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Ramsey Campbell deities

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The '''Ramsey Campbell deities''' are supernatural entities created for the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] universe of shared fiction by British horror writer [[Ramsey Campbell]].

==Daoloth==
See [[Daoloth]].

==Eihort==
See [[Eihort]].

==Glaaki==
See [[Glaaki]].

==Ghroth==
See [[Ghroth]]

==The Horror Under Warrendown==
See [[Green God]]

==Y'golonac==
See [[Y'golonac]].

==References==
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[[Category:Cthulhu Mythos deities|Campbell deities, Ramsey]]
[[Category:Lists of fictional deities]]
[[Category:Severn Valley]]
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Cody Goodfellow

2024-04-28T00:39:06Z

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[[Image:Cody-goodfellow.png|thumb|Cody Goodfellow, ''Call of Cthulhu'' writer, actor, and editor.]]

Born September 29th, 1970, Cody Goodfellow has written eight novels and five short story collections, winning Wonderland Book Awards for Best Novel for his novel ''Unamerica'' and for Bizarro Fiction for his collections ''Silent Weapons For Quiet Wars'' and ''All-Monster Action''. He wrote, co-produced and scored the short Lovecraftian hygiene films ''Stay At Home Dad'' and ''Baby Got Bass''. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous short films, TV shows, and music videos, as well as the [[Clark Ashton Smith]] documentary ''The Emperor of Dreams''. He also edits the hyperpulp zine ''Forbidden Futures'' and co-founded Perilous Press, an occasional micropublisher of modern cosmic horror. He lives in San Diego.

For the ''Call of Cthulhu'' roleplaying game, he wrote the ''[[Secrets of San Francisco|Secrets of San Francisco: A 1920s Sourcebook for the City By the Bay]]'' for [[Chaosium|Chaosium, Inc.]] in 2002. His Lovecraftian fiction has been anthologized in ''[[Arkham Tales]]'' (Chaosium Inc., 2006), ''[[Atomic-Age Cthulhu (fiction)|Atomic-Age Cthulhu: Tales of Mythos Horror in the 1950s]]'' (Chaosium Inc., 2015), ''[[Cthulhu's Dark Cults]]'' (Chaosium Inc., 2010), ''Cthulhurotica'' (Dagon Books, 2010), ''Dead but Dreaming 2'' (Miskatonic River Press, LLC, 2011), ''Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions'' (Arc Dream Publishing, 2015), ''[[The Leaves of a Necronomicon]]'' (Chaosium, Inc., 2022), ''World War Cthulhu : A Collection of Lovecraftian War Stories'' (Dark Regions Press, 2014), among many others.

== External Links ==

* [https://www.codygoodfellow.com/ Cody Goodfellow official website]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Cody-Goodfellow/e/B002KYCE76%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Cody Goodfellow - Amazon.com]
* [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4890734/ Cody Goodfellow - IMDb]

[[Category:Writers|Goodfellow, Cody]]

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== Summary ==
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The House On Stratford Lane (Scenario)

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==Details==

'''Pages:''' 13

'''Author(s):''' [[John H. Crowe, III]]

'''Artist(s):'''

'''Setting:''' [[1920s]]

'''Appears in:''' [[The Unspeakable Oath, Issue 03]], [[The Resurrected Vol. 2: Of Keys and Gates]], [[The Resurrected Vol. 3: Out of the Vault]]

'''Campaign:'''

==Summary==
A young girl is missing. The police interviewed Charles Edwards but found nothing to connect him to her disappearance. The investigators are asked by Edwards’ neighbour to look into the matter.

==Links==
* [http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_7352.html Review by Steve Darlington on RPGnet]
* [http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_7164.html Review by Ralph Dula on RPGnet]
* [http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/reviews/rev_4805.html Review by Chris Ward on RPGnet]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


===Synopsis===
Edwards has nothing to do with the kidnapping. He is however working on a machine to open a gate to [[Yuggoth]].

===References===
'''Player Handouts:''' Newspaper items

'''Locations:''' Hartford, Connecticut

'''Creatures:''' [[Mi-go]]

'''Tomes and Artifacts:''' [[Azathoth and Others]], [[The Golden Bough]], journal of Alvin Masters, journal of Charles Edwards

'''Campaigns / Scenarios:'''

===Comments===

===Keeper Comments===

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John Tynes

2024-02-20T21:05:26Z

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===Biography===
John Tynes is the founder of [[Pagan Publishing]] (1990) and one-time editor of [[The Unspeakable Oath]]. Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, he earned his degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1993. He lives in Seattle, Washington. His first exposure to the [[Chaosium]]'s game came through a review in [[Dragon Magazine]]. Tynes works as a full-time freelance writer, editor, graphic designer, and web creator, under the aegis of [[Commando Creative Services]].

== Selected Works ==
=== Roleplaying games ===
*''[[Delta Green]]'' (co-creator, with [[Dennis Detwiller]] and [[Adam Scott Glancy]], 1997)
*''[[Call of Cthulhu Roleplaying Game (d20)]]'' (2002)
*''Delta Green: The Labyrinth'' (2019)
*''Delta Green: The Conspiracy'' (2022)
*''Delta Green: Convergence'' (2023)

=== Fiction ===
*''Delta Green: Alien Intelligence'' (1998)
*''The Broadalbin Trilogy'' ("Ambrose" (1996), "Broadalbin" (1998), and "Sosostris" (2000))
*''Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement'' (2000)
*''Delta Green: Dark Theatres'' (2001)
*''Delta Green: Strange Authorities'' (2012)
*''Delta Green: Extraordinary Renditions'' (2015)

===Links===
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/articles.html/_/main/interviews/john-tynes-interview YSDC interview]

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John Scott Tynes

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Serpent Men

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[[File:YaxchilanDivineSerpent.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mayan interpretation of a serpent-man shedding his skin.]]

'''Serpent Men''' are a fictional race created by [[Robert E. Howard]] for his [[King Kull]] tales. They first appeared in "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]," published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'' in August of 1929.

They were later adapted for the Marvel Comics Conan comics by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Their first Marvel Universe appearance was in ''Kull the Conqueror'' vol.1 #2 (September, 1971). They were also used in the 1992 ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series. They were also adapted into [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by writers like [[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]].

==Origin and society==
[[File:Ubaid serpent folk.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Aeons-old "Serpent" figures unearthed in Iraq]]
In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the Great Serpent. Later writers would identify the Great Serpent with the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)|Great Old One]] [[Yig]] and with the Stygian serpent god [[Set (serpent god)|Set]] from Howard's [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories.

The Serpent Men were created untold aeons ago by the Great Serpent. At some point the Serpent Men group split, with one group becoming the Man-Serpents- these creatures, unlike their kin and predecessors, have the bodies of giant serpents and the heads of human beings, with smaller snakes for hair like Medusa. A Man-Serpent is the titular being in the Conan story "The God in the Bowl". Man-Serpents have hypnotic gazes and lethally venomous bites, as well as terrible crushing strength.

The seat of the First Empire of the serpent people, during the Paleozoic era, was [[Valusia]]. Valusia is a fictional country in the Kull stories of Robert E. Howard, located on the west coast of the main continent of [[Thuria]]. The empire was based on sorcery and alchemy, but collapsed with the rise of the dinosaurs about 225 million years ago during the Triassic era. The Serpent Men originally ruled over humans in Valusia but were defeated and almost wiped out in humanity's battle for survival against the "elder things" that predated them. Over time, humans dominated Valusia and the Serpent Men became a legend. The Serpent Men, one of the few surviving "elder things", infiltrated human society and ruled from behind the scenes for a time but were again discovered, defeated and cast out in a secret war. However, they later repeated this tactic but added the front of a Snake Cult religion, which gained power and influence within Valusia while they also used their abilities of disguise to murder and replace each reigning monarch. Their power is eventually broken by King Kull, formerly an Atlantean barbarian who had recently conquered Valusia, and the Pict Brule the Spear-Slayer, whose society was aware of the Serpent Men's infiltration.

After the destruction of Valusia, the serpent men escaped to [[Yoth]], a cavern beneath [[K'n-yan]] in North America (ironically, the Pictish Isles of the Kull stories). They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the serpent men's scientific lore. Their next downfall came when they brought idols of [[Tsathoggua]] from N'kai and abandoned their patron deity [[Yig]] to worship their new god. As retribution Yig placed his curse upon them, forcing his few remaining worshipers to flee to caverns beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]].

Cursed by Yig, some serpent men degenerated into more and more bestial forms, eventually becoming mere giant snakes. Some sources claim that the [[Worms of the Earth (Race)|worms of the earth]] were degenerate serpent men, while other stories describe the "worms" as descended from humans.

==Appearance and abilities==
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"'I keep your secret; they do not need my word to know you. The farther they have retreated from the world of men, the greater have grown their powers in other uncanny ways,' [the witch Atla said].... The vast age of [Bran's] race was borne upon him; where now he walked an outlaw and an alien, dark-eyed kings in whose mold he was cast had reigned in old times. The Celtic and Roman invaders were as strangers to this ancient isle beside his people. Yet his race likewise had been invaders, and there was an older race than his—a race whose beginnings lay lost and hidden back beyond the dark oblivion of antiquity.... [Atla cried] 'Look!—They come!' He wheeled, his hand instinctively dropping to his sword. Outside the ring the great stallion screamed savagely and reared against his tether. The night wind moaned through the waving grass and an abhorrent soft hissing mingled with it. Between the menhirs flowed a dark tide of shadows, unstable and chaotic. The ring filled with glittering eyes which hovered beyond the dim illusive circle of illumination cast by the phosphorescent altar. Somewhere in the darkness a human voice tittered and gibbered idiotically. Bran stiffened, the shadows of a horror clawing at his soul.... One segment of the mass detached itself for an instant and Bran cried out in fierce revulsion, though he caught only a fleeting glimpse of the thing, had only a brief impression of a broad, strangely flattened head, pendulous writhing lips that bared curved pointed fangs, and a hideously misshapen, dwarfish body that seemed—mottled—all set off by those unwinking reptilian eyes. Gods!—the myths had prepared him for horror in human aspect, horror induced by bestial visage and stunted deformity—but this was the horror of nightmare and the night." 
—Robert E. Howard, "Worms of the Earth"
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Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.

==Earlier Serpent Men==
Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about a pre-human historic serpentine race. Pulp writer [[Abraham Merritt]] created similar "serpent-people" surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss", which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]], and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving "serpent-woman" is an ally of the human protagonists.

==Cthulhu Mythos==
[[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]] adapted the race for inclusion in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], inspired by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[The Nameless City]]", which refers to an Arabian city built by a pre-human reptilian race. Lovecraft's story "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]" explicitly mentions the "serpent men of Valusia" as being one-time possessors of the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. However, the Cthulhu Mythos were already connected to the works of Robert E. Howard (a contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft as well as a direct contributor to the Mythos itself). In this case, the Serpent Men were created for the very first Kull story, the character of Kull later made an appearance in a [[Bran Mak Morn]] story, ''[[Kings of the Night]]'', while in another such story, ''[[Worms of the Earth]]'', Bran Mak Morn explicitly refers to [[Cthulhu]] and [[R'lyeh]]. Many [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories by Howard are also part of the Mythos.

==Conan==
The fictional settings of King Kull and Robert E. Howard's other creation, [[Conan the Barbarian]], are linked through Howards essay ''[[The Hyborian Age]]''. This states that Valusia, and its Thurian Age, existed in some time before Conan's Hyborian Age (the land was reshaped in between the story cycles by an undefined cataclysm). The Serpent Men did not, however, appear in any Conan story written by Robert E. Howard himself.

In 1971, the Serpent Men appeared in a comic book adaptation of the King Kull stories, published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Since then they have been imported into the Conan comics, as well as other adaptations and Conan pastiches. The Serpent Men were the main antagonists, personified by the wizard "Wrath-Amon", in the animated series ''Conan the Adventurer''. This retained the Serpent Men's ability to infiltrate human society in disguise (in the cartoon, this disguise failed in the presence of meteoric "star metal", contact with which also sent a Serpent Man back to "the Abyss").

==The Spider==
In the Spider short story "Fear Itself" (published in The Spider Chronicles by Moonstone in 2007) by Joel Frieman and C.J. Henderson, an occult expert named Guicet enlists the Spider's aid in defeating a group of Serpent Men who acquire a duplicate of the Cobra Crown from Conan the Buccaneer. In The Phantom Chronicles, worshippers of Set appear, but no Serpent Men.

==He-Man's Snake Men==
Persistent but unverified claims suggest that the He-Man franchise was originally intended as a Conan toy line. If this is true, the equivalent to the Serpent Men in that franchise would be the Snake Men.

As with Howard's work, the Snake Men come from the distant past and fought against the character He-Ro/Lord Grayskull (who would be equivalent to Howard's character [[Kull of Atlantis|Kull]]). As with the ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series, the Snake Men were banished to another dimension in the past and were attempting to return to power in the present.

==Reptilian Quadrupeds==
In "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], the inhabitants of the red-litten subterranean world of [[Yoth]] are described as quadrupedal reptiles that seemed to be the debased remnants of a much greater, technologically-advanced reptilian race predating even the ancient [[People of K'n-yan]]; there seemed to be little doubt that these beings were older than humanity but still related, and the reptilians were easily blended with mammalian and "inferior" racial stock of the [[People of K'n-yan]], to produce an intelligent slave class and quasi-animal horrors serving as dogs, horses, and cattle for the population of [[K'n-yan]]. Within the age of modern man, these quadrupeds appear to have degenerated to animalism, but in an earlier age they were accomplished architects, scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers; the reptilian civilization appears to have gone strongly until they found their way into the lightless and shadowed gulfs of [[N'kai]], where they discovered devotion to [[Tsathoggua]], and shortly afterward their own doom on contact with the monstrous [[Shoggoth]]s.

==Mahars==
[[File:Attheearthscore 1976film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Mahars gather for a sacrifice in ''At the Earth's Core (1976 film)''...]]
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The all-powerful Mahars of Pellucidar are great reptiles, some six or eight feet in length, with long narrow heads and great round eyes. Their beak-like mouths are lined with sharp, white fangs, and the backs of their huge, lizard bodies are serrated into bony ridges from their necks to the end of their long tails. Their feet are equipped with three webbed toes, while from the fore feet membranous wings, which are attached to their bodies just in front of the hind legs, protrude at an angle of 45 degrees toward the rear, ending in sharp points several feet above their bodies....

"...For countless millions of years these reptiles have been progressing. Possibly it is the sixth sense which I am sure they possess that has given them an advantage over the other and more frightfully armed of their fellows; but this we may never know. They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men—they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle. They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."

- [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[At the Earth's Core (fiction)]]''
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The Mahars are a sapient race of flying reptile people which lack the ability to hear. They are the supreme rulers of the Earth's inner world of [[Pellucidar]], and known to enslave the native human races of that inner world. The ape-like [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoths]] are their loyal servants, and the non-sapient dragon-like pterosaurs known as Thipdars are domesticated by them, being used as pets and guard animals.

Mahars are a highly intelligent, scientific scholarly races with a talent for genetics, engineering, and architecture.

The entire Mahar race is female. As they have discovered a formula that allowed them to reproduce without males, this allowed the extermination of their male population. Mahars are great swimmers as well as fliers, and often dive deeply in order to feed on fish and reptiles. For some reason, they consider it a taboo to feed on mammalian meat, but many Mahar cultists practice this as an occult ritual, feasting on freshly killed human slaves. Despite living in a world of perpetual noonday, they have eyes well suited for seeing in darkness. The entire race lacks the ability to hear, or to even comprehend the idea of sound. Instead, they communicate through some strange means which is just as incomprehensible to humans as sound is to them. Abner Perry, a voyager to Pellucidar who made a study of the creatures while in captivity, has denied that this form of communication should be labelled as "telepathy", since it isn't useful over long distances and doesn't allow them to communicate with other species; they have instead developed a gesture-based language to speak with their [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoth servants]]. Perry speculates that the Mahars are able to project and detect information over a fourth dimension, using a sixth sense unique to them, and that forms the basis of their language. Although they may not be regarded as telepaths in the traditional sense, they at least have some influence over the human mind, being able to hypnotize victims into a zombie-like state in which they might be consumed without resistance.

Mahars first appear in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' [[Pallucidar|Hollow Earth/Earth's Core]] novels.

== Sleestaks and Altrusians ==
[[File:Sleestaks.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A band of Sleestaks creeps through the inner world of the ''Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)'']]
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Sleestaks are the slow-moving savage lizard people from the ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]''.

The very similar Altrusians are a reptilian advanced civilization living in an alternate timeline of what at first seems like a "Hollow Earth" but later proves to be a small, artificial "pocket universe"; through their super-science, the Altrusians foresee their downfall and de-evolution into savage Sleestaks, and are working to avert this disaster; over time, the Altrusians find evidence that the Sleestaks may be a precursor race that will evolve into Altrusians, confusing their efforts; the truth seems to be that the Sleestaks may represent both the savage past and the degenerate future of the Altrusian civilization at the same time....

The ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]'' was apparently partly inspired by [[Robert E. Howard]] (compare the Sleestaks and Altrusians both to R.E. Howard's serpent people of Valusia, and to his various [[Frazetta Man]] savage precursors to and degenerate inheritors of pre-historic advanced human civilizations in Hyperborea, such as the Atlanteans, in that Howard's vision of savage races evolving to civilization alongside civilized neighbors devolving into savagery in cycles resembles the apparent origin and doom of the Altrusians, who were once Sleestaks, and are doomed do fall and become Sleestaks again in cycles....)

== Silurians ==
[[File:Silurians drwho.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Silurians from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'']]
Silurians (AKA Earth Reptiles, Eocenes, Psionosauropodomorpha, Homo Reptilicus, Homo reptilia and Reptilia sapiens) are a technologically advanced race from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'', native to Earth and predating mammalian (including human) life-forms, alongside their aquatic cousins the [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devils]].

The long-lived and widespread Silurian race had over time developed numerous subspecies evolved subtly for different environments and varying widely in appearance by such features as skin tone, facial structure and shape, crests and/or spikes, number and appearance of eyes, the ability to spit poison, etc. These differences contribute to a very complex and subtle caste system that determines the role, position, and authority that individual Silurians hold within their society, though the specifics are perhaps far too esoteric for many humans to follow the nuances. Silurians hatch from eggs. Developed from predatory ancestry, Silurians are quicker and strong than humans in short bursts, and taller and lighter than humans. There have been isolated reports throughout the ''Doctor Who'' literature and long-lived television series of hybrids between Silurians and their aquatic [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devil cousins]], as well as hybrids between Silurians and humans, though these hybrids tend to be sterile and feeble compared to purebred examples of any of these races; the more successful examples include a hybrid population which has inspired stories of the "[[Faerie|Fair Folk]]".

Silurians, parallel to Serpent People, flourished in antediluvian Earth, but were driven into the [[Hollow Earth]] to hibernate by some prehistoric catastrophe, where small populations of survivors have remained awake, living a troglodytic existence a few steps ahead of their own extinction far into the modern era, and into the future, where they have increasingly come into conflict with humans. Time and attrition are slowly killing off the hibernating Silurian population, but the Silurians still believe that there will come a time when conditions on Earth's surface will become favorable for their race to awaken, climb to the surface, and reclaim it as their own once again.

Some Silurians possess a "third eye", presumably equivalent in nature and function to the supposed occult description of the human "pineal eye": presumably a hold-over from an ancient descent from the Astral Plane giving these Silurians not just a wider range of vision, but also some slight psychic power: telepathy, mind control, a weak form of telekinesis, the capacity for thought transfer, etc.

Silurians are a generally peaceful race, having long ago outlawed war except in self-defense; Silurians seem to find disconcerting the ease with which humans go to war, and the degree to which the violence and destruction of human wars can escalate. Silurians are apparently capable of feeling profound (if alien to humans) emotions, but are reportedly incapable of expressing them even to each other, but especially to humans, and are incapable of physically crying; in addition, Silurian art, music, and literature as humans understand it is all but non-existent, largely because their telepathic abilities tends to render such efforts unnecessarily complicated and difficult in comparison; Silurians seem to find the human ability to share emotions verbally or visually, and to communicate through artificial means such as writing and pictures, alien and unsettling. Silurian art, poetry, and similar expression tends instead to take the form of mathematics, optical illusions, and telepathic tricks and games that would be hard to explain in human terms.

Silurian relations with humans have varied over time; apparently, Silurians helped develop humans through tampering with mammal genetics to produce a large, slow, fast-breeding mammal for use as a food source, leaving humans with an instinctive fear and hatred of Silurians. When humans later evolved into more sentient, independent, dangerous, and feral creatures after the Silurians were driven underground, the Silurians learned to keep a healthy distance between the two races, varying between ignoring and avoiding humans, to unsuccessful attempts at genocide to cleanse humans from Earth's surface. In modern times, human expansion has brought the races more frequently into contact and conflict, driving both difficult relations, as well as the beginnings of efforts at communication and cooperation between the two races; only time can tell whether a lasting truce can be forged between man and Silurian, let alone peace and understanding. For now, the relationship between the two races is strained, at best, with both sides of the secret conflict capable of inflicting monstrous atrocities and unspeakable horrors on the other.

Some Silurians are also accomplished Dreamers, using specially-developed candles and incenses to enhance their ability to experience lucid dreams and enter the Dreamlands.

Modern Silurian technology includes advanced genetic manipulation, feats of biological and medical engineering, the use and construction of advanced airships and antigravity and other devices and vehicles for transportation and construction or exploration and communication purposes, the generation and use of force fields and rays for various purposes including interaction with dinosaurs and later mammals on Earth's surface, the generation of a form of "free energy", and a means for producing food without resorting to agriculture. For aesthetic reasons Silurians prefer not to rely on technology any more than absolutely necessary, and some older and rarely-used Silurian technologies are in danger of being lost and forgotten.

At the time of the catastrophe that drove them underground, a small population of Silurians built an object called "The Silurian Ark", a space station onto which a select few Silurians and a population of their dinosaur livestock, pets, and work animals along with a great forest of of prehistoric plant life were were transplanted to survive the cataclysm for a time before returning to Earth; the Ark has never returned, and may still exist intact somewhere in space, its population evolving and re-engineering itself over the aeons, and might perhaps return one day to Earth, bringing with it whatever life forms have evolved from the Silurian and Dinosaur and other antediluvian stock over the millions of years that the Ark has waited in the darkness of space to return.

== Reptilians ==
[[File:Spectre 1977film asmodeus.png|200px|thumb|right|The immortal, shape-shifting, demonic Serpent Man "Asmodeus" from ''[[Spectre (1977 film)]]'']]
In the [[Delta Green]] RPG setting and in UFOlogy, Serpent Folk might be associated with "Reptilian" Aliens of UFO mythology, which by some accounts can apparently trace their storytelling ancestry back through [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]] to [[Robert E. Howard]]'s and/or [[A. Merritt]]'s serpent men, though it's just as likely that both modern UFO mythology and pulp science fiction authors were alike inspired by a mix of the pseudoscience of the early 20th century combined with the subsequent and related wild speculations of [[Theosophy]] regarding the lost continents of [[Mu]] and [[Lemuria]].

With an appearance akin to that of earthly reptiles, the Reptilians are highly advanced entities but viewed as being of a negative, hostile or dangerous disposition, since they regard humans as a totally inferior race, and as a food livestock: they are carnivorous in regard to humans. The area of the galaxy most densely populated with Reptilian sub-races located in the vast Orion system, as well as the systems in Rigel and Capella, though their forefathers appear to have come to our universe from another separate universe or reality system at some unknown point in antiquity. The Reptilians themselves are not really clear on when they got here, teaching humans and their own masses that they were here in this universe first, holding the title and rights to the earth as their outpost from a time before humans, and as such they are heirs to the earth and its surroundings, and should be considered exalted gods over their human subjects and property, with special rights over human government, education, autonomy, genetics, and even dreams and memories. The Reptilians claim to have conquered many star systems over which they maintain similar "rights", where they also claim to have genetically altered and otherwise manipulated many of the life forms they have encountered as a matter of routine, even creating and perfecting the earliest primate forms of human life itself from out of protoplasmic chaos, though admitting that their work was tampered with by dozens of other alien races to produce the modern "debased" and "inferior" form that human life has taken (while also claiming the "right" to "repair" and "correct" the damage through further manipulation of humans through monstrous breeding programs, genetic manipulation, surgical and mutating energy procedures, as well as through brainwashing and re-education, psycho-social re-engineering, instinctual/behavioral/personality reprogramming, and mystic/spiritual works and ministry.)

The Reptilians have little regard for history or truth, maintaining that reality is what they make of it, accepting the deceptions of their rulers without question as being works of magick capable of altering the universe into new, "higher" parallel time/space dimensions beneficial to the interests of their species; little of what a Reptilian says can be trusted, and everything they say has been manipulated in favor of their own interests at the listener's expense. The philosophical mindset of the majority of Reptilians is toward subjugation, manipulation, and enslavement of weaker beings, and this belief system is promoted at birth in the Reptilian races, wherein after giving birth the offspring are abandoned to fend for themselves. If they survive they are cared for by an elite class that uses these children for games of combat and other such amusements.

The Reptilians are credited with scientific and magickal advancements that seem nearly miraculous to human witnesses, including incredible scientific achievements and the mastery of Mythos magick, and especially a talent for convincingly disguising themselves as humans, albeit with rubbery faces. They also appear to be masters of genetic manipulation, as well as the manipulation of human minds through the use of ray technologies, magick, and manipulation of dreams and spirituality via the [[Astral Plane]]; Reptilians have thus become firmly embedded in human governments and militaries, through which they can directly manipulate their subjects through physical and social force, as well as in entertainment and religious and spiritual structures and organizations through which they can manipulate their victim's very beliefs and perceptions of reality. The Reptilians have thus held positions of terrible power and influence over humanity through elaborate and ancient cults operating virtually uninterrupted since the dawn of human civilization. Through these infiltrations, the Reptilians do not act alone - they have allegedly worked out terrible and treacherous bargains with [[Grey Alien]]s and depraved [[Human Cultist]]s in governments, religious structures, and magickal lodges who serve the Reptilians to achieve mutual goals against the human population of Earth.

UFO conspiracy theories maintain that a hollow, guided comet or asteroid, filled with an invasion force of millions of hibernating Reptilians, approaches earth from their home in the Orion system, which they have abandoned after exhausting that system of resources and poisoning it with their addiction to dark works of science, alchemy and magick which have allowed unspeakable horrors to infest the system, and left the [[Astral Plane]] surrounding the system in a state of toxic ruin. The arrival of this comet in the solar system has been repeatedly rescheduled for centuries, last slated for 2012, with delays caused by the unpredictable nature of the "conjunction" of the Orion System with ours that would allow the comet to make the "jump" to our world when "the stars are right", due in part to corresponding failures of the Reptilians' human collaborators in completing the magickal workings required to complete the conjunction.

== Scrags ==
[[File:Quake scrag.png|thumb|200px|right|Anatomy of a Scrag wizard from ''[[Quake]]'']]
In [[Quake]], a Scrag wizard or Shade is a kind of grotesquely mutated, floating humanoid creature resembling a white serpent with a humanoid torso, a head which merges indistinctly with its shoulders, and vestigial arms reduced to clawed stumps and legs devolved into a serpentine tail, their skin is translucent and rubbery, resembling that of a slug or snail, while their yellowed eyes burn with rage and horror at the cruel fate of their long-lived existence. These revolting horrors are said to be the result of mystical and biological experimentation by [[Shub-Niggurath]]. As such, they are ubiquitous throughout Shub-Niggurath's realms.

Scrags are masters of evil magic, and most scrags are capable of a languid, graceful levitation, often possess the power to project of small yellowish green globs of life-draining magical energy at their opponents, and are frequently skilled in the monstrous arts of necromancy and monstrous transformations of living flesh. Some Scrags commanded positions of power during the [[Quake Wars]], while others seem to have served [[Shub-Niggurath]] in a support capacity comparable to specialists and spies.

Scrags are a hideously ancient and wise race, possessing cunning beyond the lofty standard set by the other monsters in Quake; they are stealthy creatures which hide in the shadows high above the ground in their bizarre, secret Library-city of [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]] in the [[Hollow Earth|Inner World]], said to be a place of darkness beneath the earth to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from light. Thanks to their powers of levitation, teleportation, and invisibility, Scrags typically remain unseen by those unfortunate visitors who find their way to [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]], the Scrag cultists silently watching from above until they choose to give themselves away with the sibilant warnings of their sentries to their fellows of the presence of unwanted guests, or the hissed [[Aklo]] curses of the magical spells they have been known to cast upon intrusive meddlers in their secret world.

==Historic Serpent Cults and Mythology==
The Theosophists alluded to the Exalted "Naacal" - or Nagas - as a serpent-like ruling class on the island of [[Lemuria]] before the dawn of humanity, possibly originating from [[Venus]], acting as a guiding hand for humanity by leading occult lodges and teaching the ways of civilization, mysticism, and magic to humans.

Serpent Cults (see [[Cult of Yig]]) are a wide-spread phenomenon across the world, being perhaps a primordial part of human culture. In addition to the Nagas of Theosophy (which are, perhaps, derived from the East Asian Naga myth of an exalted, serpentine elite class that ruled the world in ancient times, influenced by Mayan serpent cult elements), serpent cults have appeared throughout African, pre-Columbian North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, where some of the more common themes seem to be that the Serpent People came to Earth from a "heavenly water", the stars, the [[Hollow Earth]], or from the deathly abysses or Dreamlands of the [[Astral Plane]]; bringing civilization, forbidden knowledge, technological advancement, spiritual enlightenment, and knowledge of magick with them to give to man; leading, guiding, or ruling primordial human/proto-human civilization from positions of exalted (and possibly malevolent or abusive) power; holding some antagonistic relationship with the elements of weather and natural disaster such as the power to command them and eventually being destroyed by them; enjoying eternal (or extremely long) lives and shape-shifting powers represented by or accompanied by the ability to shed their old skins; interbreeding with their subjects to produce an elite and hybrid ruling class that would fill the ranks of kings and queens and other rules of all kinds throughout human history; and represented with liminal symbology representing an ability to cross with relative ease between the worlds of the living and the world of the dead (the mystic [[Other Side]] or a literal [[Hollow Earth|Underworld]]).

==See also==
[[File:Dreamscape serpentman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A rogue Dreamer has turned his dream form into a Serpent Man in ''[[Dreamscape (1984 film)]]''....]]
*[[Kull]]
*[[Set]]
*[[Worms of the Earth (Race)]]
*[[Lemurian]]s
*"[[Frazetta Man]]" (for the sorts of proto-human peoples ruled by the Serpent People)
*[[Yig]]
*[[Thurian Age]]
*[[Valusia]]
*[[Lemuria]]
*[[Mu]]
*[[Atlantis]]
*[[Naacal]] for the language of lost Lemuria and the Nagas
*[[Naacal Tablets]] for one of the more well-known documentations of Lemurian and Naacal history

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Seven Geases]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[Ubbo-Sathla (story)|Ubbo-Sathla]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[The Double Shadow]]"
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Nameless City]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & [[Zealia Bishop]] - "[[The Curse of Yig]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop - "[[The Mound]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
* [[Karl Edward Wagner]] - ''[[Legion from the Shadows]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan of Aquilonia]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan the Buccaneer]]''
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]"
* Lin Carter - ''[[Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria]]''
* Lin Carter - "[[The Vengeance of Yig]]"
* Scott David Aniolowski - "[[Where a God Shall Tread]]"
* Robert E. Howard - "[[Worms of the Earth]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"
* sourcebook: ''[[Malleus Monstrorum]]''

===Role-playing games===
* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios|List of Call of Cthulhu Serpent Men scenarios]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]
* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"

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[[Category:HollowEarth]]

Keith Herber

2021-11-25T01:17:17Z

Travern:

A musician and writer, Keith was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1949. He first discovered [[H.P. Lovecraft]] via a Ray Bradbury story, "Pillar of Fire," in the early 1960s. Intrigued by an author Bradbury chose to compare to [[Edgar Allan Poe|Poe]], Keith sought out Lovecraft at the local library and read all three of the [[Arkham House]] collections front to back. Lovecraft became his favorite author of horror.

Almost thirty when his family and friends discovered Dungeons & Dragons and a new "hobby" called role playing, he immediately snatched up a copy of Call of Cthulhu when it first showed up on the shelves of his local game store. One trip through the original "The Haunting" scenario and he was hooked.

He made his first submission to [[Chaosium]] in 1983. Over the following years he published nearly fifty scenarios with Chaosium, including the full-length books [[The Fungi from Yuggoth]], [[The Trail of Tsathogghua (Supplement)|Trail of Tsathoggua]], [[Spawn of Azathoth]], [[Arkham Unveiled]], and [[Return to Dunwich]], along with sourcebooks like the original Investigators’ Companions and Keeper’s Compendium. Serving as editor of the line from late 1989 through 1993, he edited and contributed to numerous books, developed the [[Lovecraft Country]] series, and launched the initial line of Cycle fiction.

Fired by Chaosium in 1994 and unable to produce any more CoC material, he freelanced for White Wolf’s World of Darkness, producing, among other things, two novels based on WW’s Vampire game. He later toiled in the cyber mines as an editor for Cinescape magazine.

Keith returned to Call of Cthulhu Gaming in 2008, founding [[Miskatonic River Press]] with [[Tom Lynch]], recruiting a number of writers from Keith's period with Chaosium.

Keith [http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theledger/obituary.aspx?n=keith-herber-doc&pid=125208040 died unexpectedly] due to heart failure on March 13, 2009. He will be missed.

==Alias==
Also known as Herbert Hike.

==Links==
[http://www.miskatonicriverpress.com/about/bio_doc.shtml Bio] at Miskatonic River Press
[[Category:Writers|Herber, Keith]]

Cthulhu Mythos Timeline

2021-11-20T16:10:59Z

Travern: /* 1920s */

==Before the Creation of the Universe==
2 trillion years ago: According to the Eltdown Shards, a [[Yekubians|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)

==Creation of the Universe==
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)

===Earth Forms===
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)

===Imprisonment of the Great Old Ones===
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.

===Beginning of Triassic Period===
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 [[Yekubians|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))

===Era of Cataclysm===
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)

===Ice Age===
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)

==Prehistory==
===Arise of Homo Sapiens===
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)

===[[Thurian Age]]===
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.

===[[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)

===Modern Prehistory===
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.

==Ancient History==
===Bronze Age===
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.

===Iron Age===
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

===Middle Ages===
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.

==Modern Era==
===Early Modern Period===
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)

Nicholas Van Kauran, who possessed a copy of the Book of Eibon, is hanged for witchcraft in Wijtgaart, Netherlands. His grandson William Van Kauran saves the book and later brings it to North America, arriving first in Rensselaerwyck, NY and later settling in Esopus, NY. ("The Man of Stone", Lovecraft)

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 [[Comte d'Erlette|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 Lurker on the Threshold," Lovecraft & Derleth, "The Winfield Inheritance," Carter)

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)

===Late Modern Period===
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)

Squire Hasbrouck of New Paltz, NY, an enemy of the Van Kauran family, is found petrified ("The Man of Stone", Lovecraft)

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))

Bareut Picterse Van Kauran, who possesed the Book of Eibon brought to North America by William Van Kauran, disappears from New Paltz, NY (The Man of Stone, Lovecraft)

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)

===1880s===
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)

August 27, approximately 8:30p.m. a meteor lands near Potowonket, Maine, in which is found embedded a notebook with a (now incomplete) text written in Classical Greek. ("The Green Meadow," Lovecraft and Winnfred V. Jackson)

September 27 Nathaniel Peaslee regains his memory and original personality. Thereafter, Wingate is returned to his custody. ("The Shadow Out of Time," Lovecraft)

===World War One===
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; YEARMONTH???)

===1920s===
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 LAST 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===
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)

===World War Two===
September 3rd Britain and Allies declare war on Germany and allies. World War Two begins

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)

===1990s===
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)

==Present==

==Future==
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)

==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. Also pending - data from author on crediting the original compiler/source. 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]

== Acknowledgments ==
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!

==Inconsistencies from the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana==
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==
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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The Devil's Pass (2013 film)

2020-08-14T19:22:49Z

Travern: /* Associated Mythos Elements */ link to new page on the Dyatlov Pass incident

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==Summary==


To determine what happened to some Russian hikers, five U.S. college students go back to where the hikers were found dead. The students don't return from the expedition, either, and the recovered footage is deemed too disturbing for public viewing.

==Details==

* Release Date: 2013
* Country/Language: USA/Russia/UK, English and Russian with subtitles
* Genres/Technical: Horror, Science Fiction, Found Footage/"Mockumentary"
* Setting: [[Modern]] [[Dyatlov Pass]], [[Russia]]
* Runtime: 1 hr 40 min
* Starring: Holly Goss, Matt Stokoe, Luke Albright
* Director: Renny Harlin
* Writer: Vikram Weet
* Producer/Production Co: Aldamisa Entertainment, K. JAM Media, Future Films
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfe0E4YEJhg link])
* TVTropes page: ([http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/DevilsPass link])
* IMDB page: ([http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1905040/ link])

==Ratings==
===[http://www.mpaa.org/film-ratings/ MPAA Ratings]===

* Rated: R (Violence, Adult Content)

===Tentacle Ratings===
A rough [[Tentacle Ratings|measure]] of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
* S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)

Not exactly a "Lovecraftian" film in the sense of being based on any of Lovecraft's work or containing references to his creations, though some viewers may find the location and atmosphere suggestive of Lovecraft's work (an "Eldritch Location" film).

''Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.''

===Reviews===

Review Links:
* rebeccavb at VirtualBorderland, ([https://virtualborderland.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/the-dyatlov-pass-incident-2013/ link]) - "If you like the sound of a film which is like a cross between Lovecraft’s ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)]]'' and an episode of the ''[[The X-files (1993 series)]]'', this is probably for you."

==Synopsis==

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To determine what happened to some Russian hikers, five U.S. college students go back to where the hikers were found dead. The students don't return from the expedition, either, and the recovered footage is deemed too disturbing for public viewing.
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==Notes==

===Comments, Trivia, Dedication===


===Associated Mythos Elements===
* Race: [[Dimensional Shambler]]s
* Setting: [[Delta Green]]
* location: [[Dyatlov Pass incident|Dyatlov Pass]]

===Keeper Notes===


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Murders of the Dyatlov Pass (fiction)

2020-08-14T17:06:21Z

Travern: Travern moved page Dyatlov pass to Murders of the Dyatlov Pass (fiction): The contents are a machine translation of portions of a 2000 Russian novel about the Dyatlov Pass Incident, not a reference article about it.

{{Confusing|reason=Confusing?!?!|date=Feb 19, 2017}}

Anna Matveeva

Pass Dyatlova

Tale

Dedicated to nine

A speaker does not know, and knowing is not said.

From the author

The event, referred to in this book, true. More than forty years ago the mysterious deaths of nine tourists shocked Sverdlovsk, while outside the city, few knew about it. Military departments and Party leadership took everything under control. However, this tragedy has not ceased to preoccupy people. Surrounded by secrecy, and now it does not give rest to tourists and those who are far from tourism - relatives of the victims, journalists, soldiers, criminalists have expressed their versions of what happened.

In this book, I wanted to show the history of human eyes in 1959, facing the tragedy of the year 2000 - m. Before me there was no purpose to reveal a terrible secret Dead Mountains - the goal is to you, dear reader, and I just tried to do everything to facilitate that task.

Documents cited in the book are reproduced in the original, sometimes with minor cuts. Modern heroes - fabricated, although there are some prototypes.

People who have personal experience of searching, communicating with the memory of the dead, and their own versions of the documents, bring profound gratitude - their dedication to the friendship and the search for justice shocking - as well as an apology in the event that our views diverge.

For readers who are interested only documented information in the book, ran a special route: Avoid the main font.

Part One

DNEVNOM TO LIGHT AND SOLNECHNOM DNE

In my apartment very cold.

On the domestic thermometer - plus eleven. Imagination is not thick enough bear skins and break even-handed nepropechennye bone near the fire, the flames traveled to glare shiver bearded persons.

Late November, the annual battle for warming started. Until March will raise kicks in a cold morning practice. Côte softly on the window sill and zaprygivaet sees something he apparently-managed one at the window where the air and black kapustny crunching snow.

I do not struggle with cold in my apartment as a reason: there is no point. I would say that we have a mayor-voryuga and cold to me now because it podletsu warmly. I can tell that we are building houses as a strange, but my house altogether new, it only five godkov.

Spasayus artificial warmth of the heater, untold got tea and waiting spring.

I would do everything, just recently, increasingly show me how movie, the same dream. Or this is not a dream, and any thoughts the morning immediately after sleep, which is difficult to distinguish from him ... I see, I clearly and distinctly dense high snowdrifts, black spruce and lean curves Birches were dismissed. Where did something to me flies in the penultimate year of this millennium, whistling fatal, kills the wind and how it is quiet second part - Heavy breathing freezing rights. Snowy chips on red face. Nesgibayuschiesya palms. Closed eyes. Swist wind ...

I am checking the evening, whether well-locked door. At such times, live, which bars and grates - best friends. I quietly dergayu outside door handle, and then - just - look in the eye. "

They face people - but quietly, not shevelyas. A small piece of glass "eye" distorts their faces, but I still see that they are smiling. Two girls and a few men. All in the ski trousers and an old tarpaulins.

-- You to whom? -- ask.

They are silent, and eyes fixed their strange.

I notice skiing, pristavlennye the wall.

Where these people suffered - in the ski trip for such weather? Abnormal.

Côte murchit and low-flying butterflies hovering near my feet. At the venue - empty.

Revealing the door.

Heard polite smell smoke, and snow lies in polshage on my rug.

1.

In the morning, the door started patient with such force that decided to score its nails. I was inside. Ele uspev qualified for hours - polvosmogo, gady! -- I vyprygnula of warm odeyalnogo asylum and ran into the hall.

-- Anya, opening up quick!

This I heard even when it was approaching the door, with the addition: weeping, shouting, and other elements of collective panic, which undoes the initial anger nachisto razbuzhennogo rights.

At the site where the skiers were yesterday, there was my neighbour Ira and with it any more people.

-- Anya, I urgently call - Emil S. died.

Ira vshlipnula and talking faster. From this story, I quickly realized not all - Ira and so conversation in a hurry, and now does.

So far, she called on my phone in the ambulance, police and funeral bureau, I got to the ladder and cage, probravshis soboleznuyuschimi spins between neighbors, Irina came to the apartment.

Her father-in-law Emil S. lying on the floor, pulling it out in straight legs prodrannyh mules on the fingers.

-- Heart - said someone quiet for my back.

