Keyport Cthulhu

Overview

Expedition register ME-1929-Q84/2484 — cross-index under slug `keyport-cthulhu`.

Keyport Cthulhu belongs to that class of powers the vulgar call gods and the archive calls liabilities — dormant, local, or oceanic, yet never domesticated.

In the marginalia of the Latin Necronomicon the name Keyport Cthulhu appears beside tides, eclipses, or breeding cycles we cannot reproduce in laboratory glass.

Lovecraft's own prose — when he is the witness — should be read in the /library before this summary is trusted. Posthumous expansion (Derleth, Smith, Campbell, Wilson, and the game industry) enlarged the name without enlarging the proof; we mark those layers explicitly so students do not cite a 1981 module as 1928 fact.

The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.

Description

Those who survived description speak of surfaces that refuse matte finish — wet, reflective, or oily even in dry rooms.

Sound, when recorded, has been described as wet leather, glass harmonics, or bees inside a skull; analysts note infrasound may explain some, not all.

The thing called Keyport Cthulhu left no consistent footprint; it left expectations broken in the nervous system.

Historical Record

Activity increased after the Innsmouth embargo and the Antarctic expedition, as if publicity taught the countryside new vocabulary for old fears.

Activity increased after the Innsmouth embargo and the Antarctic expedition, as if publicity taught the countryside new vocabulary for old fears.

European parallels appear in Smith and Howard overlaps; do not merge pantheons without reading both authors in full.

Field Observations

If dreams arrive with the weight of memory for places never visited, terminate contact.

Burn nothing found pulsing; catalogue first, then burn if protocol allows.

Cross-reference before fieldwork; cite slug in all reports; do not bring back souvenirs that pulse.

Archive Notes

Protocol slug `keyport-cthulhu`. The Library holds primary text; this dossier holds orientation — never the reverse.