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A popular pulp setting filled with strange creatures and bizarre locations located in vast caverns deep underground.  See [[Hollow Earth]] for a more detailed description.

== Geography of the Hollow Earth ==

Lovecraft's Hollow Earth setting, like most other versions, is assumed to be located on Earth.  Lovecraft depicts his version of the Hollow Earth as a series of vast caverns that descend ever-further into the Earth's horror-filled core; in general, these caverns can be assumed to be in increasingly deeper "levels" one beneath the other, though some may approach nearer or further from the Earth's surface in various places, with entrances on the Earth's surface leading directly to the "lowest" levels in some places (for example, tunnels beneath the [[Polar City of the Old Ones]] seem to connect a little more directly to Yoth and N'Kai]] than another entrance beneath Oklahoma, which passes through [[K'n-yan]] and the [[Vaults of Zin]] first....)

Lovecraft's [[Dreamlands]] also border on the [[Hollow Earth]] in various locations, with the Dreamlands "Darklands" (''[[Pathfinder]]'' RPG) collectively referred to as the [[Underworld]].

Various other writers have created more or less Lovecraftian horror-filled Darklands of their own which Keepers might borrow on the assumption that they connect to - or are identical with - Lovecraft's.

Locations in the Hollow Earth:
* [[K'n-yan]]
* [[N'kai]]
* [[Yoth]]
* [[Vaults of Zin]], a Dreamlands location bordering on the Hollow Earth
* The [[Underworld]], a Dreamlands location bordering on the Hollow Earth
* The [[Vale of Pnath]], a Dreamlands location in the Underworld bordering on the Hollow Earth
* [[Deep Dendo]], a Hollow Earth creation of [[Arthur Machen]]
* [[Mount Voormithadreth]], placed underground in "[[The Mound (fiction)]]" but originally set above ground in Hyperborea by [[Clark Ashton Smith]]
* [[Y'quaa|Cavern of Y'quaa]], a grey-litten cavern beneath Mouth Voormithadreth where the Spawn of Abhoth dwell 
* [[Pellucidar]], a creation of [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]
* [[Shambhala]], a Buddhist concept sometimes conceived of as an underground city in some esoteric and paranoiac writings
* [[Midian]], a subterranean Ghoulish city created by [[Clive Barker]] in his story "Nightbreed"

The general structure of Lovecraft's terrestrial Hollow Earth seems to be:  Blue-litten [[K'n-yan]] > Red-litten [[Yoth]] > [[Vaults of Zin]] > Black Abysses of [[N'kai]]

[[Mount Voormithadreth]] is located in Yoth, and Grey-Litten [[Yquaa]] beneath that.

[[Midian]] is located near the surface, between the tunnels of the ghouls, bordering on the Dreamlands somewhere beyond the [[Vale of Pnath]].


== Bestiary of the Hollow Earth == 

Creatures of the Hollow Earth:
* "[[Frazetta Man]]", an unofficial catch-all term for any sort of bestial, hybrid, ape-like, quasi-human creatures that might make their home in the Hollow Earth (Deros, Voormis, Gnophkehs, Sagoths, Morlocks, and many others) 
* [[Gyaa-yothn]]
* [[People of K'n-yan]]
* [[Serpent Men]]
* [[Shoggoth]]s
* [[Elder Thing]]s, built and abandoned cities in the Hollow Earth beneath their Polar City
* [[Flying Polyp]]s
* [[Gug]]s
* [[Ghoul]]s
* [[Ghast]]s
* [[Nightgaunt]]s
* [[Bhole]]s
* [[Gnoph-Keh]]s, savage, shaggy, horned creatures found among the glaciers of Greenland, which by some accounts share ancestry with subterranean [[Gyaa-yothn]] and/or [[Gnophkeh]]s
* [[Dero]]s - [[Richard Sharpe Shaver]]'s mad denizens of the Hollow Earth
* [[Faerie]]s - [[Arthur Machen]]'s "Little People"
* [[Worms of the Earth]]
* [[Serpent People]]
* [[Tunnelers Below]]
* [[Reptile People]]
* [[Rat People]]
* [[Bhole]]s

== Tomes ==
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* ''[[Green Testament]]''


== Fiction ==
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