Encyclopedia Cthulhiana

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana
	1st edition cover
Author	Daniel Harms
Language	English
Series	Call of Cthulhu Fiction
Subject	Horror fiction reference
Genre	Horror fiction
Publisher	Chaosium
Publication date	1994
Publication place	USA
Pages	400
Awards	Special Achievement Award, Origins 1995
ISBN	978-1568821191

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana is a reference guide to the invented places, beings, and concepts from the Cthulhu Mythos developed by H. P. Lovecraft and others.^[1] It was published by Chaosium in 1994.^[2]^: 435

Description

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana is a 400-page book by Daniel Harms that contains an alphabetized listing of entities, cults and lore from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos that were published during the twentieth century. Sources include works by Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, and Stephen King, as well as scenarios from the Call of Cthulhu game. There are also suggestions about how this information could be included in a Call of Cthulhu adventure or campaign.

An expanded 423-page second edition was published in 1998.^[2]^: 436

Reception

In Dragon magazine #218 (June 1995), Rick Swan stated that this book possessed "a diligence on the part of the researchers that borders on the superhuman".^[3]

Awards

Encyclopedia Cthulhiana won a Special Achievement Award at the 1995 Origins Awards.^[4]

Reviews

Dragon #252
Pyramid^[5]

References

^ Kneale, James (2006). "From beyond: HP Lovecraft and the place of horror". Cultural Geographies. 13 (1): 106–126. Bibcode:2006CuGeo..13..106K. doi:10.1191/1474474005eu353oa. S2CID 144664943. Retrieved September 9, 2021.
^ ^a ^b Burgess, Michael (2002). Reference guide to science fiction, fantasy, and horror (2nd ed.). Westport Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 9781563085482. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
^ Swan, Rick (June 1995). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#218). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 86–88.
^ "1995 list of winners". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2014-01-14.
^ "Pyramid: Pyramid Review: The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (For Call of Cthulhu)".

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[1] Kneale, James (2006). "From beyond: HP Lovecraft and the place of horror". Cultural Geographies. 13 (1): 106–126. Bibcode:2006CuGeo..13..106K. doi:10.1191/1474474005eu353oa. S2CID 144664943. Retrieved September 9, 2021.

[Burgess-2] Burgess, Michael (2002). Reference guide to science fiction, fantasy, and horror (2nd ed.). Westport Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN 9781563085482. Retrieved 9 September 2021.

[Dragon_#218-3] Swan, Rick (June 1995). "Role-playing Reviews". Dragon (#218). Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR: 86–88.

[4] "1995 list of winners". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design. Archived from the original on 2009-05-04. Retrieved 2014-01-14.

[5] "Pyramid: Pyramid Review: The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (For Call of Cthulhu)".

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Short stories	"The Beast in the Cave" "The Alchemist" "The Tomb" "Dagon" "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" "Polaris" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Memory" "Old Bugs" "The Transition of Juan Romero" "The White Ship" "The Street" "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" "The Statement of Randolph Carter" "The Terrible Old Man" "The Tree" "The Cats of Ulthar" "The Temple" "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" "Celephaïs" "From Beyond" "Nyarlathotep" "The Picture in the House" "Ex Oblivione" "Sweet Ermengarde" "The Nameless City" "The Quest of Iranon" "The Moon-Bog" "The Outsider" "The Other Gods" "The Music of Erich Zann" "Herbert West–Reanimator" "Hypnos" "What the Moon Brings" "Azathoth" "The Hound" "The Lurking Fear" "The Rats in the Walls" "The Unnamable" "The Festival" "The Shunned House" "The Horror at Red Hook" "He" "In the Vault" "Cool Air" "The Call of Cthulhu" "Pickman's Model" "The Silver Key" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Colour Out of Space" "The Descendant" "History of the Necronomicon" "The Very Old Folk" "Ibid" "The Dunwich Horror" "The Dreams in the Witch House" "The Thing on the Doorstep" "The Evil Clergyman" "The Book" "The Haunter of the Dark"
Novellas	The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time
Novels	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Collaborations	"The Green Meadow" "Poetry and the Gods" "The Crawling Chaos" "The Horror at Martin's Beach" "Under the Pyramids" "The Curse of Yig" The Mound "Medusa's Coil" "The Horror in the Museum" "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" "Out of the Aeons" "The Tree on the Hill" "Till A' the Seas" "In the Walls of Eryx"
Poetry	Fungi from Yuggoth
Essays	The Cancer of Superstition "Supernatural Horror in Literature" To Quebec and the Stars Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity
Locations	Arkham Lovecraft Country R'lyeh
Characters	Abdul Alhazred Herbert West Randolph Carter Harley Warren
Deities	Azathoth Cthulhu Nyarlathotep Shub-Niggurath Hastur Dagon
Books about	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia Lovecraft: A Biography Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos
Themes/Concepts	Cosmicism Cthulhu Mythos Lovecraftian horror Necronomicon
Lovecraft Circle	August Derleth Clark Ashton Smith Robert Bloch Robert E. Howard Frank Belknap Long
Legacy	Lovecraft studies Works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos H. P. Lovecraft (band) H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society Adaptations Lovecraft (crater) Cthulhu Macula
Related	Aklo Dream Cycle Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (documentary) Sonia Greene (wife) The Thing in the Moonlight
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