How many constants in Lovecrafts universe?

Haggard · Post by **Haggard** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 3:38 pm

Or more precisely, in the so-called Lovecraft Country in the Cthulhu Mythos. Shoggots, flying polyps, Cthulhu himself and others are still on earth, but they are hidden in secret locations which has no relevance for humans on a daily basis. Then we have stories like The Hunter in the Dark and The Dunwich Horror, but these were just incidents, and is not actual inhabitants in this world.

What I mean with constants is the creatures that lives among us in this fictional universe, and which we can meet and observe from time to time. Three examples are; Pickman's Model, where we learn that there are ghouls living under the city, The Shadow over Innsmouth, where some of the people of the sea can actually live in your own neighbourhood, and The Whisperer in Darkness, where the alien Mi-Go is living in the mountains and the forests. Any more races than those already mentioned?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:11 am

"At the Mountains of Madness" establishes that shoggoths still survive in the Antarctic, if that's any help.

Haggard · Post by **Haggard** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:30 pm

Thanks, but that wasn't the question. I was referring to those creatures who lives among humans in Arkham and other fictional (and real) New England locations. In other words, literally among human settlements and our daily lives. If you decide to go camping in the mountains a weekend, if you find a passage under an old house, or if you look inside a window in a house near Innsmouth, you could see some of the permanent inhabitants in Lovecraft's world. But it is very unlikely that you are rounding a corner one evening and suddenly comes face to face with a flying polyp or a shoggoth.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 1:40 pm

What about the creatures in "The Lurking Fear"? They dwell in the Catskills, close to a rural settlement.

Haggard · Post by **Haggard** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:08 pm

Yeah, sounds like another example. It's one of the stories I havn't read yet. Reading it on a PC is not the same as in a book, and most of his stories are not available where I live. So I assumed there were more races than those I had already mentioned.

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 3:16 pm

They're all available on the Temple here, if you'd rather have a physical copy there's always the option of printing it off.

Enkil · Post by **Enkil** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:13 pm

I have one of the creatures from Pickman's Model in a cage in my closet. I feed him babies T-Bone steaks.

It's true, I'm actually from Boston. I got him when explorin the Boston sewers around the North End. He's my 2nd favorite pet, next to my cat Blackie.

odin2 · Post by **odin2** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:20 pm

Really??!
I have one to!
Is your a boy or a girl?
Maybe we could get ours together and they can make babies!

Haggard · Post by **Haggard** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:16 pm

Hmm, maybe I will some day, althought it would have to be on the library since I don't have a printer. Or see if I can get some paperback where the stories are collected. Guess I have to include it in my plans about which books I still havn't read but feel i should.

And doesn't the things from Pickman's Model prefer rotten meat?

Jesus Prime · Post by **Jesus Prime** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:19 pm

Yeah, he lets the meat 'stew' for a while in the sun.

cultistofvertigo · Post by **cultistofvertigo** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:34 pm

Pi, e, Phi, 4.6790002, 14290.00001372, and 12

each of those are constant... ly boring.

Serpent guy are hanging around, and um... other things... this is alot of stuff. Rat guys, fish guys, snake guys, old guys, monkey guys, mi-go guys, polyp guys, other guys...

E.A. Lovecraft · Post by **E.A. Lovecraft** » Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:41 pm

Don't forget the poor-scions-of-fallen-families guys.

And their constant minions, the inbred guys.