JOIN THE CULT. WEAR THE MYTH.
Unspeakable Tales
Cart0
Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

Miskatonic Archives

H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Tagged: Later tradition

Games, comics & audio

Trail of Cthulhu

Trail of Cthulhu is Pelgrane Press’s investigative horror roleplaying game, first published in 2008. Kenneth Hite’s treatment of the Mythos uses Robin D. Laws’s GUMSHOE system and a principal 1930s setting. Its central design concern is allowing an investigation to advance through essential evidence while leaving interpretation, danger and consequential decisions to the players.

5 min read · 988 words

A squat toadlike and batlike idol in a deserted subterranean temple.
Entities & creatures

Tsathoggua

Tsathoggua is a deity created by Clark Ashton Smith and adopted into Lovecraft’s fiction. Its characteristic toadlike appearance, lethargy and associations with subterranean worship belong to several related but distinct narratives. A careful account separates the god from its statues and from the shapeless organisms encountered near those statues; sharing a cult does not make these beings identical.

6 min read · 1,051 words

Books & artifacts

Von unaussprechlichen Kulten

Unaussprechlichen Kulten, also called Nameless Cults or the Black Book, is Robert E. Howard’s fictional work attributed to Friedrich von Junzt. Its unreliable translations and expurgated editions are essential to The Black Stone and The Thing on the Roof. The book preserves clues to surviving cults and dangerous objects, but incomplete reading and damaged transmission can turn those clues into fatal misunderstandings.

4 min read · 828 words

Books & artifacts

Yellow Sign

The Yellow Sign is an ominous emblem in Robert W. Chambers’s fiction. Its best-known physical appearance is a gold design inlaid in a black onyx clasp that Tessie Reardon gives to the painter Mr. Scott. In another story it marks Hildred Castaigne’s imagined imperial conspiracy. Chambers supplies these uses without drawing a definitive symbol or setting out a universal rule for its effects.

5 min read · 874 words

Previous

Page 2 of 2