Books & Works
Cthulhu Mythos
Texts that seed or extend the shared cosmology of cults, tomes, and indifferent gods.
32 dossiers · Browse other classifications on the main library index.
MISK-LIB-1919-013
DOSSIERDagon
Written 1917 · First pub. 1919
After a Great War shipwreck, a morphine-haunted merchant glimpses Pacific blasphemy.
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MISK-LIB-1920-025
DOSSIERThe Statement of Randolph Carter
Written 1919 · First pub. 1920
Randolph Carter waits above a crypt while his companion descends and does not return.
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MISK-LIB-1925-029
DOSSIERThe Temple
Written 1920 · First pub. 1925
A U-boat drifts toward Atlantis in diary form.
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MISK-LIB-1920-036
DOSSIERNyarlathotep
Written 1920 · First pub. 1920
A crawling chaos walks America as a showman of the end.
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MISK-LIB-1921-040
DOSSIERThe Nameless City
Written 1921 · First pub. 1921
An Arabian ruin whispers: “That is not dead which can eternal lie.”
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MISK-LIB-1938-049
DOSSIERAzathoth
Written 1922 · First pub. 1938
A fragment naming the blind idiot god at the center of chaos.
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MISK-LIB-1924-051
DOSSIERThe Hound
Written 1922 · First pub. 1924
Necrophilic thieves awaken something in a Dutch graveyard.
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MISK-LIB-1924-053
DOSSIERThe Rats in the Walls
Written 1923 · First pub. 1924
Exhumed Exham Priory remembers older hungers than Christianity.
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MISK-LIB-1925-054
DOSSIERThe Unnamable
Written 1923 · First pub. 1925
Randolph Carter and friends debate whether a thing can be only partly real.
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MISK-LIB-1925-058
DOSSIERThe Festival
Written 1923 · First pub. 1925
Yule in Kingsport leads downward to the sound of piping.
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MISK-LIB-1928-061
DOSSIERThe Shunned House
Written 1924 · First pub. 1928
Providence cellar science confronts a vapor and a French exile’s curse.
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MISK-LIB-1938-065
DOSSIERThe Descendant
Written 1926? · First pub. 1938
An unfinished glimpse of a London antiquarian and the Necronomicon.
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MISK-LIB-1928-067
DOSSIERThe Call of Cthulhu
Written 1926 · First pub. 1928
A global dossier of dreams, cults, and something risen in the Pacific.
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MISK-LIB-1927-069
DOSSIERPickman's Model
Written 1926 · First pub. 1927
Boston art and North End tunnels conceal the model behind the canvas.
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MISK-LIB-1931-071
DOSSIERThe Strange High House in the Mist
Written 1926 · First pub. 1931
Kingsport cliffs and gods that step from the mist into a scholar’s house.
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MISK-LIB-1941-073
DOSSIERThe Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Written 1927 · First pub. 1941
Providence antiquarianism resurrects a wizard’s eighteenth-century bargain.
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MISK-LIB-1927-074
DOSSIERThe Colour Out of Space
Written 1927 · First pub. 1927
A meteorite leaves a colour no spectrum can hold, and a valley dies.
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MISK-LIB-1938-078
DOSSIERHistory of the Necronomicon
Written 1927 · First pub. 1938
A forged bibliography for a book that never existed - yet governs the mythos.
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MISK-LIB-1929-079
DOSSIERThe Curse of Yig
Written 1928 · First pub. 1929
Oklahoma homesteaders invoke the serpent father of Yig.
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MISK-LIB-1929-081
DOSSIERThe Dunwich Horror
Written 1928 · First pub. 1929
A backwoods birth, a sealed library chant, and something on the hillside.
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MISK-LIB-1940-083
DOSSIERThe Mound
Written 1929/1930 · First pub. 1940
A subterranean K’n-yan beneath Oklahoma, ghostwritten for Bishop.
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MISK-LIB-1931-085
DOSSIERThe Whisperer in Darkness
Written 1930 · First pub. 1931
Vermont floods, Mi-Go, and a brain in a cylinder.
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MISK-LIB-1936-086
DOSSIERAt the Mountains of Madness
Written 1931 · First pub. 1936
A doomed Antarctic expedition uncovers the ruins of a non-human civilization older than mankind.
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MISK-LIB-1994-087
DOSSIERDiscarded Draft of The Shadow over Innsmouth
Written 1931 · First pub. 1994
An alternate, often harsher route to Innsmouth’s secret.
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MISK-LIB-1936-088
DOSSIERThe Shadow over Innsmouth
Written 1931 · First pub. 1936
A bus ticket to a decaying port and a bargain older than New England.
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MISK-LIB-1933-090
DOSSIERThe Dreams in the Witch House
Written 1932 · First pub. 1933
Non-Euclidean angles in Arkham and Keziah Mason’s hare.
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MISK-LIB-1934-093
DOSSIERThrough the Gates of the Silver Key
Written 1932/1933 · First pub. 1934
Randolph Carter’s fate negotiated with Yog-Sothoth and co-authored with Price.
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MISK-LIB-1935-095
DOSSIEROut of the Aeons
Written 1933 · First pub. 1935
Ghatanothoa in a Pacific museum for Heald.
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MISK-LIB-1937-096
DOSSIERThe Thing on the Doorstep
Written 1933 · First pub. 1937
Body theft, Innsmouth heritage, and a grave deliverance.
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MISK-LIB-1936-104
DOSSIERThe Shadow Out of Time
Written 1934/1935 · First pub. 1936
Five years stolen from a professor’s life; Yithians and deep time.
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MISK-LIB-1938-109
DOSSIERThe Diary of Alonzo Typer
Written 1935 · First pub. 1938
The von Junzt connection and a house that drinks light.
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MISK-LIB-1936-110
DOSSIERThe Haunter of the Dark
Written 1935 · First pub. 1936
The Shining Trapezohedron and a writer’s last night in Providence.
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