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Cthulhu

the great Cthulhu invoked by the Hooded Lama's false cult

Kind
Supernatural being
Historicity
Fictional / created
Species / type
deity
Catalogue historyAdded during a later catalogue review; the original Character census focused on human figures and did not include this entity.

Works

The Black Bear BitesDraft 1
CthulhuMentioned · first: Tales of Weird Menace UE pp. 135-148
The Children of the NightPublished version
CthulhuMentioned · 2 source-counted occurrences · first: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard — The Children of the Night, pp. 112–120
The Fire of Asshurbanipal (1)Published version
CthulhuMentioned · 1 source-counted occurrence · first: The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard — The Fire of Asshurbanipal, pp. 307–319
Worms of the EarthDraft 1
CthulhuMentioned

Poetry

Poetry appearances come from the exhaustive exact-state census of all 765 currently catalogued Poetry textual states.

Correspondence

A person or entity may be a sender, recipient, subject or mention. Arrows show sender/recipient direction; these roles do not imply an appearance in Howard’s fiction.

Letter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. July 1, 1930MentionedLetter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. August 1930MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, postmarked August 6, 1930MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, August 14, 1930MentionedLetter to Tevis Clyde Smith, ca. September 1930MentionedLetter from Clark Ashton Smith to H. P. Lovecraft, circa early October 1930MentionedLetter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. October 1930MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, October 17, 1930MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, September 12, 1931MentionedLetter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. October 1931MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, July 25, 1932MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, October 3, 1933MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, circa late May/early June 1934MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, June 25, 1934MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Robert E. Howard, July 27, 1934MentionedLetter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. December 1934MentionedLetter to H. P. Lovecraft, ca. January 1935MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, December 2, 1935MentionedLetter from H. P. Lovecraft to Clark Ashton Smith, January 24, 1936Mentioned