To that Emil S. sick is not the first year, I knew. It was altogether a good grandfather, and not very old, as I understand it, went into retirement four years ago. Very loved to read and I have always borrowed books. I gave them willingly, against the habit, in general, do not like it when things to my dotragivayutsya unfamiliar hands. Emil S. was very neat and return books invariably wrapped in a "Literaturku." This podkupalo.

Deceased old man appeared slender and even beautiful - is not what was in life.

Ira Cotton closed the door.

-- An you what, you open it flat!

And, again saw Emile S.:

-- Oh, that the same will now be something?

Irina distress could understand. Father-in-law was the sole support for her and her small son. We lived on his pension and prirabotok, indeed I did not know.

-- Well, nothing - Vava Ira tears - but he died easily.

"What for?" - I thought.

I ongoing aloud:

-- Ira, I am very, very sorry. I can once you help?

Ira said thanks, but no. Yes, and what's now help?

At the exit, I looked back neighbour in the eye.

-- I realize that this is inappropriate, but ... you did not see last night a group of skiers on our site?

Ira silently shook his head and went back to their grief, as in the deep hole.

At the funeral Emil S., I do not hit - urgently raised in Moscow. The focus was on my book, so I skip the meeting could not. In the plane flew over the snow-covered land and presented as lower Emile in a tomb at the Broad River. Next - a monument son Irinomu husband, who was killed on the streets of drunken teenagers. At the snow near the stairwell - spruce twigs.

And when I returned four days later - After everything, because the meeting was unproductive and totally Wing, the novel is publishing in general did not want to take (and could call, dogs, alerting), Iry in the neighboring apartment was not.

-- He left to the mother, in Serov, together with malchishkom - explained Nadezhda G. ninety-fifth of the apartments. -- She said that the apartment that will sit. I do not know, An, who will come here to live - not as afraid, and so they left the furniture and carpet ...

Cover and furniture from Iry simply no, but Hope G. lives worse, and it did not compare with what.

I have Iry cold in the apartment in the same way as I have. But in fact it from someone else and the child!

I turned away from Hope Georgievny to finally open its door, but the old woman said:

-- Anya, go-ka me.

Directly with bags and road dust - but polite! -- obsharpannuyu came in the ninety-fifth. Senile terrible smell - along drugs, old leather, a poor, nesytnaya food, wool socks, which went more than one day.

Hope G. Guba have nonetheless dyed.

Extended a dense folder nabituyu pleadings, and two large voids envelope carton coloured prorvannyh on edge.

-- This Hyrka told you transmit. Emil S. sitting with all these piece of paper and said that he needed to consult with Anna - because she writer, but hesitate. And now, Hyrka said, the only paper to ditch, and you - suddenly sgodyatsya.

2.

I came in the final vystuzhennuyu apartment. Kotishka with terrible speed flew me to meet so that the claws zaskolzili on parquet.

-- Kormit you do not forget, Schumi? -- I threw folders and envelopes Emile chair and went into the kitchen to put kettle.

For razdalsya cotton backs and long rustle. Schumacher vsprygnul back chairs, pushing panic ears.

Papers from folders and envelopes covered with a flat floor carpet. The paper, printed on the old machines like "Moscow", a paper written by carbon different handwriting, photocopies of some strange drawings and maps, newspaper clippings, otkserennye so that the middle of the white sheet embarrassing languish tiny tip, photographs coarse quality and thick file pages two hundred (she is so fond upset about sex).

I raised it. Pale gray seal - even a photocopy. I obviously incomplete - many pages is missing. After the eighth immediately twenty-fifth.

BUSINESS № __

criminal cancelled

On the death of tourists

in the area of Mount Otorten

started in 1959

completed in 1959

I guess (and perhaps aptly) uncovered a folder.

The circumstances of the case:

January 23, 1959 amateur group of tourists, comprising 10 people went to the ski trip on the route Ivdel - Mount Otorten. 2 from the site - in the North and the ski trip went 9. 1-th February 1959 Group began its ascent to Mount Otorten evening and broke tent at the height of 1079.

On the night of 2 - e in February unclear circumstances of the deaths occurred 9 - ty people.

Another was in the picture skiers who were standing in front of my door last Friday. Two girls kruglolitsye - brunettes and blond, cheerful guy in the hat, another with eyes eyes (those like me) ... But it took forty years! And even if one assumes that, I came down from the mind and every mereschitsya me, it was not what he, the spirit of me have! I am not a tourist, and not even a fan of nature - I never had to live in a tent, and most importantly, I entire thirty years, I did not know anyone from these tourists. Could Know!

Again (now with the start of) a copy of a criminal case was opened and began to read all the rules:

The Prosecutor's Office

Russian Soviet

Federative Socialist

Republic

Prosecutor of the Sverdlovsk region

State Adviser Justice 3 - Grade

tion. Klinovu N.

(personally)

Vozvraschaju terminated a criminal case of the death of Dyatlova tourists and others.

Annex: 1. Case 1 in volume.

2. Albom.

3. ZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZHZH

Zam. Attorney RSFSR

The state adviser of justice

3rd Class

(Urakov)

There was an inscription from the same hands, spit, as a proud writers usually sign their books:

t. Rogovoy YI

At the direction of the NI Klinova please keep in a secret archive,

package store in the village / s production.

11/VII 59 d.

Still, I decided to drink tea. Eventually, these strange folders and paper from me is not lost. Moreover, I just had to think about what is this strange phenomena such occur with me. Previously helped to think of cigarettes, and now - finally threw smoke, so stayed only tea.

And then very unusual thing to happen. In my head started spinning six figures. As the song: eight - five - one - four - nine - two. I am already tired to think these figures, they are circling in the head: eight - five - one - four - nine - two.

The figures were quite different - no not recur in combination.

Index?

Cod?

Mystical mystery?

It is time to be treated? ..

Phone rang.

Phone!

I took the tube - wrong number. Evgenia Ivanovna asked.

Then I thought: eight - this is recreation, there can be no such numbers ...

Won anyway, and joyous infantile voice answered:

-- Congratulations, you are the first to Supernatural Radio La-flat "!

-- First - mechanically, I corrected. -- And what now? Why am I up to you dozvonilas? ..

-- You won in our competition and must now accessible for the staggering prize!

Here in the tube something zashipelo, wild cries were heard.

-- I am somehow not want to participate in your contest.

Infantile voice laughed with apparent distrust.

-- Record address!

I humbly took a pen. Refleksiruyuschy intellectual, the very opposite.

3.

When I do not write a long time, I have developed the strongest verbal toxaemia. Slow prokisayut inside me, like untapped in the breast-milk feed. I am sick and start to wander successful, I think, expressions. Toxaemia disappears immediately after I get access to a computer, notebook, at the worst end - to someone whose ears (though in that case the world literature nedoschitaetsya my findings, I lose interest in what is discussed). Now toxaemia promised to take - little of what Moscow is not all alike, and even at home now: hallucinations, strange instruments, and now some prize stupid!

Well, at least this radio station broadcasting from the neighboring streets - maybe not bad walk, while cold - dog .... Schumacher clearly predicted skvernuyu weather - fluffy krendelem seized on the couch and hid in the nose feet.

Sometimes I regret not born cat. You can sleep sixty percent of life, and in their spare time insane.

By the way, people who do not like cats, if not always bad, then, at least, not those with whom face talk. This, I checked on personal experience. But from the remarkable men always have a cat or a cat. Also tested.

I potrepala Schumacher grivke and went on to dress.

Outdoor was warmer than in my apartment. Nonetheless, cold air willingly climbed into my sleeves and under the collar, and the frozen snow hit in the face, as if small cocrowbar metro.

Cold, I did not have time.

-- On the radio "La bekar". Won a prize - I briefly reported sedobrovomu guard, dealing with curiosity pokrasnevshy my nose.

-- Female - mildly guard me, "- the radio called" La flat. " Bekar - a different matter, that means an increase of fännidele abolished.

Stressed me something to krohotulnoy bumazhechke komsomolski and pointed to the elevator.

-- Do not forget to sign the badge!

Lift drove me, skrezhescha bars and podvyvaya mechanisms. The building was very old and under to become elevator, with inscriptions in both languages - Russian and German, probably, the Germans captured so fun. Lift will be in German - "ezdyaschy chair".

Why is the "chair" if it worth? ..

White door, which were densely bloom caudal vote has been closed to the special security lock. Naturally, I did not know about the code - I told him no. I sighed and pulled the handle. Silence.

-- They have lunch - said someone very quietly and застенчиво. Right at some prewar stool sat slender girl similar to the clever Fox.

-- Light - she explained. -- I was called to receive a prize, although I simply mistaken number. Call not to them, but Mom. I otpinyvalas, but it is all such nastyrnye!

-- For me the same story. -- Light watched carefully, and I spohvatilas:

-- Anya. I write books.

Light smiled and became more like a Fox.

-- I just looked for a writer to ...

Tut zasmuschalas it, and I saw it as if thinking: "because I really do not know!"

-- What do you have? -- politely, I switched. The light was from those who just want to say 'you'. Such people are few. Basically, I found their opposites who insist on a more informal treatment. And it gives me hard - it is with them. I have a very long sryvayus to "you", and contrast feeling unloved.

-- I am. -- she said. -- At istfake. But mainly my life is not there. I am fond of tourism.

We had to make a difficult person. I was afraid of life tourists. First, I do not understand where they are taking so much effort to go under the load of heavy backpacks at the unimaginable distances, secondly, I do not know why they wanted: a much nicer lie under the blanket with the carnet, a cat and a bottle of red dry. Most importantly, I feel badly as a razor on the finger that tourists will not understand me, too, with my lazy way of life. Will pereglyadyvatsya and spirit.

Because my father - superturist, head of the expedition, hunter and fisherman with decades of experience. And so, he took me in childhood with them to the forest. I humbly took place two hundred meters and then sat in the grass and shouting:

-- Home! Shit!

Why treated recently, it was not, but my mom said that the word is not taught me. Pope terribly offended.

I am usazhivali at penek book and gave the Assumption of guaranteeing men. I have once tolerated.

After three such trips, Pope washed your hands and refused to communicate with me forest. That's urbanoidom I grew up.

Now narvalas at present tourists, but it is still looking for a writer ...

-- A light, and why you a writer? -- I moved into conversation again, and already the tank.

Light cast, corrected shooting and said:

-- Forty years ago in the northern Urals died tourist group. Dyatlova Group. Nine persons.

Tut door with a coded lock opened, and we saw in the opening smile.

-- Hello, hello! -- said smiling. The door opened wider, and there right in front of us a high figure uniseksualnogo warehouse. Light also smiled once exposed, and the figure (I honestly could not determine its sex) deployed in the Cabinet and pathetically exclaimed:

-- Gains our awardees!

Radiytsy zashumeli and Light quietly told me:

-- Apparently, they very much no one ringing. It was good that we responded, and then once a pity them. Still, I believe that working people.

We solemnly held in a room and figure (I said it lighter, almost beautiful belts and ears that are similar to the red smorschennostyu segments dried apples - probably, a figure slightly molodilas) plesnula two generous portions of a glass of cognac.

-- I am behind the wheel, sorry - softly said Light.

-- Ou! -- pleased with the figure and fired drank brandy. I drink prigubila: still hoping to work today.

Then we taught two plastic bag with the logo "La bemolya." In my proved kepochka, pens and two CD-ROM with terrible erysipelas on the covers. What was with Amy, I do not know, but it showed his pleasure in every way.

-- Thank you very much! -- sincerely thanked us, moving towards the door. Figure shouted after us:

-- We hope that you will become our regular listeners!

-- We have not signed the same badge! -- remember Light already on the stairs. -- It is necessary to return, so uncomfortable once.

-- Let's try to break so. -- I strongly moved to a friend a lift.

The guard smiled broadly:

-- Ilya Petrovich warned that you are now exit. He said that you have forgotten to sign passes ...

-- Ilya Petrovich, perhaps, is what the strange figure - I said.

Light surprised:

-- I thought: it - a woman.

We laughed, and I thought that we were familiar with it long ago. Although, frankly, I did not make friends with women: I had a life in case of selective maiden fidelity. Podruga beautifully, as in chess etude Nezhmetdinova Rashid, took my husband. I only had time to cry out following: e-two, e-four, and that more resembled a shriek: tvoju mother! After that I zavyazala and one sex, and others. Schumacher - my only friend and ally.

Light prigotovilas say anything-polite gesture, I read that it was nice to lichike Fox. Apparently changed because uslyshalos completely different:

-- Sadis, I lift you.

I sat in the green "G" and Light neatly left on the street.

After two minutes we were at my house.

-- Zaydesh? -- I asked hesitantly: it is also frightening stranger rights - and immediately to their homes. My ex-husband would be killed just for that. Fine kills his now-my girlfriend, earned.

-- Yes - said Sveta - pick. Suddenly you and the truth is the man who I want. Who will write the truth. All have been.

4.

As I opened the door key under the tender fantastic murkane Schumacher, a neighbouring apartment door, and at the site of a clumsily Hope Georgievna. She smiled, and it became evident red lipstick on the teeth, which attached the old sinister look.

-- The city goes rotovirusnaya terrible disease - instead greetings G. Hope said. All the terrible news immediately raised her spirits, especially peak which can be achieved by sharing information with others. -- Intestinal flu! Beware, girls! In clinics city received four million people.

From her apartment sounded muted echo of television.

-- Thanks, that warned - I said, and Light also nodded in appreciation.

Light did not say a word about my apartment vystuzhayuschy cold and Schumacher immediately Hosfeld its hands on until I brewed coffee. Turned and replied. Schumacher - fine psychologist, so I finally consciousness. The light can be trusted, it would not tefalyu beat me on the head, and then trudge to the apartment in search of non-existent wealth. My styly corpse in the dark spots and neck until zadrannoy skirts not show in the evening news, which I love to watch.

-- Good! -- I said aloud.

Light looked at me in surprise.

-- Messaging - beginning, I - you can not get it that dream and reality do not differ from one another? As if dreams come alive or real events like a dream?

Light silent. Gladila Schumacher on the backrest.

-- For more than a week, I dream the same dream. I can no pereskazat him, because the talk ... well, almost nor with whom I, frankly, and not communicate.

-- What is a dream? -- quickly asked Light.

-- northern cold night in January or February. Sickly birch, black trees, low mountains and wide. Stone piles such, I do not remember, as they are called ...

-- Ostantsy - said Light.

-- Exactly! Then - tent set the mountainside. Cedar - high and powerful.

-- A people? People there, in your dreams?

-- Several people. They crawl on the prickly snowdrifts, their beats wind and snow. People breathe hard, but trying to move on. Then they died, and then I wake up.

Light said:

-- Or do you mean, and someone told you everything, or is it a miracle!

I am offended. Already by whom, but I do not vruney was.

-- No excuse, please - asked Light - is your dream remarkably like what was in reality. I started to tell you more on the radio - remember the dead dyatlovtsy? Maybe, just someone very wants you saw, it is this dream?

We pritihli, and at that time Schumacher grabbed claws Svete in the palm. She kissed and pressed his hand to her lips.

-- Schumi! -- I was in rabies. Kotishka meantime, the bird flew already sill, and began to wear on the back and forth: Hope G. withdrew its bolonku walk, and Schumacher is felt.

-- Hunter unfinished - I looked at the Sveti forgiven, but it has somehow avoided my glance.

I took in the locker zelenku and came closer.

-- Ann, what do you think of his pro dream?

I made ODw hand to the heart, but then traced Svetin view: she saw documents Emile!

-- I did not have to tell!

Light watched distrust.

-- Following these dreams to happen with me and did an incredible story. They came to my house. But skiers. They looked at me, and then there was snow on the court.

Light already viewed as something alarming.

-- I realize that this sounds abnormal, but they want something from me. And on another morning, as they came, my neighbor died Emil S..

-- Emil S. Katz? -- peresprosila Light.

-- Yes, and you knew it?

-- He studied one course with Igor Dyatlovym. Tried to investigate the reasons for their own deaths. Zagremel in prison - perhaps that why. All thought he hobby with the case.

-- His невестка gave me the documents. She said that he spent with them at all times. And there were pictures, and I learned those skiers. Then this meeting with you ...

-- You do not specifically come to the station? -- Light asked suspiciously.

-- How can I know that you oshibeshsya number? -- I have already tired of excuses.

-- You can look at the documents? -- asked Light.

-- Of course.

She took it as a pilot, began load pages Fugitive fingers, as if the paper has played harp.

-- He had interesting things. If you give me this copy paper, I will give you what nazbierałaś itself. Already ten years, I collect - for crumbs - all that is connected with dyatlovskim affair. Documents. Testimony search engines. Memoirs parents. Photo Archives. During those ten years, I have become closer dyatlovtsy most expensive home, and I know about each vse.Ya do not know only one thing: what did happen on a mountain pass-Syahyl Holat,

(Otorten? - vaguely curved me, but I Jugha.)

at the pass, which now bears the name of Igor Dyatlova and his team? .. The more time passes, the greater is born versions. Check the person who will write a book about it - maybe there reader, which opens truth. If you, Anya, to speak the truth - but for some reason, I think, that you did not mean - mean ... this person - you.

-- I am now a general working on the novel of the school of love ... -- guilty, I said. How to explain Swete that is a novel, I spent two months in the teaching of literature in high school nearby to my own home school? I heroes of this novel are stuck in stationary in posture as I left them at nedopisannom before the end of a piece of paper ... -- Maybe later? I find it interesting, but now I can not.

Light smiled.

-- The children waited forty years, I - ten. Do not tolerate another six months? Write a novel, then for our primeshsya.

-- Nash? -- jealously I asked. -- that we will write together?

-- No, of course - she still smiled.

-- How do I know that the whole story - not a dream? -- I asked.

Light razodrannuyu Schumacher showed me his hand.

The next day brought me Light red cloth bag with the inscription Marlboro, which rested on plastic and paper folders in cardboard boxes with photographs and other images in black proyavochnyh "envelopes, small note pads, video and audio tapes.

-- The main thing is not violating the order. In each envelope are placed as needed. Nachinaj to study quietly.

Light went (at the half-year, I thought), and I breathed a sigh relief, put a bag in the hallway, putting there Emile paper, and the village is finally over naskuchavshiysya my fingers on the computer.

Schumacher formed near the monitor and immediately replied, solicitor quiet rustle keys.

5.

Long and hard, I looked in the tender Blue glad monitor, typing the same words that much… me from the inside. Three pages horses easily, as if they dictated to me. Clearly, clearly, as the children are in school.

I raised a hand up to a little rest, and looked out the window. Then - again on the screen. Something attracted my attention, and I came back to the first pages of written today.

Reread, as usual, with disgust to itself.

Poor, a little better, almost good ... Stop, and this is from where?

The text has reached a certain Igor - strong, with the eyes and the eyes Wide-mouthed. Igor, it was written, "looked at it carefully, as if waiting for something."

I looked at dryhnuschego without rear paw Schumacher and then again on the monitor.

Honest to God, no, I do not Igor puzzles, in my story, and so has nothing to breathe a huge number of characters!

Tried to write on, but forgot about it is a strange occurrence. Just allocated this piece and click delete. He made five more pages, молодец, and now you can drink tea.

At the kitchen went along with Schumacher, he tersya beautiful vosmerkami around my legs, as if to infinity raspisyvalsya their hunger. We had to give loyal bridesmaid piece of boiled meat, which I had planned to eat for dinner.

Will be considerably!

With a mug of tea in his hand, now without Schumacher (he ran with the donation of meat on the kitchen, making it simple wall applications, and then their legs and skoryabyval podbrasyval up like Michael Jordan in the best years), I returned to a computer monitor which floated beautifully colored fish.

Enter a new piece and reread. The heroine was finally handed to merge with the hero in the vicious and painful passion.

Instead, I read a paragraph about certain detailed Zine and People. "Zina - mentioned in the snippet - fairly large bolshuschimi brunettes with brown eyes and thin people, similar to the clever Fox."

Comparison really was my, but for the rest I had nothing to do with!

I pripala to the computer and whatever ponyuhala it.

Odor was absolutely calm, my email friend and did not think overheated.

"Same peregrelas…" - sad, I thought.

If still left with the mind, read to the end ... I passed on the previous text: it is so, a piece of Igor was again at the same place ...

I read further. Zina People and strong, athletic, well-developed girls. Student UPI. Ural Polytechnic, which is now the Ural State Technical University. Zina and Kolmogorov People Dubinin.

Here in the small gap, and just below the left:

Please!

As if from the one who wrote the text, most ended forces, and he stopped abruptly, barely uspev say is most important. Printer quietly sighed, and lit a green light, slowly, as if the delicate sewing machine, began to print the last page. The text that I wrote is not, the machine had allocated italics.

I have certainly realized, what's wrong. Closed the file on all the rules and went to the corridor, the red bag of rlbor Ma. In it, and demonstrating razvalivshis fluffy ispod, Elder Schumacher. I carefully took him into custody in the stomach and perelozhila chair. He is not even eye razzhmuril, continued to sleep. I opened the plastic bag and lightning at the beginning of the paper to read all row directly in the corridor, sitting on the mat.

6.

Very soon I began clearing circumstances incident, which happened forty years ago. Untold numbers were presented in writing and orally (by record) their opinions, facts, memories, the bag was generally kup newspapers and photocopies, and even two books. The first was old and was called "Higher categories of difficulties", the second, visibly younger, has been named "Price gostayny - nine lives." I have read both for the two and a half hours.

"Higher categories difficulties" was the novel - and talked about the appearance: blue cover with the fire and mountains. Author: J. Yarovoy. A former journalist "Nasmenki." Novel was quite boring, but from the first page, it became clear why it was written. History did not give the author dyatlovtsev rest. And he paraphrase it, it was at that time: encrypting your names, place names and the event itself beyond recognition.

Gleb Sosnowski, the protagonist - well Igor Dyatlov. U Yarovogo only he died in the terrible snowmobile, the others managed to escape in an abandoned hut geologists.

Kolomiytseva = Kolmogorov, Vasenina = Dubinin, Postyr = Zolotarev, I have become familiar to differentiate characters in other people's images.

Another book, most brand new in appearance, and even with the smell of typeface serenkih pages look not so romantic. Author named Gushchin. It appears that the journalist. Book it was a very wise compiled newsprint article, which detailed the events of four decades ago, and that was after. Mr. Gushchin introduced several versions of the deaths of the boys, one of them looked quite convincing.

In the book were also illustrate the coarse quality, but I can already discern some people even in this picture ...

Along with bags and I plyuhnulas Schumacher on the sofa and took in the hands of a notebook.

So that I know ... I started to write fast handwriting, reducing words to me only known ways.

In late January 1959, that is, six years after Stalin's death and fourteen after the Second World War, a group of students from UPI went to the regular ski trip when the highest category of difficulty.

Indeed students in a group were five - Dyatlov, Kolevatov, Slobodin and girls. Yuri Doroshenko, George and Nicholas Theobald Krivonischenko-Brinol were already graduates, ie engineers, and the most senior party general Alexander Zolotaryov Kourovskoy worked as an instructor at the hostel.

(Notably, in the first trip went ten people, but Yuri Yudina radiculitis happened, and so he went home from 2 - First Northern village.)

I wrote his name in large, and even then shaped eyes.

At first all went according to plan. Igor Dyatlova Panel (the same, with eyes eyes) left the train at Sverdlovsk in Serov, then - in Ivdel, then in Vizhay, and finally, in the person of City cart away their belongings into 2 - North and the village, the boys themselves were on foot .. . There, in the settlement, they finally embarked on skis and went on the trip to his Otortenu, grief at the North Urals, which was the main objective of the route.

On the night of 1 to February 2, 1959 decided to establish a tent Dyatlov the mountainside with trudnoproiznosimym name Holat-Syahyl (translated means "Gore Dead"). The team is situated for the night.

Next - only speculation, the search, fear and complete unknown.

A long time in Sverdlovsk waited reports that the group returned to Dyatlova Vizhay. Not waiting. Started searches. And after twenty-five days after the incident on the slope of Mt tent found dead, cut with a knife, and in the distance - the dead body. Two were lying under a huge cedar, three froze as if on the way from cedar to the tent. From tents - traces of human conversation, but near the cedar - "traces of human activity", ie, fireplace.

Traces of violent death was not initially detected.

That record I made in my first notebook. Then drew on nine pages of horizontal strips, and the top nine wrote me already familiar names. Now you can be personal files. But it is tomorrow, and while I took a shower and lay in bed, swooped with another cardboard folder, this time from emilevskih. Another inscription: Case ... quick.

Nothing podshito there has been - in a folder lying thin notebook with a color cover: almost green, no longer white, pink barely ... These were diaries tourist groups and plans hikes. 1955-1957 years, the trip to the Caucasus, the southern Urals, Chortovo (these were the requirements pravopisatelnye) hillfort ... Attendance groups, in a specially written razlinovannoy table changed, but the names of the two met me everywhere: I. Dyatlov (mostly mentioned as a superior group), and Z. Kolmogorov (nurse, Building Superintendent). Twice met Tibo and surname (the non Brinol).

Schumacher podpolz me on the belly, smelt unfamiliar smell of old ink (both smelled of mother otlichnichih notebooks, which have shaken before my grandmother "troechnym" nose).

I embraced cat, and we started to read together.

8. Diary

10/II - 57 d.

The last day of the session. Some even sit exams, while others are engaged in skiing, store film, podgonyayut equipment. After all, today we suffer night train to distant edge!

Tout Record interrupted something stopped author. Actually, I managed to get an indication hikes tourists usually take turns diaries, and did so without much hunting. Immediately visible female letter - not only weak pencil pressure, it gives itself, but also detailed descriptions, quotes from the dialogues, "he said, it looked", and so on ... Men spend pity popustu words: they are mostly reluctant reported at a point where the team is, what are the weather conditions and the attractiveness of the surrounding landscape.

In anticipation of electric danced, sang, jumped, ate candy. Tips from one working in the apartment, witnessed an alcoholic grief and joy rights. Do Sverdlovsk drove in two bullying, the entire trip was accompanied by various adventures, interesting accidents, such as from Volodya polomalos binding, pending before repairing, girls composed motive for vagrants: "The accident-a-a-a ..."

Similarly, had the song from the Indian film with Raj Kapurom "Tramp." The song was called "Abaraya." Mama told me even some chastushki those years:

Raj Kapoor, Raj Kapoor,

Look at these new procedures:

Even my grandmother

Both sings "Abaraya."

And this record, about the accident - apparently the women's hands.

Another notebook - detailed itinerary for days, the goals and objectives hike (apparently required sports), the detailed lists of equipment. Tut same - kartoshemy ways and drawings, as far as I can understand some stoves, estimates "in the column" and ink drawn. Who painted them? Maybe Dyatlov? ..

All this took place two years before the terrible loss of his team…

He opened the overall notebook in kleenchatoy cover. Pencil inscription at the turn:

Diary of a hike on the Caucasus

(- 1957)

First, the girls delight in the detail raspisyvayut road and train their expectations of a hike. Then there razmashisty handwriting:

26 1957 g.

Strange weather, however, may be normal for these places: the unbearable heat during the day, a rather cold night. Steppe, endless steppe. Historical places fighting in the Second World War. At one polustankov - a monument to the fallen-gun artillery.

Soon Stalingrad. There are recalls last war. Preserved craters from shells sister monuments, graves. Big beautiful station built in heroic style. At the entrance - sculptures of soldiers, sailors - the defenders of Stalingrad. That's Volga. The train passes in the side of the river, only occasionally showing her sky blue surface. Volga-Don canal navigable Lenin. At the entrance - a huge sculpture of Stalin. The train goes along the canal. Several whites, new towns, apparently their residents - working channel. A range of dry steppe. The railway, probably, the most fertile, udobrennoe place, and along with her success growing pumpkins, watermelons, so much so, ripe. And so without end. Specific not impressed. Zarnitsi bright flare, as they are seen on hundreds of kilometres.

Dyatlov I.

Caucasian diary was the detailed, but I razmashistyh records Dyatlova more it is not met, probably as Chief, he had the right to get off of this work. But it willingly, and many other participants hike write:

Vstali question, or not keep anyone here storozhit things. Kohl, and Slavka, and Paschke strenuously nasedali Igor, saying that all stolen, not to leave anyone. Igor firmly said no initially, but after the second offensive guys, he got up and, like Napoleon, thought long and calmly made: "Will Kohl and you, Eugene." For me it was a surprise because I did not izyavlyal desire to stay and wanted to return.

Immediately behind these notes followed by a long, detailed record of 7 pages, made understandable, clear handwriting. I immediately drew attention to it, and then saw that the handwriting is fairly common in this diary and the owner of (no doubt, "owner of") tells about his impressions with pleasure, she liked to write.

1 1957 year

Hello!

Yes, indeed, a good day.

In various parts of the Soviet Union run on that day, who for the first time with her parents and who has not the first time that the school, how many meetings, joy, handshakes, Dates, vzvizgivany and meeting with other things happening 1 - September. Maybe today, and we in UPI, a few thousand km away from the sports club met our friends hiking and share their impressions of years held someone at the Refugee Sayan, someone in the Urals, but all happy and jolly, fleeing to sports. True, there should be little, in practice many, many, and hikes.

Hello! On that day, everyone, old and young, everyone remembers about him. How about him not remember! Here we have, 12 people marching on Chegemskomu Valley and unwittingly reminded that today 1 - September e!

Lubberly, but sincerely, with the soul. I perelistnula few pages and read the last paragraph of this listing:

... Krug mountains, the mountains, snow peaks, then ascend higher and higher, and the forest meets beautiful flowers, occasionally raspberries, cranberries in the woods, but moved another creek and stopped at the breather. The place is very, very beautiful, island, the terms of the water and mountains, the weather became Otherwise, the rain comes. It is already burning fire, and our tourist preparing dinner, and so every day - all new and opens a new, mountains and velichavy so great that people think of them giant, though at the same time, he omnipotent. Maybe even forgot anything, but still had enough for today.

With regards Zkolm ...

Ta that wrote these lines - sublime and pure soul - Zina Kolmogorov? Zinochka, beautiful even at current notions of brunettes, in two years, along with other dyatlovtsami tragically killed. In the meantime, they go to the Caucasus, captivated unfamiliar nature and carefully recorded seen in the collective diary ...

Male stranger tries handwriting:

Forest on the right bank Chegema, and the first breather. We find ourselves in this Ural woods: pine forests, birch, willow sometimes. Of the berries - cranberries, blueberries, strawberries. Zina won hands full of mushrooms and on the move trying to rastalkivat in their pockets backpacks guys.

And the girl wrote:

As soon as someone raises a voice of us, irritable or too rapidly responds to the environment, to immediately attributed mountain sickness. Today it is very much evident from Igor. The previous halt it for so long journey for Lily because of the iodine that Lilja regretted that it did not have any means of treatment (such as: drops, ointments, pills, etc.) of mountain sickness.

I have already read and absorbed everything. The Caucasian group acted professionally and were strictly on the route. Give time to laugh and joke.

Especially komichnoy was crossing Zine, which vzgromozdilas on his back Kole and thus, with grimaces on the face, the friendly laughter comrades moved to the other coast. Poor Kolya! It took some work of its own weight 64 kg + yes even the same weight Zine - totalling 128 kg. Hard!

Now dining breather. All is well, except that a duty prigorelo cocoa, which found Igor stack in a big pine hollow at the place of our breather. Pass, we have not gone, and only reached him. We were walking without great adventure, "in the mountains, on the share." Place for lodging chosen fairly well. There is a lot of firewood, which brings climbers here. Now Volodya (duty) blowing in the power and strength of their lungs, contributing to this combustion of firewood. No water is heated by something very slowly, and when tender, and most were unknown.

Towards the end notebook we came Schumi Zinochkinu to another record, I know it is already a diligent otlichnitsy handwriting. Text struck me. Maybe Zina also something predchuvstvovala:

I must say that there is not hot, and we are going to pass. If the pass-Donguz Orunbashi Pass can be called "horse bones, and generally ishachih goad, the Bass Pass Pass can be called" human bones, but unknown, German or Russian, that is, bourgeois or Soviet. At the pass is rather dull twisting trail, and, in general, an easy pass. Widely him with the pass-Azau Chiper, some regretted that did not go through it, but most do, sing songs about the valley and the sea. At the overnight halt on a level site, and the tomb is colliculus, and probably least, who will pass through the 2, museum of the grave. Now all gone for firewood, and I need to go.

I was not alone. Gently closed in the last tutu diary and put it on the floor. Schumacher himself to the chest and fell.

7.

Awakened morning, I found next to their beds, two pairs of slippers. No, with me no one other than a cat, not sleeping, and I have legs only two rather than four ... Short thinking, I remembered that I pomereschilsya night call to the door, I ran back and returned to open in the other mules.

"Schizophrenia progression" - sad, I thought. And then the real razdalsya call: phone. He was not lucky, I took him for his phantom, fiction definitively raspoyasavshegosya my imagination.

After a brief series of silent phone, and then again erupted opposing calls.

-- Hello - I said, got his lips in a black plastic material.

-- You know me so easy to imagine your dream ...

With such a prank tirade conversation can begin only one person (from the well-known to me, of course). Wadyka. My former husband.

-- Vadik what sleep do you mean? How did you know what I dreaming?

-- A further writer - Vadik upset - I read it for your say ... How did you lie, and rolled in the shape of a kalach ...

-- Shut up, please poshlyak - said, I sincerely.

Wadyka delighted energy in my voice.

-- Discover the door, a girl, I have you under the windows. We should talk.

-- Speak now on the phone.

-- Money dropped, at the hundredth part, I make a call.

Money dropped!

I otkinula blanket and angrily went to the door. Schumacher ran a trace behind me and upset that I have not went to the refrigerator.

Vadim has stood on the ladder platform. Huda, long apology. With fake smile and mimosa in hand. Lord, which he dug out her, boleznuyu?

I took iron and mimosa yellow fluffy branches. Schumacher looked at me disapprovingly.

-- Neat, Hakkinen! -- Vadik said excitedly, and Schumi markedly from the mouth of his stupidity. Vadim tried kotishku stroke, but he immediately fled to the kitchen.

I poplelas next to him, razmahivaya mimosa, as a broom.

Vadim joined us.

-- Imagine, Maschka threw me!

Maschka - through the girlfriend, which increased Wadyka a year and a half ago, and all this time, to my calculations, should have been resting on their laurels. Or rather, in the conjugal bed with more than ostyvshim after my weasel Wadyka.

"Well, although the apartment is not taken away" - neromantichno me thinking.

-- quit? -- I voiced my thoughts. -- How is mad passion, passed in the flat warm feeling?

Wadyka bright red because it is these words treated me a year ago.

-- Everything went, and now Maschka shalit with Natashkinym Grishey.

I won at this time in our mouths water - loosely, because zahohotav, podavilas.

-- It just need someone else's - hard-seriously Vadik said.

-- Finally.

-- What finally makes it? -- did not understand the ex-husband.

-- Finally, before you came!

-- Anya - sad Vadik asked - no ulcer. I, and so painful.

-- it is painful, it must be the same. And what should I do? -- I filled pannikin Schumi fresh veal, sliced in thin slices. Wadyka greedily followed my actions. Hungry, I suppose. -- Pozhalet and put you back? Not dared, Vadik! Much that I can do for you - is lunch. And just because there is a wish to herself.

-- even agree on lunch - Al said former husband. In his person was seen that he had hoped for more. I continued to hope. People like Vadik, only to lose hope with life.

-- Well, then sit here and wait - I put zaledenevshy kusman bagrovogo meat in laminated (he tinkled din), and clicked the button easy defrost. Glass zavertelsya obediently circle, but Vadik prigoryunilsya, unlike Schumacher, victoriously vylizyvayuschego fur middle of the kitchen.

-- I need to give themselves up. Perevernesh meat, after propikaet four times.

-- I remember - Vadik was ready to agree to anything. Resigned palm boat until I eliminated the ring with his hands. I humbly setting up of me. Warm ringlets bryaknuli one another. Many of them, we chose together.

-- Warm ring - desirously said Vadik and briefly fingers in fists.

-- Ty, Vadik, such a romantic that I am now sick - disrespectful, I said and went to the bathroom. Loud closed from the inside. I put water which zahlestala immediately as a pump.

Nevertheless, Schumacher zhalobnoe myrkane I heard and put it in the bathroom.

-- And I? -- Vadik asked passionately.

-- Did you go to mimosa Being in the vase!

-- It looks like swearing or bad poetry.

But left.

Schumacher stood on hind paws diluted soap and lace, gathered in bouquets mustache. I withdrew pyjamas and fell into hot water froth.

8.

In door pieces, but I was fatally cold. Schumacher run wolf.

-- Anya, opening!

Vadim? .. I turned to the side and heard a splash of water. Nadeau same! It is still in the bath. Apparently, prigrelas and fell. During that time, and the water is cool, and Schumacher with Vadim nearly rehnulis ...

-- I am not going to open for you, Relax, all right.

I quickly took a shower, umylas cold water bath and left their paradise.

Schumacher, I leaning to the side, rather razduval tiny nostrils: sailed on the flat wonderful smell, which can belong to only one phenomenon: pork chop with apricot and cheese.

Wadyka hastily rented apron and sneakers on the table late marinated pork and domestic Prior made by my mother, bryndza with olives and pine nuts, and finally, two clay cups from which O'Grady venture pairs, which was difficult with something confusion. Grog! Toth most that could be said of us and brought together with Vadim decade ago.

Wine obviously carried under jackets, podlets - my home is not delayed liquor stocks.

-- So what? -- I asked. -- Now, I should melt from grace and grant you a new portion of his confidence? And you will stand embarrass them, and buying men's tears prochertit wet track on zagrubevshey cheek?

-- Not cheek and the skin - says Vadik said. Too me, art editor.

-- Vadik, Vadik! Do not you read these glossy magazines - there is little intelligent people, mostly working blatnye and ungrateful. And these people are not good advice. Even the most wonderful delicatessen (s, its surprise!) And the sweet memories will not force me to change the decision. However, the lunch you prepared myself, so - thanks to the time saved. Let's eat-quick and gudbay, I have a lot of work.

-- Surov you were - Vadik said sarcastically. -- A won, miscommunication, what it пробрало - not such fools, and even in those magazines write. Simply they have in mind normal women and not hit a writer lives.

-- Vadka, I did not hit life, and you ...

I went changed into something more suitable for lunch with grogom parade. Not worth probably be with him such sharp. No matter that the former - all the same because the native people. God! Ten years sleep together, fight because of a better cushion, bringing tea to each other desktop ... Hide gifts in the apartment, comfort, telling stories - just love, and then: Anya, I went because Masha ... Joyful and happy own victory Maschka, its prey smiley next to him and ... Emptiness, cold, the deceased in odnominute phone? Quiet drunkenness, rush into the street, crying, the way to go deserted Tower, not to want more and more, not nearly live ... Read vykurennye pack of cigarettes, not to respond to calls. They say:

-- I would love you even if you were eunuch. Or girlfriend.

And now - he comes, he threw, he prepared dinner, and I must dance kachuchu of happiness.

I heave, as a movie, uncovered shifonera doors. Synchronously with my movement with three ets.dcom fell three shirt.

Help came Schumi. He gently Hosfeld obtains in terebit poganymi and began moving west. To combat it took me quite a long time. Then I chose one of the clothes, her otryahnula shumikovskoy of wool and napyalila, zastegivaya on the fly. Now jeans, and enough of it.

Thinking, I decided hair. Paint will not - Maschka malyuetsya as port prostitute, I will be beneficial to differ ... God, as I think? What is the difference? ..

Wadyka sat at the table, sgorbivshis. In the form of me raspryamil shoulders. I saw that he was on his knees - the stack of sheets.

-- not against you? I took a look.

I obomlela and sugar. He climbed into a red bag and then vyudil Svetinyh one of the folders.

-- Vadik, you forgot: I have always categorically against digging in my things.

-- Beautifully spoken! -- excitedly told me Vadik and returned sheets. -- K-table!

During the meal, we both keep silent, however, we still had the habit. We never complained about the problems with appetite.

After loading a pair of garlic in a good company and gribochkov Macbeth, I have filled the whole matter grogom, who had Vadik heat. I suddenly thought that he eats too slowly. Time pulls, or what?

Wadyka raised his eyes.

-- An, and that the material for you? New book?

-- Well, yes. -- I have not liked to discuss with strangers nenapisannoe people. The exception was only he, Vadik. But now - figulki, it is an irreversible.

-- Tell - and he has asked himself to the pot with grogom.

And I suddenly felt that I wanted to share with him my thoughts, to tell all of this strange situation, which is unclear as reflected in me. Sprouting through thought.

-- You heard about the missing of tourists from UPI? That was in 1959.

-- And what, what? -- Vadik closely watched, and I felt: it is actually interesting.

I have already stated quite confidently facts. In the eyes Vadikovyh melkalo a sort of respect was surprised waist.

-- The group of tourists from the Ural Polytechnic Institute went to the next trip. Kategoriyny - many of the children had to receive the highest category and level. Trip devoted to a congress of the party. At full seriously: Well, you can imagine what there was.

Wadyka nodded, and carried me as Homer.

-- Led collective Igor Dyatlov - an experienced tourist, one hundred times in the complex rarely hikes. However, the whole team under him podobralas become: there was not a beginner or wimps.

-- If you are committed, poplakali be protected ... -- philosophically said Vadik grogom with the club.

-- If you are going to interrupt me ...

Wadyka zamotal head outrage.

-- Seven men and two women - I patiently continued. -- Pravda, in the first trip were to go 11 people, but one no longer even in Sverdlovsk - because of the "tails" on the classroom, and the other, Yury Yudin, descended from the route at the 2 - m North township.

The route, by the way, such a thought: Sverdlovsk - Serov - city Ivdel - Vizhay - 2 village - and North - Mount Otorten - Unya River - River Vishera - Mount Oyka-Chacour - River North Toshemka - Vizhay village - city Ivdel - Sverdlovsk. The length - three hundred kilometers.

So, the Yudina radiculitis happened, and decided to send it back to them with the case was very strict. I read the diaries of previous hikes: if something is wrong with health, party immediately otstranyalsya from further action. However, some said that he had decided to resign, supposedly felt that pulls ...

28 January group began upward movement on the river Lozve, and the number 31 start Auspii rise on the river and tried to break through the pass to the fourth inflow of the river valley Lozvy. However, due to low temperatures and high winds team has been forced to arrange overnight.

On the first day of February in the upper reaches of the river was built Auspii labaz, where tourists have left margin products and superfluous things.

-- Labaz? -- переспросил far from Vadik tourism, and importantly, I pokivala head.

-- For three days Dyatlova group was taking Otorten and then return to the camp in order to continue the route. Therefore reluctant tourists.

I looked at a piece signed by Justice Ivanov junior adviser to check how well I remember the facts and figures. So far all seems to be stated correctly.

