Brian Lumley

Brian Lumley (born December 2, 1937) is a writer of horror fiction. Born in County Durham in northeast England, he joined the British Army and wrote stories in his spare time before retiring from the military in 1980 and becoming a professional writer. He added to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos cycle of stories with several works of his own. The most notable of them featured the character Titus Crow. Others of them were pastiches of Lovecrafts's Dream-Cycle and featured the characters David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer. ...

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Shaitan (شيطان) is the devil, or the enemy of Allah and is the equivalent of Satan in Christianity and Judaism. The Islamic view of Satan, has both commonalities and differences with Christian and Jewish views. While Shaitan (شيطان, from the root šṭn شطن) is an adjective (meaning "astray" or "distant") that can be applied to both Man ("AlIns", الإنس) and Jinn, Iblis is the personal name of the Shaitan who is mentioned in the Q ...

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• Shaitan - Uses of the name Shaitan in contemporary fiction
• Shaitan - Dune
• Shaitan - Wheel of Time
• Shaitan - Angels and Demons
• Shaitan - Necroscope

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Necromancy (Latin necromantia, Greek νεκρομαντία nekromantía) is the alleged divination by which a person raises the spirits of the dead or, in some cases, merely their corpses. The word derives from the Greek νεκρός nekrós "dead" and μαντεία manteía "divination". It has a subsidiary meaning reflected in an alternative and archaic form of the word, nigromancy, (a folk etymology using Latin niger, "black") in which the magical force of "dark powers" is gained from or by acti ...

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• Necromancy - Necromancy in history
• Necromancy - Spread of necromancy
• Necromancy - Necromancy in fiction
• Necromancy - Necromancy in role-playing games
• Necromancy - Sources

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Shub-Niggurath (The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young) is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The being first appeared in Lovecraft's revision story "The Last Test"; however, in Lovecraft's fiction, she is never actually described, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations. Shub-Niggurath also appears in the works of other Mythos authors, in ...

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• Shub-Niggurath - Shub-Niggurath in the Mythos
• Shub-Niggurath - Shub-Niggurath's cult
• Shub-Niggurath - Progenies of Shub-Niggurath
• Shub-Niggurath - Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath
• Shub-Niggurath - Gof'nn hupadgh Shub-Niggurath
• Shub-Niggurath - Shub-Niggurath in non-Mythos fiction
• Shub-Niggurath - Other incarnations of Shub-Niggurath

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Many fictional works of arcane literature appear in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft. The most prominent is the Necronomicon, the creation of Lovecraft. This tome and others appear in the works of numerous mythos authors (who themselves added their own grimoires to the literary arcana), including August Derleth, Lin Carter, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, and Clark Ashton Smith. Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Book of Eibon Liber Ivonis. . . . The Book of Eibon, that strangest and rares ...

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• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Book of Eibon Liber Ivonis
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - References in non-mythos fiction
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Celaeno Fragments
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Cthaat Aquadingen
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Cultes des Goules
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - De Vermis Mysteriis
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Eltdown Shards
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Necronomicon
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - On the Sending Out of the Soul
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Pnakotic Manuscripts
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Ponape Scripture
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Revelations of Glaaki
• Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Unaussprechlichen Kulten

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Cthulhu (alternate spellings: Tulu, Cthulu, Ktulu, and many others) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Cthulhu often includes the title Great or Dread. Cthulhu's name is usually pronounced /kəˈθuːluː/, /kəˈθʊːluː/, or /kəˈtʰʊːluː/ (IPA transliteration); however, according to Lovec ...

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• Cthulhu - Cthulhu in the mythos
• Cthulhu - Cthulhu in Derleth's mythos
• Cthulhu - Cthulhu cult
• Cthulhu - Cthulhu's rival
• Cthulhu - Cthulhu's family tree
• Cthulhu - Idh-yaa
• Cthulhu - Star-spawn of Cthulhu
• Cthulhu - References to Cthulhu
• Cthulhu - Literary references
• Cthulhu - Music references
• Cthulhu - Role-playing games
• Cthulhu - Video games
• Cthulhu - Television
• Cthulhu - Film and Other Media
• Cthulhu - Parodies of Cthulhu

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In mythology chthonic (from Greek χθονιος-pertaining to the earth; earthy) designates, or pertains to, gods or spirits of the underworld, especially in Greek mythology. Greek khthon is one of several words for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the land (as does gaia or ge) or the land as territory (as does khora). It evokes at once abundance and the grave. Its pronunciation is somewhat awkward for English-speakers — for this re ...

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• Chthonic - Chthonian and Olympian
• Chthonic - Cult type versus function
• Chthonic - In between

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This page is about the fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine and its heirs. Information on the Golden Smog album can be found at Weird Tales (Album) Weird Tales is the name of an American fantasy fiction and horror pulp magazine first published in March of 1923. The magazine was set-up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. Edwin Baird was the first editor of Weird T ...

