth", pp. 149–50. Ibid.

*{{cite book|last=Lovecraft|first=Howard P.|chapter=[http://www.mythostomes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=74 The Shadow Over Innsmouth]|origyear=1936|title=The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories|editor=S. T. Joshi (ed.)|year=1999|location=London, UK; New York, NY|publisher=Penguin Books|id=ISBN 0-14-118234-2}}

*{{Cite book|last=Lovecraft|first=Howard P.|chapter=[http://www.mythostomes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=74 The Shadow Over Innsmouth]|origyear=1936|title=The Dunwich Horror and Others|edition=9th corrected printing|editor=S. T. Joshi (ed.)|year=1984|location=Sauk City, WI|publisher=Arkham House|id=ISBN 0-87054-037-8}} Definitive version.

*{{Cite book|last=Lovecraft|first=Howard P.|title=Selected Letters III|year=1998|location=Sauk City, WI|publisher=Arkham House|id=ISBN 0-87054-032-7}}

*{{cite book|last=Lovecraft|first=Howard P.|title=Selected Letters V|year=1976|location=Sauk City, WI|publisher=Arkham House|id=ISBN 0-87054-036-X}}

===Journals===
*{{cite journal|last=Murray|first=Will|year=St. John's Eve 1988|title=I Found Innsmouth!|journal=Crypt of Cthulhu #57: A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal|volume=Vol. 7|issue=No. 7|pages=pp. 10–14}} [[Robert M. Price]] (ed.), Mount Olive, NC: Cryptic Publications.

*{{cite journal|last=Murray|first=Will|year=Michaelmas 1990|title=Roots of the Manuxet|journal=Crypt of Cthulhu #75: A Pulp Thriller and Theological Journal|volume=Vol. 9|issue=No. 8|pages=p. 34}} Robert M. Price (ed.), Upper Montclair, NJ: Cryptic Publications.

===Notes===
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==External links==
*[http://www.mythostomes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=61&Itemid=75 "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," by H. P. Lovecraft.] The original story which brought Innsmouth into the Cthulhu Mythos.
*[http://www.baharna.com/cmythos/innsmap.htm Map of Innsmouth and Environs], from ''The Cthulhu Mythos: A Guide''
*[http://www.baharna.com/cmythos/innsmth.htm Tourist's Guide to Innsmouth], from ''The Cthulhu Mythos: A Guide''
*[http://www.andylogam.com/Pictures/Maps/map_innsmouth.gif Land Map of Innsmouth], from [http://www.andylogam.com/maps_main.html Maps of Non-Existent Places]

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Arkham

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'''Arkham''' is a [[fictional city]] in [[Massachusetts]]. The town is the creation of [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and is featured in many of his stories.

[[Arkham House]], a [[publisher|publishing company]] started by two of Lovecraft's correspondants, [[August Derleth]] and [[Donald Wandrei]], takes its name from this city as a tribute.

==Arkham in Lovecraft's fiction==

Arkham is the home of [[Miskatonic University]], which figures prominently in many of Lovecraft's works. The institution finances the expeditions in both ''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]'' ([[1936 in literature|1936]]) and "The Shadow out of Time" (1936). [[Cthulhu mythos biographies|Walter Gilman]], of "The Dreams in the Witch House" ([[1933 in literature|1933]]), attends classes at the university. Other notable institutions in Arkham are the Arkham Historical Society and the Arkham Sanitarium.

Arkham's main [[newspaper]] is the ''Arkham Advertiser'', which has a circulation that reaches as far as [[Dunwich (H. P. Lovecraft)|Dunwich]]. In the [[1880]]s, its newspaper was called the ''Arkham Gazette''.

Arkham’s most notable characteristics are its [[gambrel]] roofs and the dark legends surrounding the city for centuries. Occurrences such as the disappearance of children (presumably murdered in ritual sacrifices) at May Eve and other ''bad doings'' are accepted as a part of life for the poorer citizens of the city.

The precise location of Arkham is unknown, although it is probably near both [[Innsmouth]] and [[Dunwich]]. However, it may be surmised from Lovecraft's stories that it is some distance to the north of [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], probably in [[Essex County, Massachusetts]]. Some have suggested that the real-life model for Arkham is in fact [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]] (its reputation for the occult making it appealing to one who dabbles in the weird tale).

==Appearances==

===Lovecraft's fiction===

''Note: dates are the year written.''