-- In three hours of the day began traverse height "1079", which he called a local Mansi-Syahyl Holat. Mansi is translated to as "Mount dead. Alleged the Flood in the time they were killed, nine Mansi.

-- A dyatlovtsev how many were you told?

-- Nine. I am pleased thy observation Vadik. Not quite yet koncheny people.

So that's why they went to Holat-Syahyl - remind you that their main objective was Otorten Mount, but no "1079" in the itinerary was no? Traversiruya slope Dead Mountains, could have been avoided descent to the valley of the fourth Lozvy inflows, ie 5-6 - metre thick snow. It was logical to pass on ridge where malozasnezhenny relief, and save time and effort.

Tourists took the left for a few hundred metres, and instead pass between height "1079" and "880" took to the slopes of Mt dead.

The mountains there, Vadik, judging by the photographs - broad and low, balding - almost no vegetation is not there. True, a scientist, who has a wealth of books about place names Urals, wrote that several times has been at this very Holat-Syahyl and seen on the top of his surprisingly bright forget ...

-- highly symbolic - Vadik said. -- More?

-- More - more. Judging from the photos right on the slope (if exact - in delicious metres from the tops) set camp. Dug a hole in the snow, lay there skiing. To have a tent stood on skis - are doing it. And around the time of ending dyatlovtsev blog entries. They have been and general diary, which they in turn, and almost everyone was personal - fashion of the time.

By the way, if accurately, the blog entries dated to the previous day - that is 31 January. A February 1, that is a day that we are particularly interested in, the guys were preparing newspaper "Evening Otorten" - something like newspaper, there was not only the walls to hang it.

On February 12, was appointed a controlling term when a group of Igor Dyatlova was to inform themselves of Vizhaya in Sverdlovsk. This has not happened.

Frankly, few people worried. Has earlier that the tourists do not withstand designated time frame, so they began to look not at once. I did not even very soon ...

Only 20 February, you can imagine? Four rescue group, consisting of students, went to search for the lost tourists. And while nothing particularly bad was still not thought privleklis to search people and the military. Initially, the search had been unsuccessful, but in the end, to be exact - 26 February, one of the search units found dyatlovtsev tent.

It was surprising that there were things almost all tourists. Two blankets, backpacks, tarpaulin, trousers and even an entire pile of things. Besides, taking the products.

With upwind side tents, exactly where were the head, cut the cloth in two places so that through this slot could climb. Below tents over 500 metres preserved traces leading to the forest in the valley and the fourth Lozvy inflows. Traces of eight - nine. Some went without shoes, which seems strange to me ... Still, in February.

At a distance of fifteen hundred meters from the tents, under a huge cedar, search engines and found remnants of the fire. And then were the first dead bodies ... Near the former fire before lying naked lingerie Krivonischenko and Doroshenko. In delicious metres from the fire - Rustema Slobodina corpse, then - Zine Kolmogorovoy body. Igor Dyatlov polulezhal-polusidel, embracing hands of a small barrel Birches were dismissed. As with Rustikom Zine, as if it were in the same line of cedar to the tent. Zina, by the way, was closest to the tent.

All five died - on the first impression of hypothermia. However, Rustem Slobodin had visible cracks in the skull body length of about six inches, which is dispersed at 0.2 cm.

Searched all around and checking schupami snow,

(Vadik again vzdrognul words of a stranger, confidently delivered my mouth.)

search engines place at the time of the tragedy left, taking with them the dead bodies and tent.

-- Wait-ka, because they were nine! And taking only five - two of the three cedar and then.

-- Here it is. But others were slowly - only the fourth of May! At the bottom of the fire

(I looked again to the text Ivanov.)

in the direction of the valley fourth influx Lozvy under thick snow in 4-4,5 meters found the bodies of Dubinin, Zolotareva, Thibaut-and Brignol Kolevatova. Work to be carried out search squads - it was a hellish work. Proschupyvali every inch, using mine detectors, which, incidentally, was little good ...

I stopped. Wadyka reflectively spit cup in his hand already ostyvshim grogom.

-- And all this?

-- How do you say? From what we know for sure - yes. There is a whole pile of documents, different evidence, research, speculation and imagination. So I try to read them slowly, may find that something new.

-- An, you know, I do not doubt your abilities, but this is not a little thy issue ...

I have already uncovered mouth to tell Vadiku mystical phenomena of the past few days, but woke in time and closed jaw loudly, in the cat's style. Wadyka - not one of those who believes in miracles any more zalomit hands behind me and will take in durku. Of the top, with motives.

Maybe it is time to me the truth there?

Wadyka apparently waited for an explanation, and here is the way the phone ring.

-- Hello? -- I asked the tube a bit more cheerful than should have been.

-- Rada to death? -- I answered the question.

-- Parents, are you the hometown? Hello! Well, as Grisha? Oblomilsya?

-- Oblomilsya, in a strict sense. Give me, please Wadyka.

-- Of course, of course. Vadim! You refuse thy!

Wadyka zamotal hands in opposite directions and made three prositelnyh wrinkles on the forehead. But I vsuchila him inexorably tube, and he went with her in the room. In my room!

I took the paper from which Vadik up a bag, and they reflectively of them. Obida roll around me almost tangible wind.What I have described this monster - someone else's monsters, by the way, the history, which is so important to me? As if no dyatlovtsev betrayed, I thought gloomily.

A Vadik already fled the room with a happy agony.

-- I said that she left me alone with their neumerennymi sexual demands. And in general: that she left me alone!

-- What do you unwind from me? Praise and admiration? There will be!

Vadim became serious again and tried hole for the kitchen table.

-- We have agreed that you are going after lunch. -- I smartly eyes hands devastated table. -- There is nothing more ...

-- I can even cook! -- vskinulsya husband.

-- Vadik, Relax - and the home. By Masha, Dashe, who are you?

-- No I have not - says Vadik said. -- Anya, it is impossible to be the ideal. God looks at you and think: it is so good that it does not make sense to live long. All the wisdom she has already received. Even in his youth ...

I do not stood and zasmeyalas. Knows how accessible.

-- Can I come tomorrow? Do you eat ...

-- There is no such word - "eat".

-- I bring you Ozhegova glossary, and together we esteemed him - humbly said her husband.

-- Glossary, as you say, I have. You can come on Saturday, look together Formula-1.

Wadyka demonstrated how river in the sun, and went into the hall to dress.

-- You know - he said to me, recessed for the door handle - I thought here: may, and it is good that they have died - and mysteriously strange? ..

I vozmutilas prichmoknula and lips.

-- You do not understand me. Here is tell them how much it now?

-- Sixty-two - sixty-five. Zolotareva more, it all over.

-- You see ... Would otherwise become elderly: run with a red flag at the monument to Lenin, wrote in a newspaper, would hinder their roaming and sisters live quietly ... Maybe getting to public transport, as well - in fact, they stepped into immortality, for the simple pathos. And to this day they are referred to simply by name: Zina, People, Rustick ... Even you, the girl that they fit into granddaughter ...

I gaze stopped Wadyka.

-- You disastrously wrong. Nothing is more expensive than the right to live their lives. Even if in the end it - the same red banners and rugachki in trams. So what? And suddenly among them was almost ready genius? Or just a good man, that is, in my taste, better than any genius ... And in general: they can give birth to children and grandchildren would now nyanchili, would meet on holidays together and sang with a guitar. Why not?

Wadyka razvel hands and left. And yet again, I one day went to the kitchen. I looked at the sad emptiness of their own desk and villages to it, filling the glass full ostyvshego groga that has become a traditionally Otherwise, deprived of high degrees. In the true sense of the word.

9.

Neglected Vadikom sheets lying on the other stool, and I decided to read them until the day ended ... This time, I suck more formal style of documents.

Protocol

questioning the witness

April 14, 1959. The city of Sverdlovsk. The prosecutor investigating department prosecutor, jr. Adviser Justice Romanov questioned in the prosecutor's office as a witness ... Kolevatovu Rima S., 1929 birth.

Judging by the age, a sister Sasha Kolevatova. (I caught myself thinking that Vadik something right - I really just call them by name, and in your heart out.) Prinesla notebook in the kitchen and began to make marks on the page with the name Kolevatov. The testimony of the witness, who was really Sashi sister, and took several pages were written by his own hand - small akkuratneyshim handwriting.

(Pocherk always seems to me one of the most intimate of human expressions. often uncomfortable to see someone else's handwriting, it is much, too much said ...)

While climbing up the mountain Otorten 2 February this year, groups of tourists were killed Ural Polytechnic Institute (in the group studied, and my brother Kolevatov Alexander, a student rate 4 Faculty of Physics and Technology). I know the composition of the team, with some participants hike met, know how loaded group (my brother had to provide everything needed for a group hike). We talked with him a lot about it. Finally, I had to be directly witnessed and even a little party began searching the missing group.

I consider it absolutely necessary to point ... following irregularities in the organization of a hike.

1. In organizing such tourist hikes released very scarce resources. Be 22 - day ski jump deserted places in winter conditions. Naturally, the stock would be entitled to the products of high, in particular, every student had to be a sacred reserve chocolate (just as they had each box matches in a breast pocket domestic costume). The Institute has identified every student for only 100 rubles (one hundred) in assistance, which of course was not enough. The remaining funds were collected by the group members themselves, crushing to 350 rubles. I am not mistaken in saying that a great deal of equipment for sports groups getting in the fight with the OIP. My brother "politicians", as he put it, each participant hike storm costumes and after a while he said that the tarpaulin would be entitled only to climbers, and asked them to return (for costumes storm came home to us). On the last day, the day of withdrawal, Alexander svitry out a wool and bring them home "smuggling", put themselves on 3 pieces. Sleeping bags, the team was not.

2. Late, very late started finding the missing group. In Sverdlovsk group would return 14 - February 15, February 12, they had to give a telegram from Vizhaya, their final item on the route, with the arrival of notice in it. Parents are worried about their children and, of course, phone calls and UPI sports, and sports club in town (with the words Dubininyh and Slobodinyh). I phoned the institute itself only on 17 February, after 3 days after the target date. Zaw. sports so proudly on the ground was not, attempts to call him were in vain: it was impossible to catch him at work. Immediately I called the city so Ufimtsevu sports section. He assured that he does not worry about than that the group detained in ways and for a week, etc. Such outrageous and criminal fact: 18/II so proudly informed the Party Polytechnic Institute, which received a telegram from Vizhaya, wrestling that the team delayed en route. Secretary of the Party UPI so Zaostrovsky FP information so Gordo not checked and the incident did not put in an event known director tons Siunova NS Director also learned of this only when he called from the city party so Fedchenko EP (I myself had to appeal to the hill to take action to find the group).

Thus, the telegram mixed (telegram came from a parallel group of Blinova Group), the directorate institute notified of the incident did not. The search began only at the insistence of the parents tourists.

When Polytechnic Institute began organizing the search, it turned out that it was not in the sports scheme route to the students went on a hike, diagrams drawn on the map. Deputy chairman of the sports club, with more UPI Milman, dating from third parties that I had the card with the scheme route before departure for the group trip, phoned my sister, Nina Anisimova S. with a request to deliver the card, which could begin the search. But this card, my brother, Alexander took with itself in the march. Maps of this brother gave Ignatius Fokich Ryagin, Deputy Chief of trust "Gipromedruda" (if I am not mistaken in the title), our friend. He knew the places, and talked with his brother about the upcoming hike. After a call from the sports club UPI I. F. Ryagin at our request to the memory restored route and paid it on the map, which I personally handed to Colonel February 19 Ortyukovu (he departed in search of the first group).

3. The outrage is of the organization's funeral. Each of the parents summoned individually or in Communist Party (ph Serkova Z.T.), or at the Polytechnic Institute and offered to bury the dead in Ivdele. What do the guys to Ivdelyu? We lived in Sverdlovsk, studied at the Sverdlovsk, in Sverdlovsk friends - and offered to bury Ivdele. T. Serkova each of the parents tried to persuade (their words) that even residents of Sverdlovsk, agree to bury Ivdele (personally we Kolevatovy, Slobodiny, Dubinin immediately wanly categorically against such a proposal) that they are buried in a mass grave, Ivdele that they will be put obelisk. The question arises: why the same could not be done in Sverdlovsk? When parents Zine Kolmogorovoy was also asked to bury daughter in Ivdele, because they refused to do so and offered to gather all the parents in the UPI together to resolve this issue in concert. This UPI Secretary of the Party (the names are not exactly remember) replied that the parents live in different locations, and it is impossible to collect them. As for such a conspiracy? Why has had to undergo so much hardship, even to go to the Secretary of Communist Party of tons Kuroedovu to make funeral in his native Sverdlovsk? Callous attitude to the people who have suffered so much, neuteshnoe grief. Forced to suffer so many mothers, fathers, relatives who lost good, honest people.

4. I had each of the dead to bury the tourists found. Why do they have such brown with a darker tinge hands and face? How can we explain the fact that four of those who were near the fire and stayed on all presumed alive, not done any attempt to return to the tent? If they were dressed much warmer (for those things that are missing among discovered in a tent), where a natural disaster, of course, having a campfire, the boys would invariably went to the tent. Large groups could not perish from burana. Why are they so panic fled tents?

The group of tourists Pedagogical Institute of Geography Department (their words), which has been on the mountain Chistop (south-east), seen in these days, in early February, the town Otorten a fiery ball. The same fire balls were recorded and later. What they origin? Can they become the cause of death for kids? Indeed, the group gathered durable and experienced people. Dyatlov in these places was the third time. People Dubinin itself to a group led Chistop town in the winter of 1958, many of the kids (Kolevatov, Dubinin, Doroshenko) were in hikes at Sayan. Not only could they die from collecting burana.

Why, sending a group trip, it is not provided walkie? Seeing his hopeless situation, the guys certainly would alert. When these same participants met the new hike, in the forest in 1959, leaving for 2 days at art. The fighters (in Perm rail), they also had its ratings, they listened to Moscow. Carried walkie-taking with itself and then Igor Dyatlov (brother told me so). This demonstrates once again the sad absence of our sports organizations.

And the last paragraph:

I ask an objective understanding of the causes of death of the group of tourists, parents and relatives to provide an opportunity to learn about these causes.

-- How would I want to know these very reasons that - I pogrustnevshemu Schumacher said. -- I would like Rima S. Kolevatova surprised at the very moment when he wrote these lines, Prawns feather in the inkpot, if learned: the cause of death of the group Dyatlova never be disclosed ...

At least for thirty years and is on dyatlovtsah forget.

Under the protocol hiding small listochek. Copies of telegrams:

Where: Sverdlovsk region,

Mountains. Pervouralsk, Sotsgorod,

Gardening, 13.

To: Dyatlovu AA

The sender address: pp. Vizhay, Dyatlov.

Hello, everyone.

Today, 26, reaching out to a route travelled well.

February 12-15 won in Sverdlovsk. Home will not attend, so let us Roof record in the laundry room for a visit to Penza. There will return March 5-7.

With regards Igor.

That is not Dyatlova home and waited - until March ...

Here are my thoughts crashed in a phone call.

I responded immediately that waited. I was surprised not to hear the voice of Amy.

-- An, sorry that otryvayu ...

(I forgot to say that it was nice kartavila. childhood in the same way I talked, but I then whatever otuchili maminy familiar speech.)

-- Know what I really did not even otryvaesh! I myself wanted to call you ...

Light fault said:

-- I have some strange feeling left after we were you ... As if I have all such mysterious and vseznayuschaya but, in fact, Anya, I am terribly embarrassed itself that you will laugh.

-- What I had to laugh?

-- I mean, the girls in my age already quite other interests must be ... And for some reason, I live with four late. For many people this is laughter. I told a friend: "Living is not interested in you." But that's not true, I simply do not know how to explain.

-- Give me better than the other thing - and I pressed the tube chin to cheek (though not recommend cosmeticians to do so - suffered neck) and clicked pens. -- As to the copy you got a criminal case and why is it so ... rastrepannoe? Incomplete ...

-- No problems - why something sad said Light. It must have been uncomfortable for having razotkrovennichalas. And I very much fear of other people's revelations. Apparently, it pochuvstvovalos. -- I turn off kettle, wait, please.

Teapot whistled loudly in the depths of the invisible me Svetinoy apartment. I introduced myself clean linoleum on the floor, neat shelf for dishes and a window for some reason on the first floor ... A window with bars and mosquito nets before fortochnym glass.

-- Light, you first floor and linoleum in the kitchen? -- I asked.

-- Yes, and that is evident on the phone?

It has become very bad. Apparently, in mutiruyu ekstrasensa. Well, it is necessary to escape from this nonsense and focus on the case. Light has already begun story.

-- Tourism has long been practicing, I have to school (I remained respectfully silent), and just in the ninth grade someone spoke about how the Northern Urals group of tourists were killed. This was already a legend. I do not just interested, and struck! You know, there are stories in life that can not be set aside until all peredumaesh until the end, not all submit ourselves to things ... It is difficult to explain.

-- I have some understanding that you have in mind.

-- So, I started to dig slowly - seek details from people close to tourism. Then, of course, many were afraid to speak the truth: it was not the time for such a fountain is a revelation. But in 1989, the Regional Archives in the way I felt all the same. And there I met a man who helped me cool. I withdrew with photocopies of the criminal case because it could destroy at any time over a period of limitation. Read it from cover to cover. Naturally, she noticed that a lot in this case is not enough - you are right, it is something kutsee. Rather, the solution of the lies precisely in those missing pages. But since they were not, I began to search itself. Found search engines - one after another, met with relatives dyatlovtsev, with all those who had at least indirectly related to the case.

-- Relatives? -- I asked suspiciously. -- As far as I know, none of them has been the family, and their parents have probably ...

-- U Zolotareva could be wife and seemingly even. But for sure about him is not known. On it over them all - at the time he was a hike thirty seven. Many wondered then - from what tion suffered in his trip with the youth? I have been told that Kolevatov was opposed to Zolotarev went to the march. It is possible however, that this is only a figment of thought. You have stolkneshsya numerous artistic lie that surrounded the case from all sides. Try to draw conclusions based only on documents.

As for the relatives, the many dyatlovtsev was (and is) brothers and sisters. Families were large since then. U Igor Dyatlova - two sisters, Rufina and Tatiana, and brother Slava, the Lyudy Dubininoy - brother Igor. If it is needed, we then you can go to them, to communicate.

-- Of course, you can! A light, and what happened next? You collected these materials, they lay down in the red bag, then?

Light sighed.

-- We went to the very mountain. 2 February 1989, thirty years later. I saw myself, and pass the memorial board, which is installed there. Then interest in the subject have begun to show journalists - a rare newspaper articles in turn escaped with photos and in a variety of versions, to the point that dyatlovtsy naporolis accidentally occurred at the ancient treasures ... And similar delirium.

Every day there are more and more experts on dyatlovskomu case. They are important things cheeks, and slowly pyzhatsya discussing how things were and exactly why they were killed ... I also - on the contrary - every day less and less like to talk about it because nothing has changed. To date, nothing is known.

True, we have succeeded in passing a little podpravit dyatlovtsam monument at the cemetery Mikhailovsky, and even some stuff done ...

That is why I am so pleased when you met. You know, I am in no way afraid of all these mystical pieces, but even if you do, and they invented for the red slovtsa - still try to write, can be somebody ...

-- I do not vydumyvala. And write ... -- I wanted to tell about the new Swete "mystical pieces" my computer, but stopped in time. -- We should not yet write, and read. I started.

Sveta so pleased that I visibly saw her smile. She voiced her in his voice:

-- Read, will not hinder. Call something like, if time will be.

I did not even have time to say that today I have the time - because the smoke, but Light already extinguished. We had to breathe in and nedopitoe empty shell.

10.

-- Schumacher, if you have utensils and soap, the price you would have been! -- in the hearts kotishke I said, desperately suetivshemusya from the refrigerator door. Same vymyla dishes, and the fifth time in the day and fed Schumi svarila ourselves with coffee and cinnamon Cardamon.

Peretaschila selected Vadikom stack on the sofa and began to read the new post, a corner skolotye stapler. Along tagging done in the notebook.

Protocol

Sightseeing things discovered

at the scene.

d. Ivdel, 5 - 6 - 7 March 1959.

Prosecutor-criminologist prosecutors Sverdlovsk region, jr. Adviser Justice Ivanov, in accordance with Art. 78 CCP RSFSR was this protocol that in the presence of head. chair of physical education and Vishnevski UPI correspondent. newspaper "has been replaced by" Yarovogo Y.

(Stop! That name already met me. author of the book "Higher categories difficulties" - Yarovoy. Has he been involved in the search? wonder how he managed it ... As far as I can imagine, everything was extremely zasekrecheno - if not the most searches , the follow-up inspections and examinations.)

Yudina had Yuriy Yefimovich - 4 student course UPI (city Sverdlovsk, 8 student corps, room 531) belongings found in the vicinity of the tent Dyatlova group of tourists in the region of a fire at the corpses and Krivonischenko Doroshenko, as well as clothing, available at the corpses found.

Yudina Yu.E. it was proposed, based on personal impressions of entries in diaries of participants hike, as well as by examination of all things belonging to distribute things to a party hike.

As a result of the inspection of things Yudin Yu.E. said that, in his view, things belong to the following persons:

(To date, the search party inspection chaotic things were placed in the backpack.)

Presumably Kolmogorovoy Zinaida belong:

a) black backpack, old, on the lateral useobject afford. It toothbrush, zavorachivayuschayasya inside, bandages, letter of Berezniki in the name of Z. Kolmogorovoy, a piece of soap, tied in cloth, a new box of matches, a black electric lantern, coil black threads, shiny piece of soap holders with soap, two cans of under powdered milk with a set of medicines, first aid kit-bag (bandages, cotton, iodine), film, titled iron from the tooth powder, and it set medicines. Yudin said that moving from a group of 2 - site of the North, he conveyed these medicines Z. Kolmogorovoy.

Z. Kolmogorovoy also belong: socks vigonevye almost black color,

The word "vigonevye" suddenly lauded in me with all force. That was nice obsolete word ... Interlock, if I am not mistaken, "from the rough wool" or "mixed" ...

... raincoat-tent, blue woolen mittens with brown figure ... blue mittens type leggings, slippers pile new home at the underside of the outside figure in the tree.

The list of things belonging Zine has been long, detailed and defenceless, as always happens when personal exhibit on public display. I can imagine criminology Ivanov showing Yudina CROWD one after another, but could not imagine that felt while Yudin.

Telogreika ladies' with the artificial dark brown collar ... jacket-green tarpaulin. In pockets tarpaulin found: on the photo badge with the name Kolmogorovoy, 5 rubles. Laundering (roubles).

Especially carefully reread the list of clothes, which were Zine. The girl was dressed warmly enough.

... to Z. Kolmogorovoy corpse was dressed: blue svitr, beneath it with transverse Ex knitted blue stripes, cowboy shirt, blue shirt with sleeves ... ski pants, blue pants training ... Woolen socks with brown fur stelkami, cotton socks. At the head with a red wool cap, under her blue wool cap.

That's it. Kuczka things that do not know how to say it. And it would be told ... It is a pity that they could not speak tents, birch, snow ...

Presumably I. Dyatlovu belong:

a) fur jacket (no cover cloth), jacket with fur locks "lightning". Backpack old, green, ill-cloth gloves, mask,

(Mask probably protective - of snow and frost. Weed, it appeared from photographs, is eerie. Man, it becomes similar to the aggressive alien.)

red socks, spare anchorages blankets to warm boots, wool ski cap, blue with white flowers, black leather gloves, dark red blanket, trousers storm green tarpaulin and shiny.

In pockets anorak and trousers storm Dyatlova I. found: frame glasses in the cornea, in a Shell grey notebook addressed Dyatlova Z. Kolmogorovoy with photographs, a knife with a knife on the strings rifle, garlic cloves, compass, mask, strings, wires, erasers to the skis.

Just a minute! Photo Zine? Maybe they were novel? Or is it my imagination impatient whispers? No photography ... In the notebook book ... Pravda, Igor Zininu could ask for the card processing some documents. We should take note.

... At Dyatlova I. corpse was found clothes listed in the act of opening a corpse: fur jacket, blue satinom timbered. Yu Yudin said that the jacket belonged to him and he handed over the city 28/I-59 S. Kolevatovu.

Why, it was at Dyatlove?

Boots kind, found in Marketing.

At corpse Dyatlova also:

svitr half-blue, cowboy shirt-jacket, blue knitted shirts, trousers ski brown, dark trousers training green ... white woolen socks, torn, two cotton socks, packaging streptocide.

That is Dyatlov was without shoes. At frost. At the same time - dressed relatively warm.

Relentless criminologist continued its work.

Presumably L. Dubininoy belong:

a) black backpack, old, broken glasses in the case, toothbrush in the case, soap holders with soap, toothpaste. The quilt dark blue, tarpaulin outside, blue shirt, black ski pants, a white liner, ski boots, Ex wool socks and wool white, black valenoks. Cowboy shirt in petty cell mask, brown socks and grey woollen socks. Yu Yudin said that the socks he gave L. Dubinin.

In pockets tarpaulin found: strings paper, a patch of raincoat-tents, English pin, a little powder and onion. Above the tourist icon anorak pocket. The left sleeve tarpaulin vyvernut inward.

In ski pants pockets found: elastic bandages, the beginning of a letter ... Vale ... big hairbrush, 2 pencil, paper clip hair and money for 35 rubles.

Paperclips hair ... How strange sounds - no one now would not have said so already. This from the same breed that vigonevy svitr - forgotten words.

Respirators blue ski, sack x / paper. Ladies handkerchiefs - two white with a brown border and one in the cage.

Meticulously and carefully this protocol has been drawn up. The farther I read, the more I became terrible. I clearly saw a pile is not new, not very sound of why something caught in a room ivdelskoy prosecutors.

Things that are proposed to identify Yudina were very similar to one another. Normal for those years tourist equipment. Well, as, for example, can distinguish one pair of woollen socks from the other? Yudin same, judging from the record, not bad coped with the task.

Presumably N. Theobald-owned Brinol following things:

a) backpack, from the aroma of tea with the film, blanket grubosherstyanoe navy-blue, old hat ... matches in oilcloth, cowboy shirt in the box (found in a fire - a sleeve of vyvernut), tarpaulin, boots.

In pockets anorak and trousers: handkerchief, dressing, boxes of matches, a pocket flashlight, a knife and the knife Finnish type knife, a compass, a pin, spare belts for skis, 1 ruble money telogreyka black, zastegivaetsya on the left side, valenoks black podshitye.

Presumably Slobodinu R. backpack belonged to a new, green, it is pegged toys - rubber Bear, towels, binoculars, a red blanket, tarpaulin outside, the storm trousers, black telogreyka, prozhzhennaya, liner, a rewarding ... bolt, wire. The toy hedgehog, pencil box with screws, 2 threads reel, line, notebook-notebook. Camera "Loser", the number is not known, ski boots, mask.

Things Rustema or, as it was called to, Rustica, a bit poveselee than with friends. Yet, I remembered, he loved to play the mandolin - very fashionable for the time instrument.

At Slobodina R. corpse dressed: svitr black cotton, under her cowboy shirt. Between svitrom kovboykoy and 2 are felt insoles, kovboyki pens in the pocket, a passport in the name Slobodina, money 310 rubles (100, 50 and 10 rubles x4), under kovboykoy gray fleece jacket with knitted, but below the shirt.

Ski pants ... in the pockets knife knife, a hairbrush and a pencil.

At right leg felt and 4 pairs of socks, socks on the left leg, but felt lacking. In tarpaulin Slobodina 3 copies. Letters regarding Bienko, a ski pants pocket trade union letter.

In my head, something zastuchalo quietly. At first I thought that this samovyrazhaetsya smoke, but then it became clear that the case is not in it.

Rust, Igor and Zina were found in the snow, between cedar, which lay Krivonischenko and Doroshenko, and tents. As far as I remember, worst of all were wearing two from cedar, that is, they only had the easiest ammunition. Just heat - they were in the creek, but all better protected from frost Dyatlov, and Zinochka Slobodin.

While this is just a fact and wonder how he can, I want to. Nevertheless, I made a mark in the notebook: the idea - Substance fly, and it is better to catch the tail immediately.

Dispassionate handwriting Ivanov meanwhile, continued:

Doroshenko allegedly belong to the following things:

black backpack, blanket claret, telogreyka blue, knitted training pants, boots, scarves, in a cell vigonevy, cap, helmet, tarpaulin outside, and in the pockets of its two note pads, and 20 rubles. Money (10 x2).

At Doroshenko corpse was dressed: in a large cage cowboy shirt, calf warm, turquoise-coloured shirt ... At three feet entire cotton socks, ripped three socks and a pair of woollen socks with traces of burning.

Zolotareva identified as things:

a) green striped blanket, tarpaulin outside, white woolen scarves, shoes, fixed wire, takes black ski cap, a small bottle of vitamins ... 1 film pieces. In backpack Zolotareva notebooks, magazine Krokodil ", bay leaves, pepper. Telogreika black, with the camera viewfinder and add. lens.

Tel Zolotareva, Thiebaud, Alexander Dubinin and Sashi Kolevatova at the time of this protocol has not yet been found. Only their belongings, clothes and backpacks. A native still remained some hope ...

Kolevatovu allegedly belongs: black backpack, blanket from the soldier's cloth, tarpaulin and trousers, fur vests, ski boots, liner ... fraction comb, cigarettes tutu "Aromatnye, aluminium flask.

I clearly saw an aluminium flask. My father was like that at all. Paunchy, reliable, cool ... Yes, it is interesting: what kind of clothes to find the bodies of the last four? Protocol provides link to the opening acts, they were lying in a separate folder.

Krivonischenko allegedly belong things:

backpack, blanket dark green, blue telogreyka prozhzhennaya, anorak and trousers storm, mandolin in a valise,

(That's you again! and played something on it Rustick!)

fur stockings, liner gloves and a decorative fabric, ski boots, valenoks, aluminium flask.

Here double déjà vu.

In anorak pocket comb, a compass and small scissors. At tarpaulin 2 characters: 2 sports. level and the "tourist" string "D" for the mandolin, toy "bear".

At Krivonischenko corpse was dressed: cowboy shirt-jacket, shirt body, the remnants kalson, smelting, one sock.

Male clothing for February in the northern Urals .. Well, until I oger clothes with the remaining four, nothing is clear ...

The protocol has remained the last page.

In addition, some things remain unknown, such as:

blankets to shoes (all broken - 9 pairs);

socks x / paper and ripped whole - 25 pc.;

vigonevye and wool socks, and ripped whole - 21 pc.;

woolen gloves, fur, x / boom., cupolas and neobshitye - 20 pieces;

gaiters - 17 pieces (blue and black);

podshlemniki - 3 pc.;

bags different from the products - 12 pc.;

shoes home (slipper) - 1 pair.

In the list of unidentified I also met a shirt, three sweaters, towels, scarves, masks, pants, a cap, fur collars, leather shoes from, handkerchiefs, strings, -4 -4.5 D glasses in a green case, flashlight "beetle" , toothbrush, axes, saws handed, a pair of skis, an ice and bowls - seven spoons, mugs, five, three aluminum cups, and two buckets with stove pipes. Peczka, as far as I remember from books and Yarovogo Gushchina, Adrian Igor Dyatlov, who had no talent for this part.

Major, confident signature Yudina assured protocol.

Picture. For window snowflakes flew sadly similar to the young men frozen. I reflectively relinquished protocol to the folder and felt as quietly in an apartment ...

Well! Watch a little TV and go to bed.

Weak pressing buttons on the remote control, I honestly tried to find some shows. The first showed the next James Bond.

At the call sign James Hosfeld and Schumacher came to me on the sofa. I put it next to each other, and one and a half hours, we watched with pleasure and totally unrealistic because the deeds are absolutely beautiful and nenaturalnogo irritating because men. I would therefore not become even talk. Probably.

By the end of the film smoril me sleep, the more Schumacher purred instead of the best sleeping pill. And when I woke - color on the screen was "mattress" Otherwise, hot and flew to a room specially designed for such as I: do not forget to switch off the television set.

And in 1959, had already been teliki or not yet? Probably were, but not for all ... The people basically go to the cinema and carefully examining posters.

The mirror reflected my zaspannoe person with red stripes on the left cheek - from smorschivsheysya sofa cushions. Senators Quickly, I put himself in bed, but - here gadstvo! -- now absolutely do not want to sleep. I vorochalas from side to side over an hour, and then in the kitchen for poplelas nedochitannoy plastic folder.

-- It is necessary to read the opening acts - I said huskily itself. I wonder if I have all day will not talk with any voice disappear or not? Perhaps I simply do not want to use it. As Robinson Crusoe.

Act autopsy probably lying in a red bag, but I suddenly found themselves alone. Night at the yard, now nachitayus any horrors and finally going with the mind.

I strongly took the following Order daveshney document from folders. Another questioning of the witness in the case.

PROTOCOL

questioning the witness

April 14, 1959 Attorney Investigation Division Region. Romanov prosecutors questioned at the prosecutor's office area

Dubinin Alexander Nikolayevich, born 1903

Father Alexander!

Permanent residence: Str. Decembrists, House 16/18, Gate 44, Apt. 379. Sl. tel.: D-1-39-40.

Then those numbers were in Sverdlovsk, funny ...

Given that I was not on the spot death of group tourists and me as a parent, no one informed about the true cause of the death of my daughter, let me express their views on the causes and perpetrators of death ...

Until now, I can not accept the idea - as we in the Soviet Union, large industrial, cultural centre of the country, could be a criminal, naplevatelskoe life to the conservation of an entire group of people.

Send people to life in a dangerous trip to the mining and taiga, uninhabited areas, where in January - March powerful storms occur, svalivayuschie with legs (for local residents story ...) not only rights but also deer, frequent collapses are not drawing Having not totally free, even basic activities, which - to some extent prevent danger to life ...

... Such a hike, bordering on adventurism and reckless risk-based, so even with regard to the tragic event that took place near the mountain 1079, exclude the possibility of saving someone from the group ...

Physically it was painful to read the text, written by a man who has lost his daughter, but has not yet put up with this. The body of Alexander Dubinin is not found ... And her father says:

... UPI students heard talk that the flight of naked people from tents and a large explosion caused by radiation ... Head statement. Administrative Division championship CPSU so Ermasha made by the sisters who died so Kolevatovoy, that the rest are not found now 4 people to live after death found no more than 1.5 - 2 hours, forcing think that the forced, the sudden exodus of the tent due to the explosion of shells and radiation near Mount 1079, "beguiling" which forced ... flee from it, and more must be expected, affected the livelihoods of people, particularly at the sight.

That yes! Pope Lyudin quite boldly expressed their views. At the time - truly boldly ... Incidentally, I also came to mind that dyatlovtsy were blinded. The fact is that the fire burned near the cedar half or two hours. And in order to maintain the fire, someone (likely dyatlovtsy - yet we know nothing about the presence on the pass even some people) climbed on this very cedar - vysochenny, raskidisty - and jumped on the branch to break them . In addition, the knife cut branches growing number of lightning Birches, despite the fact that it was easier to break down your hands. While only a few steps from the fire, according to search engines, was brushwood! So the guys saw nothing ... (Even assuming that the range was dark night, it is still not converge - and the moon reflected light snow would make his own case.)

A light projectile 2/II about seven o'clock in the morning in the town of Serov seen. Watched this on the students UPI story, a certain group of tourists prebyvavshaya while in a hike at Mount Chistop. I think that the alleged shell was launched from the territory of the USSR, and therefore surprised me, why not have been closed tourist routes from the city Ivdelya ...

Apart from that, if not deviated shell hit on the intended site, in my opinion, a government agency that issued the shell must send its fall into place and the gap aerorazvedku to ascertain that there Rimbunan he could, and perhaps to provide the required assistance.

... If aerorazvedka was made, it can be assumed that she picked up the other four.

Stated my personal opinion here, I may not share with whom, believe it is not subject to disclosure.

Poor Alexander Nikolayevich! Yet he remained a small hope that her daughter was taken away from rescuers aerogruppy ... In two weeks, and people will find three guys, but in early May to bury them.

At the end of the pages was marked in pencil, apparently Amy hand - the younger brother Lyudy - Igor live in Berezovsky, an engineer.

I pressed myself to the leaves. Gore's father, lost their beloved daughter, still above the Lycée pages.

In another folder stayed protocol questioning a witness. Vladimir Slobodin, the chairman of trade union UPI, which after the death of his son and even got strict reprimand (Lord, what times they lived ?..), detail expressed their views on the perpetrators of trouble. They sought only to march organizers. Vladimir referred to the various documents and rulings, arguing oploshali where sports leaders and UPI, asked punish them ... Especially was swinging Lvu Gordo, chairman of sports.

Unhappy and naive parents, before his death never comes the reason why they selected the most important in life, the whole meaning of it - children ... Parents dyatlovtsev fought for the truth, as the lions. Then fought by all possible means - wrote statements have testified, have sought admission from superiors questioned students and tourists ... Sami went to the scene, but there, silent except for snow and cold wind, nothing, and no one across.

Light said that none of them are dead. Perhaps their souls met with the souls of dead children - killed by nature, human or supernatural forces ... Now they know the truth.

Leaflets fell from my hand and I fell asleep immediately, without any transition periods.

11.

I went to s beautiful snow-covered city. He quite often I dream: successfull hybrid Sverdlovsk, Ekaterinburg, Leningrad and St. Petersburg. Rustle, raskachivayas that trees are thin and tallest buildings, fixed with obschipannymi rare pine tops, and the boring machine went crowded flow. One after another lit window, cheerful raskatannoy drunkard falls on the path to shine. Loud, and diligently <ggryzbmlvsiqurgnyrrb> arises. I am going there in the old coat, collar with both hands raised. More revelations - only a little light snow, and visible dirty snowdrifts province.

Before me - the old man, he goes gently, as if afraid to awaken a sharp movement of the disease. Slow, the correct steps, as a machine: two-time, two times. Uzehonkaya path, I have to adjust to the rhythm of this soldier. But somewhere, I rush, so soon his back, covered the old woolen coat, which is probably very cold, it turns right in front of my nose, so I can even catch the smell of drugs, flying side by side.

It turns out, immerses me bleklo-blue eyes.

-- Emil S.?

-- Hello, Anechka - we stand firmly in the snowdrift (standing on the ground, or two times!).

-- Was the same, that is ... you do ... -- I can not quite articulate.

-- What-what? Ah, well, yes, that it does not matter! Wanted, that I wanted to say to you - you are now reading documents everything, it is, of course, well, but you find me there such a cardboard envelope - see that inside. In the first instance. And yet, Anya - you do not all papers on the case! Ira my akkuratnitsey never has been. I did not see a few more pages, I like them at that time ... m-m-m ... Day watched. You really find them, please.

I nodded, holding on for fur collar. Just me off totally free road protoptannaya in deep snow. But I will not hurry anywhere. As a jamshhik.

This morning sleep safely forgotten. I woke in the excellent mood and thought that we should have gone a walk, the more poteplelo slightly on the street. So I thought.

For me Brody-Odessa outlet phone call. The editor of Moscow. The very that waived my novel. No, in the sense of the novel with me, it was just very not against, despite the advertisement, he did not want to publish the product of a "lack of erotic content." What he had in mind, I am in fact understandable. With glittering eyes and oblizyvalsya that absolutely fell in the desired their "context".

-- Hello couple - talking editor, and I thought that zapashok I feel as if my interlocutor not почистил teeth touch. In Moscow, as time was early in the morning, so the editor called from home. -- Do you think that we spoke?

-- Yes - I said, looking sadly at the door. It would take to the streets - to ventilate the head. And the body. I wear.

-- You peredelaesh?

-- Maybe we ALRi later?

Short succession. I gently put my phone for charging. Strangely, this talk me not disconcerting, though about erotic content - cause dead. Apparently, the novel would not. Nothing. I got out of stupid for a few days flat.

As well, it was on the street! The very day of the winter that idea emigrants in the distant Parizhah and New Yorkah ... Rissian, but not cold, and even snow skripit in style, bluer, dense, currently. As if we are not in the city-millionaire!

I slowly went down the street to his. Dekabristov Street. Strangely - how much prikipaesh to the title, it is as meaningless ... Once upon a time, there were the Decembrists in Siberia, and now, slowly and with pleasure, I pletus, holding coats floors, and me running multiple parallel flow machines.

Right Park, I often walk there. Way convenient - descend from the mountains. Links - shop, and I remember that once worked in this building beer called "Cafe" Eastern "there can be found a wide variety of wonderful people. Where are they now?

Where-where. In Moscow. Let not rhyme, but true. And what pulls all of this miserable city?

I plyunula in the box. We in the city are very few urns. You can say lucky.

Well-read and think about all nonsense.

Before the crossroads with Belinsky reached a "Uralsky book." Купила a couple of books. I then moved to the right side - there is a beautiful view of the basin. I, however, represented a vaguely this very kind, but I pomnilos where something that he beautiful.

At the old stone bridge, looking at a little steamy water smooth, thick sewer pipe, which stretched along the river, and at the tender birch trunks, I remember daveshny sleep, forgotten morning. Remember clearly that just saw.

-- It is necessary to urgently flee home and watch that in the folder - I said the river, pipe and birch. Although it would be very cool to have to walk a little bit - not flee because of me, this folder. And in the apartment of Emile I simply did not get far - Hope G. own informant reported that the new occupant enter only through the week. Then Ira and will appear. G. Hope made some bold assumptions regarding Irinyh contacts with the most tenants, but I did pretend that do not understand it, heroically remaining silent.

In general, there is still need to walk. Naked by the end of Decembrists, where Alexander Nevsky monastery and church.

Green caught fire, and I mechanically submitted to the orders of his polite.

There were no longer so many cars. In looking further, I crossed the street and was right in front of a round dome of the temple. This temple feeble, but some very impressive, the present. Mimo beggars materyaschihsya in a dispute over the best place and immediately changed the rhetoric in my appearance, past the three old cars parked almost under the icon on the church gate, past the citizens going on with caution zaledenevshim track, I went to church and the territory now stopped before entering the temple. What was waiting for something.

Of the old temple went low in iron and Bandana young man. Both crossed fiercely on all policies.

I would also like to know how well ... Envy those who sincerely believe, is not portraying any feelings of non-existent, not spoofing their emotions. Easy to imagine what could become a powerful tool own faith. In principle, it can only justify and explain everything, even the most absurd and terrible events of life.

The church people are not afraid to die - they think that a better life awaits them - there somewhere far away.

And I can not believe it. I do not know that a fault - atheistic education, which benefited throughout my generation, or not those books, Reported in childhood ... How would I like to believe that God - not have invented, but currently, and that after death, there is something else. From childhood fear of death, not even most of this fact, a sense of another - after death is not nothing. (Available in English is: "it is nothing", they have no double negation - very convenient.) I am much… nightmares about this thing anything, it seemed to me something like sex statues, which place me, so that the marble folds to repeat features and contours of the body and would have nothing to breathe. I even Mom could not explain what is so frightening, simply asked:

-- Mama, I am going to die?

