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{{quote|''Climbing from the depths abyssal
''To give mankind its dismissal,
''Soon will come the Great and Dreaded Old Ones!
''To destroy mankind, the bold ones
''Come at last the long foretold ones
'''Til o'er all the world they reign, the world they reign!
''Soon will tear the veil asunder!
''Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!
''Nylarlahotep, Crawling Chaos
''Comes from Azatoth to slay us!
''Soon the Old Ones come again!
''P'raps we'll summon up a Shuggoth;
''Find our brains on distant Yuggoth!
''Soon the Old Ones come again!|[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/239597.html From "Climbing from the depths abyssal"], a [[Filk]] of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]'s "Climbing over rocky mountain" by Adam Cuerden.}}
An informal and, appropriately, chaotic [[Shared Universe]] that squarely defines the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest and edgiest]] of genres, [[Cosmic Horror Story|cosmic horror]]. It was started unintentionally by [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]] and his circle of peers (informally called the 'Kalem Club') who belonged to the embryonic [[Fandom]], at that stage less about [[Speculative Fiction]] but more about writing short amateur "weird" stories for the 'pulp' magazines, at least for Lovecraft.
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* Hyperborea: Prehistorical Greenland before the ice age. Created by [[Clark Ashton Smith]], it focuses more on the weirdness than [[Cosmic Horror Story|horror]].
* [[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]]", 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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* [[Stephen King]]: Contributed a couple of stories set in the Mythos.
* [[Thomas Ligotti]]: More influenced by Lovecraft's bleak philosophy than by the particulars of the Mythos, but has written a few explicit homages like "The Sect of the Idiot."
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Several, including:
** [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The aptly named]] [[Cthulhu Saves the World]] is a huge love letter to both 16 bit [[RPG|RPGs]] and to the Mythos as a whole.
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