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Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

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H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Tagged: Ithaqua

Authors

Algernon Blackwood

Algernon Blackwood was a British author whose supernatural fiction makes ordinary perception seem an unstable boundary around a much larger existence. His landscapes can produce wonder, spiritual possibility or terror. Lovecraft admired his atmospheric power while remaining critical of aspects of his style and occult explanations.

6 min read · 1,080 words

Generated painted interpretation of August Derleth in a dark velvet shirt.
Authors

August Derleth

August William Derleth (1909–1971) was a Wisconsin author, anthologist and publisher. With Donald Wandrei he founded Arkham House, helping preserve Lovecraft and a much wider range of weird fiction in book form. His own Mythos stories and editorial interpretations also reshaped the tradition, while regional writing and detective fiction occupied major parts of his independent career.

7 min read · 1,402 words

Authors

Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley was a British writer of horror, fantasy and science fiction who developed an adventurous branch of the Cthulhu Mythos before achieving wider success with Necroscope. Titus Crow, the Dreamlands books and his contributions of creatures and invented texts form a substantial later tradition, with priorities distinct from Lovecraft’s original fiction.

5 min read · 848 words

The immense Wind-Walker looms through a northern blizzard.
Entities & creatures

Ithaqua

Ithaqua is August Derleth’s Wind-Walker, a colossal presence associated with cold, abduction and travel through the sky. The figure belongs to the later literary Mythos and develops beyond the forest terror of Blackwood’s The Wendigo.

3 min read · 440 words