-- No, I - my mom said. And I tempered.

Then an acquaintance told me:

-- All must die. In something else doubt, but no deaths have been avoided.

Painful truth of those words became my simple stereotypes. And over the years, this fear is not gone. I dubbed him tanatofobiey and learned to live with it.

I am absolutely not satisfied Soviet morality - supposedly, it is necessary to perform feats or any opening there, that the people remember my personality, and then this would be the opening and identified. Yes damn! What is the difference if my body at that time no longer exist, and soul ... And who said that there is the soul? So far this raspisyvayutsya only cheap newspapers, of those that left paint on the fingers of a few seconds of contact ...

Once again, I think three years ago, a friend called my guests at Christmas, and we - well, four adults and self-maidens - staged a spiritualistic session. Write letters to the terms of whatman, lit candles and began to rotate the saucer. That is, we have not played - it naturally went by itself and "wrote" with our letters every word. We only kept in the hands of a few centimeters from the saucer, and I was ready oath that none of the girls it has not touched.

First, we raised the spirit of Bellingshausen. Why Bellingshausen, I do not remember. But he came and long thoroughly answered all of our stupid questions: when I get out marry? how much will I have children?

I remember how Natashka asked - very seriously and politely, as if to the doctor:

-- Tell me, please, my fiance is rich?

Then we have "released" Bellingshausen, and the spirit of the poet Nicholas led Oleinikova. I started here very strange things. Just saucer flew on whatman and was words that were oleynikovskimi verses! I then checked by specially book: he "read" us about beetle-antisemites. Hardly any of my friends could know the work.

Then stopped spirit, the spirit translated and wrote one word:

Whores.

Natashka pobelela and asked:

-- We have not liked you?

And he replied:

I love.

Prophecies spirits unfulfilled. Natashka, which promised "a full bowl" in every sense, is still one, and the rest of the girls, including me himself, all the remains, or even becomes worse. And we often ask each other: What was that? Mass psychosis? Hysterical? Or truth?

Then I, too, went to church and had two candles - pray for the souls Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Nikolai Oleinikov, the souls of people who we, stupid maidens, potrevozhili.

I still think that Oleynikovu enjoyed chatting with us.

How do they live there, these souls? Where did we caused them? Why they do not settle again in the body of newborn babies? After all, if the judge sensibly, God is unprofitable to create new souls for new people - better to take the old ones. And if the soul really very bad, like Lenin or Hitler, then it can be left to settle in eternal hell. But because such little, basically all people - nearly all - worthy of life.

Once I saw a Hindu funeral in Nepal, in the temple Pashupatinat. Hindus set fire to their dead on the bank of the holy river, and then rejoice that a new life begins souls. Ta, which you earned in the former. I never came to rejoice in the head, if someone died.

The only thing that I can imagine for a good death, it is rare sense of serenity, which sometimes comes before the deep sleep when it becomes all the same - you wake or not. I sometimes dream sleep, which understand that this is the soul of my life - it was a dream I always flying past the beautiful green trees, treat poor, but quickly, no one sees me, and I see everything. And while - quite happy.

That is what I thought, looking at the temple. Para, krestivshayasya at the dome, went long, and I was totally one in the whole churchyard.

My grandmother dubbed me in some very non compos age, so I quietly visit to the temple, and even sometimes pray - as able to do, and put a candle.

Now, I should have put nine candles.

I asked a strict old, which is sold at the entrance of the church's literature, icons and candles - they were bundles in the beaker:

-- You can put a candle, if a person is not baptized?

-- You can put, pray, but at the altar of Remembrance can not be ordered.

I am not certain that all were dyatlovtsy ecclesial. Time for religious people has been devastating, but many children baptized secretly. Well, became Zine - it comes from the village, and many others, too. But because I did not know this for sure.

Купила not nine, and ten candles - wanted to put one over zdravie. The former husband - Wadyka.

When I came up to the icon, which put candles in prayer, their hands have become a bit slippery from the wax. I raised candles one by one, they stood just and balanced, flames vytyagivalos highly commended.

Mother, God, the soul of your slave Igor and all my gay and patrons, forgive them for all their wrongdoing and volnyya nevolnyya and grant them the kingdom of heaven now and Priest and the eyelids centuries.

I read a prayer exactly nine times, changing the names. I really wanted God to hear my prayer, I do not quite unbelieving people - just my doubts ... Shares of them - how easy it has become to live ...

My Mom always said that it is very important proof of the existence of God - weather for Easter. It is tested since childhood - and in fact, on Easter always sky is cleared and the sun sparkle, even before the wolf was cold and dark slush.

The most recent, "Vadikinoy, candles, I went to another icon, and there was an unexpected thing happened. Somehow pognulas candle in my hand, I wanted to correct it, razognuv back, but it broke down into two halves, sealed wick. I am terribly panic. What has been done now? Throw candle? Not like ...

We had to remove one wick of a candle and place halves - twice as long and with a shorter tail - before an icon. She showed sharp and bright, but I still think that this is not a very good sign: not to be with us Vadikom together.

Useless for the remainder of the ignition half, I put candles in the pocket bags. I went to the graduation, and finely lubberly twilight.

==Appearances==
* ''[[Dyatlov Pass (2016 film)]]''
* ''[[The Devil's Pass (2013 film)]]'' AKA ''The Dyatlov Pass Incident''

[[Category:Historic:Locations]]

Talk:Murders of the Dyatlov Pass (fiction)

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Travern: Travern moved page Talk:Dyatlov pass to Talk:Murders of the Dyatlov Pass (fiction): The contents are a machine translation of portions of a 2000 Russian novel about the Dyatlov Pass Incident, not a reference article about it.

== Current Status ==

Anna Matveeva’s investigative novel MURDERS OF THE DYATLOV PASS (Тайна перевала Дятлова) was based on a 2000 documentary about the incident. This is not a particularly useful way of summarizing the case, to say nothing of the garbled machine translation. Since its original namespace was Anna Matveeva's novel Dyatlova Passm I'm moving its to a proper namespace accordingly and will do a quick write up of the Dyatlov Pass incident later.

== Older Updates ==

YWhateley, Feb 2017:

I'm not really sure about this page - it seems to be a translation of a novel? The page could really use some cleanup and work, such as addition of some historical factual information, editing of the fiction to distill it to illustrative quotes, addition of some Keeper Notes for story suggestions and appearances (if any) in CoC scenarios.

I'm not really interested in doing the work myself right now, maybe later. I've added a "cleanup" template to the site for pages like this.

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#REDIRECT [[Murders of the Dyatlov Pass (fiction)]]

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Travern:

The House of R'lyeh (Supplement)

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==Details==
[[Image:House of R'lyeh.jpg|thumb|''Front Cover'']]

'''Publisher:''' [[Chaosium]]

'''Product Code:''' 23127

'''Publishing Year:''' 2013

'''Pages:''' 224

'''Cover Price:''' $33.95

'''Author(s):''' [[Brian M. Sammons]], [[David Conyers]], [[Brian Courtemanche]], [[Peter Gilham]], [[Glyn White]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Scott Purdy]] (cover), [[Caleb Cleveland]], [[Damian Couceiro]], [[Earl Geier]], [[Robert Hack]], [[Jolene Houser]], [[Tony Parker]], [[Steve Purcell]], [[David Conyers]] (maps), [[Glyn White]] (maps)

'''Setting(s):''' [[Classic]]

'''Format(s):''' Softcover, PDF

'''ISBN:''' 1-56882-364-9

==Contents==

'''The House of R'lyeh''' 
1920s Investigations after Lovecraft

''Edited by David Conyers and Glyn White''

The House of R'lyeh contains five scenarios that closely follow the events of H.P. Lovecraft stories. They are set in Boston, Providence, the British Isles, continental Europe and the Middle East. None of the scenarios need to be played at set dates or in a set order, but they could be run in the order presented to form a loose campaign using optional links between scenarios to draw investigators from one to the other.

Alternatively, the scenarios may be used to supplement classic Call of Cthulhu campaigns such as The Shadows of Yog-Sothoth and The Fungi from Yuggoth, the latter currently in print as The Day of the Beast, both of which suggest their component scenarios should be interspersed with others.

* The first scenario in this book, [[The Art of Madness (Scenario)|The Art of Madness]] (Brian Courtemanche) follows on from the events of the Lovecraft tale [[Pickman’s Model]]. Artist of the macabre, Richard Upton Pickman, is now a ghoul living a subterranean netherworld beneath Boston creating a new school of art. There are several ways that player characters might be drawn into investigating his macabre activities and, while dangerous, Pickman’s intent is not particularly lethal. The difficulty for investigators will be to resolve the situation without becoming compromised.

* While in New England, the investigators discover [[The Crystal of Chaos]] (Peter Gilham with David Conyers), a retelling of the events of Lovecraft’s [[The Haunter of the Dark]]. Hired by professors of Miskatonic University, the investigator seek out a fabled crystal with origins in Ancient Egypt, but they soon find a far greater evil lurks in an abandoned church in Providence. This scenario originally appeared in Different Worlds issue 34, May/June 1984, and has been expanded and revised in this publication.

* [[The Return of the Hound]] (Glyn White) draws investigators to an auction in Yorkshire, in England, where a rare edition of the Necronomicon is going to be sold. The previous owners, the decadent occultists from Lovecraft’s [[The Hound]], are dead, as that tale recounts, but what they unearthed in 'a Holland churchyard' has grown strong, and has schemes of its own to fulfill. The amount of danger the investigators face is dependent on how determined they are not to let this Necronomicon fall into the wrong hands.

* [[The Jermyn Horror]] (David Conyers) takes place in Britain, beginning in London and then moving to Huntingdon with the investigators seeking a rare edition of Regnum Congo, reputedly to be found in the crumbling estate of the deceased Jermyn family as described in Lovecraft’s [[Arthur Jermyn]]. The search is imperiled by a creature that a Jermyn brought back from the Congo some three hundred years ago that haunts the mansion seeking a human vessel for its escape.

* [[Nameless City, Nameless Terrors]] (Brian M. Sammons) concludes this collection with an expedition into the heart of Arabia’s Empty Quarter in search of Irem as described in Lovecraft’s [[The Nameless City]]. This scenario requires investigators to risk their bodies and their minds as, in the midst of the desolate ruins of Irem, the investigators learn something of the nature of the Great Old Ones, and perhaps forestall the rising of Cthulhu from his watery grave.

This will be a full book, with illustrations and maps and nice print production. The scenarios follow directly on from the events of Lovecraft's stories [[Pickman's Model]], [[The Haunter in the Darkness]], [[The Hound]], [[Arthur Jermyn]] and [[The Nameless City]].

'''Scenarios:''' [[The Art of Madness (Scenario)|The Art of Madness]], [[The Crystal of Chaos]], [[The Return of the Hound]], [[The Jermyn Horror]], [[Nameless City, Nameless Terrors]]

==Front Cover Text==
List all the text from the front cover.

==Back Cover Text==
List all the text on the back cover.

==Comments / Trivia==
Brian Sammons' Irem scenario was formerly part of an aborted expansion of [[Shadows of Yog-Sothoth (Campaign)]].

==Links==
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/threads/5560-Irem-City-of-Pillars Forum thread mentioning this upcoming release]
* [https://rpggeek.com/thread/1008110/cthulhu-dreams-purist-sequels Review by Eric Dodd at RPGGeek]
* [http://diehardgamefan.com/2013/04/22/tabletop-review-the-house-of-rlyeh-call-of-cthulhu/ Review by Alex Lucard at Diehard Gamefan]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
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Grey Alien

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[[File:Alien bettybarneyhill bakersketch1967.png|200px|thumb|right|Betty & Barney Hill 1967 Baker "Grey Alien" sketch....]]
'''Grey Aliens''', AKA "Greys", "Grays", "Roswell Greys", "Examiners", "Visitors", "Lam", "Zeta Reticuli", and "Zeta Reticulans"

Origin: Greys have their origin in UFO folklore beginning in the mid-20th century with the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction case perhaps being their first well-known appearance, although they bear more general similarities to stories about [[Faerie]]s, [[Vampire|Succubi]], [[Sleep Paralysis|Old Hags]], [[Demon|Demonic Oppression]], [[Ghost|Hauntings]], [[Poltergeist]]s, [[Elemental]]s, and many other supernatural or quasi-supernatural night disturbances dating back to the dawn of human history. In the Mythos, the Greys are most familiar as a commonly encountered threat in [[Delta Green]].

==Description==
[[file:Janusmonumentireland.jpg|thumb|right|[[Faerie]] Carving in Ireland; early legends resembled abduction lore]]
<blockquote>
[In silhouette] he was a blank, black figure to us, but instinctively our imaginations supplied features to his very human outline. I perceived a slender pinched body and short and extremely attenuated bandy legs. He came forward three steps and paused for a time, his movements seemed absolutely noiseless. For a moment my eyes sought him in the wrong place, and then I perceived him standing facing us both in the full light.

Only the human features I had attributed to him were not there at all!

It seemed as though it wasn't a face, as though it must needs be a mask, a horror, a deformity, that would presently be disavowed or explained. There was no nose, and the thing had dull bulging eyes at the side - in the silhouette I had supposed they were ears, but there were no ears. I have tried to draw one of these heads, but I cannot. There was a mouth, downwardly curved, like a human mouth in a face that stares ferociously....

There the thing was, looking at us! At the time my mind was taken up by the mad impossibility of the creature....
 — [[H.G. Wells]], ''The First Men in the Moon''
</blockquote>

Early faerie legends in many ways resemble UFO abduction lore, and the two entities may be similar or even identical. See [[Faerie]] for more details.

Named for the greyish colour of their skin, "Greys" are typically described as humanoid, about 137cm (4.5 feet) tall, with short slender bodies, long and thin flexible limbs, large bald heads, and wide, dark, almond-shaped eyes. Also known as Zeta Reticuli from the Zeta Reticulan star system (the Bernard star) neighboring the Orion area, where the [[Reptilian]] aliens of the Orion System, their masters, are said to have made a home in our universe.

The Greys are said to be a sort of hybrid sub-race of alien humans which have been genetically manipulated into sterility and near extinction by other modified humans in service to the [[Reptilian]]s following an ancient war of conquest; there are said to be fewer than 2000 "real" Greys left in this universe, with the rest of their number made up of soulless clones. Thus, the Grey Aliens are a dying race, desperately searching for some way to restore their numbers through breeding programs involving the more diverse human stock of earth, in exchange for their service to the [[Reptilians]]. Little is left in the clones resembling a "soul" or moral/ethical conscience: these were apparently nearly bred and engineered out of the Grey race, and have grown weaker and thinner with each new generation of clones. Thus, the Greys have lost much of their emotion and their appreciation for art and music, leaving behind only a cold, inhuman talent for hard science and raw power, leaving humans who have dealt with the clones the impression that the Greys are a cruel race.

However, those who have dealt with the last surviving uncloned Greys have found these to be less cruel, more reasonable and capable of diplomacy, and more varied in their emotional range, even deeply emotional, filled with a depressive sorrow for all that they have lost and suffered, and for the suffering and loss which they bring to earth. Nevertheless, both the original Greys and their clones should be considered treacherous, dangerous, and malignant, as most examples of both varieties work in cooperation with the [[Reptilian]]s, and hold little genuine regard for earthly humans.

Reportedly, the Grey clones are also cannibals, enjoying the taste of human flesh, and especially the taste of fluids and nervous tissue extracted from human beings excited to extremes of emotion, as the Greys are able to absorb from these fluids and tissues some of the endorphins, adrenaline, hormones, and other chemicals curiously absent from their own emotionless existence, extending the fading lives of the clones, who have become thus addicted to human emotion in much the same way that humans may become addicted to drugs. By some accounts, there is even an elaborate, interplanetary equivalent to the earthly drug trade, in which rare emotions extracted from human victims by other alien races are sold to the Greys' highest bidders at auction in exchange for monstrous favors from the Greys; Greys are frequently found entangled in cults who have made such bargains in exchange for spells, artifacts, information, participation in rituals, unspeakable favors and services, and worse.

[[File:Greyalien lam.png|100px|thumb|right|"Lam", a portrait from life by Aleister Crowley... ]]
The first Grey on Earth in modern times is said to have been the entity "Lam", contacted by [[Aleister Crowley]] in a blasphemous working of sex magick, the Amalantrah Working performed in 1931, which ripped a hole in the fabric of the universe, allowing the Grey, dwarfen entity to cross a bridge to Earth from the Zeta Reticulan region of the [[Astral Plane]]. Crowley's intense interrogation of Lam produced enough material for one unpublished tome, the ''[[Amalantrah Manuscript]]'' (or, "The Book of the Abyss"); when this interrogation was concluded, Crowley had dismissed the spirit and resealed the portal, though it was too late: Lam had already gathered enough information about Earth to report back to its [[Reptilian]] masters the location of our solar system, while later magickal experiments, such as the "Babalon Workings" of NASA-JPL scientist Jack Parsons and cult leader [[L. Ron Hubbard]] in the early 1960s, re-opened the wound in space-time wider each time, allowing a number of Grey Aliens into this world before the damage was undone and the wound reclosed. Apparently no Reptilians were able to cross the bridge in any of those rituals, but the Grey Aliens who did enter this world appear to have re-awakened some Reptilians who have lain slumbering in caverns deep within the earth since the ancient epoch when their outpost colony on [[Lemuria]] was destroyed and sunk smouldering into the depths of the ocean, and negotiated contracts of service among the [[Dero]]s and other monstrous creatures who creep through the [[Hollow Earth|caverns of inner earth]].

The arrival of the Greys in the early-mid 20th Century have been accompanied by increasing sightings of UFOs as well as reports of terrifying abductions by the Greys leading to strange medical and breeding experiments, torture, indoctrination into occult secrets, and worse at the hands of the alien spirits. Researchers into the occult have suggested that the Greys brought no "flying saucers" of their own, but have instead retrieved lost technologies of elder races from deep within the Earth, perhaps including actual flying machines and spacecraft, though the Greys are just as likely dragging their victims down into prehuman cavern strongholds or to monstrous nightmare countries carved into the [[Astral Plane]] to perform their terrible experiments, with the flying saucer cover story being a deception played on their human victims to convince them of superior power, numbers, and technology.

=== In the Mythos ===
(TO DO - [[Delta Green]])

==Heresies and Controversies==

* Linked to [[Mi-Go]]. (Delta Green?)

==Keeper Notes==


==Associated Mythos Elements==
* race: [[Mi-Go]]
* race: "Reptilians" (compare to [[Serpent People]])
* race: [[Dero]]s
* cult: [[Men in Black]]

==References==
* film:
** ''[[The Fourth Kind (2009 film)]]''
** ''[[VHS (2012 franchise)]]''
** ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 series)]]'' (suggested as a possible source for Benny & Barney Hill's descriptions)
** ''[[X-Files (1993 series)]]''
** ''[[Dark Skies (1996 series)]]''
** ''[[Fire in the Sky (1993 film)]]''
** ''[[Communion (1989 film)]]''

[[Category:Races]]

Hound of Tindalos

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The '''Hounds of Tindalos''', a.k.a. Tind'Losi Hound, are timeless, interdimensional predatory entities, first appearing in [[Frank Belknap Long]]'s [[The Hounds of Tindalos|eponymous story]].

==Description==

The Hounds of Tindalos are monstrous creatures which dwell in angular time, and pursue human beings who stray out of the curved time that is humanity's normal habitat. Users of the drug [[Liao]], which allows the mind to wander through time leaving the body behind, risk drawing the attention of the Hounds if they travel too far. The Hounds will then pursue the person through time, eventually catching up with that person in the present and slaying them.

Accounts of the form and appearance of the Hounds vary drastically from one source to another, and the occultist Halpin Chalmers -- a witness of the Hounds and also one of their victims -- may be correct in saying that human language cannot describe them.

The Hounds of Tindalos take their nature from a nameless, foul deed before the beginning of time, the origin of the Christian account of the Fall, in which the Hounds participated fully and humans took part only partially. Foulness expresses itself in angles, while purity expresses itself through curves; the pure element in humanity derives from a curve, and it is for this reason that we dwell in curved. The Hounds desire to devour this pure part of humans.

Since it dwells in angular time, a Hound of Tindalos pursuing its prey can manifest through any angle, but if its chosen prey is in a place without angles, the Hound cannot appear. However, the Hounds can enlist the help of other preternatural beings, including [[Dholes|Doels]] and satyrs, to gain access to their prey. Victims of the Hounds are found horribly mangled, and splashed with a bluish ichor that resembles living protoplasm but contains no enzymes.

==Quote==
<blockquote>
 "What were they like?" I said, to humor him.
 He leaned forward and gripped my arm. He was shivering horribly. "No words in our language can describe them!" He spoke in a hoarse whisper. "They are symbolized vaguely in the myth of the Fall, and in an obscene form which is occasionally found engraved on ancient tablets. The Greeks had a name for them, which veiled their essential foulness. The tree, the snake and the apple—these are the vague symbols of a most awful mystery.
His voice had risen to a scream. "Frank, Frank, a terrible and unspeakable ''deed'' was done in the beginning. Before time, the ''deed'', and from the deed—"
 He had risen and was hysterically pacing the room. "The seeds of the deed move through angles in dim recesses of time. They are hungry and athirst!"
 "Chalmers." I pleaded to quiet him. "We are living in the third decade of the Twentieth Century."
 "They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked. "''The Hounds of Tindalos!''"
 
 "All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment; I cannot be certain. ''But I heard them breathe.'' Indescribably for a moment I felt their breath upon my face. They turned toward me and I fled screaming. In a single moment I fled screaming through time. I fled down quintillions of years.
 "But they scented me. Men awake in them cosmic hungers. We have escaped, momentarily, from the foulness that rings them round. They thirst for that in us which is clean, which emerged from the deed without stain. There is a part of us which did not partake in the deed, and that they hate. But do not imagine that they are literally, prosaically evil. They are beyond good and evil as we know it. They are that which in the beginning fell away from cleanliness. Through the deed they became bodies of death, receptacles of all foulness. But they are not evil ''in our sense'' because in the spheres through which they move there is no thought, no morals, no right or wrong as we understand it. There is merely the pure and the foul. The foul expresses itself through angles: the pure through curves. Man. The pure part of him, is descended from a curve. Do not laugh. I mean that literally."
 
 — Frank Belknap Long, "The Hounds of Tindalos"
</blockquote>

==Heresies and Controversies==

The behavior of the Hounds of Tindalos is reminiscent of the hound-like creature that seeks out and slays those who possess the [[Amulet of Leng]], and it is possible that these are two manifestations of the same race of beings.

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Lin Carter]] - "[[The Madness out of Time]]"
* [[Frank Belknap Long]] - "[[The Hounds of Tindalos]]"
* [[Brian Lumley]] - ''[[The Transition of Titus Crow]]''

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Sandy Petersen]] - ''[[S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors]]''
* [[:Category:CoC:Hound of Tindalos scenarios|List of Call of Cthulhu Hound of Tindalos scenarios]]

[[Category:Races]]

Hounds of Tindalos

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Shoggoth

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'''Shoggoth'''—not so much living creatures as masses of protoplasm capable of moulding their biomatter into temporary organs—were originally created by the [[Elder Things]] as a servitor race. They were introduced in H. P. Lovecraft's novella ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)|At the Mountains of Madness]]'', although he had mentioned them only by name in earlier stories. (See also '''Proto-Shoggoth''' and '''Shoggoth Lord'''.)

==Description==
A Shoggoth is a gigantic protoplasmic glob of cells that were created billions of years ago by the Elder Things to be used for manual labor. It is uncertain how intelligent they are. They were originally designed to be nonsentient creatures, but eventually they gained minds of their own and rebelled against their masters.
[[File:ProtoShoggoth.png|200px|thumb|right|An amorphous Shoggoth...]]

An average Shoggoth is about 15 feet in diameter when contracted into a sphere, but larger ones exist. The only permanent structures that they seem to have are eyes and mouths, each Shoggoth having dozens of both. Shoggoths are generally amoeba-like and so presumed to capture prey using tentacle-like pseudopods.

Shoggoths often mimic the habits and speech of their old masters, and it is not unusual to hear them shouting "''Tekeli-li''" in the piping voice of the Elder thing. Shoggoths are incredibly strong creatures, and when not being controlled, very aggressive. They are noted as killing their victims by sucking their heads off, and Elder Things also used them as weapons of war.

Shoggoths are found primarily in Antarctica, the last bastion of the Elder Things, though there is mention of various other cults and groups, such as the [[Deep Ones]], making use of the creatures.

==Quote==
<blockquote>
"Sculptured images of these shoggoths filled Danforth and me with horror and loathing. They were normally shapeless entities composed of a viscous jelly which looked like an agglutination of bubbles; and each averaged about fifteen feet in diameter when a sphere. They had, however, a constantly shifting shape and volume; throwing out temporary developments or forming apparent organs of sight, hearing, and speech in imitation of their masters, either spontaneously or according to suggestion."

"The newly bred shoggoths grew to enormous size and singular intelligence, and were represented as taking and executing orders with marvellous quickness. They seemed to converse with the Old Ones by mimicking their voices—a sort of musical piping over a wide range, if poor Lake’s dissection had indicated aright—and to work more from spoken commands than from hypnotic suggestions as in earlier times. They were, however, kept in admirable control. The phosphorescent organisms supplied light with vast effectiveness, and doubtless atoned for the loss of the familiar polar auroras of the outer-world night."

"Danforth has on rare occasions whispered disjointed and irresponsible things about 'the black pit', 'the carven rim', 'the proto-shoggoths', 'the windowless solids with five dimensions', 'the nameless cylinder', 'the elder pharos', '[[Yog-Sothoth]]', 'the primal white jelly', 'the colour out of space', 'the wings', 'the eyes in darkness', 'the moon-ladder', 'the original, the eternal, the undying', and other bizarre conceptions; but when he is fully himself he repudiates all this and attributes it to his curious and macabre reading of earlier years. He, indeed, is known to be among the few who have ever dared go completely through that worm-riddled copy of the ''[[Necronomicon]]'' kept under lock and key in the [[Orne_Library|college library]]."
 — H.P. Lovecraft, ''At the Mountains of Madness''
</blockquote>

==Proto-Shoggoth==

There is little more than the vaguest hints in Lovecraft's stories to what a proto-shoggoth might be, and how it might differ from other shoggoths; the name implies that a proto-shoggoth is the original form or stock from which the shoggoths were developed by the [[Elder Thing]] scientists, which might or might not have been a formless, protoplasmic slime. A proto-shoggoth is sometimes reckoned to be a smaller, more flexible/fluid Shoggoth lacking mutational qualities but instead being able to maintain its shape for long periods of time.

==Shoggoth Lord==
TO_DO.

Shoggoth Lords are from Michael Shea's "Fat Face", where (in the form of [[Mr. Albert Shiny]], a Shoggoth Lord masquerades in human form; see also the ''[[At Your Door]]'' RPG materials.

==The Pit of Shoggoths==
See [[N'kai]], a place deep in the [[Hollow Earth]] where the Shoggoths have retreated to build their own nightmare civilization in shadow and secrecy.

==Heresies and Controversies==

* Proto-Shoggoths are smaller, more flexible/liquid [[Shoggoth]]s, lacking the mutational qualities of Shoggoths but instead holding the ability to maintain a shape (such as humanoid) for extended amounts of time, perhaps with the help of a stiff human-shaped suit of leather, rubber, etc. ([[Sandy Petersen]])

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* tome: ''[[Necronomicon]]'' - the tome's author claims that Shoggoths have never been on Earth
* races:
** Shoggoth
** Proto-Shoggoth
** Shoggoth Lord
* similar races - compare/contrast with:
** [[Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua]]
** [[Gibbering Mouther]]
** [[Thing]]s (a.k.a. The Croatoan)

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Elizabeth Bear]] - ''[[Shoggoths in Bloom]]''
* [[Edward Lee]] - ''[[Haunter of the Threshold]]''
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - ''[[At the Mountains of Madness (fiction)]]''
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Thing on the Doorstep (fiction)]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth (fiction)]]"
* [[Brian Lumley]] - ''[[The Transition of Titus Crow]]''
* [[Michael Shea]] - "[[Fat Face]]"
* [[Charles Stross]] - ''[[A Colder War]]''
* [[Colin Wilson]] - "[[Tomb of the Old Ones]]"

===Film===
* [[Shoggoth (short film)]] (2012)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Sandy Petersen]] - ''[[S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors]]''
* [[:Category:CoC:Shoggoth scenarios|List of Call of Cthulhu Shoggoth scenarios]]

[[Category:Races]]

Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath

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[[File:DarkYoung.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
The '''Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath''' are the spawn of the the Outer God of that name. Only obliquely alluded to by H P. Lovecraft (e.g. "Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!"), they were introduced in Robert Bloch's story "[[Notebook Found in a Deserted House]]".

==Description==
The Dark Young are horrifying, pitch-black monstrosities, seemingly made of ropy tentacles. They stand as tall as a tree (perhaps between twelve and twenty feet tall) on a pair of stumpy, hooved legs. A mass of tentacles protudes from their trunks where a head would normally be, and puckered maws, dripping green goo, cover their flanks. The monsters roughly resemble trees in silhouette — the trunks being the short legs and the tops of the trees represented by the ropy, branching bodies. The whole mass of these things smells like an open grave. They usually dwell in woodlands wherever [[Shub-Niggurath]]'s cult is active.

The Dark Young are usually called upon to preside over cult ceremonies. One means for summoning them is found in the ''[[Book of Eibon]]'' and requires a blood offering. The ritual may only be performed in the deep of the woodlands at the darkest of the moon, and the victim must be sacrificed over a stone altar.

Dark young act as proxies for Shub-Niggurath in the accepting of sacrifices and the worship of cultists, in the devouring of non-cultists, and in the spreading of their mother's faith across the world.

==Quote==
<blockquote>"It was real tall and all inky-black, without any particular shape except a lot of black ropes with ends like hoofs on it. I mean, it had a shape but it kep changing—all bulgy and squirming into different sizes. They was a lot of mouths all over the thing like puckered up leaves on branches. […] The mouths was like leaves and the whole thing was like a tree in the wind, a black tree with lots of branches trailing to the ground, and a whole lot of roots ending in hoofs. And that green slime dribbling out of the mouths and down the legs was like sap!"

"Something black in the road, something that wasn’t a tree. Something big and black, just squatting there, waiting, with ropy arms squirming and reaching."

"It came crawling up the hillside to the alter and the sacrefice, and it was the black thing of my dreams-that black ropy, slimy, jelly tree-thing out of the woods. It crawled up and it flowed up on its hoofs and mouths and snaky arms. And the men bowed and stood back and then it got to the alter where they was something squirmin on top,
squirming and screaming."
 —Robert Bloch, "Notebook Found in a Deserted House"</blockquote>

==Trivia==
Although Bloch originally referred to this creature a "shoggoth", Sandy Petersen took his description and applied it to his own creation in the [[Call of Cthulhu (RPG)|Call of Cthulhu]] roleplaying game rulebook in 1981.

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Robert Bloch]] - "[[Notebook Found in a Deserted House]]"
* [[Nadia Bulkin]] - "[[Red Goat Black Goat]]"
* [[David Conyers]] - "[[Regrowth]]"
* [[Victor Milán]] - "[[Mr. Skin]]"

===Film===
[[File:DarkYoungByLokiAnimation.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Dark Young from the 2011 short film Black Goat]]
* ''[[Black Goat (short film)]]'' (2011)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Sandy Petersen]] - ''[[S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors]]''
* [[:Category:CoC:Dark Young scenarios|List of Call of Cthulhu Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath scenarios]]

[[Category:Races]]

Serpent Men

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[[File:YaxchilanDivineSerpent.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mayan interpretation of a serpent-man shedding his skin.]]

'''Serpent Men''' are a fictional race created by [[Robert E. Howard]] for his [[King Kull]] tales. They first appeared in "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]," published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'' in August of 1929.

They were later adapted for the Marvel Comics Conan comics by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Their first Marvel Universe appearance was in ''Kull the Conqueror'' vol.1 #2 (September, 1971). They were also used in the 1992 ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series. They were also adapted into [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by writers like [[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]].

==Origin and society==
[[File:Ubaid serpent folk.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Aeons-old "Serpent" figures unearthed in Iraq]]
In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the Great Serpent. Later writers would identify the Great Serpent with the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)|Great Old One]] [[Yig]] and with the Stygian serpent god [[Set (serpent god)|Set]] from Howard's [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories.

The Serpent Men were created untold aeons ago by the Great Serpent. At some point the Serpent Men group split, with one group becoming the Man-Serpents- these creatures, unlike their kin and predecessors, have the bodies of giant serpents and the heads of human beings, with smaller snakes for hair like Medusa. A Man-Serpent is the titular being in the Conan story "The God in the Bowl". Man-Serpents have hypnotic gazes and lethally venomous bites, as well as terrible crushing strength.

The seat of the First Empire of the serpent people, during the Paleozoic era, was [[Valusia]]. Valusia is a fictional country in the Kull stories of Robert E. Howard, located on the west coast of the main continent of [[Thuria]]. The empire was based on sorcery and alchemy, but collapsed with the rise of the dinosaurs about 225 million years ago during the Triassic era. The Serpent Men originally ruled over humans in Valusia but were defeated and almost wiped out in humanity's battle for survival against the "elder things" that predated them. Over time, humans dominated Valusia and the Serpent Men became a legend. The Serpent Men, one of the few surviving "elder things", infiltrated human society and ruled from behind the scenes for a time but were again discovered, defeated and cast out in a secret war. However, they later repeated this tactic but added the front of a Snake Cult religion, which gained power and influence within Valusia while they also used their abilities of disguise to murder and replace each reigning monarch. Their power is eventually broken by King Kull, formerly an Atlantean barbarian who had recently conquered Valusia, and the Pict Brule the Spear-Slayer, whose society was aware of the Serpent Men's infiltration.

After the destruction of Valusia, the serpent men escaped to [[Yoth]], a cavern beneath [[K'n-yan]] in North America (ironically, the Pictish Isles of the Kull stories). They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the serpent men's scientific lore. Their next downfall came when they brought idols of [[Tsathoggua]] from N'kai and abandoned their patron deity [[Yig]] to worship their new god. As retribution Yig placed his curse upon them, forcing his few remaining worshipers to flee to caverns beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]].

Cursed by Yig, some serpent men degenerated into more and more bestial forms, eventually becoming mere giant snakes. Some sources claim that the [[Worms of the Earth (Race)|worms of the earth]] were degenerate serpent men, while other stories describe the "worms" as descended from humans.

==Appearance and abilities==
Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.

==Earlier Serpent Men==
Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about prehistoric serpent people. Another pulp writer, [[Abraham Merritt]], created a similar pre-human serpentine race surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss" which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]] and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving Serpent-Woman is an ally of the human protagonists.

==Cthulhu Mythos==
[[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]] adapted the race for inclusion in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], inspired by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[The Nameless City]]", which refers to an Arabian city built by a pre-human reptilian race. Lovecraft's story "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]" explicitly mentions the "serpent men of Valusia" as being one-time possessors of the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. However, the Cthulhu Mythos were already connected to the works of Robert E. Howard (a contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft as well as a direct contributor to the Mythos itself). In this case, the Serpent Men were created for the very first Kull story, the character of Kull later made an appearance in a [[Bran Mak Morn]] story, ''[[Kings of the Night]]'', while in another such story, ''[[Worms of the Earth]]'', Bran Mak Morn explicitly refers to [[Cthulhu]] and [[R'lyeh]]. Many [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories by Howard are also part of the Mythos.

==Conan==
The fictional settings of King Kull and Robert E. Howard's other creation, [[Conan the Barbarian]], are linked through Howards essay ''[[The Hyborian Age]]''. This states that Valusia, and its Thurian Age, existed in some time before Conan's Hyborian Age (the land was reshaped in between the story cycles by an undefined cataclysm). The Serpent Men did not, however, appear in any Conan story written by Robert E. Howard himself.

In 1971, the Serpent Men appeared in a comic book adaptation of the King Kull stories, published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Since then they have been imported into the Conan comics, as well as other adaptations and Conan pastiches. The Serpent Men were the main antagonists, personified by the wizard "Wrath-Amon", in the animated series ''Conan the Adventurer''. This retained the Serpent Men's ability to infiltrate human society in disguise (in the cartoon, this disguise failed in the presence of meteoric "star metal", contact with which also sent a Serpent Man back to "the Abyss").

==The Spider==
In the Spider short story "Fear Itself" (published in The Spider Chronicles by Moonstone in 2007) by Joel Frieman and C.J. Henderson, an occult expert named Guicet enlists the Spider's aid in defeating a group of Serpent Men who acquire a duplicate of the Cobra Crown from Conan the Buccaneer. In The Phantom Chronicles, worshippers of Set appear, but no Serpent Men.

==He-Man's Snake Men==
Persistent but unverified claims suggest that the He-Man franchise was originally intended as a Conan toy line. If this is true, the equivalent to the Serpent Men in that franchise would be the Snake Men.

As with Howard's work, the Snake Men come from the distant past and fought against the character He-Ro/Lord Grayskull (who would be equivalent to Howard's character [[Kull of Atlantis|Kull]]). As with the ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series, the Snake Men were banished to another dimension in the past and were attempting to return to power in the present.

==Reptilian Quadrupeds==
In "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], the inhabitants of the red-litten subterranean world of [[Yoth]] are described as quadrupedal reptiles that seemed to be the debased remnants of a much greater, technologically-advanced reptilian race predating even the ancient [[People of K'n-yan]]; there seemed to be little doubt that these beings were older than humanity but still related, and the reptilians were easily blended with mammalian and "inferior" racial stock of the [[People of K'n-yan]], to produce an intelligent slave class and quasi-animal horrors serving as dogs, horses, and cattle for the population of [[K'n-yan]]. Within the age of modern man, these quadrupeds appear to have degenerated to animalism, but in an earlier age they were accomplished architects, scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers; the reptilian civilization appears to have gone strongly until they found their way into the lightless and shadowed gulfs of [[N'kai]], where they discovered devotion to [[Tsathoggua]], and shortly afterward their own doom on contact with the monstrous [[Shoggoth]]s.

==Mahars==
[[File:Attheearthscore 1976film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Mahars gather for a sacrifice in ''At the Earth's Core (1976 film)''...]]
<blockquote>
The all-powerful Mahars of Pellucidar are great reptiles, some six or eight feet in length, with long narrow heads and great round eyes. Their beak-like mouths are lined with sharp, white fangs, and the backs of their huge, lizard bodies are serrated into bony ridges from their necks to the end of their long tails. Their feet are equipped with three webbed toes, while from the fore feet membranous wings, which are attached to their bodies just in front of the hind legs, protrude at an angle of 45 degrees toward the rear, ending in sharp points several feet above their bodies....

"...For countless millions of years these reptiles have been progressing. Possibly it is the sixth sense which I am sure they possess that has given them an advantage over the other and more frightfully armed of their fellows; but this we may never know. They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men—they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle. They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."

- [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[At the Earth's Core (fiction)]]''
</blockquote>

The Mahars are a sapient race of flying reptile people which lack the ability to hear. They are the supreme rulers of the Earth's inner world of [[Pellucidar]], and known to enslave the native human races of that inner world. The ape-like [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoths]] are their loyal servants, and the non-sapient dragon-like pterosaurs known as Thipdars are domesticated by them, being used as pets and guard animals.

Mahars are a highly intelligent, scientific scholarly races with a talent for genetics, engineering, and architecture.

The entire Mahar race is female. As they have discovered a formula that allowed them to reproduce without males, this allowed the extermination of their male population. Mahars are great swimmers as well as fliers, and often dive deeply in order to feed on fish and reptiles. For some reason, they consider it a taboo to feed on mammalian meat, but many Mahar cultists practice this as an occult ritual, feasting on freshly killed human slaves. Despite living in a world of perpetual noonday, they have eyes well suited for seeing in darkness. The entire race lacks the ability to hear, or to even comprehend the idea of sound. Instead, they communicate through some strange means which is just as incomprehensible to humans as sound is to them. Abner Perry, a voyager to Pellucidar who made a study of the creatures while in captivity, has denied that this form of communication should be labelled as "telepathy", since it isn't useful over long distances and doesn't allow them to communicate with other species; they have instead developed a gesture-based language to speak with their [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoth servants]]. Perry speculates that the Mahars are able to project and detect information over a fourth dimension, using a sixth sense unique to them, and that forms the basis of their language. Although they may not be regarded as telepaths in the traditional sense, they at least have some influence over the human mind, being able to hypnotize victims into a zombie-like state in which they might be consumed without resistance.

Mahars first appear in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' [[Pallucidar|Hollow Earth/Earth's Core]] novels.

== Sleestaks and Altrusians ==
[[File:Sleestaks.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A band of Sleestaks creeps through the inner world of the ''Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)'']]
TO DO -

Sleestaks are the slow-moving savage lizard people from the ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]''.

The very similar Altrusians are a reptilian advanced civilization living in an alternate timeline of what at first seems like a "Hollow Earth" but later proves to be a small, artificial "pocket universe"; through their super-science, the Altrusians foresee their downfall and de-evolution into savage Sleestaks, and are working to avert this disaster; over time, the Altrusians find evidence that the Sleestaks may be a precursor race that will evolve into Altrusians, confusing their efforts; the truth seems to be that the Sleestaks may represent both the savage past and the degenerate future of the Altrusian civilization at the same time....

The ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]'' was apparently partly inspired by [[Robert E. Howard]] (compare the Sleestaks and Altrusians both to R.E. Howard's serpent people of Valusia, and to his various [[Frazetta Man]] savage precursors to and degenerate inheritors of pre-historic advanced human civilizations in Hyperborea, such as the Atlanteans, in that Howard's vision of savage races evolving to civilization alongside civilized neighbors devolving into savagery in cycles resembles the apparent origin and doom of the Altrusians, who were once Sleestaks, and are doomed do fall and become Sleestaks again in cycles....)

== Silurians ==
[[File:Silurians drwho.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Silurians from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'']]
Silurians (AKA Earth Reptiles, Eocenes, Psionosauropodomorpha, Homo Reptilicus, Homo reptilia and Reptilia sapiens) are a technologically advanced race from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'', native to Earth and predating mammalian (including human) life-forms, alongside their aquatic cousins the [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devils]].

