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Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

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H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

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Themes & context

Forbidden books

Forbidden books in Lovecraft’s fiction preserve dangerous fragments of history, provide procedures that characters can attempt, and connect otherwise separate narratives. Their importance depends on what a particular reader does with them. A citation, a usable passage, an unreadable symbol and an annotated copy perform different roles; none requires the assumption that merely opening every such book automatically destroys the mind.

6 min read · 1,077 words

Conical Yithian hosts researching in an immense prehistoric archive.
Entities & creatures

Great Race of Yith

The Great Race of Yith is a civilization whose most capable minds investigate and survive across immense spans of time by exchanging bodies with other intelligent beings. The Shadow out of Time presents its libraries, institutions and migrations through Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee’s recovered experiences and the ruins he explores in Australia.

10 min read · 2,031 words

Publishing & reference

Lovecraft circle

The Lovecraft circle was an overlapping network of correspondents, friends, writers, artists, editors and readers. Letters and circulated work connected people who did not necessarily meet, agree or write alike. Its importance lies both in the exchange of fictional inventions and in the practical support through which stories, drawings and documents reached other people.

6 min read · 1,072 words

Authors

R. H. Barlow

Robert Hayward Barlow was a writer, poet, printer and scholar of Mexico who also became Lovecraft’s literary executor. His fiction, correspondence and preservation work belong to the history of the weird, while his study of Nahuatl and Indigenous Mexican sources constitutes a substantial intellectual life beyond the Lovecraft circle.

5 min read · 966 words

Peaslee discovers a record in his own handwriting beneath the Australian desert.
Literature

The Shadow out of Time

An economics professor loses five years of ordinary memory while his body pursues inexplicable studies and journeys. Dreams of an alien archive later draw him to Australia, where the object he most fears to find would make his private past part of a civilization millions of years older than humanity.

12 min read · 2,338 words