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The following compendium includes the lesser known Great Old Ones of the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. Great Old One compendium - Aphoom-Zhah. Aphoom-Zhah (The Cold Flame) debuted in Lin Carter's short story "The Acolyte of the Flame" (1985)[1]—although the being was first mentioned in an earlier tale by Carter, "The Horror in the Gallery" (1976). Aphoom-Zhah is also mentioned in Carter's "The Light fro ...

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• Great Old One compendium - Aphoom-Zhah
• Great Old One compendium - Atlach-Nacha
• Great Old One compendium - Basatan
• Great Old One compendium - Bokrug
• Great Old One compendium - Cynothoglys
• Great Old One compendium - Dweller in the Gulf
• Great Old One compendium - Eihort
• Great Old One compendium - Mnomquah
• Great Old One compendium - Nug and Yeb
• Great Old One compendium - Oorn
• Great Old One compendium - Quachil Uttaus
• Great Old One compendium - Rlim Shaikorth
• Great Old One compendium - Tharapithia
• Great Old One compendium - Vulthoom
• Great Old One compendium - Vulthoom short story
• Great Old One compendium - The Worm that Gnaws in the Night
• Great Old One compendium - Yibb-Tstll
• Great Old One compendium - Yig
• Great Old One compendium - Zathog
• Great Old One compendium - Zushakon

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Ithaqua is one of the Great Old Ones and appears as a horrifying giant with a rougly human shape and glowing red eyes. He has been reported from as far north as the Arctic to the Sub-Arctic, where Native Americans first encountered him. He is believed to prowl the arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them gruesomely. Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north. Fearful denizens of Siberia and Alaska often leave sacrifices ...

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Ithaqua, Ithaqua - Ithaqua in the mythos, Ithaqua - The Wendigo, Ithaqua - Legend of the Wendigo

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Necromancy may or may not have a relation to shamanism, which calls upon spirits (angles of the elements and such)or 'The Great Spirit/Creator' (God) to heal or help ghosts reach the afterlife. The historian Strabo (Strabo, xvi. 2, 39, νεκρομαντία) refers to necromancy as the principal form of divination amongst the people of Persia; and it is believed to also have been widespread amongst the peoples of Chaldea (particularly amongst the Sabians or star-worshippers), Etruria and Babylonia. The Babylonian necromancers themselves were called Manzazuu or Sha'etemmu an ...

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Necromancy, Necromancy - Necromancy in history, Necromancy - Spread of necromancy, Necromancy - Necromancy in fiction, Necromancy - Necromancy in role-playing games, Necromancy - Sources

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. . . The Book of Eibon, that strangest and rarest of occult forgotten volumes, ... is said to have come down through a series of manifold translations from a prehistoric original written in the lost language of Hyperborea. —Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla" The Book of Eibon, or Liber Ivonis or Livre d'Eibon, is attributed to Clark Ashton Smith. It appears in a number of Lovecraft's stories, such as "The Haunter Of The Dark" (Liber Ivonis), "Dreams in the Witch-House" (Book ...

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Cthulhu mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Book of Eibon, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - References in non-mythos fiction, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Celaeno Fragments, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Cthäat Aquadingen, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Cultes des Goules, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - De Vermis Mysteriis, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Eltdown Shards, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Necronomicon, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - On the Sending Out of the Soul, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Pnakotic Manuscripts, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Ponape Scripture, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Revelations of Glaaki, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Unaussprechlichen Kulten

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. . . The Book of Eibon, that strangest and rarest of occult forgotten volumes, ... is said to have come down through a series of manifold translations from a prehistoric original written in the lost language of Hyperborea. —Clark Ashton Smith, "Ubbo-Sathla" The Book of Eibon, or Liber Ivonis or Livre d'Eibon, is attributed to Clark Ashton Smith. It appears in a number of Lovecraft's stories, such as "The Haunter Of The Dark" (Liber Ivonis), "Dreams in the Witch-Hou ...

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Cthulhu mythos arcane literature, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Book of Eibon Liber Ivonis, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - References in non-mythos fiction, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Celaeno Fragments, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Cthaat Aquadingen, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Cultes des Goules, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - De Vermis Mysteriis, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Eltdown Shards, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Necronomicon, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - On the Sending Out of the Soul, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Pnakotic Manuscripts, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Ponape Scripture, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Revelations of Glaaki, Cthulhu mythos arcane literature - Unaussprechlichen Kulten

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While terms like "Earth deity" have rather sweeping implications in English, the words khthonie and khthonios had a more precise and technical meaning in Greek, referring primarily to the manner of offering sacrifices to the god in question. In the typical chthonic cult, the animal victim was slaughtered into a bothros "pit" or megaron "sunken chamber". In the cult of the Olympian gods, by contrast, the victim was sacrificed onto a raised bomos "altar". Chthonic deities also tended to favor black victims over white ones, and their offerings were usually burned whole or buried rather ...