The long-lived and widespread Silurian race had over time developed numerous subspecies evolved subtly for different environments and varying widely in appearance by such features as skin tone, facial structure and shape, crests and/or spikes, number and appearance of eyes, the ability to spit poison, etc. These differences contribute to a very complex and subtle caste system that determines the role, position, and authority that individual Silurians hold within their society, though the specifics are perhaps far too esoteric for many humans to follow the nuances. Silurians hatch from eggs. Developed from predatory ancestry, Silurians are quicker and strong than humans in short bursts, and taller and lighter than humans. There have been isolated reports throughout the ''Doctor Who'' literature and long-lived television series of hybrids between Silurians and their aquatic [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devil cousins]], as well as hybrids between Silurians and humans, though these hybrids tend to be sterile and feeble compared to purebred examples of any of these races; the more successful examples include a hybrid population which has inspired stories of the "[[Faerie|Fair Folk]]".

Silurians, parallel to Serpent People, flourished in antediluvian Earth, but were driven into the [[Hollow Earth]] to hibernate by some prehistoric catastrophe, where small populations of survivors have remained awake, living a troglodytic existence a few steps ahead of their own extinction far into the modern era, and into the future, where they have increasingly come into conflict with humans. Time and attrition are slowly killing off the hibernating Silurian population, but the Silurians still believe that there will come a time when conditions on Earth's surface will become favorable for their race to awaken, climb to the surface, and reclaim it as their own once again.

Some Silurians possess a "third eye", presumably equivalent in nature and function to the supposed occult description of the human "pineal eye": presumably a hold-over from an ancient descent from the Astral Plane giving these Silurians not just a wider range of vision, but also some slight psychic power: telepathy, mind control, a weak form of telekinesis, the capacity for thought transfer, etc.

Silurians are a generally peaceful race, having long ago outlawed war except in self-defense; Silurians seem to find disconcerting the ease with which humans go to war, and the degree to which the violence and destruction of human wars can escalate. Silurians are apparently capable of feeling profound (if alien to humans) emotions, but are reportedly incapable of expressing them even to each other, but especially to humans, and are incapable of physically crying; in addition, Silurian art, music, and literature as humans understand it is all but non-existent, largely because their telepathic abilities tends to render such efforts unnecessarily complicated and difficult in comparison; Silurians seem to find the human ability to share emotions verbally or visually, and to communicate through artificial means such as writing and pictures, alien and unsettling. Silurian art, poetry, and similar expression tends instead to take the form of mathematics, optical illusions, and telepathic tricks and games that would be hard to explain in human terms.

Silurian relations with humans have varied over time; apparently, Silurians helped develop humans through tampering with mammal genetics to produce a large, slow, fast-breeding mammal for use as a food source, leaving humans with an instinctive fear and hatred of Silurians. When humans later evolved into more sentient, independent, dangerous, and feral creatures after the Silurians were driven underground, the Silurians learned to keep a healthy distance between the two races, varying between ignoring and avoiding humans, to unsuccessful attempts at genocide to cleanse humans from Earth's surface. In modern times, human expansion has brought the races more frequently into contact and conflict, driving both difficult relations, as well as the beginnings of efforts at communication and cooperation between the two races; only time can tell whether a lasting truce can be forged between man and Silurian, let alone peace and understanding. For now, the relationship between the two races is strained, at best, with both sides of the secret conflict capable of inflicting monstrous atrocities and unspeakable horrors on the other.

Some Silurians are also accomplished Dreamers, using specially-developed candles and incenses to enhance their ability to experience lucid dreams and enter the Dreamlands.

Modern Silurian technology includes advanced genetic manipulation, feats of biological and medical engineering, the use and construction of advanced airships and antigravity and other devices and vehicles for transportation and construction or exploration and communication purposes, the generation and use of force fields and rays for various purposes including interaction with dinosaurs and later mammals on Earth's surface, the generation of a form of "free energy", and a means for producing food without resorting to agriculture. For aesthetic reasons Silurians prefer not to rely on technology any more than absolutely necessary, and some older and rarely-used Silurian technologies are in danger of being lost and forgotten.

At the time of the catastrophe that drove them underground, a small population of Silurians built an object called "The Silurian Ark", a space station onto which a select few Silurians and a population of their dinosaur livestock, pets, and work animals along with a great forest of of prehistoric plant life were were transplanted to survive the cataclysm for a time before returning to Earth; the Ark has never returned, and may still exist intact somewhere in space, its population evolving and re-engineering itself over the aeons, and might perhaps return one day to Earth, bringing with it whatever life forms have evolved from the Silurian and Dinosaur and other antediluvian stock over the millions of years that the Ark has waited in the darkness of space to return.

== Reptilians ==
[[File:Spectre 1977film asmodeus.png|200px|thumb|right|The immortal, shape-shifting, demonic Serpent Man "Asmodeus" from ''[[Spectre (1977 film)]]'']]
In the [[Delta Green]] RPG setting and in UFOlogy, Serpent Folk might be associated with "Reptilian" Aliens of UFO mythology, which by some accounts can apparently trace their storytelling ancestry back through [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]] to [[Robert E. Howard]]'s and/or [[A. Merritt]]'s serpent men, though it's just as likely that both modern UFO mythology and pulp science fiction authors were alike inspired by a mix of the pseudoscience of the early 20th century combined with the subsequent and related wild speculations of [[Theosophy]] regarding the lost continents of [[Mu]] and [[Lemuria]].

With an appearance akin to that of earthly reptiles, the Reptilians are highly advanced entities but viewed as being of a negative, hostile or dangerous disposition, since they regard humans as a totally inferior race, and as a food livestock: they are carnivorous in regard to humans. The area of the galaxy most densely populated with Reptilian sub-races located in the vast Orion system, as well as the systems in Rigel and Capella, though their forefathers appear to have come to our universe from another separate universe or reality system at some unknown point in antiquity. The Reptilians themselves are not really clear on when they got here, teaching humans and their own masses that they were here in this universe first, holding the title and rights to the earth as their outpost from a time before humans, and as such they are heirs to the earth and its surroundings, and should be considered exalted gods over their human subjects and property, with special rights over human government, education, autonomy, genetics, and even dreams and memories. The Reptilians claim to have conquered many star systems over which they maintain similar "rights", where they also claim to have genetically altered and otherwise manipulated many of the life forms they have encountered as a matter of routine, even creating and perfecting the earliest primate forms of human life itself from out of protoplasmic chaos, though admitting that their work was tampered with by dozens of other alien races to produce the modern "debased" and "inferior" form that human life has taken (while also claiming the "right" to "repair" and "correct" the damage through further manipulation of humans through monstrous breeding programs, genetic manipulation, surgical and mutating energy procedures, as well as through brainwashing and re-education, psycho-social re-engineering, instinctual/behavioral/personality reprogramming, and mystic/spiritual works and ministry.)

The Reptilians have little regard for history or truth, maintaining that reality is what they make of it, accepting the deceptions of their rulers without question as being works of magick capable of altering the universe into new, "higher" parallel time/space dimensions beneficial to the interests of their species; little of what a Reptilian says can be trusted, and everything they say has been manipulated in favor of their own interests at the listener's expense. The philosophical mindset of the majority of Reptilians is toward subjugation, manipulation, and enslavement of weaker beings, and this belief system is promoted at birth in the Reptilian races, wherein after giving birth the offspring are abandoned to fend for themselves. If they survive they are cared for by an elite class that uses these children for games of combat and other such amusements.

The Reptilians are credited with scientific and magickal advancements that seem nearly miraculous to human witnesses, including incredible scientific achievements and the mastery of Mythos magick, and especially a talent for convincingly disguising themselves as humans, albeit with rubbery faces. They also appear to be masters of genetic manipulation, as well as the manipulation of human minds through the use of ray technologies, magick, and manipulation of dreams and spirituality via the [[Astral Plane]]; Reptilians have thus become firmly embedded in human governments and militaries, through which they can directly manipulate their subjects through physical and social force, as well as in entertainment and religious and spiritual structures and organizations through which they can manipulate their victim's very beliefs and perceptions of reality. The Reptilians have thus held positions of terrible power and influence over humanity through elaborate and ancient cults operating virtually uninterrupted since the dawn of human civilization. Through these infiltrations, the Reptilians do not act alone - they have allegedly worked out terrible and treacherous bargains with [[Grey Alien]]s and depraved [[Human Cultist]]s in governments, religious structures, and magickal lodges who serve the Reptilians to achieve mutual goals against the human population of Earth.

UFO conspiracy theories maintain that a hollow, guided comet or asteroid, filled with an invasion force of millions of hibernating Reptilians, approaches earth from their home in the Orion system, which they have abandoned after exhausting that system of resources and poisoning it with their addiction to dark works of science, alchemy and magick which have allowed unspeakable horrors to infest the system, and left the [[Astral Plane]] surrounding the system in a state of toxic ruin. The arrival of this comet in the solar system has been repeatedly rescheduled for centuries, last slated for 2012, with delays caused by the unpredictable nature of the "conjunction" of the Orion System with ours that would allow the comet to make the "jump" to our world when "the stars are right", due in part to corresponding failures of the Reptilians' human collaborators in completing the magickal workings required to complete the conjunction.

== Scrags ==
[[File:Quake scrag.png|thumb|200px|right|Anatomy of a Scrag wizard from ''[[Quake]]'']]
In [[Quake]], a Scrag wizard or Shade is a kind of grotesquely mutated, floating humanoid creature resembling a white serpent with a humanoid torso, a head which merges indistinctly with its shoulders, and vestigial arms reduced to clawed stumps and legs devolved into a serpentine tail, their skin is translucent and rubbery, resembling that of a slug or snail, while their yellowed eyes burn with rage and horror at the cruel fate of their long-lived existence. These revolting horrors are said to be the result of mystical and biological experimentation by [[Shub-Niggurath]]. As such, they are ubiquitous throughout Shub-Niggurath's realms.

Scrags are masters of evil magic, and most scrags are capable of a languid, graceful levitation, often possess the power to project of small yellowish green globs of life-draining magical energy at their opponents, and are frequently skilled in the monstrous arts of necromancy and monstrous transformations of living flesh. Some Scrags commanded positions of power during the [[Quake Wars]], while others seem to have served [[Shub-Niggurath]] in a support capacity comparable to specialists and spies.

Scrags are a hideously ancient and wise race, possessing cunning beyond the lofty standard set by the other monsters in Quake; they are stealthy creatures which hide in the shadows high above the ground in their bizarre, secret Library-city of [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]] in the [[Hollow Earth|Inner World]], said to be a place of darkness beneath the earth to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from light. Thanks to their powers of levitation, teleportation, and invisibility, Scrags typically remain unseen by those unfortunate visitors who find their way to [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]], the Scrag cultists silently watching from above until they choose to give themselves away with the sibilant warnings of their sentries to their fellows of the presence of unwanted guests, or the hissed [[Aklo]] curses of the magical spells they have been known to cast upon intrusive meddlers in their secret world.

==Historic Serpent Cults and Mythology==
The Theosophists alluded to the Exalted "Naacal" - or Nagas - as a serpent-like ruling class on the island of [[Lemuria]] before the dawn of humanity, possibly originating from [[Venus]], acting as a guiding hand for humanity by leading occult lodges and teaching the ways of civilization, mysticism, and magic to humans.

Serpent Cults (see [[Cult of Yig]]) are a wide-spread phenomenon across the world, being perhaps a primordial part of human culture. In addition to the Nagas of Theosophy (which are, perhaps, derived from the East Asian Naga myth of an exalted, serpentine elite class that ruled the world in ancient times, influenced by Mayan serpent cult elements), serpent cults have appeared throughout African, pre-Columbian North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, where some of the more common themes seem to be that the Serpent People came to Earth from a "heavenly water", the stars, the [[Hollow Earth]], or from the deathly abysses or Dreamlands of the [[Astral Plane]]; bringing civilization, forbidden knowledge, technological advancement, spiritual enlightenment, and knowledge of magick with them to give to man; leading, guiding, or ruling primordial human/proto-human civilization from positions of exalted (and possibly malevolent or abusive) power; holding some antagonistic relationship with the elements of weather and natural disaster such as the power to command them and eventually being destroyed by them; enjoying eternal (or extremely long) lives and shape-shifting powers represented by or accompanied by the ability to shed their old skins; interbreeding with their subjects to produce an elite and hybrid ruling class that would fill the ranks of kings and queens and other rules of all kinds throughout human history; and represented with liminal symbology representing an ability to cross with relative ease between the worlds of the living and the world of the dead (the mystic [[Other Side]] or a literal [[Hollow Earth|Underworld]]).

==See also==
[[File:Dreamscape serpentman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A rogue Dreamer has turned his dream form into a Serpent Man in ''[[Dreamscape (1984 film)]]''....]]
*[[Kull]]
*[[Set]]
*[[Worms of the Earth (Race)]]
*[[Lemurian]]s
*"[[Frazetta Man]]" (for the sorts of proto-human peoples ruled by the Serpent People)
*[[Yig]]
*[[Thurian Age]]
*[[Valusia]]
*[[Lemuria]]
*[[Mu]]
*[[Atlantis]]
*[[Naacal]] for the language of lost Lemuria and the Nagas
*[[Naacal Tablets]] for one of the more well-known documentations of Lemurian and Naacal history

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Seven Geases]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[Ubbo-Sathla (story)|Ubbo-Sathla]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[The Double Shadow]]"
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Nameless City]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & [[Zealia Bishop]] - "[[The Curse of Yig]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop - "[[The Mound]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
* [[Karl Edward Wagner]] - ''[[Legion from the Shadows]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan of Aquilonia]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan the Buccaneer]]''
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]"
* Lin Carter - ''[[Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria]]''
* Lin Carter - "[[The Vengeance of Yig]]"
* Scott David Aniolowski - "[[Where a God Shall Tread]]"
* Robert E. Howard - "[[Worms of the Earth]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"

===Role-playing games===
* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios|List of Call of Cthulhu Serpent Men scenarios]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]
* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"

[[Category:Races]]

Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath

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Travern: Expanded article

[[File:DarkYoung.jpg|thumb|200px|right]]
The '''Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath''' are the spawn of the the Outer God of that name. Only obliquely alluded to by H P. Lovecraft (e.g. "Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Goat with a Thousand Young!"), they were introduced in Robert Bloch's story "[[Notebook Found in a Deserted House]]".

==Description==
The Dark Young are horrifying, pitch-black monstrosities, seemingly made of ropy tentacles. They stand as tall as a tree (perhaps between twelve and twenty feet tall) on a pair of stumpy, hooved legs. A mass of tentacles protudes from their trunks where a head would normally be, and puckered maws, dripping green goo, cover their flanks. The monsters roughly resemble trees in silhouette — the trunks being the short legs and the tops of the trees represented by the ropy, branching bodies. The whole mass of these things smells like an open grave. They usually dwell in woodlands wherever [[Shub-Niggurath]]'s cult is active.

The Dark Young are usually called upon to preside over cult ceremonies. One means for summoning them is found in the ''[[Book of Eibon]]'' and requires a blood offering. The ritual may only be performed in the deep of the woodlands at the darkest of the moon, and the victim must be sacrificed over a stone altar.

Dark young act as proxies for Shub-Niggurath in the accepting of sacrifices and the worship of cultists, in the devouring of non-cultists, and in the spreading of their mother's faith across the world.

==Quote==
<blockquote>"It was real tall and all inky-black, without any particular shape except a lot of black ropes with ends like hoofs on it. I mean, it had a shape but it kep changing—all bulgy and squirming into different sizes. They was a lot of mouths all over the thing like puckered up leaves on branches. […] The mouths was like leaves and the whole thing was like a tree in the wind, a black tree with lots of branches trailing to the ground, and a whole lot of roots ending in hoofs. And that green slime dribbling out of the mouths and down the legs was like sap!"

"Something black in the road, something that wasn’t a tree. Something big and black, just squatting there, waiting, with ropy arms squirming and reaching."

"It came crawling up the hillside to the alter and the sacrefice, and it was the black thing of my dreams-that black ropy, slimy, jelly tree-thing out of the woods. It crawled up and it flowed up on its hoofs and mouths and snaky arms. And the men bowed and stood back and then it got to the alter where they was something squirmin on top,
squirming and screaming."
 —Robert Bloch, "Notebook Found in a Deserted House"</blockquote>

==Trivia==
Although Bloch originally referred to this creature a "shoggoth", Sandy Petersen took his description and applied it to his own creation in the [[Call of Cthulhu (RPG)|Call of Cthulhu]] roleplaying game rulebook in 1981.

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Robert Bloch]] - "[[Notebook Found in a Deserted House]]"
* [[Nadia Bulkin]] - "[[Red Goat Black Goat]]"
* [[David Conyers]] - "[[Regrowth]]"
* [[Victor Milán]] - "[[Mr. Skin]]"

===Film===
[[File:DarkYoungByLokiAnimation.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Dark Young from the 2011 short film Black Goat]]
* ''[[Black Goat (short film)]]'' (2011)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Sandy Petersen]] - ''[[S. Petersen's Field Guide to Lovecraftian Horrors]]''
* [[:CoC:Dark Young scenarios|Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath]]

[[Category:Races]]

File:DarkYoungByLokiAnimation.jpg

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Travern: Final design for the Dark Young by Loki Animation for writer/director Joseph Nanni's teaser film Black Goat

== Summary ==
Final design for the Dark Young by Loki Animation for writer/director Joseph Nanni's teaser film Black Goat

File:DarkYoung.jpg

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Travern: Robin Catesby - Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath (Cthulhu Christmas Cookies) (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

== Summary ==
Robin Catesby - Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath (Cthulhu Christmas Cookies) (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Tilberi

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Travern:

A '''Tilberi''' ("carrier"), or Snakkur ("spindle"), is a familiar creature from ''[[Mythic Iceland]]''.

==Description==
[[File:Tilberi.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Tilberi]]
Tilberi are created by a häxan ([[Witch|witch-woman]]) from a large straight bone from a freshly-dead human corpse wrapped in wool by the light of a full moon. For three weeks, the witch will warm it between her breasts and feed it mead or wine that has been blessed by a Pagan or Christian priest by spitting the alcohol on the Tilberi. By the second week, the Tilberi begins to move (which can attract attention if the witch is not careful), and by the third week, it comes to life, after which it must be suckled on blood from its creator's teat (a mole or cut, usually on the witch's thigh).

The Tilberi resembles a woolly creature with two heads, one at each end of the bundle, and sharp teeth in tiny and monstrous faces resembling that of the corpse. When at home, the Tilberi clings to the witch's teat and drinks the witch's blood. The Tilberi can speak in languages known to the corpse and/or witch in a thin, childish voice. It can be instructed to go forth into the night to run simple errands for the witch, usually involving acts of petty theft (milk, wool, small objects such as coins or jewelry), delivering messages, spying on others, or committing other minor acts of mischief and mayhem. The Tilberi, in drinking her blood, drains the witch a little more every day until she eventually dies, unless the Tilberi is killed. The only ways to kill a Tilberi are to order it to undertake a very difficult task that it will work itself to death to complete (such as eating all the droppings in a large sheep pasture) or to burn the witch and Tilberi together at the stake.

If its mistress dies before it returns from its mission, the entity might go insane, feeding on the blood, hair, and wool of any farm animals or people it encounters, then rolling in sheared or ripped-out hair and wool to form a ball and growing to prodigious size, until it is big enough to begin consuming corpses and killing victims for food.

A similar creature is the Trollnøste ("troll cat") or Mjölkhare ("milk rabbit"), a familiar which usually appears in the form of a large ball of wool, hair, wood shavings, and/or finger/toe-nail parings, or sometimes in the form of a woollen cat or rabbit, shaped by the witch and animated with witch's blood.

The Tilberi is a creature originally from Icelandic folklore and appears in the ''[[Mythic Iceland]]'' scenario "[[Cthulhu Dark Ages Scenario]]".

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Ghoul

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[[File:Ghoul.png|100px|thumb|right|a feral Ghoul]]

Ghouls are a species of cannibalistic nocturnal creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos. They are first described in the Cthulhu Mythos by Lovecraft's story "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]".

Lovecraftian Ghouls are usually described as white or green-skinned humanoid hairless creatures with long canine muzzles, pointed ears, and clawed feet that have almost become hooves. They inhabit networks of underground tunnels and crypts, and eat the corpses of dead humans. Despite their favored food and reclusive habits, Ghouls are usually not hostile creatures, and in ''[[The_Dream_Quest of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' the protagonist gains the aid of a group of Ghouls and travels with them for a period of time. Ghouls communicate using a "meeping" or gibbering vocalization called Ghoul Speech or [[Pnathic]].

Ghouls are found through the underworld of the [[Dreamlands]] as well, and it seems that they can navigate between the waking world and the dreamlands through the use of special tunnels. The universal center of ghoul activity seems to be the bone-filled [[Vale of Pnath]] in the Dreamland underworld, were the world's ghouls dump cleaned bones. This dumping is done from the [[Crag of the Ghouls]], a cliff jutting off from the [[Mountains of Thok]] over the vale.

Ghouls appear to be a separate species from humans, breeding and living as their own society, but it also seems that some humans can slowly become ghouls, though the exact means are unknown, and the Changeling aspect of some of Pickman's paintings suggests that human and ghoul infants are routinely exchanged, and it might be inferred that, similarly to other aspects of Changeling myths, humans and ghouls might be able to interbreed.

==Description==
[[Image:Lovecraft ghoul sketch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|"Pickman's Model" sketch by HPL]]

<blockquote>
"These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness.... Occasionally the things were shown leaping through open windows at night, or squatting on the chests of sleepers, worrying at their throats. One canvas showed a ring of them baying about a hanged witch on Gallows Hill, whose dead face held a close kinship to theirs.... "...It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present prey and seek a juicier morsel. But damn it all, it wasn't even the fiendish subject that made it such an immortal fountain-head of all panic- not that, nor the dog face with its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips. It wasn't the scaly claws nor the mould-caked body nor the half-hooved feet - none of these, though any one of them might well have driven an excitable man to madness...."
 — HPL, "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
</blockquote>

From ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'', we learn that Ghouls speak in a "meeping"/"glibbering" language of their own and remember little of the language they spoke in life, have no beards, have a rubbery/mouldy texture to their skin, lope "in a slumping way" and squat when resting, tend to prefer not to wear clothes, live in conflict with [[Ghast]]s, and might turn greenish in old age. This story also contains many details about the Ghouls' habitat in the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Wakeworld|waking world]], as well as something of the feeding habits of Ghouls and their disposal of bones in the [[Vale of Pnath]].

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* deity: [[Mordiggian]] the Great Ghoul, a [[Great Old One]] worshiped by some Ghouls
* races: [[Ghast]]s and [[Gug]]s are the enemies of Ghouls
* language: [[Pnathic]], the "meeping", "glibbering", "warbling" language of the Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'', a Mythos Tome which may heavily reference Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'', a Mythos Tome dedicated to the worship of [[Mordiggian]]
* location: The Ghoul city of [[Midian]]
* cult: the [[Rakes]]
* cult: [[Cult of Mordiggian]]

==References==
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ "The Great Ghoul Thread" at Yog-Sothoth.com]
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31471-the-ecology-of-ghouls/ "The Ecology of Ghouls" at Yog-Sothoth.com]
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31472-sartorial-customs-of-ghouls/ "Sartorial Customs of Ghouls" at Yog-Sothoth.com]

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Scott Glancy]] - "[[Down in the Delta]]"
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Dwellers Under the Tomb (fiction)|The Dwellers Under the Tomb]]"
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Charnal God (fiction)|The Charnal God]]"
* [[Edward Lucas White]] - "[[Amina (fiction)|Amina]]"

===Film===
* "[[Pickman's Model (1972 film)|Pickman's Model]]" (1972 ''[[Night Gallery (1970 Series) | Night Gallery]]'' episode)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Ghoul_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Ghouls]]

[[Category:Races]]

Insect from Shaggai

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'''Shan''', AKA '''Insects from Shaggai'''

Origin: The Insects from Shaggai are primarily described in [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)|The Insects from Shaggai]]", seemingly inspired by a dream H.P. Lovecraft noted in his [[Commonplace Book (fiction)|Commonplace Book]].

==Description==
[[File:NicolaesDeBruyn locustthing 1594.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Insect from Shaggai, as depicted by naturalist/entomologist Nicolaes DeBruyn in 1594]]

<blockquote>
"...I was, while walking in a familiar rural region, suddenly attacked by a swarm of swift-darting insects from the sky. They were tiny and streamlined, and seemed to be able to pierce my cranium and enter my brain as if their substance were not strictly material. No sooner had they entered my head, than my identity and position seemed to become very doubtful. I remembered alien and incredible scenes..."
 — [[H.P. Lovecraft]], in a May 11, 1935 letter to [[Robert H. Barlowe]]
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
"At last a shape appeared, flapping above the ground on leathery wings. The thing which flew whirring toward me was followed by a train of others, wings slapping the air at incredible speed... I could ... make out many more details... Those huge lidless eyes which stared in hate at me, the jointed tendrils which seemed to twist from the head in cosmic rhythms, the ten legs, covered with black shining tentacles and folded into the pallid underbody, and the semi-circular ridged wings covered with triangular scales... I saw the three mouths of the thing move moistly, and then it was upon me... [not] strictly material [but] constructed of some alien matter which allow its atoms to exist conterminously with those of my body...."
 — [[Ramsey Campbell]], "[[The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)|The Insects from Shaggai]]"
</blockquote>

The Shan, a.k.a. the Insects from Shaggai, are a little larger than terrestrial insects, with ridged and scaled leathery wings, huge lidless eyes, jointed tendrils which twist "from the head in cosmic rhythms", ten legs covered with shiny black tentacles that fold into their pallid underbody, and the three mouths on its head, controlled by three compartmentalized personalities cohabiting a six-lobed brain.

The Shan find Earth a hostile place to live, in particular due to solar radiation, which the Shan find deadly in extended exposure. The creatures appear to be capable of thought transference on physical contact with a human brain, effected by the incorporeal, immaterial composition of the creatures, which allows them to pass easily through the solid matter of human flesh and bone, directly into the human brain, allowing the target to remember the insect's vast and alien memories, as well as the merger or replacement of human and Shan minds.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* Tome:
** ''[[Massa di Requiem per Shuggay]]''
* Artifact:
** [[Shan Temple-City]] (teleporting space-ship/city objects containing a temple-like portal to [[Azathoth]] in its lower levels, possibly as a source of energy)
* Deities:
** [[Azathoth]]
** [[Dzéwà]]
** [[Ghroth]], the Harbinger (supposedly destroyed Shaggai, according to ''[[Encyclopaedia Cthulhiana]]'', ''[[Lovecraftian Science blog]]'', and possibly [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Tugging (fiction)|The Tugging]]"?)
** [[Lrogg]], possibly an avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]]
* Race:
** [[Being of Xiclotl]]
** [[Inhabitant of L'gy'hx]]
* Locations:
** [[Shaggai]], a world orbiting twin emerald-green suns
** [[Goatswood]] (a temple city landed here)
** [[Xiclotl]]
** [[Thuggon]]
** [[L'gy'hx]] ([[Uranus]])
* Cults:
** [[Cult of Azathoth]]
** [[PISCES]] (infiltration in the '60s and '70s)
** [[Army of the Third Eye]] terrorist organization
==References==
* Lovecraftian Science Blog: [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/the-insects-from-shaggai-part-1-alien-matter/ Alien Matter], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-insects-from-shaggai-part-2-modes-of-inter-dimensional-nutrition/ Nutrition], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/the-insects-from-shaggai-part-3-the-destruction-of-shaggai/ Shaggai], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/ghroth-the-harbinger/ Ghroth], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/the-arrival-of-the-insects-of-shaggai-part-1/ The Arrival of the Insects from Shaggai Part 1], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/the-arrival-of-the-insects-of-shaggai-part-2/ Part 2]

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[Commonplace Book (fiction)|Commonplace Book]]"
* [[Ramsey Campbell]] - "[[The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)|The Insects from Shaggai]]"
* [[Diane Sammarco]] - "[[The Queen]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Shan_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Insects from Shaggai (Shan)]]

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Serpent Men

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[[File:YaxchilanDivineSerpent.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mayan interpretation of a serpent-man shedding his skin.]]

'''Serpent Men''' are a fictional race created by [[Robert E. Howard]] for his [[King Kull]] tales. They first appeared in "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]," published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'' in August of 1929.

They were later adapted for the Marvel Comics Conan comics by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Their first Marvel Universe appearance was in ''Kull the Conqueror'' vol.1 #2 (September, 1971). They were also used in the 1992 ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series. They were also adapted into [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by writers like [[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]].

==Origin and society==
[[File:Ubaid serpent folk.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Aeons-old "Serpent" figures unearthed in Iraq]]
In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the Great Serpent. Later writers would identify the Great Serpent with the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)|Great Old One]] [[Yig]] and with the Stygian serpent god [[Set (serpent god)|Set]] from Howard's [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories.

The Serpent Men were created untold aeons ago by the Great Serpent. At some point the Serpent Men group split, with one group becoming the Man-Serpents- these creatures, unlike their kin and predecessors, have the bodies of giant serpents and the heads of human beings, with smaller snakes for hair like Medusa. A Man-Serpent is the titular being in the Conan story "The God in the Bowl". Man-Serpents have hypnotic gazes and lethally venomous bites, as well as terrible crushing strength.

The seat of the First Empire of the serpent people, during the Paleozoic era, was [[Valusia]]. Valusia is a fictional country in the Kull stories of Robert E. Howard, located on the west coast of the main continent of [[Thuria]]. The empire was based on sorcery and alchemy, but collapsed with the rise of the dinosaurs about 225 million years ago during the Triassic era. The Serpent Men originally ruled over humans in Valusia but were defeated and almost wiped out in humanity's battle for survival against the "elder things" that predated them. Over time, humans dominated Valusia and the Serpent Men became a legend. The Serpent Men, one of the few surviving "elder things", infiltrated human society and ruled from behind the scenes for a time but were again discovered, defeated and cast out in a secret war. However, they later repeated this tactic but added the front of a Snake Cult religion, which gained power and influence within Valusia while they also used their abilities of disguise to murder and replace each reigning monarch. Their power is eventually broken by King Kull, formerly an Atlantean barbarian who had recently conquered Valusia, and the Pict Brule the Spear-Slayer, whose society was aware of the Serpent Men's infiltration.

After the destruction of Valusia, the serpent men escaped to [[Yoth]], a cavern beneath [[K'n-yan]] in North America (ironically, the Pictish Isles of the Kull stories). They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the serpent men's scientific lore. Their next downfall came when they brought idols of [[Tsathoggua]] from N'kai and abandoned their patron deity [[Yig]] to worship their new god. As retribution Yig placed his curse upon them, forcing his few remaining worshipers to flee to caverns beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]].

Cursed by Yig, some serpent men degenerated into more and more bestial forms, eventually becoming mere giant snakes. Some sources claim that the [[Worms of the Earth (Race)|worms of the earth]] were degenerate serpent men, while other stories describe the "worms" as descended from humans.

==Appearance and abilities==
Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.

==Earlier Serpent Men==
Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about prehistoric serpent people. Another pulp writer, [[Abraham Merritt]], created a similar pre-human serpentine race surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss" which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]] and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving Serpent-Woman is an ally of the human protagonists.

==Cthulhu Mythos==
[[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]] adapted the race for inclusion in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], inspired by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[The Nameless City]]", which refers to an Arabian city built by a pre-human reptilian race. Lovecraft's story "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]" explicitly mentions the "serpent men of Valusia" as being one-time possessors of the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. However, the Cthulhu Mythos were already connected to the works of Robert E. Howard (a contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft as well as a direct contributor to the Mythos itself). In this case, the Serpent Men were created for the very first Kull story, the character of Kull later made an appearance in a [[Bran Mak Morn]] story, ''[[Kings of the Night]]'', while in another such story, ''[[Worms of the Earth]]'', Bran Mak Morn explicitly refers to [[Cthulhu]] and [[R'lyeh]]. Many [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories by Howard are also part of the Mythos.

==Conan==
The fictional settings of King Kull and Robert E. Howard's other creation, [[Conan the Barbarian]], are linked through Howards essay ''[[The Hyborian Age]]''. This states that Valusia, and its Thurian Age, existed in some time before Conan's Hyborian Age (the land was reshaped in between the story cycles by an undefined cataclysm). The Serpent Men did not, however, appear in any Conan story written by Robert E. Howard himself.

In 1971, the Serpent Men appeared in a comic book adaptation of the King Kull stories, published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Since then they have been imported into the Conan comics, as well as other adaptations and Conan pastiches. The Serpent Men were the main antagonists, personified by the wizard "Wrath-Amon", in the animated series ''Conan the Adventurer''. This retained the Serpent Men's ability to infiltrate human society in disguise (in the cartoon, this disguise failed in the presence of meteoric "star metal", contact with which also sent a Serpent Man back to "the Abyss").

==The Spider==
In the Spider short story "Fear Itself" (published in The Spider Chronicles by Moonstone in 2007) by Joel Frieman and C.J. Henderson, an occult expert named Guicet enlists the Spider's aid in defeating a group of Serpent Men who acquire a duplicate of the Cobra Crown from Conan the Buccaneer. In The Phantom Chronicles, worshippers of Set appear, but no Serpent Men.

==He-Man's Snake Men==
Persistent but unverified claims suggest that the He-Man franchise was originally intended as a Conan toy line. If this is true, the equivalent to the Serpent Men in that franchise would be the Snake Men.

As with Howard's work, the Snake Men come from the distant past and fought against the character He-Ro/Lord Grayskull (who would be equivalent to Howard's character [[Kull of Atlantis|Kull]]). As with the ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series, the Snake Men were banished to another dimension in the past and were attempting to return to power in the present.

==Reptilian Quadrupeds==
In "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], the inhabitants of the red-litten subterranean world of [[Yoth]] are described as quadrupedal reptiles that seemed to be the debased remnants of a much greater, technologically-advanced reptilian race predating even the ancient [[People of K'n-yan]]; there seemed to be little doubt that these beings were older than humanity but still related, and the reptilians were easily blended with mammalian and "inferior" racial stock of the [[People of K'n-yan]], to produce an intelligent slave class and quasi-animal horrors serving as dogs, horses, and cattle for the population of [[K'n-yan]]. Within the age of modern man, these quadrupeds appear to have degenerated to animalism, but in an earlier age they were accomplished architects, scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers; the reptilian civilization appears to have gone strongly until they found their way into the lightless and shadowed gulfs of [[N'kai]], where they discovered devotion to [[Tsathoggua]], and shortly afterward their own doom on contact with the monstrous [[Shoggoth]]s.

==Mahars==
[[File:Attheearthscore 1976film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Mahars gather for a sacrifice in ''At the Earth's Core (1976 film)''...]]
<blockquote>
The all-powerful Mahars of Pellucidar are great reptiles, some six or eight feet in length, with long narrow heads and great round eyes. Their beak-like mouths are lined with sharp, white fangs, and the backs of their huge, lizard bodies are serrated into bony ridges from their necks to the end of their long tails. Their feet are equipped with three webbed toes, while from the fore feet membranous wings, which are attached to their bodies just in front of the hind legs, protrude at an angle of 45 degrees toward the rear, ending in sharp points several feet above their bodies....

"...For countless millions of years these reptiles have been progressing. Possibly it is the sixth sense which I am sure they possess that has given them an advantage over the other and more frightfully armed of their fellows; but this we may never know. They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men—they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle. They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."

- [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[At the Earth's Core (fiction)]]''
</blockquote>

The Mahars are a sapient race of flying reptile people which lack the ability to hear. They are the supreme rulers of the Earth's inner world of [[Pellucidar]], and known to enslave the native human races of that inner world. The ape-like [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoths]] are their loyal servants, and the non-sapient dragon-like pterosaurs known as Thipdars are domesticated by them, being used as pets and guard animals.

Mahars are a highly intelligent, scientific scholarly races with a talent for genetics, engineering, and architecture.

The entire Mahar race is female. As they have discovered a formula that allowed them to reproduce without males, this allowed the extermination of their male population. Mahars are great swimmers as well as fliers, and often dive deeply in order to feed on fish and reptiles. For some reason, they consider it a taboo to feed on mammalian meat, but many Mahar cultists practice this as an occult ritual, feasting on freshly killed human slaves. Despite living in a world of perpetual noonday, they have eyes well suited for seeing in darkness. The entire race lacks the ability to hear, or to even comprehend the idea of sound. Instead, they communicate through some strange means which is just as incomprehensible to humans as sound is to them. Abner Perry, a voyager to Pellucidar who made a study of the creatures while in captivity, has denied that this form of communication should be labelled as "telepathy", since it isn't useful over long distances and doesn't allow them to communicate with other species; they have instead developed a gesture-based language to speak with their [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoth servants]]. Perry speculates that the Mahars are able to project and detect information over a fourth dimension, using a sixth sense unique to them, and that forms the basis of their language. Although they may not be regarded as telepaths in the traditional sense, they at least have some influence over the human mind, being able to hypnotize victims into a zombie-like state in which they might be consumed without resistance.

Mahars first appear in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' [[Pallucidar|Hollow Earth/Earth's Core]] novels.

== Sleestaks and Altrusians ==
[[File:Sleestaks.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A band of Sleestaks creeps through the inner world of the ''Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)'']]
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Sleestaks are the slow-moving savage lizard people from the ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]''.

The very similar Altrusians are a reptilian advanced civilization living in an alternate timeline of what at first seems like a "Hollow Earth" but later proves to be a small, artificial "pocket universe"; through their super-science, the Altrusians foresee their downfall and de-evolution into savage Sleestaks, and are working to avert this disaster; over time, the Altrusians find evidence that the Sleestaks may be a precursor race that will evolve into Altrusians, confusing their efforts; the truth seems to be that the Sleestaks may represent both the savage past and the degenerate future of the Altrusian civilization at the same time....

The ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]'' was apparently partly inspired by [[Robert E. Howard]] (compare the Sleestaks and Altrusians both to R.E. Howard's serpent people of Valusia, and to his various [[Frazetta Man]] savage precursors to and degenerate inheritors of pre-historic advanced human civilizations in Hyperborea, such as the Atlanteans, in that Howard's vision of savage races evolving to civilization alongside civilized neighbors devolving into savagery in cycles resembles the apparent origin and doom of the Altrusians, who were once Sleestaks, and are doomed do fall and become Sleestaks again in cycles....)

== Silurians ==
[[File:Silurians drwho.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Silurians from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'']]
Silurians (AKA Earth Reptiles, Eocenes, Psionosauropodomorpha, Homo Reptilicus, Homo reptilia and Reptilia sapiens) are a technologically advanced race from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'', native to Earth and predating mammalian (including human) life-forms, alongside their aquatic cousins the [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devils]].

The long-lived and widespread Silurian race had over time developed numerous subspecies evolved subtly for different environments and varying widely in appearance by such features as skin tone, facial structure and shape, crests and/or spikes, number and appearance of eyes, the ability to spit poison, etc. These differences contribute to a very complex and subtle caste system that determines the role, position, and authority that individual Silurians hold within their society, though the specifics are perhaps far too esoteric for many humans to follow the nuances. Silurians hatch from eggs. Developed from predatory ancestry, Silurians are quicker and strong than humans in short bursts, and taller and lighter than humans. There have been isolated reports throughout the ''Doctor Who'' literature and long-lived television series of hybrids between Silurians and their aquatic [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devil cousins]], as well as hybrids between Silurians and humans, though these hybrids tend to be sterile and feeble compared to purebred examples of any of these races; the more successful examples include a hybrid population which has inspired stories of the "[[Faerie|Fair Folk]]".

Silurians, parallel to Serpent People, flourished in antediluvian Earth, but were driven into the [[Hollow Earth]] to hibernate by some prehistoric catastrophe, where small populations of survivors have remained awake, living a troglodytic existence a few steps ahead of their own extinction far into the modern era, and into the future, where they have increasingly come into conflict with humans. Time and attrition are slowly killing off the hibernating Silurian population, but the Silurians still believe that there will come a time when conditions on Earth's surface will become favorable for their race to awaken, climb to the surface, and reclaim it as their own once again.

Some Silurians possess a "third eye", presumably equivalent in nature and function to the supposed occult description of the human "pineal eye": presumably a hold-over from an ancient descent from the Astral Plane giving these Silurians not just a wider range of vision, but also some slight psychic power: telepathy, mind control, a weak form of telekinesis, the capacity for thought transfer, etc.

Silurians are a generally peaceful race, having long ago outlawed war except in self-defense; Silurians seem to find disconcerting the ease with which humans go to war, and the degree to which the violence and destruction of human wars can escalate. Silurians are apparently capable of feeling profound (if alien to humans) emotions, but are reportedly incapable of expressing them even to each other, but especially to humans, and are incapable of physically crying; in addition, Silurian art, music, and literature as humans understand it is all but non-existent, largely because their telepathic abilities tends to render such efforts unnecessarily complicated and difficult in comparison; Silurians seem to find the human ability to share emotions verbally or visually, and to communicate through artificial means such as writing and pictures, alien and unsettling. Silurian art, poetry, and similar expression tends instead to take the form of mathematics, optical illusions, and telepathic tricks and games that would be hard to explain in human terms.

Silurian relations with humans have varied over time; apparently, Silurians helped develop humans through tampering with mammal genetics to produce a large, slow, fast-breeding mammal for use as a food source, leaving humans with an instinctive fear and hatred of Silurians. When humans later evolved into more sentient, independent, dangerous, and feral creatures after the Silurians were driven underground, the Silurians learned to keep a healthy distance between the two races, varying between ignoring and avoiding humans, to unsuccessful attempts at genocide to cleanse humans from Earth's surface. In modern times, human expansion has brought the races more frequently into contact and conflict, driving both difficult relations, as well as the beginnings of efforts at communication and cooperation between the two races; only time can tell whether a lasting truce can be forged between man and Silurian, let alone peace and understanding. For now, the relationship between the two races is strained, at best, with both sides of the secret conflict capable of inflicting monstrous atrocities and unspeakable horrors on the other.

Some Silurians are also accomplished Dreamers, using specially-developed candles and incenses to enhance their ability to experience lucid dreams and enter the Dreamlands.

Modern Silurian technology includes advanced genetic manipulation, feats of biological and medical engineering, the use and construction of advanced airships and antigravity and other devices and vehicles for transportation and construction or exploration and communication purposes, the generation and use of force fields and rays for various purposes including interaction with dinosaurs and later mammals on Earth's surface, the generation of a form of "free energy", and a means for producing food without resorting to agriculture. For aesthetic reasons Silurians prefer not to rely on technology any more than absolutely necessary, and some older and rarely-used Silurian technologies are in danger of being lost and forgotten.

At the time of the catastrophe that drove them underground, a small population of Silurians built an object called "The Silurian Ark", a space station onto which a select few Silurians and a population of their dinosaur livestock, pets, and work animals along with a great forest of of prehistoric plant life were were transplanted to survive the cataclysm for a time before returning to Earth; the Ark has never returned, and may still exist intact somewhere in space, its population evolving and re-engineering itself over the aeons, and might perhaps return one day to Earth, bringing with it whatever life forms have evolved from the Silurian and Dinosaur and other antediluvian stock over the millions of years that the Ark has waited in the darkness of space to return.

