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A popular pulp setting filled with strange creatures and bizarre locations located in vast caverns deep underground.

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
• 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"

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
• Shoggoths
• Elder Things, built and abandoned cities in the Hollow Earth beneath their Polar City
• Flying Polyps
• Gugs
• Ghouls
• Ghasts
• Nightgaunts
• Bholes
• Gnoph-Kehs, savage, shaggy, horned creatures found among the glaciers of Greenland, which by some accounts share ancestry with subterranean Gyaa-yothn and/or Gnophkehs

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