Cthulhu Mythos miscellaneous books 5356155 223552864 2008-07-04T16:09:41Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other The following is a list of '''miscellaneous books''' &mdash; both real and fictitious &mdash; appearing in the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. ==Overview== The following table<ref>Compiled from Lin Carter's "H. P. Lovecraft: The Books" (2001).</ref> is organized as follows: *''Title''. The title of the work as it appears in the Cthulhu Mythos. *''Fict/Real''. Fictitious works are denoted by '''F'''; real-life works by '''R'''. *''Author''. The person or character credited as the author of the work. Authors of nonfictional works are real people. If the author is fictitious, the name of the writer who created the work appears in parenthesis after the character's name. Surnames of mythos writers are as follows: **Derleth = [[August Derleth]] **Bloch = [[Robert Bloch]] **Howard = [[Robert E. Howard]] **Lovecraft = [[H. P. Lovecraft]] *''Notes''. A brief summary of the work. *''References''. A two-letter code denoting the stories or other sources in which the work appears. A code in '''bold''' indicates the work's first appearance in mythos fiction. ==Table-a (A–D)== {|class=wikitable !Title !Fict/<br>Real !Author !Notes ![[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]] |- |''An Investigation<br>into<br>Myth-Patterns<br>of Latter-Day<br>Primitives with<br>Especial Reference<br>to the R'lyeh Text'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Shrewsbury, Laban|Prof. Laban Shrewsbury]]<br>(Derleth) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#HC|HC]]''', [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#WS|WS]] |- |''Ars Magna et Ultima'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Ramon Llull|Raymond Lully]] (1235&ndash;1315) |''Ars Magna et Ultima'' roughly translates to ''Universal Art''. The proper title of this work is ''Ars Magna, Generalis et Ultima'' ([[1517 in literature|1517]]). |'''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward|CA]]''', [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#WN|WN]] |- |''Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria'' |<center>'''R''' |W. Scott-Elliot |<center>&mdash; |'''[[The Call of Cthulhu|CC]]'''? |- |''Azathoth and Other Horrors'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Derby, Edward Pickman|Edward Pickman Derby]] (Lovecraft) |<center>&mdash; |[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#HZ|HZ]], [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#RZ|RZ]], [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#TD|TD]], '''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#TN|TN]]''' |- |''The Black Rites'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Luveh-Keraphf|Luveh-Keraphf]]<br>(Bloch) |<center>&mdash; |[[Xothic legend cycle#"The Horror in the Gallery"|HG]], '''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#SU|SU]]''',[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#TK|TK]], [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#UC|UC]] |- |Book of Azathoth |<center>'''F''' |(Lovecraft) |In Lovecraft's fiction, it is a book carried by [[Nyarlathotep]] in his aspect as the Black Man which initiates must sign in blood to enter into his service. It is also said to contain prose in imitation of Scripture that ridicules Christianity and glorifies the [[Outer God]]s.<ref>Harms, "Book of Azathoth", ''The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana'', p. 29.</ref> |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#DW|DW]]''' |- |''Book of Hidden Things'' |<center>'''F''' |<center>&mdash; |Originally created by William Lumley in his draft version of "The Diary of Alonzo Typer", the book was retained by Lovecraft when he revised the story, though it receives only passing mention. |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#YT|YT]]''' |- |''Book of Thoth'' |<center>'''F''' |<center>&mdash; |A book from [[Egyptian mythology]] but an actual text in mythos stories. |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#LI|LI]]''', [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#TG|TG]], [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#WZ|WZ]] |- |''Clavis Alchimiae'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Robert Fludd]] (1574&ndash;1637) |<center>&mdash; |'''CA''' |- |''Commentaries on Witchcraft'' |<center>'''F''' |Mycroft (Bloch) |The fictitious author Mycroft may allude to [[Sherlock Holmes]]' brother, [[Mycroft Holmes]]. |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#MA|MA]]''' |- |''Cryptomenysis Patefacta'' |<center>'''R''' |John Falconer<!