Cthulhu Mythos

The Cthulhu Mythos is the name given to a shared fictional cosmology inspired by the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Whereas Lovecraftian horror in general explores his larger themes, stories classified as "Cthulhu Mythos" involve his invented deities, monsters, books, and places.

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H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Last Ritual
Wrath of N'kai
Eldritch Prisoners: A Cthulhu Mythos Anthology (Books of Cthulhu Book 6)
Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors
The Call of Cthulhu and Dagon: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Classics)
Conan: City of the Dead
On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera
The House Without a Summer
Tales of Yog-Sothoth
The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels
Dark Revelations
Cthulhu Cat
Cthulhu Reloaded (The Collected Harrison Peel Stories Book 1)
Grim Investigations: Arkham Horror: The Collected Novellas, Vol. 2
The Call of Cthulhu
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror
At the Mountains of Madness
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
The Colour Out of Space
Mysteries of the Worm
The King in Yellow
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
Νεκρονομικόν
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror
The Horror in the Museum
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftTales from the Wasteland by Jon L. YoungThe Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. LovecraftTales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Jim TurnerThe Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Best of the Cthulhu Mythos
253 books — 173 voters
NOS4A2 by Joe  HillHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiBird Box by Josh MalermanWorld War Z by Max BrooksHeart-Shaped Box by Joe  Hill
Best Horror Books of the 21st Century
492 books — 1,256 voters

The Atrocity Archives by Charles StrossThe Mall of Cthulhu by Seamus CooperA Scout Is Brave by Will LudwigsenThe Jennifer Morgue by Charles StrossDown on the Farm by Charles Stross
Modern Lovecraftian Mythos
20 books — 3 voters
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. LovecraftThe Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. LovecraftThe Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. LovecraftThe Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. LovecraftNecronomicon by Donald Tyson
The Cthulhu Mythos
145 books — 12 voters


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Laurence Galian
The name Cthulhu provides an important and fascinating parallel with pre-Islamic mystical Sufi practice. Cthulhu is very close to the Arabic world Khadhulu (also spelled al qhadhulu). Khadhulu is translated as 'Betrayer,' 'Forsaker,' or 'Abandoner.' Many Sufis and Muqarribun writings use this term 'Abandoner.' In Sufi and Muqarribun writings 'abandoner' refers to the power that fuels the practices of Tajrid 'outward detachment' and Tafrid 'interior solitude. ...more
Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

H.P. Lovecraft
They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great pr ...more
H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales

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