Arkham first appeared in Lovecraft's [[short story]] "The Picture in the House" ([[1920 in literature|1920]])—the story is also the first to mention "Miskatonic". It also appears in other stories by Lovecraft, including:

*"Herbert West—Reanimator" ([[1921 in literature|1921]]–[[1922 in literature|22]]), first story to mention "Miskatonic University"
*"The Unnamable" ([[1923 in literature|1923]])
*"[[The Colour out of Space]]" ([[1927 in literature|1927]])
*"[[The Dunwich Horror]]" ([[1928 in literature|1928]])
*''[[At the Mountains of Madness]]''([[1931 in literature|1931]]), one of the ships is named ''Arkham''
*"[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]" (1931), first to mention "Arkham Historical Society"
*"The Dreams in the Witch House" ([[1932 in literature|1932]])
*"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" (1932–[[1933 in literature|1933]])
*"The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933), first to mention "Arkham Sanitarium"
*"The Shadow out of Time" ([[1934 in literature|1934]]–[[1935 in literature|1935]])

===Other authors===

Arkham also appears in the [[Cthulhu mythos]] tales of other writers since Lovecraft's death. Among them:

*[[Robert Bloch|Bloch, Robert]]. "The Creeper in the Crypt" ([[1937 in literature|1937]])

*Brennen, Joseph Payne. "Forringer's Fortune" ([[1975 in literature|1975]])

*Brunner, John. "Concerning the Forthcoming Inexpensive Paperback Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred" ([[1992 in literature|1992]])

*Campbell, Ramsey.
**"The Tomb Herd" ([[1986 in literature|1986]])
**"The Tower from Yuggoth" (1986)

*Jens, Tina L. "In His Daughter's Darkling Womb" ([[1997 in literature|1997]]), mentions "Arkham Industries"

*[[Brian Lumley|Lumley, Brian]]. ''The Transition of Titus Crow'' (1975)

*Price, Robert M. "Wilbur Whateley Waiting" ([[1987 in literature|1987]])

*Shea, Michael ''The Color out of Time'' ([[1984 in literature|1984]])

*Smith, Clark Ashton. "I Am a Witch" (19??)

*Thompson, C. Hall "The Will of Claude Ashur" ([[1947 in literature|1947]])

*Wilson, F. Paul "The Barrens" ([[1990 in literature|1990]])

==Arkham in other fiction==

In many ''[[Batman]]'' [[comic books]], [[Arkham Asylum]] is shown or mentioned as a place in which many [[villains]], including the [[Joker (comics)|Joker]], are kept under guard. The third ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' video game (''Shadow Hearts: From the New World'') features a visit to the fictional Arkham University, based in [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]]. H. P. Lovecraft himself appears as a professor at the university, conjuring up demons for the heroes to fight at their request. It is also the setting for [[roleplaying games]] based on the mythos, such as ''[[Call of Cthulhu (role-playing game)|Call of Cthulhu]]''.

==See also==

* [[Arkham Asylum]]: an institution in the [[DC Comics]] universe, named in honor of Lovecraft's Arkham.
* [[Arkham Horror]]: a board game set in Arkham, where the players war against the Cthulhu mythos.

Other fictional settings from the stories of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]:


* [[Dunwich (H. P. Lovecraft)|Dunwich]], Massachusetts
* [[Innsmouth]], Massachusetts

==References==

* Harms, Daniel. "Arkham" in ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'' (2nd ed.), pp. 10. Chaosium, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

* Joshi, S.T. and David E. Schultz. "Arkham" in ''An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia'', pp. 6–7. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001. ISBN 0-313-31578-7.

* Lovecraft, Howard P.
**''At the Mountains of Madness, and Other Novels'' (7th corrected printing), S. T. Joshi (ed.), Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1985. ISBN 0-870-54038-6. Definitive version.
**''Dagon and Other Macabre Tales'', S. T. Joshi (ed.), Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1987. ISBN 0-870-54039-4. Definitive version.
**''The Dunwich Horror and Others'' (9th corrected printing), S. T. Joshi (ed.), Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1984. ISBN 0-870-54037-8. Definitive version.

Original Wiki source: [http://en.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]

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Dunwich

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'''Dunwich''' is a fictional town that appeared in the [[H. P. Lovecraft]] [[short story]] "[[The Dunwich Horror]]" ([[1929 in literature|1929]]). Dunwich is found in the fictional [[Miskatonic River]] Valley of [[Massachusetts]], part of the imaginary region sometimes called [[Lovecraft Country]]. The inhabitants are depicted as inbred, uneducated, and very superstitious, while the town itself is described as economically poor with many decrepit and abandoned buildings.

==Origin==

Lovecraft may have named the town after the lost port of [[Dunwich]] in [[Suffolk]], [[England]]. This town was the subject (though not mentioned by name) of [[Algernon Swinburne]]'s poem "By the North Sea", which was in an anthology owned by Lovecraft. This Dunwich also appears in [[Arthur Machen]]'s [[novella]] ''The Terror'' ([[1917 in literature|1917]]), which Lovecraft is known to have read.

