Category:HollowEarth

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
• 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 and Mount Voormithadreth > Vaults of Zin > Black Abysses of N'kai

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
• Shoggoths
• Elder Things, built and abandoned cities in the Hollow Earth beneath their Polar City
• Flying Polyps
• Gugs
• Deros
• 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

Tomes

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• Green Testament

Fiction

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