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** Pratchett also won't let us forget that "eldritch" and "[[Humanoid Abomination|elven]]" have the same linguistic root.

** Pterry's newer novels have offered more esoteric variants of this trope, the Hiver and the Summoning Dark, which seem more like sentient ''ideas'' than tentacled mishmashes. Still freakin' weird and disturbing, yet more insidious than the above examples, and more frightening in their own way--[[V for Vendetta|ideas are, after all, indestructible]].

** One could even include Great A'Tuin is the Giant Star Turtle (the colossal turtle who carries four slightly-less-colossal elephants on its back who, in turn, carry the world on theirs) as a more benevolent version of this Trope.

* ''[[The Laundry Series|The Atrocity Archives]]'' by [[Charles Stross]] and its sequels take place in a world where divisions that MI6 and the CIA don't even know they have battle Eldritch Abominations (and their own bureaucracy) attracted to reality after Alan Turing discovered a theory that allowed the user to warp reality with computers and the [[Ghostapo|Nazis attempted to summon the Great Old Ones using the souls of those slaughtered in the Holocaust]] to win [[World War II]].

* [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] also took a few stabs at this.