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Chthonic, Chthonic - Chthonian and Olympian, Chthonic - Cult type versus function, Chthonic - In between

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Lovecraft was born on 20 August 1890 in his family home at 194 (now 454) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman of jewelry and precious metals, and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestry in America back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Unusually for the time, both his parents were in their thirties when they married, and it was the first marriage for both. When Lovecraft was three his father became acutely psychotic at a hotel in Chicago ...

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H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft - Biography, H.P. Lovecraft - Background of Lovecraft's work, H.P. Lovecraft - Survey of the work, H.P. Lovecraft - Writing phases, H.P. Lovecraft - Letters, H.P. Lovecraft - Copyrights, H.P. Lovecraft - Locations featured in Lovecraft stories, H.P. Lovecraft - Historical locations, H.P. Lovecraft - Fictional locations, H.P. Lovecraft - Bibliography, H.P. Lovecraft - Books, H.P. Lovecraft - Adaptations, H.P. Lovecraft - Movies, H.P. Lovecraft - Radio production, H.P. Lovecraft - Lovecraft's influence in popular culture, H.P. Lovecraft - Race Class and Sex

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That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. —Abdul Alhazred, The Necronomicon The Great Old Ones are ancient creatures of immense power. Most are also colossal in size. They are worshipped by deranged human cults, as well as by most of the non-human races of the mythos. The Great Old Ones are currently imprisoned—a few beneath the sea, some inside the Earth, and still others in distant planetary systems (and beyond). The reason for their captivity is not know ...

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Great Old One, Great Old One - Great Old Ones in the mythos, Great Old One - Table of Great Old Ones, Great Old One - Overview, Great Old One - Table

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Frank Belknap Long was born in New York City in 1903, and grew up in the Harlem area of Manhattan. A lifelong resident of New York City, he was educated in the New York City public school system. As a boy he was fascinated by natural history, and wrote that he dreamed of running "away from home and explore the great rain forests of the Amazon." Though writing was to be his life's work, he once commented that as "important as writing is, I could have been completely happy if I had a secure position in a field that has always had a tremendous emotion an and imagi ...

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Frank Belknap Long, Frank Belknap Long - Biography, Frank Belknap Long - Friendship with Lovecraft

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Cthulhu - Literary references. The "Lovecraft Circle" Ramsey Campbell's short story "The Tugging" (1976) pays homage to "The Call of Cthulhu", hinting that the appearance of a strange astronomical body in the solar system heralds the return of the Great Old One himself. In Brian Lumley's short story "The Fairground Horror" (1976), Cthulhu's priests bear the "Mark of Cthulhu", which looks something like a white sea anemone—in one priest, this "mark" substituted in place of a hand, while i ...

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Cthulhu, Cthulhu - Cthulhu in the mythos, Cthulhu - Cthulhu in Derleth's mythos, Cthulhu - Cthulhu cult, Cthulhu - Cthulhu's rival, Cthulhu - Cthulhu's family tree, Cthulhu - Idh-yaa, Cthulhu - Star-spawn of Cthulhu, Cthulhu - References to Cthulhu, Cthulhu - Literary references, Cthulhu - Music references, Cthulhu - Role-playing games, Cthulhu - Video games, Cthulhu - Television, Cthulhu - Film and Other Media, Cthulhu - Parodies of Cthulhu

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The Pnakotic Manuscripts (or Pnakotic Fragments) predates the origin of man. The original manuscripts were in scroll form and were passed down through the ages, eventually falling into the hands of secretive cults. The Great Race of Yith is believed to have produced the first five chapters of the Manuscripts which, among other things, contain a detailed chronicle of their history. However, others attribute the tome ...

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Pnakotic Manuscripts, Pnakotic Manuscripts - Pnakotic Manuscripts in the mythos, Pnakotic Manuscripts - The Pnakotic Manuscripts in human history

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Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Yaddith. Yaddith[4] is a distant planet that orbits five suns. Eons ago it was inhabited by the Nug-Soth, creatures with traits similar to mammals, reptiles, and insects. The Nug-Soth sought a way to prevent the destruction of their planet's crust by the Dholes, but to no avail. Eventually, the Dholes overwhelmed them and destroyed the Nug-Soth's civilization. Survivors of the c ...

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Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - A, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Abbith, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - C, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Celaeno, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Cykranosh, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - G, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Glyu-Uho, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - H, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Haddath, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - K, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Ktynga, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Kynarth, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Kythanil, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - L, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - L'gy'hx, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - M, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Mthura, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - S, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Shaggai, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Shonhi, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - T, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Thuggon, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Thyoph, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Tond, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - V, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Vhoorl, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - W, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - World of Seven Suns, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - X, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Xentilx, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Xiclotl, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Xoth, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Y, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Yaddith, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Yaksh, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Yekub, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Ylidiomph, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Ymar, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Yuggoth, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Z, Cthulhu mythos celestial bodies - Zaoth

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