Lovecraft also could have been inspired by other [[New England]] towns with names ending in ''-wich'', such as [[Ipswich, Massachusetts|Ipswich]] near [[Salem, Massachusetts]], East and West Greenwich in [[Rhode Island]], and [[Greenwich, Massachusetts]], a decaying rural village that has since been flooded to create the [[Quabbin Reservoir]]. Although the English town is pronounced "DUN-nich" (similar to the New England Greenwiches), Lovecraft never specified how he preferred his ''Dunwich'' be pronounced. <ref>Joshi, ''The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft'', note #14, p. 108.</ref>

Lovecraft is said to have based Dunwich on [[Athol, Massachusetts]], and other towns in Western Massachusetts. <ref>Books and Writers, [http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lovecraf.htm "H(oward) P(hillip) Lovecraft"], accessed July 13, 2006.</ref>

==Description==

Lovecraft locates Dunwich in "north central Massachusetts", found by travellers "tak[ing] the wrong fork at the junction of the Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean's Corners." Aylesbury and Dean's Corners are both Lovecraft creations, neither of which appears in any other of his stories, though Aylesbury is mentioned in his poem sequence ''Fungi From Yuggoth''. <ref>Joshi, ''Index to the Fiction & Poetry of H. P. Lovecraft, pp. 11, 17</ref>

"The Dunwich Horror" describes the region around Dunwich as "a lonely and curious country," broken up with "ravines of problematical depth" and "stretches of marshland that one instinctively dislikes". There is dense natural growth and abundant wildlife such as whippoorwills, fireflies and bullfrogs, though "the planted fields appear singularly few and barren." The "sparsely scattered houses wear a surprisingly uniform aspect of age, squalor, and dilapidation," while the "gnarled, solitary" inhabitants are "silent and furtive".

Lovecraft describes the village of Dunwich itself:

:Across a covered bridge one sees a small village huddled between the stream and the vertical slope of Round Mountain, and wonders at the cluster of rotting gambrel roofs bespeaking an earlier architectural period than that of the neighbouring region. It is not reassuring to see, on a closer glance, that most of the houses are deserted and falling to ruin, and that the broken-steepled church now harbours the one slovenly mercantile establishment of the hamlet. One dreads to trust the tenebrous tunnel of the bridge, yet there is no way to avoid it. Once across, it is hard to prevent the impression of a faint, malign odour about the village street, as of the massed mould and decay of centuries. It is always a relief to get clear of the place, and to follow the narrow road around the base of the hills and across the level country beyond till it rejoins the Aylesbury pike. Afterward one sometimes learns that one has been through Dunwich.

==Connections==

After "The Dunwich Horror", Lovecraft did not mention Dunwich in his fiction again, though the town does appear in his poem "The Ancient Track" (1929).

The town was used as a setting by [[August Derleth]] in his posthumous "collaborations" with Lovecraft, notably in "The Shuttered Room" (1959).

Many [[Cthulhu Mythos]] stories by other writers have also been set in Dunwich, some of which are collected in ''The Dunwich Cycle''.

==Other appearances==

The town is also the setting of the loose film adaptation of Lovecraft's story, also called ''The Dunwich Horror'', starring [[Dean Stockwell]] and [[Sandra Dee]].

The [[horror film]] ''[[City of the Living Dead]]'', directed by the late [[Lucio Fulci]], features a town called Dunwich, named as a [[tribute]] to Lovecraft.

[[Chaosium]]'s Call of Cthulhu [[role-playing game]] uses Dunwich as a setting, notably in ''H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich: Return to the Forgotten Village''.

The video game ''The Bard's Tale'' features a town named Dunwich in which many occult events occur.

''The Sundog'', a novella by [[Stephen King]] that appears in his collection ''[[Four Past Midnight]]'', refers to

:a fellow in Dunwich, MA, to whom Pop had once sold a so-called spirit trumpet for ninety dollars; the fellow had taken the spirit trumpet to the Dunwich cemetery and must have heard something exceedingly unpleasant, because he had been raving in a padded cell in [[Arkham]] for almost six years now, totally insane.

==See also==

Other fictional settings from the stories of H. P. Lovecraft:

* [[Arkham]], Massachusetts
* [[Innsmouth]], Massachusetts
* [[Kingsport (Lovecraft)|Kingsport]], Massachusetts

==References==
*{{Cite book|first=Howard P.|last=Lovecraft|chapter=The Dunwich Horror|origyear=1929|year=1984|title=The Dunwich Horror and Others|editor=S. T. Joshi (ed.) |edition=9th corrected printing|publisher=Arkham House|location=Sauk City, WI|id=ISBN 0-87054-037-8}} Definitive version.

*{{cite book|first=Howard P.|last=Lovecraft|chapter=The Dunwich Horror|editor=[[S. T. Joshi]] (ed.)|title=The Annotated H. P. Lovecraft|month=August|year=1997|location=New York, NY|publisher=Dell|id=ISBN 0-440-50660-3 (trade paper)}}

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