== Reptilians ==
[[File:Spectre 1977film asmodeus.png|200px|thumb|right|The immortal, shape-shifting, demonic Serpent Man "Asmodeus" from ''[[Spectre (1977 film)]]'']]
In the [[Delta Green]] RPG setting and in UFOlogy, Serpent Folk might be associated with "Reptilian" Aliens of UFO mythology, which by some accounts can apparently trace their storytelling ancestry back through [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]] to [[Robert E. Howard]]'s and/or [[A. Merritt]]'s serpent men, though it's just as likely that both modern UFO mythology and pulp science fiction authors were alike inspired by a mix of the pseudoscience of the early 20th century combined with the subsequent and related wild speculations of [[Theosophy]] regarding the lost continents of [[Mu]] and [[Lemuria]].

With an appearance akin to that of earthly reptiles, the Reptilians are highly advanced entities but viewed as being of a negative, hostile or dangerous disposition, since they regard humans as a totally inferior race, and as a food livestock: they are carnivorous in regard to humans. The area of the galaxy most densely populated with Reptilian sub-races located in the vast Orion system, as well as the systems in Rigel and Capella, though their forefathers appear to have come to our universe from another separate universe or reality system at some unknown point in antiquity. The Reptilians themselves are not really clear on when they got here, teaching humans and their own masses that they were here in this universe first, holding the title and rights to the earth as their outpost from a time before humans, and as such they are heirs to the earth and its surroundings, and should be considered exalted gods over their human subjects and property, with special rights over human government, education, autonomy, genetics, and even dreams and memories. The Reptilians claim to have conquered many star systems over which they maintain similar "rights", where they also claim to have genetically altered and otherwise manipulated many of the life forms they have encountered as a matter of routine, even creating and perfecting the earliest primate forms of human life itself from out of protoplasmic chaos, though admitting that their work was tampered with by dozens of other alien races to produce the modern "debased" and "inferior" form that human life has taken (while also claiming the "right" to "repair" and "correct" the damage through further manipulation of humans through monstrous breeding programs, genetic manipulation, surgical and mutating energy procedures, as well as through brainwashing and re-education, psycho-social re-engineering, instinctual/behavioral/personality reprogramming, and mystic/spiritual works and ministry.)

The Reptilians have little regard for history or truth, maintaining that reality is what they make of it, accepting the deceptions of their rulers without question as being works of magick capable of altering the universe into new, "higher" parallel time/space dimensions beneficial to the interests of their species; little of what a Reptilian says can be trusted, and everything they say has been manipulated in favor of their own interests at the listener's expense. The philosophical mindset of the majority of Reptilians is toward subjugation, manipulation, and enslavement of weaker beings, and this belief system is promoted at birth in the Reptilian races, wherein after giving birth the offspring are abandoned to fend for themselves. If they survive they are cared for by an elite class that uses these children for games of combat and other such amusements.

The Reptilians are credited with scientific and magickal advancements that seem nearly miraculous to human witnesses, including incredible scientific achievements and the mastery of Mythos magick, and especially a talent for convincingly disguising themselves as humans, albeit with rubbery faces. They also appear to be masters of genetic manipulation, as well as the manipulation of human minds through the use of ray technologies, magick, and manipulation of dreams and spirituality via the [[Astral Plane]]; Reptilians have thus become firmly embedded in human governments and militaries, through which they can directly manipulate their subjects through physical and social force, as well as in entertainment and religious and spiritual structures and organizations through which they can manipulate their victim's very beliefs and perceptions of reality. The Reptilians have thus held positions of terrible power and influence over humanity through elaborate and ancient cults operating virtually uninterrupted since the dawn of human civilization. Through these infiltrations, the Reptilians do not act alone - they have allegedly worked out terrible and treacherous bargains with [[Grey Alien]]s and depraved [[Human Cultist]]s in governments, religious structures, and magickal lodges who serve the Reptilians to achieve mutual goals against the human population of Earth.

UFO conspiracy theories maintain that a hollow, guided comet or asteroid, filled with an invasion force of millions of hibernating Reptilians, approaches earth from their home in the Orion system, which they have abandoned after exhausting that system of resources and poisoning it with their addiction to dark works of science, alchemy and magick which have allowed unspeakable horrors to infest the system, and left the [[Astral Plane]] surrounding the system in a state of toxic ruin. The arrival of this comet in the solar system has been repeatedly rescheduled for centuries, last slated for 2012, with delays caused by the unpredictable nature of the "conjunction" of the Orion System with ours that would allow the comet to make the "jump" to our world when "the stars are right", due in part to corresponding failures of the Reptilians' human collaborators in completing the magickal workings required to complete the conjunction.

== Scrags ==
[[File:Quake scrag.png|thumb|200px|right|Anatomy of a Scrag wizard from ''[[Quake]]'']]
In [[Quake]], a Scrag wizard or Shade is a kind of grotesquely mutated, floating humanoid creature resembling a white serpent with a humanoid torso, a head which merges indistinctly with its shoulders, and vestigial arms reduced to clawed stumps and legs devolved into a serpentine tail, their skin is translucent and rubbery, resembling that of a slug or snail, while their yellowed eyes burn with rage and horror at the cruel fate of their long-lived existence. These revolting horrors are said to be the result of mystical and biological experimentation by [[Shub-Niggurath]]. As such, they are ubiquitous throughout Shub-Niggurath's realms.

Scrags are masters of evil magic, and most scrags are capable of a languid, graceful levitation, often possess the power to project of small yellowish green globs of life-draining magical energy at their opponents, and are frequently skilled in the monstrous arts of necromancy and monstrous transformations of living flesh. Some Scrags commanded positions of power during the [[Quake Wars]], while others seem to have served [[Shub-Niggurath]] in a support capacity comparable to specialists and spies.

Scrags are a hideously ancient and wise race, possessing cunning beyond the lofty standard set by the other monsters in Quake; they are stealthy creatures which hide in the shadows high above the ground in their bizarre, secret Library-city of [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]] in the [[Hollow Earth|Inner World]], said to be a place of darkness beneath the earth to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from light. Thanks to their powers of levitation, teleportation, and invisibility, Scrags typically remain unseen by those unfortunate visitors who find their way to [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]], the Scrag cultists silently watching from above until they choose to give themselves away with the sibilant warnings of their sentries to their fellows of the presence of unwanted guests, or the hissed [[Aklo]] curses of the magical spells they have been known to cast upon intrusive meddlers in their secret world.

==Historic Serpent Cults and Mythology==
The Theosophists alluded to the Exalted "Naacal" - or Nagas - as a serpent-like ruling class on the island of [[Lemuria]] before the dawn of humanity, possibly originating from [[Venus]], acting as a guiding hand for humanity by leading occult lodges and teaching the ways of civilization, mysticism, and magic to humans.

Serpent Cults (see [[Cult of Yig]]) are a wide-spread phenomenon across the world, being perhaps a primordial part of human culture. In addition to the Nagas of Theosophy (which are, perhaps, derived from the East Asian Naga myth of an exalted, serpentine elite class that ruled the world in ancient times, influenced by Mayan serpent cult elements), serpent cults have appeared throughout African, pre-Columbian North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, where some of the more common themes seem to be that the Serpent People came to Earth from a "heavenly water", the stars, the [[Hollow Earth]], or from the deathly abysses or Dreamlands of the [[Astral Plane]]; bringing civilization, forbidden knowledge, technological advancement, spiritual enlightenment, and knowledge of magick with them to give to man; leading, guiding, or ruling primordial human/proto-human civilization from positions of exalted (and possibly malevolent or abusive) power; holding some antagonistic relationship with the elements of weather and natural disaster such as the power to command them and eventually being destroyed by them; enjoying eternal (or extremely long) lives and shape-shifting powers represented by or accompanied by the ability to shed their old skins; interbreeding with their subjects to produce an elite and hybrid ruling class that would fill the ranks of kings and queens and other rules of all kinds throughout human history; and represented with liminal symbology representing an ability to cross with relative ease between the worlds of the living and the world of the dead (the mystic [[Other Side]] or a literal [[Hollow Earth|Underworld]]).

==See also==
[[File:Dreamscape serpentman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A rogue Dreamer has turned his dream form into a Serpent Man in ''[[Dreamscape (1984 film)]]''....]]
*[[Kull]]
*[[Set]]
*[[Worms of the Earth (Race)]]
*[[Lemurian]]s
*"[[Frazetta Man]]" (for the sorts of proto-human peoples ruled by the Serpent People)
*[[Yig]]
*[[Thurian Age]]
*[[Valusia]]
*[[Lemuria]]
*[[Mu]]
*[[Atlantis]]
*[[Naacal]] for the language of lost Lemuria and the Nagas
*[[Naacal Tablets]] for one of the more well-known documentations of Lemurian and Naacal history

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Seven Geases]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[Ubbo-Sathla (story)|Ubbo-Sathla]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[The Double Shadow]]"
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Nameless City]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & [[Zealia Bishop]] - "[[The Curse of Yig]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop - "[[The Mound]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
* [[Karl Edward Wagner]] - ''[[Legion from the Shadows]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan of Aquilonia]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan the Buccaneer]]''
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]"
* Lin Carter - ''[[Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria]]''
* Lin Carter - "[[The Vengeance of Yig]]"
* Scott David Aniolowski - "[[Where a God Shall Tread]]"
* Robert E. Howard - "[[Worms of the Earth]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"

===Role-playing games===
* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios|Serpent Men scenarios]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]
* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"

[[Category:Races]]

Mythic Iceland

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=Stand-Alone First(?) Edition=
==Details==
[[File:Mythiciceland.png|thumb|200px|''Mythic Iceland'' Stand-Alone First Edition]]

'''Publisher:''' [[Chaosium]]

'''Product Code:''' SKU 2025, 2025pdf

'''Publishing Year:''' 2012

'''Pages:''' 272

'''Cover Price:''' $17.47

'''Author(s):''' [[Pedro Ziviani]] (Editor [[Megan McLean]])

'''Artist(s):''' [[David Lee Ingersoll]] (cover and interior art), [[Bradley McDevitt]] (interior art), [[Adam Denton]] (character thumbnails), [[Marco Morte]] (borders and small thumbnails), [[Florian Stitz]] (? credited on some websites, but not in book)

'''Setting(s):''' Mythic Iceland (as a stand-alone BRP setting), [[Cthulhu Dark Ages]] (compatible)

'''Format(s):''' PDF (possibly Paperback as well, including GenCon 2011 Pre-Publication Proofs)

'''ISBN:''' 978-1568823522

==Contents==

'''Campaigns:''' Mythic Iceland, [[Cthulhu Dark Ages]]

'''Scenarios:'''
* "[[The Trouble With Neighbors]]"
* "[[Cthulhu Dark Ages Scenario]]"

'''Creatures'''
* [[Skraelingar]], Dark-Fur and Light-Fur
* [[The One-Legged]]
* [[Shantak|Thunderbird]]
* [[Zombie|Bakaak]]
* [[Uktena]] (Giant Serpent)
* [[Mishipeshu]] (Freshwater Chimera)
* [[Wendigo]]
* [[Ghoul|Adlet]]
* [[Akhlut]] (Wolf/Whale Shape-shifter)
* Black Bears
* [[Troll]]
* [[Lich|Draugur]]
* Jötunn (Giant)
* Polar Bears
* King of Bears
* Nykur (Spectral Horse)
* Shell Monster (Giant Sloth)
* [[Deep One|Merfolk]]
* Sealskin (Shape-shifter)
* [[Crow Person|Intelligent Raven]]
* [[Ghost|Apparition]]
* [[Cat#Faerie_Cats|Fingal or Ghoul-Cat]]
* Sea Cattle (Sea-Dwelling Cattle)
* [[Kraken|Ocean Mist]]
* Seal-Mother (Giant Seal)
* Wicked Whale
* Water Serpent (Sea Serpent)
* [[Elf]]
* [[Cthugha]] Cult
* [[Nyarlathotep|Loki]] Cult
* [[Tilberi]]
* Tree-Man (Wooden Automaton)
* [[Zombie|Up-Walker]]

'''Tomes and Spells'''
* Tome: ''[[Redskin]]'' (Rauðskinna)
* Tome: ''[[Greyskin]]'' (Gráskinna)
* Tome: ''[[Silverskin]]'' (Silfurskinna)
* "[[Shadow Servant]]"
* "[[Wake the Dead]]"
* "[[Create Tilberi]]"
* "[[Create Tree-Man]]"
* "[[Necropants]]"
* "[[Invisibility]]"
* "[[Magic Staff]]"
* "[[Love Spell]]"
* "[[Cause Fear]]"
* "[[Calm Mind]]"
* "[[Dark Strength]]"
* "[[Dream Gate]]"
* "[[Farmer's Despair]]"
* "[[Prison of Sleep]]"

'''Additional:''' Numerous illustrations, including a detailed map of Iceland.

==Front Cover Text==
<blockquote>
Basic RolePlaying 
BRP

2025

Mythic Iceland

Legend and Adventure in Viking-Age Iceland

Pedro Ziviani

Chaosium Inc.

A GENCON 2011 Pre-Publication Proof Edition (or, PDF)
</blockquote>

==Back Cover Text==
<blockquote>
ISBN-10: 1568823525 
ISBN-13: 978-1568823522

Basic RolePlaying 
BRP

This is a supplement for the Basic Role Playing System. You must have at least one copy of those rules to enjoy this book. Find additional treasures at: www.chaosium.com

==Description==

Legend and Adventure in Viking-Age Iceland

The Nordic and Celtic peoples who settled Iceland in the 9th century came from lands with rich traditions of folklore, where the mythical and supernatural were part of daily life. They found an island of striking beauty, with inland valleys, richly grassed and forested lowlands, massive glaciers, and impressive volcanic mountain ranges. They also found a land teeming with spirits of nature and mythic creatures.

Mythic Iceland offers Basic Roleplaying players the experience of living and adventuring in the Iceland described in the Sagas and in Icelandic fairy-tales. In Mythic Iceland all the creatures of myth and all the magical aspects of life really do exist, and they play a major role in people’s lives. The elves, or hidden folk, exist hidden from the eyes of the common folk, and sometimes meddle in their affairs. Those traveling through the highlands risk being attacked by trolls, and often curses and spells are laid on neighbors and enemies.

* Introduction
* History of Mythic Iceland
* Character Creation
* Life in Saga-Age Iceland
* Law and Government
* Norse Religion
* Magic in Mythic Iceland
* A Traveler’s Guide to Mythic Iceland
* Elves and the Hidden People
* Álfheimur
* The Lands to the West
* The Wide World
* Going Viking
* Running a Game of Mythic Iceland
* Creatures of Mythic Iceland
* The Trouble with Neighbors
* Cthulhu Dark Ages Iceland
* Cthulhu Dark Ages Scenario
* Bibliography
* Fold-Out Map.

THIS IS A DOWNLOADABLE BOOK. By Pedro Ziviani. 272 pages. 8.5 x 11" watermarked PDF with cover images, and a link to a hi-resolution image (the fold-out poster in the print-version of the book) showing Mythic Iceland.

==Comments / Trivia==
* "On the west of Norway comes the island called Iceland, with the mighty ocean washing round it: a land very squalid to dwell in, but noteworthy for marvels, both strange occurrences and objects that pass belief." — The Danish History, by Saxo Grammaticus, 12th Century

==Links==
Link to outside reviews
* [[http://diehardgamefan.com/2012/08/10/tabletop-review-mythic-iceland-chaosium-basic-roleplayingcthulhu-dark-ages/ Tabletop Review by Alex Lucard]]

* Preview: [http://cdn4.bigcommerce.com/s-9zhx02uo/product_images/uploaded_images/cha2025map.gif Map]
* Preview: [http://www.chaosium.com/mythic-iceland-introduction/ Introduction]

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
'''Players should not read any further.'''


Comment here to Keepers about this book.
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=Cthulhu Through the Ages=
==Details==
A few pages of sketchy 7th Edition content for ''Mythic Iceland'' can also be found in ''[[Cthulhu Through The Ages]]''; there are/were presumably plans to flesh this content out in a full-fledged 7E product.

==Contents==
* The Time of Icelandic Sagas
** What is Mythic Iceland?
** Society and Assemblies
** Monetary System
** Animals, Elves, and Trolls
** The Lands to the West
* The Mythos in Iceland
** [[Nyarlathotep|Loki]] Cult
** Volcano Cults ([[Cthugha]], [[Ghatanothoa]], [[Tsathoggua]]
** [[Ithaqua]] Cult
** Magic
** Insanity
* Character Creation
** Names
** Backstory Suggestions
** Occupations
** Skills
** Luck
** Equipment
* Monsters
** [[Utburdur]]
** [[Cat#Faerie_Cats|Ghoul Cat]]

[[Category:CoC:Supplements]]
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Tilberi

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Travern: Tilberi

A '''Tilberi''' ("carrier"), or Snakkur ("spindle"), is a familiar creature from ''[[Mythic Iceland]]''.

==Description==
[[File:Tilberi.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Tilberi]]
Tilberi are created by häxan ([[Witch|witch-woman]]) from a large straight bone from a freshly-dead human corpse wrapped in wool by the light of a full moon. For three weeks, the witch will warm it between her breasts and feed it mead or wine that has been blessed by a Pagan or Christian priest by spitting the alcohol on the Tilberi. By the second week, the Tilberi begins to move (which can attract attention if the witch is not careful), and by the third week, it comes to life, after which it must be suckled on blood from its creator's teat (a mole or cut, usually on the witch's thigh).

The Tilberi resembles a woolly creature with two heads, one at each end of the bundle, and sharp teeth in tiny and monstrous faces resembling that of the corpse. When at home, the Tilberi clings to the witch's teat and drinks the witch's blood. The Tilberi can speak in languages known to the corpse and/or witch in a thin, childish voice. It can be instructed to go forth into the night to run simple errands for the witch, usually involving acts of petty theft (milk, wool, small objects such as coins or jewelry), delivering messages, spying on others, or committing other minor acts of mischief and mayhem. The Tilberi, in drinking her blood, drains the witch a little more every day until she eventually dies, unless the Tilberi is killed. The only ways to kill a Tilberi are to order it to undertake a very difficult task that it will work itself to death to complete (such as eating all the droppings in a large sheep pasture) or to burn the witch and Tilberi together at the stake.

If its mistress dies before it returns from its mission, the entity might go insane, feeding on the blood, hair, and wool of any farm animals or people it encounters, then rolling in sheared or ripped-out hair and wool to form a ball and growing to prodigious size, until it is big enough to begin consuming corpses and killing victims for food.

A similar creature is the Trollnøste ("troll cat") or Mjölkhare ("milk rabbit"), a familiar which usually appears in the form of a large ball of wool, hair, wood shavings, and/or finger/toe-nail parings, or sometimes in the form of a woollen cat or rabbit, shaped by the witch and animated with witch's blood.

The Tilberi is a creature originally from Icelandic folklore and appears in the ''[[Mythic Iceland]]'' scenario "[[Cthulhu Dark Ages Scenario]]".

[[Category:Races]]

Rat-Thing

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[[File:Evilclergyman 1987short.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Brown Jenkin attacks in "The Evil Clergyman" (1987 short)]]

A '''Rat-Thing''' as portrayed in H. P. Lovecraft's story "[[The Dreams in the Witch House (fiction)|The Dreams in the Witch House]]" is a rodent-like creature with a face and hands resembling a human's. It is a Mythos entity similar to the traditional [[Witch|witch's]] familiar. The concept was later generalised to a whole type or race of beings.

==Description==
[[File:MatthewHopkinsWitchfinderGenerall.png|thumb|200px|right|Witches identifying their familiar spirits, from ''The Discovery of Witches'' (1647)]]
A familiar is a spirit or creature created as a servant by a witch, usually in some twisted, shriveled, and monstrous parody of the life of the person it was created from, perhaps a cultist or sacrificial victim. These entities can traditionally take other forms, such as bats, birds, cats, dogs, ferrets, frogs, hares, and toads. Examples of familiars names include Greymalkin and Vinegar Tom (cats), Jarmara (dog), Paddock (frog), and Sacke & Sugar (hare). The archetypal example from weird fiction is Brown Jenkin, the "Rat-Thing" familiar of the witch [[Keziah Mason]].

Rat-Things and other familiars often have some knowledge of magic, either as an extension of their natural abilities or through instruction from the witches and cultists that create them.

==Quote==
<blockquote>

"Witnesses said it had long hair and the shape of a rat, but that its sharp-toothed, bearded face was evilly human while its paws were like tiny human hands. It took messages betwixt old Keziah and the devil, and was nursed on the witch’s blood—which it sucked like a vampire. Its voice was a kind of loathsome titter, and it could speak all languages."

"The horror would appear to pop out of the rat-hole in the corner and patter toward him over the sagging, wide-planked floor with evil expectancy in its tiny, bearded human face—but mercifully, this dream always melted away before the object got close enough to nuzzle him. It had hellishly long, sharp, canine teeth. […] Its shrill loathsome tittering stuck more and more in Gilman’s head, and he could remember in the morning how it had pronounced the words “Azathoth” and “Nyarlathotep”."

"The bones of the tiny paws, it is rumoured, imply prehensile characteristics more typical of a diminutive monkey than of a rat; while the small skull with its savage yellow fangs is of the utmost anomalousness, appearing from certain angles like a miniature, monstrously degraded parody of a human skull."
 - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Dreams in the Witch House"
</blockquote>

==Heresies and Controversies==
Alternatively, Rat-Things may be portrayed as the transformed bodies of humans (typically cultists) hosting [[Aeiirii|Elemental spirit]]s, which act as servants for witches and wizards. They may also be presented as a physical and stable form of [[Aeiirii#Tulpa|Tulpa]]s, which are more typically formed from the vitality, essence, and attention of their creator, upon which normal Tulpa become dependent for existence. See also the Scandinavian häxan's [[Tilberi|Tilberi or Snakkur]].

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[August Derleth]] and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - ''[[The Lurker at the Threshold]]''
* [[Fritz Leiber]] - "[[Through Hyperspace With Brown Jenkin]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Dreams in the Witch House]]"
* [[Graham Masterton]] - ''[[Prey]]''

===Film===
* ''[[Curse of the Crimson Altar]]'' (1968)
* ''[[H. P. Lovecraft's Dreams in the Witch-House]]'' (2005) (part of the ''Masters of Horror'' series by [[Stuart Gordon]]
* ''[[Evil_Clergyman_(1987_short)|The Evil Clergyman]]'' (part of the 1987 anthology film ''Pulse Pounders'')

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* [[Keith Herber]] - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* [[:Category:CoC:Rat-Thing scenarios|Rat-Thing Scenarios]]

[[Category:Races]]

File:MatthewHopkinsWitchfinderGenerall.png

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Travern: Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder Generall - frontispiece of The Discovery of Witches

== Summary ==
Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder Generall - frontispiece of The Discovery of Witches

File:Tilberi.jpg

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Travern: Tilberi image by Martino's Doodles (Flickr) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

== Summary ==
Tilberi image by Martino's Doodles (Flickr) (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Talk:Serpent Men

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== Current Status ==
This article runs almost 5,000 words long, but more than 3,200 of that are devoted to different creatures from other franchises. To improve readability, could these go on their own pages, with pointers to them in the text? --[[User:Travern|Travern]] ([[User talk:Travern|talk]]) 21:33, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

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Y.Whateley - March 15, 2017: I ran out of steam before I could expand the sections on Sleestaks, Reptilian Aliens, etc. Also, the formatting of the page might need some cleanup and modernization, so refer to the races template....

Y.Whateley - July 29, 2018: Cleanup of the Reptilian Aliens, as a side-trip from expanding on Lemuria's Naacal Reptilians. The article still needs reformatting under the template....

Serpent Men

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[[File:YaxchilanDivineSerpent.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mayan interpretation of a serpent-man shedding his skin.]]

'''Serpent Men''' are a fictional race created by [[Robert E. Howard]] for his [[King Kull]] tales. They first appeared in "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]," published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'' in August of 1929.

They were later adapted for the Marvel Comics Conan comics by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Their first Marvel Universe appearance was in ''Kull the Conqueror'' vol.1 #2 (September, 1971). They were also used in the 1992 ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series. They were also adapted into [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by writers like [[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]].

==Origin and society==
[[File:Ubaid serpent folk.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Aeons-old "Serpent" figures unearthed in Iraq]]
In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the Great Serpent. Later writers would identify the Great Serpent with the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)|Great Old One]] [[Yig]] and with the Stygian serpent god [[Set (serpent god)|Set]] from Howard's [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories.

The Serpent Men were created untold aeons ago by the Great Serpent. At some point the Serpent Men group split, with one group becoming the Man-Serpents- these creatures, unlike their kin and predecessors, have the bodies of giant serpents and the heads of human beings, with smaller snakes for hair like Medusa. A Man-Serpent is the titular being in the Conan story "The God in the Bowl". Man-Serpents have hypnotic gazes and lethally venomous bites, as well as terrible crushing strength.

The seat of the First Empire of the serpent people, during the Paleozoic era, was [[Valusia]]. Valusia is a fictional country in the Kull stories of Robert E. Howard, located on the west coast of the main continent of [[Thuria]]. The empire was based on sorcery and alchemy, but collapsed with the rise of the dinosaurs about 225 million years ago during the Triassic era. The Serpent Men originally ruled over humans in Valusia but were defeated and almost wiped out in humanity's battle for survival against the "elder things" that predated them. Over time, humans dominated Valusia and the Serpent Men became a legend. The Serpent Men, one of the few surviving "elder things", infiltrated human society and ruled from behind the scenes for a time but were again discovered, defeated and cast out in a secret war. However, they later repeated this tactic but added the front of a Snake Cult religion, which gained power and influence within Valusia while they also used their abilities of disguise to murder and replace each reigning monarch. Their power is eventually broken by King Kull, formerly an Atlantean barbarian who had recently conquered Valusia, and the Pict Brule the Spear-Slayer, whose society was aware of the Serpent Men's infiltration.

After the destruction of Valusia, the serpent men escaped to [[Yoth]], a cavern beneath [[K'n-yan]] in North America (ironically, the Pictish Isles of the Kull stories). They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the serpent men's scientific lore. Their next downfall came when they brought idols of [[Tsathoggua]] from N'kai and abandoned their patron deity [[Yig]] to worship their new god. As retribution Yig placed his curse upon them, forcing his few remaining worshipers to flee to caverns beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]].

Cursed by Yig, some serpent men degenerated into more and more bestial forms, eventually becoming mere giant snakes. Some sources claim that the [[Worms of the Earth (Race)|worms of the earth]] were degenerate serpent men, while other stories describe the "worms" as descended from humans.

==Appearance and abilities==
Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.

==Earlier Serpent Men==
Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about prehistoric serpent people. Another pulp writer, [[Abraham Merritt]], created a similar pre-human serpentine race surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss" which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]] and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving Serpent-Woman is an ally of the human protagonists.

==Cthulhu Mythos==
[[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]] adapted the race for inclusion in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], inspired by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[The Nameless City]]", which refers to an Arabian city built by a pre-human reptilian race. Lovecraft's story "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]" explicitly mentions the "serpent men of Valusia" as being one-time possessors of the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. However, the Cthulhu Mythos were already connected to the works of Robert E. Howard (a contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft as well as a direct contributor to the Mythos itself). In this case, the Serpent Men were created for the very first Kull story, the character of Kull later made an appearance in a [[Bran Mak Morn]] story, ''[[Kings of the Night]]'', while in another such story, ''[[Worms of the Earth]]'', Bran Mak Morn explicitly refers to [[Cthulhu]] and [[R'lyeh]]. Many [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories by Howard are also part of the Mythos.

==Conan==
The fictional settings of King Kull and Robert E. Howard's other creation, [[Conan the Barbarian]], are linked through Howards essay ''[[The Hyborian Age]]''. This states that Valusia, and its Thurian Age, existed in some time before Conan's Hyborian Age (the land was reshaped in between the story cycles by an undefined cataclysm). The Serpent Men did not, however, appear in any Conan story written by Robert E. Howard himself.

In 1971, the Serpent Men appeared in a comic book adaptation of the King Kull stories, published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Since then they have been imported into the Conan comics, as well as other adaptations and Conan pastiches. The Serpent Men were the main antagonists, personified by the wizard "Wrath-Amon", in the animated series ''Conan the Adventurer''. This retained the Serpent Men's ability to infiltrate human society in disguise (in the cartoon, this disguise failed in the presence of meteoric "star metal", contact with which also sent a Serpent Man back to "the Abyss").

==The Spider==
In the Spider short story "Fear Itself" (published in The Spider Chronicles by Moonstone in 2007) by Joel Frieman and C.J. Henderson, an occult expert named Guicet enlists the Spider's aid in defeating a group of Serpent Men who acquire a duplicate of the Cobra Crown from Conan the Buccaneer. In The Phantom Chronicles, worshippers of Set appear, but no Serpent Men.

==He-Man's Snake Men==
Persistent but unverified claims suggest that the He-Man franchise was originally intended as a Conan toy line. If this is true, the equivalent to the Serpent Men in that franchise would be the Snake Men.

As with Howard's work, the Snake Men come from the distant past and fought against the character He-Ro/Lord Grayskull (who would be equivalent to Howard's character [[Kull of Atlantis|Kull]]). As with the ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series, the Snake Men were banished to another dimension in the past and were attempting to return to power in the present.

==Reptilian Quadrupeds==
In "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], the inhabitants of the red-litten subterranean world of [[Yoth]] are described as quadrupedal reptiles that seemed to be the debased remnants of a much greater, technologically-advanced reptilian race predating even the ancient [[People of K'n-yan]]; there seemed to be little doubt that these beings were older than humanity but still related, and the reptilians were easily blended with mammalian and "inferior" racial stock of the [[People of K'n-yan]], to produce an intelligent slave class and quasi-animal horrors serving as dogs, horses, and cattle for the population of [[K'n-yan]]. Within the age of modern man, these quadrupeds appear to have degenerated to animalism, but in an earlier age they were accomplished architects, scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers; the reptilian civilization appears to have gone strongly until they found their way into the lightless and shadowed gulfs of [[N'kai]], where they discovered devotion to [[Tsathoggua]], and shortly afterward their own doom on contact with the monstrous [[Shoggoth]]s.

==Mahars==
[[File:Attheearthscore 1976film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Mahars gather for a sacrifice in ''At the Earth's Core (1976 film)''...]]
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The all-powerful Mahars of Pellucidar are great reptiles, some six or eight feet in length, with long narrow heads and great round eyes. Their beak-like mouths are lined with sharp, white fangs, and the backs of their huge, lizard bodies are serrated into bony ridges from their necks to the end of their long tails. Their feet are equipped with three webbed toes, while from the fore feet membranous wings, which are attached to their bodies just in front of the hind legs, protrude at an angle of 45 degrees toward the rear, ending in sharp points several feet above their bodies....

"...For countless millions of years these reptiles have been progressing. Possibly it is the sixth sense which I am sure they possess that has given them an advantage over the other and more frightfully armed of their fellows; but this we may never know. They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men—they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle. They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."

- [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[At the Earth's Core (fiction)]]''
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The Mahars are a sapient race of flying reptile people which lack the ability to hear. They are the supreme rulers of the Earth's inner world of [[Pellucidar]], and known to enslave the native human races of that inner world. The ape-like [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoths]] are their loyal servants, and the non-sapient dragon-like pterosaurs known as Thipdars are domesticated by them, being used as pets and guard animals.

Mahars are a highly intelligent, scientific scholarly races with a talent for genetics, engineering, and architecture.

The entire Mahar race is female. As they have discovered a formula that allowed them to reproduce without males, this allowed the extermination of their male population. Mahars are great swimmers as well as fliers, and often dive deeply in order to feed on fish and reptiles. For some reason, they consider it a taboo to feed on mammalian meat, but many Mahar cultists practice this as an occult ritual, feasting on freshly killed human slaves. Despite living in a world of perpetual noonday, they have eyes well suited for seeing in darkness. The entire race lacks the ability to hear, or to even comprehend the idea of sound. Instead, they communicate through some strange means which is just as incomprehensible to humans as sound is to them. Abner Perry, a voyager to Pellucidar who made a study of the creatures while in captivity, has denied that this form of communication should be labelled as "telepathy", since it isn't useful over long distances and doesn't allow them to communicate with other species; they have instead developed a gesture-based language to speak with their [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoth servants]]. Perry speculates that the Mahars are able to project and detect information over a fourth dimension, using a sixth sense unique to them, and that forms the basis of their language. Although they may not be regarded as telepaths in the traditional sense, they at least have some influence over the human mind, being able to hypnotize victims into a zombie-like state in which they might be consumed without resistance.

Mahars first appear in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' [[Pallucidar|Hollow Earth/Earth's Core]] novels.

== Sleestaks and Altrusians ==
[[File:Sleestaks.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A band of Sleestaks creeps through the inner world of the ''Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)'']]
TO DO -

Sleestaks are the slow-moving savage lizard people from the ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]''.

The very similar Altrusians are a reptilian advanced civilization living in an alternate timeline of what at first seems like a "Hollow Earth" but later proves to be a small, artificial "pocket universe"; through their super-science, the Altrusians foresee their downfall and de-evolution into savage Sleestaks, and are working to avert this disaster; over time, the Altrusians find evidence that the Sleestaks may be a precursor race that will evolve into Altrusians, confusing their efforts; the truth seems to be that the Sleestaks may represent both the savage past and the degenerate future of the Altrusian civilization at the same time....

The ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]'' was apparently partly inspired by [[Robert E. Howard]] (compare the Sleestaks and Altrusians both to R.E. Howard's serpent people of Valusia, and to his various [[Frazetta Man]] savage precursors to and degenerate inheritors of pre-historic advanced human civilizations in Hyperborea, such as the Atlanteans, in that Howard's vision of savage races evolving to civilization alongside civilized neighbors devolving into savagery in cycles resembles the apparent origin and doom of the Altrusians, who were once Sleestaks, and are doomed do fall and become Sleestaks again in cycles....)

== Silurians ==
[[File:Silurians drwho.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Silurians from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'']]
Silurians (AKA Earth Reptiles, Eocenes, Psionosauropodomorpha, Homo Reptilicus, Homo reptilia and Reptilia sapiens) are a technologically advanced race from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'', native to Earth and predating mammalian (including human) life-forms, alongside their aquatic cousins the [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devils]].

The long-lived and widespread Silurian race had over time developed numerous subspecies evolved subtly for different environments and varying widely in appearance by such features as skin tone, facial structure and shape, crests and/or spikes, number and appearance of eyes, the ability to spit poison, etc. These differences contribute to a very complex and subtle caste system that determines the role, position, and authority that individual Silurians hold within their society, though the specifics are perhaps far too esoteric for many humans to follow the nuances. Silurians hatch from eggs. Developed from predatory ancestry, Silurians are quicker and strong than humans in short bursts, and taller and lighter than humans. There have been isolated reports throughout the ''Doctor Who'' literature and long-lived television series of hybrids between Silurians and their aquatic [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devil cousins]], as well as hybrids between Silurians and humans, though these hybrids tend to be sterile and feeble compared to purebred examples of any of these races; the more successful examples include a hybrid population which has inspired stories of the "[[Faerie|Fair Folk]]".

Silurians, parallel to Serpent People, flourished in antediluvian Earth, but were driven into the [[Hollow Earth]] to hibernate by some prehistoric catastrophe, where small populations of survivors have remained awake, living a troglodytic existence a few steps ahead of their own extinction far into the modern era, and into the future, where they have increasingly come into conflict with humans. Time and attrition are slowly killing off the hibernating Silurian population, but the Silurians still believe that there will come a time when conditions on Earth's surface will become favorable for their race to awaken, climb to the surface, and reclaim it as their own once again.

Some Silurians possess a "third eye", presumably equivalent in nature and function to the supposed occult description of the human "pineal eye": presumably a hold-over from an ancient descent from the Astral Plane giving these Silurians not just a wider range of vision, but also some slight psychic power: telepathy, mind control, a weak form of telekinesis, the capacity for thought transfer, etc.

Silurians are a generally peaceful race, having long ago outlawed war except in self-defense; Silurians seem to find disconcerting the ease with which humans go to war, and the degree to which the violence and destruction of human wars can escalate. Silurians are apparently capable of feeling profound (if alien to humans) emotions, but are reportedly incapable of expressing them even to each other, but especially to humans, and are incapable of physically crying; in addition, Silurian art, music, and literature as humans understand it is all but non-existent, largely because their telepathic abilities tends to render such efforts unnecessarily complicated and difficult in comparison; Silurians seem to find the human ability to share emotions verbally or visually, and to communicate through artificial means such as writing and pictures, alien and unsettling. Silurian art, poetry, and similar expression tends instead to take the form of mathematics, optical illusions, and telepathic tricks and games that would be hard to explain in human terms.

Silurian relations with humans have varied over time; apparently, Silurians helped develop humans through tampering with mammal genetics to produce a large, slow, fast-breeding mammal for use as a food source, leaving humans with an instinctive fear and hatred of Silurians. When humans later evolved into more sentient, independent, dangerous, and feral creatures after the Silurians were driven underground, the Silurians learned to keep a healthy distance between the two races, varying between ignoring and avoiding humans, to unsuccessful attempts at genocide to cleanse humans from Earth's surface. In modern times, human expansion has brought the races more frequently into contact and conflict, driving both difficult relations, as well as the beginnings of efforts at communication and cooperation between the two races; only time can tell whether a lasting truce can be forged between man and Silurian, let alone peace and understanding. For now, the relationship between the two races is strained, at best, with both sides of the secret conflict capable of inflicting monstrous atrocities and unspeakable horrors on the other.

Some Silurians are also accomplished Dreamers, using specially-developed candles and incenses to enhance their ability to experience lucid dreams and enter the Dreamlands.

Modern Silurian technology includes advanced genetic manipulation, feats of biological and medical engineering, the use and construction of advanced airships and antigravity and other devices and vehicles for transportation and construction or exploration and communication purposes, the generation and use of force fields and rays for various purposes including interaction with dinosaurs and later mammals on Earth's surface, the generation of a form of "free energy", and a means for producing food without resorting to agriculture. For aesthetic reasons Silurians prefer not to rely on technology any more than absolutely necessary, and some older and rarely-used Silurian technologies are in danger of being lost and forgotten.

At the time of the catastrophe that drove them underground, a small population of Silurians built an object called "The Silurian Ark", a space station onto which a select few Silurians and a population of their dinosaur livestock, pets, and work animals along with a great forest of of prehistoric plant life were were transplanted to survive the cataclysm for a time before returning to Earth; the Ark has never returned, and may still exist intact somewhere in space, its population evolving and re-engineering itself over the aeons, and might perhaps return one day to Earth, bringing with it whatever life forms have evolved from the Silurian and Dinosaur and other antediluvian stock over the millions of years that the Ark has waited in the darkness of space to return.

== Reptilians ==
[[File:Spectre 1977film asmodeus.png|200px|thumb|right|The immortal, shape-shifting, demonic Serpent Man "Asmodeus" from ''[[Spectre (1977 film)]]'']]
In the [[Delta Green]] RPG setting and in UFOlogy, Serpent Folk might be associated with "Reptilian" Aliens of UFO mythology, which by some accounts can apparently trace their storytelling ancestry back through [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]] to [[Robert E. Howard]]'s and/or [[A. Merritt]]'s serpent men, though it's just as likely that both modern UFO mythology and pulp science fiction authors were alike inspired by a mix of the pseudoscience of the early 20th century combined with the subsequent and related wild speculations of [[Theosophy]] regarding the lost continents of [[Mu]] and [[Lemuria]].

With an appearance akin to that of earthly reptiles, the Reptilians are highly advanced entities but viewed as being of a negative, hostile or dangerous disposition, since they regard humans as a totally inferior race, and as a food livestock: they are carnivorous in regard to humans. The area of the galaxy most densely populated with Reptilian sub-races located in the vast Orion system, as well as the systems in Rigel and Capella, though their forefathers appear to have come to our universe from another separate universe or reality system at some unknown point in antiquity. The Reptilians themselves are not really clear on when they got here, teaching humans and their own masses that they were here in this universe first, holding the title and rights to the earth as their outpost from a time before humans, and as such they are heirs to the earth and its surroundings, and should be considered exalted gods over their human subjects and property, with special rights over human government, education, autonomy, genetics, and even dreams and memories. The Reptilians claim to have conquered many star systems over which they maintain similar "rights", where they also claim to have genetically altered and otherwise manipulated many of the life forms they have encountered as a matter of routine, even creating and perfecting the earliest primate forms of human life itself from out of protoplasmic chaos, though admitting that their work was tampered with by dozens of other alien races to produce the modern "debased" and "inferior" form that human life has taken (while also claiming the "right" to "repair" and "correct" the damage through further manipulation of humans through monstrous breeding programs, genetic manipulation, surgical and mutating energy procedures, as well as through brainwashing and re-education, psycho-social re-engineering, instinctual/behavioral/personality reprogramming, and mystic/spiritual works and ministry.)

The Reptilians have little regard for history or truth, maintaining that reality is what they make of it, accepting the deceptions of their rulers without question as being works of magick capable of altering the universe into new, "higher" parallel time/space dimensions beneficial to the interests of their species; little of what a Reptilian says can be trusted, and everything they say has been manipulated in favor of their own interests at the listener's expense. The philosophical mindset of the majority of Reptilians is toward subjugation, manipulation, and enslavement of weaker beings, and this belief system is promoted at birth in the Reptilian races, wherein after giving birth the offspring are abandoned to fend for themselves. If they survive they are cared for by an elite class that uses these children for games of combat and other such amusements.

The Reptilians are credited with scientific and magickal advancements that seem nearly miraculous to human witnesses, including incredible scientific achievements and the mastery of Mythos magick, and especially a talent for convincingly disguising themselves as humans, albeit with rubbery faces. They also appear to be masters of genetic manipulation, as well as the manipulation of human minds through the use of ray technologies, magick, and manipulation of dreams and spirituality via the [[Astral Plane]]; Reptilians have thus become firmly embedded in human governments and militaries, through which they can directly manipulate their subjects through physical and social force, as well as in entertainment and religious and spiritual structures and organizations through which they can manipulate their victim's very beliefs and perceptions of reality. The Reptilians have thus held positions of terrible power and influence over humanity through elaborate and ancient cults operating virtually uninterrupted since the dawn of human civilization. Through these infiltrations, the Reptilians do not act alone - they have allegedly worked out terrible and treacherous bargains with [[Grey Alien]]s and depraved [[Human Cultist]]s in governments, religious structures, and magickal lodges who serve the Reptilians to achieve mutual goals against the human population of Earth.

