What is the Cthulhu Mythos? The Old Ones were, the Old Ones innovations was to create a sort of common mythology, are, and the Old Ones shall be. … which multiple authors would draw upon when writing Man rules now where They ruled horror tales Most infamously, he created the fearful once; They shall soon rule where book the Necronomicon, which was mentioned by man rules now After summer is dozens of other writers, giving it an aura of realism that winter, and after winter summer is rare in fiction The same is true for many of his other They wait patient and potent, for creations here shall They reign again —H P Lovecraft In the 1920s and 1930s, an obscure American writer Today, this framework he invented is usually called the Cthulhu Mythos, named after one of his most famous frights And here we are today, steeping ourselves again in its awesome and terrible secrets named H P Lovecraft penned a series of the most The Cthulhu Mythos is based on the principle that amazing horror tales ever written He broached humanity is not the center of the universe The cosmos topics never before conceived, devised a multitude of is vast and filled with unthinkable forces, many not terrifying entities, and invented a whole new approach subject to our own natural laws Some of these forces to horror, changing the face of fantastic fiction forever are unthinkably powerful—best considered to be Yet he did even more He was active in the Amateur like unto gods These include Great Old Ones and Press Association of his time, and corresponded heavily Outer Gods such as Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, Hastur, with other authors, giving them advice and and Cthulhu Others are lesser beings, though still mentoring them One of his fearsome and dangerously intelligent, such as the fungi from Yuggoth, the deep ones, or the elder things These forces can manifest in the physical world as well, giving supernatural potency to inanimate objects or even concepts, such as geometry and mathematics The Mythos is nothing if not scientific, though humanity does not and indeed cannot know everything The magic of the Mythos is all founded upon scientific principles, discovered or undiscovered Come, let us explore Lovecraft’s imagination together —Sandy Petersen dire