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* [[Kull]], [[Conan the Barbarian]], and [[Bran Mak Morn]]: [[Robert E Howard]]'s works form a peripheral part of the Mythos - the stories tend to be human-centric. "[[The Tower of the Elephant (Literature)|The Tower of the Elephant]]", one of the best early Conan stories, features a Lovecraftian abomination.
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* '''The "Lovecraft Circle"''' : The original writers who corresponded with each other and used the elements of the mythos in their writings.
** [[August Derleth]]. Co-founder of ''Arkham House'', and proponent of the Mythos. Also see [[The Trail of Cthulhu]].
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* [[I Have Many Names]]: All of the Great Old Ones and other incomprehensible beings have multiple aspects and/or names. Part of this is due to multiple attempts at spelling a alien word (Cthulhu, Ktulu, Clooloo, Q'thulu, Tulu, etc.) and partly just due to the use of epithet (''Nuclear Chaos'' or ''The Daemon Sultan'' for Azathoth) in the case of [[The Scottish Trope]] where the true name is forbidden (even "Azathoth" is a pseudonym).
* [[Insectoid Aliens]]: The Mi-Go and the Insects From Shaggai.
* [[Loads and Loads of Races]]: HPL himself mentioned or sometimes showed a [
* [[Lovecraft Lite]]: The stories by Smith, Derleth, Lumley, and Howard in particular. Smith is more due to the focus on the weirdness, and Howard's characters were simply [[Badass]] enough to face cosmic horrors and fight them. Even Lovecraft had some lighter tales.
** Naturally, the Mythos parodies and homages tend to be this as well.
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* [[Spared By the Adaptation]]: {{spoiler|The narrator}} in the 2005 silent film adaptation of ''[[Lovecraft On Film|The Call of Cthulhu]]''. {{spoiler|At the beginning of the original story refers to the "late" Francis Wayland Thurston. How he died is not revealed. The movie doesn't really hint at this at all.}}
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Intentionally; most of the Great Old Ones and the like have names that [[The Unpronounceable|can't be rendered in human languages]], so they're spelled in all sort of different ways in different stories.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: All of HPL's aliens, and quite a few earth-dwelling creatures. Howard, for such an early writer, was good at ensuring his aliens were actually alien. And in the case of the [
* [[Stuck in Their Shadow]]: In-universe example: The protagonist of ''Black Man With A Horn'' feels that his literary career was overshadowed by his friend, H.P. Lovecraft.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]:
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* [[Too Many Mouths]]: One of the classic eldritch abomination traits. In a particularly corporeal case, the Great Old One Y'golonac ([[Running Gag|you fool]], [[Speak of the Devil|you've doomed us all!]]) has them on his palms.
* [[Tomato in The Mirror]]: Several stories involve the protagonist discovering something unpleasant about his heritage.
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: Most notably the ''Necronomicon'', but also ''De Vermis Mysteriis'', the ''Pnakotic Manuscripts'', the... well just [
* [[Town With a Dark Secret]]: Oh so many, from ''Innsmouth'' to ''Jerusalem's Lot'' to ''Temphill''...
* [[Tuckerization]]: In addition to all the Author Avatars and Shout Outs, the Lovecraft Circle tossed out references to their pals:
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