UFO conspiracy theories maintain that a hollow, guided comet or asteroid, filled with an invasion force of millions of hibernating Reptilians, approaches earth from their home in the Orion system, which they have abandoned after exhausting that system of resources and poisoning it with their addiction to dark works of science, alchemy and magick which have allowed unspeakable horrors to infest the system, and left the [[Astral Plane]] surrounding the system in a state of toxic ruin. The arrival of this comet in the solar system has been repeatedly rescheduled for centuries, last slated for 2012, with delays caused by the unpredictable nature of the "conjunction" of the Orion System with ours that would allow the comet to make the "jump" to our world when "the stars are right", due in part to corresponding failures of the Reptilians' human collaborators in completing the magickal workings required to complete the conjunction.

== Scrags ==
[[File:Quake scrag.png|thumb|200px|right|Anatomy of a Scrag wizard from ''[[Quake]]'']]
In [[Quake]], a Scrag wizard or Shade is a kind of grotesquely mutated, floating humanoid creature resembling a white serpent with a humanoid torso, a head which merges indistinctly with its shoulders, and vestigial arms reduced to clawed stumps and legs devolved into a serpentine tail, their skin is translucent and rubbery, resembling that of a slug or snail, while their yellowed eyes burn with rage and horror at the cruel fate of their long-lived existence. These revolting horrors are said to be the result of mystical and biological experimentation by [[Shub-Niggurath]]. As such, they are ubiquitous throughout Shub-Niggurath's realms.

Scrags are masters of evil magic, and most scrags are capable of a languid, graceful levitation, often possess the power to project of small yellowish green globs of life-draining magical energy at their opponents, and are frequently skilled in the monstrous arts of necromancy and monstrous transformations of living flesh. Some Scrags commanded positions of power during the [[Quake Wars]], while others seem to have served [[Shub-Niggurath]] in a support capacity comparable to specialists and spies.

Scrags are a hideously ancient and wise race, possessing cunning beyond the lofty standard set by the other monsters in Quake; they are stealthy creatures which hide in the shadows high above the ground in their bizarre, secret Library-city of [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]] in the [[Hollow Earth|Inner World]], said to be a place of darkness beneath the earth to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from light. Thanks to their powers of levitation, teleportation, and invisibility, Scrags typically remain unseen by those unfortunate visitors who find their way to [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]], the Scrag cultists silently watching from above until they choose to give themselves away with the sibilant warnings of their sentries to their fellows of the presence of unwanted guests, or the hissed [[Aklo]] curses of the magical spells they have been known to cast upon intrusive meddlers in their secret world.

==Historic Serpent Cults and Mythology==
The Theosophists alluded to the Exalted "Naacal" - or Nagas - as a serpent-like ruling class on the island of [[Lemuria]] before the dawn of humanity, possibly originating from [[Venus]], acting as a guiding hand for humanity by leading occult lodges and teaching the ways of civilization, mysticism, and magic to humans.

Serpent Cults (see [[Cult of Yig]]) are a wide-spread phenomenon across the world, being perhaps a primordial part of human culture. In addition to the Nagas of Theosophy (which are, perhaps, derived from the East Asian Naga myth of an exalted, serpentine elite class that ruled the world in ancient times, influenced by Mayan serpent cult elements), serpent cults have appeared throughout African, pre-Columbian North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, where some of the more common themes seem to be that the Serpent People came to Earth from a "heavenly water", the stars, the [[Hollow Earth]], or from the deathly abysses or Dreamlands of the [[Astral Plane]]; bringing civilization, forbidden knowledge, technological advancement, spiritual enlightenment, and knowledge of magick with them to give to man; leading, guiding, or ruling primordial human/proto-human civilization from positions of exalted (and possibly malevolent or abusive) power; holding some antagonistic relationship with the elements of weather and natural disaster such as the power to command them and eventually being destroyed by them; enjoying eternal (or extremely long) lives and shape-shifting powers represented by or accompanied by the ability to shed their old skins; interbreeding with their subjects to produce an elite and hybrid ruling class that would fill the ranks of kings and queens and other rules of all kinds throughout human history; and represented with liminal symbology representing an ability to cross with relative ease between the worlds of the living and the world of the dead (the mystic [[Other Side]] or a literal [[Hollow Earth|Underworld]]).

==See also==
[[File:Dreamscape serpentman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A rogue Dreamer has turned his dream form into a Serpent Man in ''[[Dreamscape (1984 film)]]''....]]
*[[Kull]]
*[[Set]]
*[[Worms of the Earth (Race)]]
*[[Lemurian]]s
*"[[Frazetta Man]]" (for the sorts of proto-human peoples ruled by the Serpent People)
*[[Yig]]
*[[Thurian Age]]
*[[Valusia]]
*[[Lemuria]]
*[[Mu]]
*[[Atlantis]]
*[[Naacal]] for the language of lost Lemuria and the Nagas
*[[Naacal Tablets]] for one of the more well-known documentations of Lemurian and Naacal history

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Seven Geases]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[Ubbo-Sathla (story)|Ubbo-Sathla]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[The Double Shadow]]"
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Nameless City]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & [[Zealia Bishop]] - "[[The Curse of Yig]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop - "[[The Mound]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
* [[Karl Edward Wagner]] - ''[[Legion from the Shadows]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan of Aquilonia]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan the Buccaneer]]''
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]"
* Lin Carter - ''[[Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria]]''
* Lin Carter - "[[The Vengeance of Yig]]"
* Scott David Aniolowski - "[[Where a God Shall Tread]]"
* Robert E. Howard - "[[Worms of the Earth]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios|Serpent Men scenarios]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]
* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"

[[Category:Races]]

Insect from Shaggai

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Travern:

'''Shan''', AKA '''Insects from Shaggai'''

Origin: The Insects from Shaggai are primarily described in [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)|The Insects from Shaggai]]", seemingly inspired by a dream H.P. Lovecraft noted in his [[Commonplace Book (fiction)|Commonplace Book]].

==Description==
[[File:NicolaesDeBruyn locustthing 1594.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Insect from Shaggai, as depicted by naturalist/entomologist Nicolaes DeBruyn in 1594]]

<blockquote>
"...I was, while walking in a familiar rural region, suddenly attacked by a swarm of swift-darting insects from the sky. They were tiny and streamlined, and seemed to be able to pierce my cranium and enter my brain as if their substance were not strictly material. No sooner had they entered my head, than my identity and position seemed to become very doubtful. I remembered alien and incredible scenes..."
 — [[H.P. Lovecraft]], in a May 11, 1935 letter to [[Robert H. Barlowe]]
</blockquote>

<blockquote>
"At last a shape appeared, flapping above the ground on leathery wings. The thing which flew whirring toward me was followed by a train of others, wings slapping the air at incredible speed... I could ... make out many more details... Those huge lidless eyes which stared in hate at me, the jointed tendrils which seemed to twist from the head in cosmic rhythms, the ten legs, covered with black shining tentacles and folded into the pallid underbody, and the semi-circular ridged wings covered with triangular scales... I saw the three mouths of the thing move moistly, and then it was upon me... [not] strictly material [but] constructed of some alien matter which allow its atoms to exist conterminously with those of my body...."
 — [[Ramsey Campbell]], "[[The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)|The Insects from Shaggai]]"
</blockquote>

The Shan, a.k.a. the Insects from Shaggai, are a little larger than terrestrial insects, with ridged and scaled leathery wings, huge lidless eyes, jointed tendrils which twist "from the head in cosmic rhythms", ten legs covered with shiny black tentacles that fold into their pallid underbody, and the three mouths on its head, controlled by three compartmentalized personalities cohabiting a six-lobed brain.

The Shan find Earth a hostile place to live, in particular due to solar radiation, which the Shan find deadly in extended exposure. The creatures appear to be capable of thought transference on physical contact with a human brain, effected by the incorporeal, immaterial composition of the creatures, which allows them to pass easily through the solid matter of human flesh and bone, directly into the human brain, allowing the target to remember the insect's vast and alien memories, as well as the merger or replacement of human and Shan minds.

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* Tome:
** ''[[Massa di Requiem per Shuggay]]''
* Artifact:
** [[Shan Temple-City]] (teleporting space-ship/city objects containing a temple-like portal to [[Azathoth]] in its lower levels, possibly as a source of energy)
* Deities:
** [[Azathoth]]
** [[Dzéwà]]
** [[Ghroth]], the Harbinger (supposedly destroyed Shaggai, according to ''[[Encyclopaedia Cthulhiana]]'', ''[[Lovecraftian Science blog]]'', and possibly [[Ramsey Campbell]]'s "[[The Tugging (fiction)|The Tugging]]"?)
** [[Lrogg]], possibly an avatar of [[Nyarlathotep]]
* Race:
** [[Being of Xiclotl]]
** [[Inhabitant of L'gy'hx]]
* Locations:
** [[Shaggai]], a world orbiting twin emerald-green suns
** [[Goatswood]] (a temple city landed here)
** [[Xiclotl]]
** [[Thuggon]]
** [[L'gy'hx]] ([[Uranus]])
* Cults:
** [[Cult of Azathoth]]
** [[PISCES]] (infiltration in the '60s and '70s)
** [[Army of the Third Eye]] terrorist organization
==References==
* Lovecraftian Science Blog: [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/the-insects-from-shaggai-part-1-alien-matter/ Alien Matter], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/02/28/the-insects-from-shaggai-part-2-modes-of-inter-dimensional-nutrition/ Nutrition], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/03/23/the-insects-from-shaggai-part-3-the-destruction-of-shaggai/ Shaggai], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/04/03/ghroth-the-harbinger/ Ghroth], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/04/17/the-arrival-of-the-insects-of-shaggai-part-1/ The Arrival of the Insects from Shaggai Part 1], [https://lovecraftianscience.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/the-arrival-of-the-insects-of-shaggai-part-2/ Part 2]

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[Commonplace Book (fiction)|Commonplace Book]]"
* [[Ramsey Campbell]] - "[[The Insects from Shaggai (fiction)|The Insects from Shaggai]]"
* [[Diane Sammarco]] - "[[The Queen]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Shan_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Insects from Shaggai (Shan)]]

[[Category:Races]]

Talk:Ghoul

2020-06-15T20:56:42Z

Travern: /* Secondary Sources */

== To Do ==

There was talk of adding some of the stuff/speculation from the Ghoul thread: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/

I guess the article could also use some formatting, maybe organize it into a couple of sections, such as: Appearance, Origin, Behavior?

- 08:02, 26 May 2014‎ Chukhna

== Secondary Sources ==
* Fiction (H. P. Lovecraft): "[[The_Hound_(fiction)|The Hound]]", "[[The_Outsider_(fiction)|The Outsider]]", "[[The_Horror_at_Red_Hook_(fiction)|The Horror at Red Hook]]", "[[The_Picture_in_the_House_(fiction)|The Picture in the House]]", "[[The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter_(fiction)|The Statement of Randolph Carter]]", "[[The_Rats_in_the_Walls_(fiction)|The Rats in the Walls]]"
* Fiction (other sources): "[[Dream Land (fiction)]]" ([[Edgar Allen Poe]]), "[[The Hour of the Dragon (fiction)]]" ([[Robert E. Howard]]), "[[The Chadbourne Episode (fiction)]]" (Henry S. Whitehead)
* Film: ''[[Nightbreed (1990 film)]]''

== Fan Theories and Speculation ==

* Ghouls share some resemblance to hairless baboons or apes, and may represent a different path of evolution, an earlier stage of evolution, or a de-evolution from humanity (source: "[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ The Great Ghoul Thread]")
* Ghouls are known to worship the Great Old One [[Mordiggian]], and his priests wear concealing hooded purple robes and metal skull-shaped masks, which double as disguises when the ghouls wish to walk among humans. (Clark Ashton Smith)
* Many Ghouls gather in the great Ghoul city of [[Midian]], built beneath a [[Kingsport]] cemetery near the borders between Dream and Day.
* Ghouls share some thematic similarities to [[Deep One]]s, [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Dero]]s, [[Wendigo]]s, [[Faerie]]s (or elves, dwarfs, trolls, goblins, witches, ogres, etc.), [[Serpent Man|Serpent Folk]], [[Worm of the Earth|Worms of the Earth]], and other such beings, and might be similar, closely-related, or even completely interchangeable with such creatures.... (fan speculation)
* Similarly, there is a great deal of overlap between Ghoul, [[Faerie]], [[Werewolf]], [[Vampire]], Witch, and Ogre legends, with clear distinctions between these creatures only being drawn since the Victorian era; aspects from the folklore of any of these creatures might be used to add unique details to Ghouls. (European folklore)
* Ghoul-like beings appear in other Lovecraft stories (fan speculation):
** "[[The_Hound_(fiction)|The Hound]]" (The ghoulish lifestyle of the human narrator and his accomplice, as well as the spectre associated with the strange, canine [[amulet of Leng]] they unearth in an abnormal grave, and the apparently living corpse they disturb in retrieving this tomb-loot. The amulet bears "the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of [[Leng, Plateau of|Leng]]," which is at least suggestive...)
** "[[The_Outsider_(fiction)|The Outsider]]" (The narrator claims to have lived his life in a sort of "castle" beneath a stone slab in what appears to be a cemetery, among bones and skeletons he accepted as normal and strange libraries of books, with dim memories "...that whoever nursed me must have been shockingly aged, since my first conception of a living person was that of something mockingly like myself, yet distorted, shriveled, and decaying like the castle...."; at the climax of the story, the narrator reports seeing "the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and desolation; the putrid, dripping eidolon of unwholesome revelation; the awful baring of that which the merciful earth should always hide. God knows it was not of this world—or no longer of this world—yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape....")
** "[[The_Picture_in_the_House_(fiction)|The Picture in the House]]" (An encounter with a repulsively youthful and strange old man who has apparently been kept young for centuries by eating human flesh....)
** "[[The_Horror_at_Red_Hook_(Fiction)|The Horror at Red Hook]]" (The strange tunnels under the neighborhood used by cultists, with underground cells containing prisoners "in a state of idiocy", including mothers with "infants of disturbingly strange appearance" who died soon after exposure to sunlight, prompting investigators to speculate about children born of "demons, incubi, and succubi"....)
** "[[The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter_(fiction)|The Statement of Randolph Carter]]" (the undescribed and unnamed hordes encountered by Harley Warren in the crypts could as easily be Ghouls as anything else....)
** "[[The_Rats_in_the_Walls_(fiction)|The Rats in the Walls]]" (The hellish subterranean cannibal paradise below Exham Priory could as easily have been inspired by, influenced by, or perpetrated by Ghouls as anything else....)
* Many conclusions might be drawn from Lovecraft's sketchy details about the relationship between Ghouls and humans:
** Humans evolved from Ghouls.
** Ghouls evolved from Humans.
** Humans and Ghouls are different branches of the same family tree.
** Ghouls are the result of interbreeding between humans and some eldritch horror.
** Ghouls are some form of mutation.
** Ghouls are unrelated to humans, and are instead the descendants of alien beings from another world (such as the [[Dreamlands]]).
** Ghouls are supernatural beings, the results of magic or the miracles of demonic spirits.
** Ghouls are humans who have contracted some communicable, dietary, or genetic disease.
** Ghouls are undead beings, malevolent spirits inhabiting human corpses.
** Ghouls are just a different form of humanity, resulting from the psychological and physical corruption from a steady diet of human flesh and morbid and abnormal interests, entertainments, and lifestyles.

- [[User:Ywhateley|Ywhateley]] ([[User talk:Ywhateley|talk]]) 03:46, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Talk:Ghoul

2020-06-15T20:56:15Z

Travern: Secondary Sources (moved from main page for clarity)

== To Do ==

There was talk of adding some of the stuff/speculation from the Ghoul thread: http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/

I guess the article could also use some formatting, maybe organize it into a couple of sections, such as: Appearance, Origin, Behavior?

- 08:02, 26 May 2014‎ Chukhna

== Secondary Sources ==
* Fiction (H. P. Lovecraft): "[[The_Hound_(fiction)|The Hound]]", "[[The_Outsider_(fiction)|The Outsider]]", "[[The_Horror_at_Red_Hook_(fiction)|The Horror at Red Hook]]", "[[The_Picture_in_the_House_(fiction)|The Picture in the House]]", "[[The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter_(fiction)|The Statement of Randolph Carter]]", "[[The_Rats_in_the_Walls_(fiction)|The Rats in the Walls]]"
Fiction (other sources): "[[Dream Land (fiction)]]" ([[Edgar Allen Poe]]), "[[The Hour of the Dragon (fiction)]]" ([[Robert E. Howard]]), "[[The Chadbourne Episode (fiction)]]" (Henry S. Whitehead)
* Film: ''[[Nightbreed (1990 film)]]''

== Fan Theories and Speculation ==

* Ghouls share some resemblance to hairless baboons or apes, and may represent a different path of evolution, an earlier stage of evolution, or a de-evolution from humanity (source: "[http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ The Great Ghoul Thread]")
* Ghouls are known to worship the Great Old One [[Mordiggian]], and his priests wear concealing hooded purple robes and metal skull-shaped masks, which double as disguises when the ghouls wish to walk among humans. (Clark Ashton Smith)
* Many Ghouls gather in the great Ghoul city of [[Midian]], built beneath a [[Kingsport]] cemetery near the borders between Dream and Day.
* Ghouls share some thematic similarities to [[Deep One]]s, [[Tcho-Tcho]]s, [[Dero]]s, [[Wendigo]]s, [[Faerie]]s (or elves, dwarfs, trolls, goblins, witches, ogres, etc.), [[Serpent Man|Serpent Folk]], [[Worm of the Earth|Worms of the Earth]], and other such beings, and might be similar, closely-related, or even completely interchangeable with such creatures.... (fan speculation)
* Similarly, there is a great deal of overlap between Ghoul, [[Faerie]], [[Werewolf]], [[Vampire]], Witch, and Ogre legends, with clear distinctions between these creatures only being drawn since the Victorian era; aspects from the folklore of any of these creatures might be used to add unique details to Ghouls. (European folklore)
* Ghoul-like beings appear in other Lovecraft stories (fan speculation):
** "[[The_Hound_(fiction)|The Hound]]" (The ghoulish lifestyle of the human narrator and his accomplice, as well as the spectre associated with the strange, canine [[amulet of Leng]] they unearth in an abnormal grave, and the apparently living corpse they disturb in retrieving this tomb-loot. The amulet bears "the ghastly soul-symbol of the corpse-eating cult of [[Leng, Plateau of|Leng]]," which is at least suggestive...)
** "[[The_Outsider_(fiction)|The Outsider]]" (The narrator claims to have lived his life in a sort of "castle" beneath a stone slab in what appears to be a cemetery, among bones and skeletons he accepted as normal and strange libraries of books, with dim memories "...that whoever nursed me must have been shockingly aged, since my first conception of a living person was that of something mockingly like myself, yet distorted, shriveled, and decaying like the castle...."; at the climax of the story, the narrator reports seeing "the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and desolation; the putrid, dripping eidolon of unwholesome revelation; the awful baring of that which the merciful earth should always hide. God knows it was not of this world—or no longer of this world—yet to my horror I saw in its eaten-away and bone-revealing outlines a leering, abhorrent travesty on the human shape....")
** "[[The_Picture_in_the_House_(fiction)|The Picture in the House]]" (An encounter with a repulsively youthful and strange old man who has apparently been kept young for centuries by eating human flesh....)
** "[[The_Horror_at_Red_Hook_(Fiction)|The Horror at Red Hook]]" (The strange tunnels under the neighborhood used by cultists, with underground cells containing prisoners "in a state of idiocy", including mothers with "infants of disturbingly strange appearance" who died soon after exposure to sunlight, prompting investigators to speculate about children born of "demons, incubi, and succubi"....)
** "[[The_Statement_of_Randolph_Carter_(fiction)|The Statement of Randolph Carter]]" (the undescribed and unnamed hordes encountered by Harley Warren in the crypts could as easily be Ghouls as anything else....)
** "[[The_Rats_in_the_Walls_(fiction)|The Rats in the Walls]]" (The hellish subterranean cannibal paradise below Exham Priory could as easily have been inspired by, influenced by, or perpetrated by Ghouls as anything else....)
* Many conclusions might be drawn from Lovecraft's sketchy details about the relationship between Ghouls and humans:
** Humans evolved from Ghouls.
** Ghouls evolved from Humans.
** Humans and Ghouls are different branches of the same family tree.
** Ghouls are the result of interbreeding between humans and some eldritch horror.
** Ghouls are some form of mutation.
** Ghouls are unrelated to humans, and are instead the descendants of alien beings from another world (such as the [[Dreamlands]]).
** Ghouls are supernatural beings, the results of magic or the miracles of demonic spirits.
** Ghouls are humans who have contracted some communicable, dietary, or genetic disease.
** Ghouls are undead beings, malevolent spirits inhabiting human corpses.
** Ghouls are just a different form of humanity, resulting from the psychological and physical corruption from a steady diet of human flesh and morbid and abnormal interests, entertainments, and lifestyles.

- [[User:Ywhateley|Ywhateley]] ([[User talk:Ywhateley|talk]]) 03:46, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Ghoul

2020-06-15T20:54:02Z

Travern: /* Fiction */

[[File:Ghoul.png|100px|thumb|right|a feral Ghoul]]

Ghouls are a species of cannibalistic nocturnal creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos. They are first described in the Cthulhu Mythos by Lovecraft's story "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]".

Lovecraftian Ghouls are usually described as white or green-skinned humanoid hairless creatures with long canine muzzles, pointed ears, and clawed feet that have almost become hooves. They inhabit networks of underground tunnels and crypts, and eat the corpses of dead humans. Despite their favored food and reclusive habits, Ghouls are usually not hostile creatures, and in ''[[The_Dream_Quest of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' the protagonist gains the aid of a group of Ghouls and travels with them for a period of time. Ghouls communicate using a "meeping" or gibbering vocalization called Ghoul Speech or [[Pnathic]].

Ghouls are found through the underworld of the [[Dreamlands]] as well, and it seems that they can navigate between the waking world and the dreamlands through the use of special tunnels. The universal center of ghoul activity seems to be the bone-filled [[Vale of Pnath]] in the Dreamland underworld, were the world's ghouls dump cleaned bones. This dumping is done from the [[Crag of the Ghouls]], a cliff jutting off from the [[Mountains of Thok]] over the vale.

Ghouls appear to be a separate species from humans, breeding and living as their own society, but it also seems that some humans can slowly become ghouls, though the exact means are unknown, and the Changeling aspect of some of Pickman's paintings suggests that human and ghoul infants are routinely exchanged, and it might be inferred that, similarly to other aspects of Changeling myths, humans and ghouls might be able to interbreed.

==Description==
[[Image:Lovecraft ghoul sketch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|"Pickman's Model" sketch by HPL]]

<blockquote>
"These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness.... Occasionally the things were shown leaping through open windows at night, or squatting on the chests of sleepers, worrying at their throats. One canvas showed a ring of them baying about a hanged witch on Gallows Hill, whose dead face held a close kinship to theirs.... "...It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present prey and seek a juicier morsel. But damn it all, it wasn't even the fiendish subject that made it such an immortal fountain-head of all panic- not that, nor the dog face with its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips. It wasn't the scaly claws nor the mould-caked body nor the half-hooved feet - none of these, though any one of them might well have driven an excitable man to madness...."
 — HPL, "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
</blockquote>

From ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'', we learn that Ghouls speak in a "meeping"/"glibbering" language of their own and remember little of the language they spoke in life, have no beards, have a rubbery/mouldy texture to their skin, lope "in a slumping way" and squat when resting, tend to prefer not to wear clothes, live in conflict with [[Ghast]]s, and might turn greenish in old age. This story also contains many details about the Ghouls' habitat in the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Wakeworld|waking world]], as well as something of the feeding habits of Ghouls and their disposal of bones in the [[Vale of Pnath]].

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* deity: [[Mordiggian]] the Great Ghoul, a [[Great Old One]] worshiped by some Ghouls
* races: [[Ghast]]s and [[Gug]]s are the enemies of Ghouls
* language: [[Pnathic]], the "meeping", "glibbering", "warbling" language of the Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'', a Mythos Tome which may heavily reference Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'', a Mythos Tome dedicated to the worship of [[Mordiggian]]
* location: The Ghoul city of [[Midian]]
* cult: the [[Rakes]]
* cult: [[Cult of Mordiggian]]

==References==
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ "The Great Ghoul Thread" at Yog-Sothoth.com]
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31471-the-ecology-of-ghouls/ "The Ecology of Ghouls" at Yog-Sothoth.com]
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31472-sartorial-customs-of-ghouls/ "Sartorial Customs of Ghouls" at Yog-Sothoth.com]

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Scott Glancy]] - "[[Down in the Delta]]"
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Dwellers Under the Tomb (fiction)|The Dwellers Under the Tomb]]"
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Charnal God (fiction)|The Charnal God]]"
* [[Edward Lucas White]] - "[[Amina (fiction)|Amina]]"

===Film===
* "[[Pickman's Model (1972 film)|Pickman's Model]]" (1972 ''[[Night Gallery (1970 Series) | Night Gallery]]'' episode)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Ghoul_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Ghouls]]

[[Category:Races]]

Ghoul

2020-06-15T20:51:11Z

Travern:

[[File:Ghoul.png|100px|thumb|right|a feral Ghoul]]

Ghouls are a species of cannibalistic nocturnal creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos. They are first described in the Cthulhu Mythos by Lovecraft's story "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]".

Lovecraftian Ghouls are usually described as white or green-skinned humanoid hairless creatures with long canine muzzles, pointed ears, and clawed feet that have almost become hooves. They inhabit networks of underground tunnels and crypts, and eat the corpses of dead humans. Despite their favored food and reclusive habits, Ghouls are usually not hostile creatures, and in ''[[The_Dream_Quest of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'' the protagonist gains the aid of a group of Ghouls and travels with them for a period of time. Ghouls communicate using a "meeping" or gibbering vocalization called Ghoul Speech or [[Pnathic]].

Ghouls are found through the underworld of the [[Dreamlands]] as well, and it seems that they can navigate between the waking world and the dreamlands through the use of special tunnels. The universal center of ghoul activity seems to be the bone-filled [[Vale of Pnath]] in the Dreamland underworld, were the world's ghouls dump cleaned bones. This dumping is done from the [[Crag of the Ghouls]], a cliff jutting off from the [[Mountains of Thok]] over the vale.

Ghouls appear to be a separate species from humans, breeding and living as their own society, but it also seems that some humans can slowly become ghouls, though the exact means are unknown, and the Changeling aspect of some of Pickman's paintings suggests that human and ghoul infants are routinely exchanged, and it might be inferred that, similarly to other aspects of Changeling myths, humans and ghouls might be able to interbreed.

==Description==
[[Image:Lovecraft ghoul sketch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|"Pickman's Model" sketch by HPL]]

<blockquote>
"These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness.... Occasionally the things were shown leaping through open windows at night, or squatting on the chests of sleepers, worrying at their throats. One canvas showed a ring of them baying about a hanged witch on Gallows Hill, whose dead face held a close kinship to theirs.... "...It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present prey and seek a juicier morsel. But damn it all, it wasn't even the fiendish subject that made it such an immortal fountain-head of all panic- not that, nor the dog face with its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips. It wasn't the scaly claws nor the mould-caked body nor the half-hooved feet - none of these, though any one of them might well have driven an excitable man to madness...."
 — HPL, "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
</blockquote>

From ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]'', we learn that Ghouls speak in a "meeping"/"glibbering" language of their own and remember little of the language they spoke in life, have no beards, have a rubbery/mouldy texture to their skin, lope "in a slumping way" and squat when resting, tend to prefer not to wear clothes, live in conflict with [[Ghast]]s, and might turn greenish in old age. This story also contains many details about the Ghouls' habitat in the [[Dreamlands]] and the [[Wakeworld|waking world]], as well as something of the feeding habits of Ghouls and their disposal of bones in the [[Vale of Pnath]].

==Associated Mythos Elements==
* deity: [[Mordiggian]] the Great Ghoul, a [[Great Old One]] worshiped by some Ghouls
* races: [[Ghast]]s and [[Gug]]s are the enemies of Ghouls
* language: [[Pnathic]], the "meeping", "glibbering", "warbling" language of the Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Cultes des Goules]]'', a Mythos Tome which may heavily reference Ghouls
* tome: ''[[Ghoul's Manuscript]]'', a Mythos Tome dedicated to the worship of [[Mordiggian]]
* location: The Ghoul city of [[Midian]]
* cult: the [[Rakes]]
* cult: [[Cult of Mordiggian]]

==References==
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/27356-the-great-ghoul-thread/ "The Great Ghoul Thread" at Yog-Sothoth.com]
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31471-the-ecology-of-ghouls/ "The Ecology of Ghouls" at Yog-Sothoth.com]
* [http://www.yog-sothoth.com/topic/31472-sartorial-customs-of-ghouls/ "Sartorial Customs of Ghouls" at Yog-Sothoth.com]

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Scott Glancy]] - "[[Down in the Delta]]"
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Dwellers Under the Tomb (fiction)|The Dwellers Under the Tomb]]"
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - ''[[The_Dream_Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath_(fiction)|The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath]]''
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[Pickman's_Model_(fiction)|Pickman's Model]]"
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Charnal God (fiction)|The Charnal God]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[Dream Land (fiction)|Dream Land]]"
* [[Edward Lucas White]] - "[[Amina (fiction)|Amina]]"

===Film===
* "[[Pickman's Model (1972 film)|Pickman's Model]]" (1972 ''[[Night Gallery (1970 Series) | Night Gallery]]'' episode)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Ghoul_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Ghouls]]

[[Category:Races]]

Yithian

2020-06-15T20:17:44Z

Travern: /* Role-playing games */ fixing category link

The Yithians, more formally known "The Great Race of Yith", are a species of body-jumping aliens from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], first introduced in the story "[[The Shadow out of Time]]". The title ''Great'' refers to the fact they are the only species to have mastered a form of time travel.

They dwelt (or will dwell) on the planet [[Yith]], which may be their homeworld.

==Description==
[[File:Yithian.png|200px|thumb|right|Yithian]]

The original bodies of the Yithians are never described, since they use their advanced technology to jump their consciousness through time and space into new bodies. The Cretaceous Yithians, who had escaped their own extinction by projecting themselves to Earth, used the body of a large invertebrate creature, who resembled a rugose cone topped by a pair of clawed appendages, a long trumpet (presumably a feeding organ) and a yellow orb-like sensory organ on a stalk, sliding around on a sluglike mucous foot.

The cone like creatures inhabited by the Yithians are asexual and grow children around the bottom of their bodies. Reproduction is rare as a Yithian typically lives for long periods of time. Young Yithians are brought up by there parents, though later familial relationships usually are not given importance. Yithians do however form bonds with the same generational groups.

==Culture==
The Yithians form a loose nation or league run by a small governing board. These governors are voted in by those who pass educational and psychological tests. The nation seems to be split into at least four distinct divisions each given its own board and control of its resources. These are a partly fascistic socialist system. Resources are rationally distributed. All industry and food production is done mechanically. Instead of meat the Yithians only eat vegetable and synthetic foods.

Because most labor is done by machines citizens have much leisure time. This mostly is used in scholarly and aesthetical pursuits. Technology progressed to a height due to the need of surviving the cataclysmic environs of the Yithian culture on Earth. Crime barely exists and legal procedures are carried out with complete respect to the criminal. Civil wars are common inside the Yithian nation, though it often fights the prehistoric civilizations around it, including the [[Old Ones]]. But more impressively a huge army is kept on hand with "camera like weapons which produced tremendous electrical effects." This army was to defend the race from the [[Flying Polyp]]s that were trapped under the Yithian cities.

==Flying Polyps==
The topic of the [[Flying Polyp]]s is the only taboo in the Yithian culture. The Polyps where originally masters over the conical race that the Yithians came to inhabit. When the Yithians projected their minds to that of the conical creatures the polyps were taken by surprise and the Yithians were able to trap them in their black ruins underground. The Yithians considered these polyps to be so evil that they keep an entire army ready to combat any escaping polyps and eventually flee the minds of the cone like creatures into the future.

==Time Projection==
The Yithians use their mind-projecting techniques to scout out the passage of time, allowing them to accurately predict their own extinction and avoid it. To do this, the mind of a specimen from a (usually sentient) species is swapped with that of a Yithian for a period of several years, so that the Yithian can record information from that time. The target specimen, if willing to cooperate, is allowed to freedom to roam libraries and communicate with other specimens until his time of return comes. The memories of living in the cone-body, however are suppressed before the specimen's mind can return, to secure the secrets.

Information gathered by the Yithians is recorded in the great library at [[Pnakotus]], now a ruin in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia, from which the [[Pnakotic Manuscripts]] are derived.

When the alien [[Flying Polyp]]s reemerged to doom the civilization of the Cretaceous Yithians, the race, who had long ago predicted this, mass-moved their species' consciousnesses into the "Coleopterous race", beetle-folk living in Earth's far future. It is believed that due to this, the Yithians will exist until the very end of the universe.

===Timeline of Yithian Mind Transfer===
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)

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)

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)

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. 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Between 1651 and 1658: During Oliver Cromwell's time as Lord Protector of England, James Woodville of Suffolk exchanges minds with a Yithian.

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. 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)

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 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)

==Quotes==
<blockquote>
"The Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast ten-foot bases."

"They seemed to be enormous iridescent cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter. From their apexes projected four flexible, cylindrical members, each a foot thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves. These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and sometimes extended to any distance up to about ten feet. Terminating two of them were enormous claws or nippers. At the end of a third were four red, trumpet-like appendages. The fourth terminated in an irregular yellowish globe some two feet in diameter and having three great dark eyes ranged along its central circumference. Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles. The great base of the central cone was fringed with a rubbery, grey substance which moved the whole entity through expansion and contraction."

- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow out of Time"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[August Derleth]] - "[[The Shadow Out of Space]]"
* August Derleth and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Dark Brotherhood]]"
* [[Kenneth Hite]] - "[[PAPERCLIP]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Shadow out of Time]]"
* [[Lumley]] - "[[The Transition of Titus Crow]]"
* W. H. Pugmire - "[[The Winds of Yith]]"

===Film===
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c H P Lovecraft's The Shadow out of Time]'' (2012 short film)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Great_Race_of_Yith_scenarios | Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Great Race of Yith]]

[[Category:Races]]

Yithian

2020-06-15T20:08:13Z

Travern: Added Quotes and Appearances

The Yithians, more formally known "The Great Race of Yith", are a species of body-jumping aliens from the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], first introduced in the story "[[The Shadow out of Time]]". The title ''Great'' refers to the fact they are the only species to have mastered a form of time travel.

They dwelt (or will dwell) on the planet [[Yith]], which may be their homeworld.

==Description==
[[File:Yithian.png|200px|thumb|right|Yithian]]

The original bodies of the Yithians are never described, since they use their advanced technology to jump their consciousness through time and space into new bodies. The Cretaceous Yithians, who had escaped their own extinction by projecting themselves to Earth, used the body of a large invertebrate creature, who resembled a rugose cone topped by a pair of clawed appendages, a long trumpet (presumably a feeding organ) and a yellow orb-like sensory organ on a stalk, sliding around on a sluglike mucous foot.

The cone like creatures inhabited by the Yithians are asexual and grow children around the bottom of their bodies. Reproduction is rare as a Yithian typically lives for long periods of time. Young Yithians are brought up by there parents, though later familial relationships usually are not given importance. Yithians do however form bonds with the same generational groups.

==Culture==
The Yithians form a loose nation or league run by a small governing board. These governors are voted in by those who pass educational and psychological tests. The nation seems to be split into at least four distinct divisions each given its own board and control of its resources. These are a partly fascistic socialist system. Resources are rationally distributed. All industry and food production is done mechanically. Instead of meat the Yithians only eat vegetable and synthetic foods.

Because most labor is done by machines citizens have much leisure time. This mostly is used in scholarly and aesthetical pursuits. Technology progressed to a height due to the need of surviving the cataclysmic environs of the Yithian culture on Earth. Crime barely exists and legal procedures are carried out with complete respect to the criminal. Civil wars are common inside the Yithian nation, though it often fights the prehistoric civilizations around it, including the [[Old Ones]]. But more impressively a huge army is kept on hand with "camera like weapons which produced tremendous electrical effects." This army was to defend the race from the [[Flying Polyp]]s that were trapped under the Yithian cities.

==Flying Polyps==
The topic of the [[Flying Polyp]]s is the only taboo in the Yithian culture. The Polyps where originally masters over the conical race that the Yithians came to inhabit. When the Yithians projected their minds to that of the conical creatures the polyps were taken by surprise and the Yithians were able to trap them in their black ruins underground. The Yithians considered these polyps to be so evil that they keep an entire army ready to combat any escaping polyps and eventually flee the minds of the cone like creatures into the future.

==Time Projection==
The Yithians use their mind-projecting techniques to scout out the passage of time, allowing them to accurately predict their own extinction and avoid it. To do this, the mind of a specimen from a (usually sentient) species is swapped with that of a Yithian for a period of several years, so that the Yithian can record information from that time. The target specimen, if willing to cooperate, is allowed to freedom to roam libraries and communicate with other specimens until his time of return comes. The memories of living in the cone-body, however are suppressed before the specimen's mind can return, to secure the secrets.

Information gathered by the Yithians is recorded in the great library at [[Pnakotus]], now a ruin in the Great Sandy Desert of Australia, from which the [[Pnakotic Manuscripts]] are derived.

When the alien [[Flying Polyp]]s reemerged to doom the civilization of the Cretaceous Yithians, the race, who had long ago predicted this, mass-moved their species' consciousnesses into the "Coleopterous race", beetle-folk living in Earth's far future. It is believed that due to this, the Yithians will exist until the very end of the universe.

===Timeline of Yithian Mind Transfer===
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)

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)

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)

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. 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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Between 1651 and 1658: During Oliver Cromwell's time as Lord Protector of England, James Woodville of Suffolk exchanges minds with a Yithian.

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. 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)

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 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)

==Quotes==
<blockquote>
"The Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast ten-foot bases."

"They seemed to be enormous iridescent cones, about ten feet high and ten feet wide at the base, and made up of some ridgy, scaly, semi-elastic matter. From their apexes projected four flexible, cylindrical members, each a foot thick, and of a ridgy substance like that of the cones themselves. These members were sometimes contracted almost to nothing, and sometimes extended to any distance up to about ten feet. Terminating two of them were enormous claws or nippers. At the end of a third were four red, trumpet-like appendages. The fourth terminated in an irregular yellowish globe some two feet in diameter and having three great dark eyes ranged along its central circumference. Surmounting this head were four slender grey stalks bearing flower-like appendages, whilst from its nether side dangled eight greenish antennae or tentacles. The great base of the central cone was fringed with a rubbery, grey substance which moved the whole entity through expansion and contraction."

- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow out of Time"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[August Derleth]] - "[[The Shadow Out of Space]]"
* August Derleth and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Dark Brotherhood]]"
* [[Kenneth Hite]] - "[[PAPERCLIP]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Shadow out of Time]]"
* [[Lumley]] - "[[The Transition of Titus Crow]]"
* W. H. Pugmire - "[[The Winds of Yith]]"

===Film===
* ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jp1CT1h6c H P Lovecraft's The Shadow out of Time]'' (2012 short film)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:CoC:Great Race of Yith scenarios|Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring the Great Race of Yith]]

[[Category:Races]]

Mi-go

2020-06-15T19:20:15Z

Travern: Expanded article

:''Not to be confused with the [[Mi-Go Hominids]].''

[[File:Mi-Go-miniature.png|200px|thumb|right|A Mi-go with a brain cylinder]]
The '''Mi-go''', a.k.a. the '''Fungi From Yuggoth''', a.k.a. the '''Outer Ones''', are an alien species that first appeared in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Whisper in Darkness". The word "Mi-go" comes from "Migou", a Tibetan word for Yeti, and while the Mi-go do not actually look like the traditional Yeti, Lovecraft does equate them. In the [[Delta Green]] RPG setting the Mi-go are associated with [[Grey Alien]]s.

==Description==
While the Mi-go are described in the original story as more vegetable than animal, with a fungoid structure, they also resemble crustaceans, such as crabs, crayfish, and shrimp. Although the Mi-go are never actually seen by the narrator in their debut, second-hand reports describe them as elongated creatures with segmented bands of muscles for a body, a mass of sensory cilia for a head, and a pair of ribbed wings. These wings do not function well in our atmosphere, but they can navigate through the aether of outer space (some variants' cannot without mechanical or surgical aid). While the Mi-go chiefly use telepathy for discourse among themselves, they can also change their heads' coloration to communicate. The roughly man-sized Mi-go are capable of disguising themselves as humans through their alien technology and of learning and speaking human languages, although they talk in buzzing voices.

==Technology==
[[File:Whispererindarkness-hplhs.jpg|300px|thumb|right|from the HPLHS's 2011 film ''[[The Whisperer in Darkness (2011 film)|The Whisperer in Darkness]]'']]
The Mi-go have mastered various fields of science and are especially adept at surgery. They can extensively modify their own bodies or remove human brains while keeping both brain and body alive. Their advanced technology can transport the brains of their human allies off-world in special cylinders, which can also allow them to see and communicate when hooked up to special machines. The Mi-go apparently visit Earth to secretly mine its mineral resources and have set up outposts on the planet [[Yuggoth]] that lies beyond Neptune and is equated with Pluto.

==History==
160 million years ago, the Mi-go set up their first mining operations on Earth. After fighting with the [[Elder Things]], they eventually won control over much of the northern hemisphere. Some Mi-go settled on the continent that would become [[Mu]] where they worshipped [[Ghatanothoa]]. Following Mu's destruction, they have restricted their presence to hidden mining colonies in the Andes, the Appalachians, and the Himalayas.

==Leaders==
The Mi-go are said to worship [[Yog-Sothoth]], [[Nyarlathotep]], and [[Shub-Niggurath]], but to have little interest in religion compared to scientific curiosity. Although they coverly enlist human agents to further their terrestrial interests, a secret cult of humans is devoted to tracking them down on behalf [[Hastur]].

==Quotes==
<blockquote>
"They were pinkish things about five feet long; with crustaceous bodies bearing vast pairs of dorsal fins or membranous wings and several sets of articulated limbs, and with a sort of convoluted ellipsoid, covered with multitudes of very short antennae, where a head would ordinarily be."