--LINKING NOTE: CURRENT ARTICLE FOR THIS PERSON IS A POKER PLAYER--THIS FELLOW IS AN AUTHOR FROM THE 17TH CENTURY--> |The title of this work, first published in [[1685 in literature|1685]], translates to "The Art of Secret Information Disclosed without a Key". Lovecraft found this work in the entry on "[[Cryptography]]" in the 9th edition of the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and included it, along with other titles from the same article, in his story "The Dunwich Horror" ([[1929 in literature|1929]]). |'''[[The Dunwich Horror|DH]]''' |- |''Cthulhu in the Necronomicon'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Shrewsbury, Laban|Prof. Laban Shrewsbury]]<br>(Derleth) |The work is Professor Shrewsbury's supposed sequel to his ''An Investigation into Myth-Patterns of Latter-Day Primitives''. Shrewsbury's unfinished work was published posthumously following his alleged demise. The original manuscript is kept at the [[Miskatonic University]] library. |'''HC''' |- |''Daemonolatreia'' |<center>'''R''' |Remigius |Remigius is the [[Latin]]ized pen name for [[Nicholas Remy]] (1530&ndash;1612), an infamous French judge who presided over witchcraft trials. During a fifteen year period, he convicted and sentenced to death about nine hundred reputed witches. His work, ''Daemonolatreia'' or ''Demonolatry'', is a compendium of information about witchcraft, intended to be used for prosecuting alleged witches. |DH, '''[[The Festival|FE]]''' |- |''The Daemonolorum'' |<center>'''F''' |(Bloch) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#KD|KD]]''' |- |''De Furtivis Literarum Notis'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Giovanni Battista della Porta]] (1535?&ndash;1615) |The title means "On the Secret Symbols of Letters". Like ''Cryptomenysis Patefacta'', Lovecraft found the work under "Cryptography" in the 20th century edition of ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. |'''DH''' |- |''De Lapide Philosophico'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Johannes Trithemius]] (1462&ndash;1516) |<center>&mdash; |'''CA''' |- |''De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis'' |<center>'''F''' |Ranft <nowiki>[</nowiki>1734<nowiki>]</nowiki><br>(Bloch) |The title means "On the Eating of the Dead in the Tomb", a reference to a legend that claims that entombed corpses, driven by pangs of hunger, feed on their burial shrouds and even their own rotting flesh. Two real-life books share this title, one by [[Michael Raufft]] ([[1728 in literature|1728]]) and the other by [[Philip Rehrius]] ([[1679 in literature|1679]]). |'''MA''' |} ==Table-b (G–P)== {|class=wikitable !Title !Fict/<br>Real !Author !Notes ![[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]] |- |''Ghorl Nigral'' |<center>'''F''' |(Willis Conover) |An invention of one of Lovecraft's correspondents. |[[Xothic legend cycle#"The Horror in the Gallery"|HG]], '''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#LL|LL]]''', [[Xothic legend cycle#"The Thing in the Pit"|TP]] |- |''Image<br>du Monde'' |<center>'''R''' |Gauthier de Metz |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#NC|NC]]''' |- |''Invocations to Dagon'' |<center>'''F''' |(Derleth) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#BI|BI]]''' |- |''Key of Wisdom'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Artephius]] |http://www.levity.com/alchemy/artephiu.html |'''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward|CA]]''' |- |''Kryptographik'' |<center>'''R''' |J.H. Klüber |A real book on [[cryptography]], published [[1809 in literature|1809]]. |'''[[The Dunwich Horror|DH]]''' |- |''Liber-Damnatus'' |<center>'''F''' |(Lovecraft) |<center>&mdash; |'''CA''' |- |''Liber Investigationis'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Geber]] (6th century AD) |Liber investigationis magisterii -- known for describing the use of the still circa 6th century (not 8th) |'''CA''' |- |''Magyar Folklore'' |<center>'''F''' |Dornly<br>(Howard) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[The Black Stone|BN]]''' |- |''Marvells of Science'' |<center>'''F''' |Morryster (Lovecraft) |Though mentioned by Lovecraft, the book was actually created by [[Ambrose Bierce]] in his story "The Man and the Snake" ([[1890 in literature|1890]]). |'''[[The Festival|FE]]''' |- |''Night-Gaunt'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Gordon, Edgar Hengist|Edgar Hengist Gordon]]<br>(Bloch) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#KD|KD]]''' |- |''Of <nowiki>Evill</nowiki><br>Sorceries done<br>in <nowiki>New-England</nowiki><br>of <nowiki>Daemons</nowiki><br>in no <nowiki>Humane Shape</nowiki>'' |<center>'''F''' |(Lovecraft & Derleth) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#LT|LT]]''', [[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#RT|RT]] |- |''Occultus'' |<center>'''F''' |Heiriarchus<br>(Bloch) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#ET|ET]]''' |- |''Polygraphia'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Johannes Trithemius]] (1462&ndash;1516) |Another book on cyptography from the ''Encyclopædia Britannica'' that Lovecraft mentions in "The Dunwich Horror". |'''DH''' |} ==Table-c (R–Z)== {|class=wikitable !Title !Fict/<br>Real !Author !Notes ![[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography|References]] |- |''Regnum Congo'' |<center>'''R''' |Filippo Pigafetta |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#PH|PH]]''' |- |''Remnants of<br>Lost Empires'' |<center>'''F''' |Otto Dostman<br>(Howard) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[The Black Stone|BN]]''' |- |''Saducismus Triumphatus'' |<center>'''R''' |Joseph Glanvil |A revised edition was published in London in [[1681 in literature|1681]]. |'''[[The Festival (short story)|FE]]''' |- |''The Saurian Age'' |<center>'''F''' |Banfort<br>(Lovecraft & Derleth) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#VV|VV]]''' |- |''The Seventh Book of Moses'' |<center>'''R''' |(Derleth) |A work supposedly written by [[Moses]] that purports to be a lost book of the [[Bible]]. Lin Carter, referring to the Lewis de Claremont edition in his collection, called the work a "sloppy literary forgery".<ref>Carter, "H. P. Lovecraft: The Books", ''Discovering H. P. Lovecraft'', p. 139.</ref> |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#OV|OV]]''' |- |''The Soul of Chaos'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Gordon, Edgar Hengist|Edgar Hengist Gordon]]<br>(Bloch) |<center>&mdash; |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#KD|KD]]''' |- |''Sussex Manuscript'' |<center>'''F''' |(Fred L. Pelton) |Pelton, a Lovecraft fan in [[Lincoln, Nebraska]], wrote the work as an alleged English translation of the ''[[Necronomicon]]''. Derleth, who was initially interested in the book and intended to publish it, mentioned it in his novel ''The Trail of Cthulhu'' to make it part of the mythos canon. Although [[Arkham House]] never published the work, it was printed in a special issue of ''Crypt of Cthulhu #63'' (Eastertide 1989). |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#GS|GS]]''' |- |''The Tablets of Nhing'' |<center>'''F''' |(Lovecraft & E. Hoffman Price) |They are engraved tablets kept on the planet [[Cthulhu Mythos celestial bodies#Yaddith|Yaddith]] which the wizard Zkauba consulted in "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" ([[1934 in literature|1934]]). |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#TG|TG]]''' |- |''<nowiki>Thaumaturgicall</nowiki><br>Prodigies in the<br><nowiki>New-English Canaan</nowiki>'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Phillips, Ward (2)|Rev. Ward Phillips]]<br>(Lovecraft) |Although created by Lovecraft, the book is featured more prominently in Derleth's posthumous collaboration ''The Lurker at the Threshold'' ([[1945 in literature|1945]]). |'''[[Cthulhu Mythos reference codes and bibliography#LT|LT]]''' |- |''Thesaurus Chemicus'' |<center>'''R'''(?) |[[Roger Bacon]] |Although Roger Bacon is cited as the writer of the work in ''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]'', the provenance of ''Thesaurus Chemicus'' is not known. A similar work on [[alchemy]], ''Speculum Alchemiae'' ([[1541 in literature|1541]]), is credited to Bacon, though he may not have been its author. |'''[[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward|CA]]''' |- |''Traicté<br>des Chiffres'' |<center>'''R''' |Blaise de Vigénère |Vigénère was a leading European authority on cryptography and wrote a similarly titled book, ''Traicté des Chiffres ou d'Escrire'', which was published in Paris in [[1586 in literature|1586]]. |'''[[The Dunwich Horror|DH]]''' |- |''Turba Philosophorum'' |<center>'''R''' |(Lovecraft) |A book of alchemy whose title means "Gathering of Philosophers", published in [[Basel]] in [[1613 in literature|1613]]. |'''CA''' |- |''The Witch-Cult in Western Europe'' |<center>'''R''' |[[Margaret Murray|Dr. Margaret Alice Murray]] |Lovecraft cited this work as early as "The Horror at Red Hook" ([[1927 in literature|1927]]). |'''[[The Call of Cthulhu|CC]]''', [[The Whisperer in Darkness|WD]] |- |''We Pass From View'' |<center>'''F''' |[[Cthulhu Mythos biographies#Franklyn, Roland|Roland Franklyn]] (Campbell) |<center>&mdash; |'''FP''', CP |- |''Zohar'' |<center>'''R''' |(Lovecraft) |Actual key work of Jewish kabbalism |'''CA''' |} ==See also== * [[Cthulhu Mythos arcane literature]] ==References== *{{cite book|last=Harms|first=Daniel|title=The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana|edition=2nd ed.|location=Oakland, CA|publisher=Chaosium|year=1998|id=ISBN 1-56882-119-0}} *{{cite book|last=Carter|first=Lin|authorlink=Lin Carter|chapter=H. P. Lovecraft: The Books|origyear=1956|title=Discovering H. P. Lovecraft|coauthors=revised by [[Robert M. Price]] and [[S. T. Joshi]]|editor=Darrell Schweitzer (ed.)|year=2001|location=Holicong, PA|publisher=[[Wildside Press]]|id=ISBN 1-58715-470-6 (trade paper); ISBN 1-58715-471-4 (hardcover)}} ===Notes=== {{reflist}} [[Category:Fictional books within the Cthulhu Mythos]] [[Category:Lists of fictional books]]