"As to what the things were - explanations naturally varied. The common name applied to them was 'those ones,' or 'the old ones,' though other terms had a local and transient use. Perhaps the bulk of the Puritan settlers set them down bluntly as familiars of the devil, and made them a basis of awed theological speculation. Those with Celtic legendry in their heritage - mainly the Scotch-Irish element of New Hampshire, and their kindred who had settled in Vermont on Governor Wentworth's colonial grants - linked them vaguely with the malign fairies and 'little people' of the bogs and raths, and protected themselves with scraps of incantation handed down through many generations. But the Indians had the most fantastic theories of all. While different tribal legends differed, there was a marked consensus of belief in certain vital particulars; it being unanimously agreed that the creatures were not native to this earth."

"As it was, nearly all the rumors had several points in common; averring that the creatures were a sort of huge, light-red crab with many pairs of legs and with two great batlike wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and sometimes on the hindmost pair only, using the others to convey large objects of indeterminate nature. On one occasion they were spied in considerable numbers, a detachment of them wading along a shallow woodland watercourse three abreast in evidently disciplined formation. Once a specimen was seen flying--launching itself from the top of a bald, lonely hill at night and vanishing in the sky after its great flapping wings had been silhouetted an instant against the full moon."

"'The Outer Beings are perhaps the most marvellous organic things in or beyond all space and time-members of a cosmos-wide race of which all other life-forms are merely degenerate variants. They are more vegetable than animal, if these terms can be applied to the sort of matter composing them, and have a somewhat fungoid structure; though the presence of a chlorophyll-like substance and a very singular nutritive system differentiate them altogether from true cormophytic fungi. Indeed, the type is composed of a form of matter totally alien to our part of space--with electrons having a wholly different vibration-rate. That is why the beings cannot be photographed on the ordinary camera films and plates of our known universe, even though our eyes can see them. With proper knowledge, however, any good chemist could make a photographic emulsion which would record their images.

'The genus is unique in its ability to traverse the heatless and airless interstellar void in full corporeal form, and some of its variants cannot do this without mechanical aid or curious surgical transpositions. Only a few species have the ether-resisting wings characteristic of the Vermont variety. Those inhabiting certain remote peaks in the Old World were brought in other ways. Their external resemblance to animal life, and to the sort of structure we understand as material, is a matter of parallel evolution rather than of close kinship. Their brain-capacity exceeds that of any other surviving life-form, although the winged types of our hill country are by no means the most highly developed. Telepathy is their usual means of discourse, though we have rudimentary vocal organs which, after a slight operation (for surgery is an incredibly expert and everyday thing among them), can roughly duplicate the speech of such types of organism as still use speech.

'Their main immediate abode is a still undiscovered and almost lightless planet at the very edge of our solar system--beyond Neptune, and the ninth in distance from the sun. It is, as we have inferred, the object mystically hinted at as "Yuggoth" in certain ancient and forbidden writings; and it will soon be the scene of a strange focussing of thought upon our world in an effort to facilitate mental rapport. I would not be surprised if astronomers become sufficiently sensitive to these thought-currents to discover Yuggoth when the Outer Ones wish them to do so. But Yuggoth, of course, is only the stepping-stone. The main body of the beings inhabits strangely organized abysses wholly beyond the utmost reach of any human imagination. The space-time globule which we recognize as the totality of all cosmic entity is only an atom in the genuine infinity which is theirs. And as much of this infinity as any human brain can hold is eventually to be opened up to me, as it has been to not more than fifty other men since the human race has existed.'"

- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Whisperer in Darkness"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Elizabeth Bear]] and [[Sarah Monette]] - "[[Boojum]]"
* [[Lin Carter]] - "[[The Dweller in the Tomb]]"
* [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Whisperer in Darkness]]"
* [[Nick Mamatas]] - "[[Brattleboro Days, Yuggoth Nights]]"
* Nick Mamatas - "[[Real People Slash]]"
* [[Don Webb]] - "[[To Mars and Providence]]"

===Film===
* ''[[The_Whisperer_in_Darkness_(1975_short)|The Whisperer in Darkness]]'' (1975 short)
* ''[[The_Whisperer_in_Darkness_(2007_film)|The Whisperer in Darkness]]'' (2007 film)
* ''[[The Whisperer in Darkness (2011 film)|The Whisperer in Darkness]]'' (2011 film)

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Mi-go scenarios|Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Mi-go]]

[[Category:Races]]

File:Mi-Go-miniature.png

2020-06-15T17:59:44Z

Travern: Black Goat Mi-Go by Chase Norton (image cropped) (CC Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

== Summary ==
Black Goat Mi-Go by Chase Norton (image cropped) (CC Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0))

File:Whispererindarkness-hplhs.jpg

2020-06-15T17:48:16Z

Travern: Still from H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's "The Whisperer in Darkness" film

== Summary ==
Still from H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society's "The Whisperer in Darkness" film

Deep One

2020-06-15T15:40:21Z

Travern: proofing

[[File:Deepone bruegel_falloftherebelangels1562_.png|200px|thumb|right|Deep One, by Bruegel]]

The ''Deep Ones'' are a species of aquatic/semiaquatic humanoids with both anurid and ichthyic characteristics (simply put, frog-fish men), dwelling in cities at the ocean's bottom. These creatures were introduced in H. P. Lovecraft's story "[[The Shadow over Innsmouth]]".

==Description==
Described as both froglike and fishlike, slimy anthropoid creatures with spiny ridges down their back and bulging lidless eyes, the Deep Ones, despite their preferred marine environment, can survive on land for extended periods. Deep Ones are capable of hybridizing with humans, resulting in a person with the "Innsmouth look", which will eventually metamorphose into a complete Deep One and return to the sea. Deep Ones do not die natural deaths but are effectively immortal and will only die of accidents, war, or disease. Deep Ones apparently are found all over the world, but few know the correct method to contact them. Deep Ones can also hybridize with the [[Yugg]]s, sentient flatworms.

==Leaders==
[[File:Seabishop.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sea Monk and Bishop Fish]]
The Deep Ones revere both '''Mother Hydra''' and '''Father Dagon''', powerful demigods who may both be, in fact, enormous Deep Ones.

The city of Y'ha-nthlei is the only Deep One city mentioned by Lovecraft, and this was torpedoed by the US Government in 1928.

==Quotes==
[[File:Deepone necronomiconbotd1993.png|200px|thumb|right|A Deep One delivers the ''Necronomicon'' in ''[[Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993 film)]]'']]
<blockquote>
"'...Obed learned that there are things on this Earth most folks never hear about - and wouldn't believe if they did hear. It seems the Kanaky natives were sacrificing their young men and maidens to some kind of god-things that lived under the sea, and getting all kinds of favour in return. They met the things on the little islet with the queer ruins, and it seems the awful carvings of frog-fish monsters were supposed to be pictures of these things - maybe they were the kind of creatures that got all the mermaid stories and such started....'" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
"...That damnable fishy odour again waxed dominant.... They would perhaps be the worst of all Innsmouth types.... The horde was very close now - air foul with their hoarse snarlings, and the ground almost shaking with their alien-rhythmed footfalls.... I saw them in a limitless stream - flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating - urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal ... and some were strangely robed ... and one, who led the way, was clad in a ghoulishly humped black coat and striped trousers, and had a man's felt hat perched on the shapeless thing that answered for a head.... I think their predominant colour was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four.... Their croaking, baying voices... held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked...." 
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Ramsey Campbell]] - "[[The Room in the Castle]]"
* [[Basil Copper]] - "[[Beyond the Reef]]"
* [[August Derleth]] - "[[The Shuttered Room]]"
* August Derleth and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Survivor]]"
* [[Ruthanna Emrys]] - "[[The Innsmouth Legacy]]" series
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]"
* [[Brian Lumley]] - "[[The Return of the Deep Ones]]"
* [[Guy N. Smith]] - "[[Return to Innsmouth]]"
* [[Brian Stableford]] - "[[The Innsmouth Heritage]]"
* [[Charles Stross]] - ''[[The Jennifer Morgue]]''
* [[James Wade]] - "[[A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth]]"
* James Wade - "[[The Deep Ones]]"
* [[Jack Yeovil]] - "[[The Big Fish]]"

===Film===
* ''[[Dagon (2001 film)|Dagon]]'' (film)
* See also the film ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQRLi1KUm8&feature=youtu.be&t=40m9s The Mysterious Island (1929)]''

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of [[:Category:CoC:Deep One scenarios|Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Deep Ones]]

[[Category:Races]]

Deep One

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Travern: Added Appearances section

[[File:Deepone bruegel_falloftherebelangels1562_.png|200px|thumb|right|Deep One, by Bruegel]]

The ''Deep Ones'' are a species of aquatic/semiaquatic humanoids with both anurid and ichthyic characteristics (simply put, frog-fish men), dwelling in cities at the ocean's bottom. These creatures were introduced in H. P. Lovecraft's story "[[The Shadow over Innsmouth]]".

==Description==
Described as both froglike and fishlike, slimy anthropoid creatures with spiny ridges down their back and bulging lidless eyes, the Deep Ones, despite their preferred marine environment, can survive on land for extended periods. Deep Ones are capable of hybridizing with humans, resulting in a person with the "Innsmouth look", which will eventually metamorphose into a complete Deep One and return to the sea. Deep Ones do not die natural deaths but are effectively immortal and will only die of accidents, war, or disease. Deep Ones apparently are found all over the world, but few know the correct method to contact them. Deep Ones can also hybridize with the [[Yugg]]s, sentient flatworms.

==Leaders==
[[File:Seabishop.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Sea Monk and Bishop Fish]]
The Deep Ones revere both '''Mother Hydra''' and '''Father Dagon''', powerful demigods who may both be, in fact, enormous Deep Ones.

The city of Y'ha-nthlei is the only Deep-One city mentioned by Lovecraft, and this was torpedoed by the US Government in 1928.

==Quotes==
[[File:Deepone necronomiconbotd1993.png|200px|thumb|right|A Deep One delivers the ''Necronomicon'' in ''[[Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993 film)]]'']]
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"'...Obed learned that there are things on this Earth most folks never hear about - and wouldn't believe if they did hear. It seems the Kanaky natives were sacrificing their young men and maidens to some kind of god-things that lived under the sea, and getting all kinds of favour in return. They met the things on the little islet with the queer ruins, and it seems the awful carvings of frog-fish monsters were supposed to be pictures of these things - maybe they were the kind of creatures that got all the mermaid stories and such started....'" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
"...That damnable fishy odour again waxed dominant.... They would perhaps be the worst of all Innsmouth types.... The horde was very close now - air foul with their hoarse snarlings, and the ground almost shaking with their alien-rhythmed footfalls.... I saw them in a limitless stream - flopping, hopping, croaking, bleating - urging inhumanly through the spectral moonlight in a grotesque, malignant saraband of fantastic nightmare. And some of them had tall tiaras of that nameless whitish-gold metal ... and some were strangely robed ... and one, who led the way, was clad in a ghoulishly humped black coat and striped trousers, and had a man's felt hat perched on the shapeless thing that answered for a head.... I think their predominant colour was a greyish-green, though they had white bellies. They were mostly shiny and slippery, but the ridges of their backs were scaly. Their forms vaguely suggested the anthropoid, while their heads were the heads of fish, with prodigious bulging eyes that never closed. At the sides of their necks were palpitating gills, and their long paws were webbed. They hopped irregularly, sometimes on two legs and sometimes on four.... Their croaking, baying voices... held all the dark shades of expression which their staring faces lacked...." 
- H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"
</blockquote>

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Ramsey Campbell]] - "[[The Room in the Castle]]"
* [[Basil Copper]] - "[[Beyond the Reef]]"
* [[August Derleth]] - "[[The Shuttered Room]]"
* August Derleth and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Survivor]]"
* [[Ruthanna Emrys]] - "[[The Innsmouth Legacy]]" series
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]"
* [[Brian Lumley]] - "[[The Return of the Deep Ones]]"
* [[Guy N. Smith]] - "[[Return to Innsmouth]]"
* [[Brian Stableford]] - "[[The Innsmouth Heritage]]"
* [[Charles Stross]] - ''[[The Jennifer Morgue]]''
* [[James Wade]] - "[[A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth]]"
* James Wade - "[[The Deep Ones]]"
* [[Jack Yeovil]] - "[[The Big Fish]]"

===Film===
* ''[[Dagon (2001 film)|Dagon]]'' (film)
* See also the film ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auQRLi1KUm8&feature=youtu.be&t=40m9s The Mysterious Island (1929)]''

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Deep Ones [[:Category:CoC:Deep One scenarios|Deep One scenarios]]

[[Category:Races]]

Serpent Men

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Travern: /* Role-playing games */ Keeper's Compendium is out of print but republished as The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1

[[File:YaxchilanDivineSerpent.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Mayan interpretation of a serpent-man shedding his skin.]]

'''Serpent Men''' are a fictional race created by [[Robert E. Howard]] for his [[King Kull]] tales. They first appeared in "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]," published in ''[[Weird Tales]]'' in August of 1929.

They were later adapted for the Marvel Comics Conan comics by Roy Thomas and Marie Severin. Their first Marvel Universe appearance was in ''Kull the Conqueror'' vol.1 #2 (September, 1971). They were also used in the 1992 ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series. They were also adapted into [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s [[Cthulhu Mythos]] by writers like [[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]].

==Origin and society==
[[File:Ubaid serpent folk.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Aeons-old "Serpent" figures unearthed in Iraq]]
In Robert E. Howard's King Kull stories, the serpent people worship a god known as the Great Serpent. Later writers would identify the Great Serpent with the [[Great Old Ones (Deities)|Great Old One]] [[Yig]] and with the Stygian serpent god [[Set (serpent god)|Set]] from Howard's [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories.

The Serpent Men were created untold aeons ago by the Great Serpent. At some point the Serpent Men group split, with one group becoming the Man-Serpents- these creatures, unlike their kin and predecessors, have the bodies of giant serpents and the heads of human beings, with smaller snakes for hair like Medusa. A Man-Serpent is the titular being in the Conan story "The God in the Bowl". Man-Serpents have hypnotic gazes and lethally venomous bites, as well as terrible crushing strength.

The seat of the First Empire of the serpent people, during the Paleozoic era, was [[Valusia]]. Valusia is a fictional country in the Kull stories of Robert E. Howard, located on the west coast of the main continent of [[Thuria]]. The empire was based on sorcery and alchemy, but collapsed with the rise of the dinosaurs about 225 million years ago during the Triassic era. The Serpent Men originally ruled over humans in Valusia but were defeated and almost wiped out in humanity's battle for survival against the "elder things" that predated them. Over time, humans dominated Valusia and the Serpent Men became a legend. The Serpent Men, one of the few surviving "elder things", infiltrated human society and ruled from behind the scenes for a time but were again discovered, defeated and cast out in a secret war. However, they later repeated this tactic but added the front of a Snake Cult religion, which gained power and influence within Valusia while they also used their abilities of disguise to murder and replace each reigning monarch. Their power is eventually broken by King Kull, formerly an Atlantean barbarian who had recently conquered Valusia, and the Pict Brule the Spear-Slayer, whose society was aware of the Serpent Men's infiltration.

After the destruction of Valusia, the serpent men escaped to [[Yoth]], a cavern beneath [[K'n-yan]] in North America (ironically, the Pictish Isles of the Kull stories). They built subterranean cities, of which only ruins remain in the modern age. Explorers from K'n-yan visited Yoth frequently to learn more of the serpent men's scientific lore. Their next downfall came when they brought idols of [[Tsathoggua]] from N'kai and abandoned their patron deity [[Yig]] to worship their new god. As retribution Yig placed his curse upon them, forcing his few remaining worshipers to flee to caverns beneath [[Mount Voormithadreth]].

Cursed by Yig, some serpent men degenerated into more and more bestial forms, eventually becoming mere giant snakes. Some sources claim that the [[Worms of the Earth (Race)|worms of the earth]] were degenerate serpent men, while other stories describe the "worms" as descended from humans.

==Appearance and abilities==
Serpent Men are humanoids with scaled skin and snake-like heads. They possess magical abilities, the most common of which is the use of illusion to disguise themselves as a human. In some stories, the ghost of someone killed by a Serpent Man becomes the Serpent Man's slave. Due to the shape of their mouths, Serpent Men cannot utter the phrase "Ka nama kaa lajerama." Howard's character Kull uses the phrase as a [[shibboleth]] in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom''.

==Earlier Serpent Men==
Robert E. Howard was not the first to write about prehistoric serpent people. Another pulp writer, [[Abraham Merritt]], created a similar pre-human serpentine race surviving from the Mesozoic era in his story "The Face in the Abyss" which first appeared in a [[1923]] issue of [[Argosy magazine]]. A sequel, "The Snake Mother," also appeared in Argosy in [[1930]] and both were collected in a book-length version in 1931. In this story line, the last surviving Serpent-Woman is an ally of the human protagonists.

==Cthulhu Mythos==
[[Lin Carter]] and [[Clark Ashton Smith]] adapted the race for inclusion in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]], inspired by [[H. P. Lovecraft]]'s short story "[[The Nameless City]]", which refers to an Arabian city built by a pre-human reptilian race. Lovecraft's story "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]" explicitly mentions the "serpent men of Valusia" as being one-time possessors of the [[Shining Trapezohedron]]. However, the Cthulhu Mythos were already connected to the works of Robert E. Howard (a contemporary and correspondent of H. P. Lovecraft as well as a direct contributor to the Mythos itself). In this case, the Serpent Men were created for the very first Kull story, the character of Kull later made an appearance in a [[Bran Mak Morn]] story, ''[[Kings of the Night]]'', while in another such story, ''[[Worms of the Earth]]'', Bran Mak Morn explicitly refers to [[Cthulhu]] and [[R'lyeh]]. Many [[Conan the Barbarian|Conan]] stories by Howard are also part of the Mythos.

==Conan==
The fictional settings of King Kull and Robert E. Howard's other creation, [[Conan the Barbarian]], are linked through Howards essay ''[[The Hyborian Age]]''. This states that Valusia, and its Thurian Age, existed in some time before Conan's Hyborian Age (the land was reshaped in between the story cycles by an undefined cataclysm). The Serpent Men did not, however, appear in any Conan story written by Robert E. Howard himself.

In 1971, the Serpent Men appeared in a comic book adaptation of the King Kull stories, published by [[Marvel Comics]]. Since then they have been imported into the Conan comics, as well as other adaptations and Conan pastiches. The Serpent Men were the main antagonists, personified by the wizard "Wrath-Amon", in the animated series ''Conan the Adventurer''. This retained the Serpent Men's ability to infiltrate human society in disguise (in the cartoon, this disguise failed in the presence of meteoric "star metal", contact with which also sent a Serpent Man back to "the Abyss").

==The Spider==
In the Spider short story "Fear Itself" (published in The Spider Chronicles by Moonstone in 2007) by Joel Frieman and C.J. Henderson, an occult expert named Guicet enlists the Spider's aid in defeating a group of Serpent Men who acquire a duplicate of the Cobra Crown from Conan the Buccaneer. In The Phantom Chronicles, worshippers of Set appear, but no Serpent Men.

==He-Man's Snake Men==
Persistent but unverified claims suggest that the He-Man franchise was originally intended as a Conan toy line. If this is true, the equivalent to the Serpent Men in that franchise would be the Snake Men.

As with Howard's work, the Snake Men come from the distant past and fought against the character He-Ro/Lord Grayskull (who would be equivalent to Howard's character [[Kull of Atlantis|Kull]]). As with the ''Conan the Adventurer'' animated series, the Snake Men were banished to another dimension in the past and were attempting to return to power in the present.

==Reptilian Quadrupeds==
In "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" by [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]], the inhabitants of the red-litten subterranean world of [[Yoth]] are described as quadrupedal reptiles that seemed to be the debased remnants of a much greater, technologically-advanced reptilian race predating even the ancient [[People of K'n-yan]]; there seemed to be little doubt that these beings were older than humanity but still related, and the reptilians were easily blended with mammalian and "inferior" racial stock of the [[People of K'n-yan]], to produce an intelligent slave class and quasi-animal horrors serving as dogs, horses, and cattle for the population of [[K'n-yan]]. Within the age of modern man, these quadrupeds appear to have degenerated to animalism, but in an earlier age they were accomplished architects, scientists, engineers, inventors, and philosophers; the reptilian civilization appears to have gone strongly until they found their way into the lightless and shadowed gulfs of [[N'kai]], where they discovered devotion to [[Tsathoggua]], and shortly afterward their own doom on contact with the monstrous [[Shoggoth]]s.

==Mahars==
[[File:Attheearthscore 1976film.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Mahars gather for a sacrifice in ''At the Earth's Core (1976 film)''...]]
<blockquote>
The all-powerful Mahars of Pellucidar are great reptiles, some six or eight feet in length, with long narrow heads and great round eyes. Their beak-like mouths are lined with sharp, white fangs, and the backs of their huge, lizard bodies are serrated into bony ridges from their necks to the end of their long tails. Their feet are equipped with three webbed toes, while from the fore feet membranous wings, which are attached to their bodies just in front of the hind legs, protrude at an angle of 45 degrees toward the rear, ending in sharp points several feet above their bodies....

"...For countless millions of years these reptiles have been progressing. Possibly it is the sixth sense which I am sure they possess that has given them an advantage over the other and more frightfully armed of their fellows; but this we may never know. They look upon us as we look upon the beasts of our fields, and I learn from their written records that other races of Mahars feed upon men—they keep them in great droves, as we keep cattle. They breed them most carefully, and when they are quite fat, they kill and eat them."

- [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]], ''[[At the Earth's Core (fiction)]]''
</blockquote>

The Mahars are a sapient race of flying reptile people which lack the ability to hear. They are the supreme rulers of the Earth's inner world of [[Pellucidar]], and known to enslave the native human races of that inner world. The ape-like [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoths]] are their loyal servants, and the non-sapient dragon-like pterosaurs known as Thipdars are domesticated by them, being used as pets and guard animals.

Mahars are a highly intelligent, scientific scholarly races with a talent for genetics, engineering, and architecture.

The entire Mahar race is female. As they have discovered a formula that allowed them to reproduce without males, this allowed the extermination of their male population. Mahars are great swimmers as well as fliers, and often dive deeply in order to feed on fish and reptiles. For some reason, they consider it a taboo to feed on mammalian meat, but many Mahar cultists practice this as an occult ritual, feasting on freshly killed human slaves. Despite living in a world of perpetual noonday, they have eyes well suited for seeing in darkness. The entire race lacks the ability to hear, or to even comprehend the idea of sound. Instead, they communicate through some strange means which is just as incomprehensible to humans as sound is to them. Abner Perry, a voyager to Pellucidar who made a study of the creatures while in captivity, has denied that this form of communication should be labelled as "telepathy", since it isn't useful over long distances and doesn't allow them to communicate with other species; they have instead developed a gesture-based language to speak with their [[Frazetta Man#Sagoth|Sagoth servants]]. Perry speculates that the Mahars are able to project and detect information over a fourth dimension, using a sixth sense unique to them, and that forms the basis of their language. Although they may not be regarded as telepaths in the traditional sense, they at least have some influence over the human mind, being able to hypnotize victims into a zombie-like state in which they might be consumed without resistance.

Mahars first appear in [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' [[Pallucidar|Hollow Earth/Earth's Core]] novels.

== Sleestaks and Altrusians ==
[[File:Sleestaks.jpg|thumb|200px|right|A band of Sleestaks creeps through the inner world of the ''Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)'']]
TO DO -

Sleestaks are the slow-moving savage lizard people from the ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]''.

The very similar Altrusians are a reptilian advanced civilization living in an alternate timeline of what at first seems like a "Hollow Earth" but later proves to be a small, artificial "pocket universe"; through their super-science, the Altrusians foresee their downfall and de-evolution into savage Sleestaks, and are working to avert this disaster; over time, the Altrusians find evidence that the Sleestaks may be a precursor race that will evolve into Altrusians, confusing their efforts; the truth seems to be that the Sleestaks may represent both the savage past and the degenerate future of the Altrusian civilization at the same time....

The ''[[Land of the Lost (1974 franchise)]]'' was apparently partly inspired by [[Robert E. Howard]] (compare the Sleestaks and Altrusians both to R.E. Howard's serpent people of Valusia, and to his various [[Frazetta Man]] savage precursors to and degenerate inheritors of pre-historic advanced human civilizations in Hyperborea, such as the Atlanteans, in that Howard's vision of savage races evolving to civilization alongside civilized neighbors devolving into savagery in cycles resembles the apparent origin and doom of the Altrusians, who were once Sleestaks, and are doomed do fall and become Sleestaks again in cycles....)

== Silurians ==
[[File:Silurians drwho.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Silurians from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'']]
Silurians (AKA Earth Reptiles, Eocenes, Psionosauropodomorpha, Homo Reptilicus, Homo reptilia and Reptilia sapiens) are a technologically advanced race from ''[[Doctor Who (1963 franchise)|Doctor Who]]'', native to Earth and predating mammalian (including human) life-forms, alongside their aquatic cousins the [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devils]].

The long-lived and widespread Silurian race had over time developed numerous subspecies evolved subtly for different environments and varying widely in appearance by such features as skin tone, facial structure and shape, crests and/or spikes, number and appearance of eyes, the ability to spit poison, etc. These differences contribute to a very complex and subtle caste system that determines the role, position, and authority that individual Silurians hold within their society, though the specifics are perhaps far too esoteric for many humans to follow the nuances. Silurians hatch from eggs. Developed from predatory ancestry, Silurians are quicker and strong than humans in short bursts, and taller and lighter than humans. There have been isolated reports throughout the ''Doctor Who'' literature and long-lived television series of hybrids between Silurians and their aquatic [[Deep One#Sea Devils|Sea Devil cousins]], as well as hybrids between Silurians and humans, though these hybrids tend to be sterile and feeble compared to purebred examples of any of these races; the more successful examples include a hybrid population which has inspired stories of the "[[Faerie|Fair Folk]]".

Silurians, parallel to Serpent People, flourished in antediluvian Earth, but were driven into the [[Hollow Earth]] to hibernate by some prehistoric catastrophe, where small populations of survivors have remained awake, living a troglodytic existence a few steps ahead of their own extinction far into the modern era, and into the future, where they have increasingly come into conflict with humans. Time and attrition are slowly killing off the hibernating Silurian population, but the Silurians still believe that there will come a time when conditions on Earth's surface will become favorable for their race to awaken, climb to the surface, and reclaim it as their own once again.

Some Silurians possess a "third eye", presumably equivalent in nature and function to the supposed occult description of the human "pineal eye": presumably a hold-over from an ancient descent from the Astral Plane giving these Silurians not just a wider range of vision, but also some slight psychic power: telepathy, mind control, a weak form of telekinesis, the capacity for thought transfer, etc.

Silurians are a generally peaceful race, having long ago outlawed war except in self-defense; Silurians seem to find disconcerting the ease with which humans go to war, and the degree to which the violence and destruction of human wars can escalate. Silurians are apparently capable of feeling profound (if alien to humans) emotions, but are reportedly incapable of expressing them even to each other, but especially to humans, and are incapable of physically crying; in addition, Silurian art, music, and literature as humans understand it is all but non-existent, largely because their telepathic abilities tends to render such efforts unnecessarily complicated and difficult in comparison; Silurians seem to find the human ability to share emotions verbally or visually, and to communicate through artificial means such as writing and pictures, alien and unsettling. Silurian art, poetry, and similar expression tends instead to take the form of mathematics, optical illusions, and telepathic tricks and games that would be hard to explain in human terms.

Silurian relations with humans have varied over time; apparently, Silurians helped develop humans through tampering with mammal genetics to produce a large, slow, fast-breeding mammal for use as a food source, leaving humans with an instinctive fear and hatred of Silurians. When humans later evolved into more sentient, independent, dangerous, and feral creatures after the Silurians were driven underground, the Silurians learned to keep a healthy distance between the two races, varying between ignoring and avoiding humans, to unsuccessful attempts at genocide to cleanse humans from Earth's surface. In modern times, human expansion has brought the races more frequently into contact and conflict, driving both difficult relations, as well as the beginnings of efforts at communication and cooperation between the two races; only time can tell whether a lasting truce can be forged between man and Silurian, let alone peace and understanding. For now, the relationship between the two races is strained, at best, with both sides of the secret conflict capable of inflicting monstrous atrocities and unspeakable horrors on the other.

Some Silurians are also accomplished Dreamers, using specially-developed candles and incenses to enhance their ability to experience lucid dreams and enter the Dreamlands.

Modern Silurian technology includes advanced genetic manipulation, feats of biological and medical engineering, the use and construction of advanced airships and antigravity and other devices and vehicles for transportation and construction or exploration and communication purposes, the generation and use of force fields and rays for various purposes including interaction with dinosaurs and later mammals on Earth's surface, the generation of a form of "free energy", and a means for producing food without resorting to agriculture. For aesthetic reasons Silurians prefer not to rely on technology any more than absolutely necessary, and some older and rarely-used Silurian technologies are in danger of being lost and forgotten.

At the time of the catastrophe that drove them underground, a small population of Silurians built an object called "The Silurian Ark", a space station onto which a select few Silurians and a population of their dinosaur livestock, pets, and work animals along with a great forest of of prehistoric plant life were were transplanted to survive the cataclysm for a time before returning to Earth; the Ark has never returned, and may still exist intact somewhere in space, its population evolving and re-engineering itself over the aeons, and might perhaps return one day to Earth, bringing with it whatever life forms have evolved from the Silurian and Dinosaur and other antediluvian stock over the millions of years that the Ark has waited in the darkness of space to return.

== Reptilians ==
[[File:Spectre 1977film asmodeus.png|200px|thumb|right|The immortal, shape-shifting, demonic Serpent Man "Asmodeus" from ''[[Spectre (1977 film)]]'']]
In the [[Delta Green]] RPG setting and in UFOlogy, Serpent Folk might be associated with "Reptilian" Aliens of UFO mythology, which by some accounts can apparently trace their storytelling ancestry back through [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]] to [[Robert E. Howard]]'s and/or [[A. Merritt]]'s serpent men, though it's just as likely that both modern UFO mythology and pulp science fiction authors were alike inspired by a mix of the pseudoscience of the early 20th century combined with the subsequent and related wild speculations of [[Theosophy]] regarding the lost continents of [[Mu]] and [[Lemuria]].

With an appearance akin to that of earthly reptiles, the Reptilians are highly advanced entities but viewed as being of a negative, hostile or dangerous disposition, since they regard humans as a totally inferior race, and as a food livestock: they are carnivorous in regard to humans. The area of the galaxy most densely populated with Reptilian sub-races located in the vast Orion system, as well as the systems in Rigel and Capella, though their forefathers appear to have come to our universe from another separate universe or reality system at some unknown point in antiquity. The Reptilians themselves are not really clear on when they got here, teaching humans and their own masses that they were here in this universe first, holding the title and rights to the earth as their outpost from a time before humans, and as such they are heirs to the earth and its surroundings, and should be considered exalted gods over their human subjects and property, with special rights over human government, education, autonomy, genetics, and even dreams and memories. The Reptilians claim to have conquered many star systems over which they maintain similar "rights", where they also claim to have genetically altered and otherwise manipulated many of the life forms they have encountered as a matter of routine, even creating and perfecting the earliest primate forms of human life itself from out of protoplasmic chaos, though admitting that their work was tampered with by dozens of other alien races to produce the modern "debased" and "inferior" form that human life has taken (while also claiming the "right" to "repair" and "correct" the damage through further manipulation of humans through monstrous breeding programs, genetic manipulation, surgical and mutating energy procedures, as well as through brainwashing and re-education, psycho-social re-engineering, instinctual/behavioral/personality reprogramming, and mystic/spiritual works and ministry.)

The Reptilians have little regard for history or truth, maintaining that reality is what they make of it, accepting the deceptions of their rulers without question as being works of magick capable of altering the universe into new, "higher" parallel time/space dimensions beneficial to the interests of their species; little of what a Reptilian says can be trusted, and everything they say has been manipulated in favor of their own interests at the listener's expense. The philosophical mindset of the majority of Reptilians is toward subjugation, manipulation, and enslavement of weaker beings, and this belief system is promoted at birth in the Reptilian races, wherein after giving birth the offspring are abandoned to fend for themselves. If they survive they are cared for by an elite class that uses these children for games of combat and other such amusements.

The Reptilians are credited with scientific and magickal advancements that seem nearly miraculous to human witnesses, including incredible scientific achievements and the mastery of Mythos magick, and especially a talent for convincingly disguising themselves as humans, albeit with rubbery faces. They also appear to be masters of genetic manipulation, as well as the manipulation of human minds through the use of ray technologies, magick, and manipulation of dreams and spirituality via the [[Astral Plane]]; Reptilians have thus become firmly embedded in human governments and militaries, through which they can directly manipulate their subjects through physical and social force, as well as in entertainment and religious and spiritual structures and organizations through which they can manipulate their victim's very beliefs and perceptions of reality. The Reptilians have thus held positions of terrible power and influence over humanity through elaborate and ancient cults operating virtually uninterrupted since the dawn of human civilization. Through these infiltrations, the Reptilians do not act alone - they have allegedly worked out terrible and treacherous bargains with [[Grey Alien]]s and depraved [[Human Cultist]]s in governments, religious structures, and magickal lodges who serve the Reptilians to achieve mutual goals against the human population of Earth.

UFO conspiracy theories maintain that a hollow, guided comet or asteroid, filled with an invasion force of millions of hibernating Reptilians, approaches earth from their home in the Orion system, which they have abandoned after exhausting that system of resources and poisoning it with their addiction to dark works of science, alchemy and magick which have allowed unspeakable horrors to infest the system, and left the [[Astral Plane]] surrounding the system in a state of toxic ruin. The arrival of this comet in the solar system has been repeatedly rescheduled for centuries, last slated for 2012, with delays caused by the unpredictable nature of the "conjunction" of the Orion System with ours that would allow the comet to make the "jump" to our world when "the stars are right", due in part to corresponding failures of the Reptilians' human collaborators in completing the magickal workings required to complete the conjunction.

== Scrags ==
[[File:Quake scrag.png|thumb|200px|right|Anatomy of a Scrag wizard from ''[[Quake]]'']]
In [[Quake]], a Scrag wizard or Shade is a kind of grotesquely mutated, floating humanoid creature resembling a white serpent with a humanoid torso, a head which merges indistinctly with its shoulders, and vestigial arms reduced to clawed stumps and legs devolved into a serpentine tail, their skin is translucent and rubbery, resembling that of a slug or snail, while their yellowed eyes burn with rage and horror at the cruel fate of their long-lived existence. These revolting horrors are said to be the result of mystical and biological experimentation by [[Shub-Niggurath]]. As such, they are ubiquitous throughout Shub-Niggurath's realms.

Scrags are masters of evil magic, and most scrags are capable of a languid, graceful levitation, often possess the power to project of small yellowish green globs of life-draining magical energy at their opponents, and are frequently skilled in the monstrous arts of necromancy and monstrous transformations of living flesh. Some Scrags commanded positions of power during the [[Quake Wars]], while others seem to have served [[Shub-Niggurath]] in a support capacity comparable to specialists and spies.

Scrags are a hideously ancient and wise race, possessing cunning beyond the lofty standard set by the other monsters in Quake; they are stealthy creatures which hide in the shadows high above the ground in their bizarre, secret Library-city of [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]] in the [[Hollow Earth|Inner World]], said to be a place of darkness beneath the earth to which all the dead go, both the righteous and the unrighteous, regardless of the moral choices made in life, a place of stillness and darkness cut off from life and from light. Thanks to their powers of levitation, teleportation, and invisibility, Scrags typically remain unseen by those unfortunate visitors who find their way to [[Hollow Earth|Sheol]], the Scrag cultists silently watching from above until they choose to give themselves away with the sibilant warnings of their sentries to their fellows of the presence of unwanted guests, or the hissed [[Aklo]] curses of the magical spells they have been known to cast upon intrusive meddlers in their secret world.

==Historic Serpent Cults and Mythology==
The Theosophists alluded to the Exalted "Naacal" - or Nagas - as a serpent-like ruling class on the island of [[Lemuria]] before the dawn of humanity, possibly originating from [[Venus]], acting as a guiding hand for humanity by leading occult lodges and teaching the ways of civilization, mysticism, and magic to humans.

Serpent Cults (see [[Cult of Yig]]) are a wide-spread phenomenon across the world, being perhaps a primordial part of human culture. In addition to the Nagas of Theosophy (which are, perhaps, derived from the East Asian Naga myth of an exalted, serpentine elite class that ruled the world in ancient times, influenced by Mayan serpent cult elements), serpent cults have appeared throughout African, pre-Columbian North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, where some of the more common themes seem to be that the Serpent People came to Earth from a "heavenly water", the stars, the [[Hollow Earth]], or from the deathly abysses or Dreamlands of the [[Astral Plane]]; bringing civilization, forbidden knowledge, technological advancement, spiritual enlightenment, and knowledge of magick with them to give to man; leading, guiding, or ruling primordial human/proto-human civilization from positions of exalted (and possibly malevolent or abusive) power; holding some antagonistic relationship with the elements of weather and natural disaster such as the power to command them and eventually being destroyed by them; enjoying eternal (or extremely long) lives and shape-shifting powers represented by or accompanied by the ability to shed their old skins; interbreeding with their subjects to produce an elite and hybrid ruling class that would fill the ranks of kings and queens and other rules of all kinds throughout human history; and represented with liminal symbology representing an ability to cross with relative ease between the worlds of the living and the world of the dead (the mystic [[Other Side]] or a literal [[Hollow Earth|Underworld]]).

==See also==
[[File:Dreamscape serpentman.jpg|200px|thumb|right|A rogue Dreamer has turned his dream form into a Serpent Man in ''[[Dreamscape (1984 film)]]''....]]
*[[Kull]]
*[[Set]]
*[[Worms of the Earth (Race)]]
*[[Lemurian]]s
*"[[Frazetta Man]]" (for the sorts of proto-human peoples ruled by the Serpent People)
*[[Yig]]
*[[Thurian Age]]
*[[Valusia]]
*[[Lemuria]]
*[[Mu]]
*[[Atlantis]]
*[[Naacal]] for the language of lost Lemuria and the Nagas
*[[Naacal Tablets]] for one of the more well-known documentations of Lemurian and Naacal history

==Appearances==
===Fiction===
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] - "[[The Seven Geases]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[Ubbo-Sathla (story)|Ubbo-Sathla]]"
* Clark Ashton Smith - "[[The Double Shadow]]"
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] - "[[The Nameless City]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & [[Zealia Bishop]] - "[[The Curse of Yig]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia Bishop - "[[The Mound]]"
* H. P. Lovecraft - "[[The Haunter of the Dark]]"
* [[Karl Edward Wagner]] - ''[[Legion from the Shadows]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan of Aquilonia]]''
* L. Sprague de Camp & Lin Carter - ''[[Conan the Buccaneer]]''
* [[Robert E. Howard]] - "[[The Shadow Kingdom]]"
* Lin Carter - ''[[Thongor and the Wizard of Lemuria]]''
* Lin Carter - "[[The Vengeance of Yig]]"
* Scott David Aniolowski - "[[Where a God Shall Tread]]"
* Robert E. Howard - "[[Worms of the Earth]]"

===Reference works===
* [[Daniel Harms]] - ''[[The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana]]'' (1998)
* Robert E. Howard - "[[The Hyborian Age]]"
* "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" - [[H.P. Lovecraft]] and [[Zelia Bishop]]

===Role-playing games===
* Keith Herber - ''[[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]''
* List of Call of Cthulhu scenarios featuring Serpent Men [[:Category:CoC:Serpent_Men_scenarios|Serpent Men scenarios]]

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131203013912/http://www.chaosium.com/chaosium/starry-wisdom/sw3-racesp.shtml Chaosium: "The Children of Yig", a study of the serpent people]
* "TAL" - "[http://www.shavertron.com/reptiles.html The MIB, Reptilians, and You]"

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Keeper's Compendium

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==Details==
[[Image:Keeper's Compendium.jpg|thumb|''Name of Page'']]

'''Publisher:''' [[Chaosium]]

'''Product Code:''' 2344

'''Publishing Year:''' 1993

'''Pages:''' 80

'''Cover Price:''' $##.##

'''Author(s):''' [[Keith Herber]], [[Scott David Aniolowski]], [[Kevin A. Ross]], [[Stacy Clark]], [[Peter Jeffrey]], [[Lucya Szachnowski]]

'''Artist(s):''' [[Charlie Krank]] (cover), [[Les Brooks]]

'''Setting(s):''' Non-Specific

'''Format(s):''' Softcover

'''ISBN:''' 1-56882-010-0

==Contents==
This book provides source material about the Cthulhu Mythos (and other horrific things) which a Call of Cthulhu Keeper could use to design scenarios or augment published scenarios.

The following categories are covered:

* Forbidden Books,
* Secret Cults,
* Alien Races,
* Mysterious Places.

==Front Cover Text==
Blasphemous Knowledge & Forbidden Secrets.

Rules Expansions, New Tomes, Notes on Mythos Races, Exotic Places & Secret Cults

==Back Cover Text==
Things Players Were Not Meant to Know.

Drawing from the tales of H.P. Lovecraft and many other authors, the information contained in this book supplements and expands upon that given in the CALL OF CTHULHU rulesbook, and is divided into four main sections.

* '''FORBIDDEN BOOKS:''' expands upon the most famous Mythos tomes listed in CALL OF CTHULHU providing lists of suggested spells, study times, descriptions, and the benefits acquired from studying the books. Some of the two dozen books covered include: The Neconomicon, The Book of Dyzan, Cultes des Goules, Massa di Requiem Per Suggay, The Revelations of Glaaki, and The R'lyeh Text.

* '''SECRET CULTS:''' stereotypically, the cultist is a cackling madman dressed in hoded robe and armed with a wickedly curved knife. In fact, cultists are of wide description; cults are essentially religious organizations holding certain beliefs and attempting to induce some sort of change. Described here are differeing cults drawn from fiction, game scenarios, and history: The Starry Wisdom Sect, Brotherhood of the Beast, The Nestarian Cult of Cthugha, Brothers of the Yellow Sign, The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Witch Cults, Order of the Sword of St. Jerome, and the Cult of Cthulhu.

* '''ALIEN RACES:''' this section defines the aims, values, and goals for various frequently-encountered races including Deep Ones, Fungi From Yuggoth, Ghouls, Insects from Shaggai, Old Ones, Serpent People, and the Voormis.

* '''MYSTERIOUS PLACES:''' shrouded in legend and obscured by misinformation and disinformation, the following forgotten and exotic places are all referred to in Mythos tomes: Atlantis, G'harne, Hyperborea, Irem, Kaddath in the Cold Waste, K'n-Yan, Lemuria, Lomar, Mu, the Nameless City, R'lyeh, Valusia, Y'ha-Nthlei and Yuggoth and beyond.

Compiled from the Gamut of Mythos Fiction.

==Comments / Trivia==
This edition is out of print but has been republished as [[The Keeper's Companion, Vol. 1]]

==Links==

==Spoilers - Keepers Eyes Only==
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