lovecraft mythos

The year is 1921, and there's a stormy breeze on the wind. The gales of change continue to blow, making you drift along from town to town, like many others. Jobs are few and far between, at least ones that don't involve dangerous work and horrible pay. Something in this world has always felt...

The story tells the journey of a seeker of knowledge. Who uncovered forbidden knowledge and exiled himself into the wider multiverse while being blessed by a dark goddess. Making him capable of integrating foreign genetic data into himself. The ultimate goal now is to reach the pinnacle of...

Beta Read by Rocketmce, and the one who helped me out when I got stuck and helped me gain inspiration to write this fic. Ambassador of Carcosa Chapter: Prologue I am unsure as to what is happening. My eyes feel as if they are on fire, my brain feels like jelly with its glass shattered. My...

The Silver Key "The void is beyond all.....it consumes all. Do not cry, do not run for it will come for you soon..." Arkham City was a den of crime and debauchery, with mass poverty lingering everywhere and everyone and everything at each other's throat, no wonder the rate of death was...

Let me start by welcoming everyone to my first serious thread. I hope to use this time to sharpen my writing skills for a rewrite of my first original fiction. This quest will be set in the riordanverse sometime around the 2030s. I don't remember the plot or characters very well since the last...

It started with your Father, Stanford Burnley, a Learned man who had interest in things in the dark corners of the world is that drew him all across the globe. Until he met your Mother. You grew up with your Father so much of what you know of her is second hand, But she drove him mad with love...

I had always known that as an Apex Predator, I fell short to the innate characteristics displayed by my fellow species. Born from the designs of the Great Mother, Perpetua. I like all my fellow Predators were created for only one purpose in mind. To evolve, to adapt… And to exterminate. Our...

Earth-616 Six years ago… "Hey, pass the ball…!" "Here!" "Mark, fall back! They're trying to draw you in!" "Ugh! Change of tactics! Let's bring out our secret weapon!" It was a pleasant sunny day. The afternoon sun in all its glory was still sparely obstructed by the clouds, and even so...

In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there is only death. A vast empire of corpses led by fanatics and madmen wage eternal holy genocide against their foes, defined as those who diverge from their doctrinal teachings and any and all species outside their own, a slowly dying shell seeking to bring...

It is August 1927, and the heat in Washington DC is ferocious. J. Edgar Hoover sweats in his office, looking over paperwork. The discovery of this…cult in New England has sent alarm bells through the higher offices of government. The confirmation of interbreeding with non-humans especially gave...

ELDRITCH ENTITY QUEST (No, SV, YOU Are the Cosmic Horror!) UPDATE I Birth of a Horror The transcosmic realm that birthed your essence has many names. Some of them are spoken, others clicked, and still others are smelt or tasted. To you, however, it is simply called "home". At the moment, your...

->>FOEHAMMER 1 status report: Pending. ->>Current assessment: --Perimeter shows dimensional deviation within acceptable parameters. --No new anomalies detected. --Primary and secondary nucleii are currently on standby. No mitosis has been observed. -AGATE HIEROPHANT status: Untethered but...

The world is a place full of wonders. Far larger than most imagine. With the Roaring 20's technology is hitting its stride. Cars are cheaper and wider spread, radios reach further and sound clearer, electric lighting is becoming more common, and silent movies are a big hit. Money is flowing and...

Now with a TVTropes page, feel free to contribute! An Undertow of Sand A PJO Fanfiction My first clue that everything was about to go to hell was when the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. I was now in mortal danger. In a shopping mall. Spidey Sense? Super cool. What's not cool is...

From the Journal of XCOM Commander [REDACTED] Twenty years. Twenty long years. That’s how long it took for XCOM’s war with the Elder’s to end. Contact didn’t go so well for us. We fought as hard as we could, lost a lot of good people along the way, experienced victory and defeat to protect...

I've been mulling an idea in my head. An Urban Fantasy story based around Lovecraftian mages. Where magic is common place and Lovecraftian madness has become mundane. The necronomicon is studied like a physics textbook. People post cute shoggoth videos on YouTube. Strong mages could even Invoke...

Prologue: Cabinet Man It started in a pretty innocuous manner, much like a lot of other things. But innocuous things can hide endless horrors. At first, Daniel felt hunger pangs. He'd stop by a local supermarket on his way home, purchase a snack to eat. It'd be potato chips, or maybe a slim...

Starlight Prologue Blind Dreaming The sky was ablaze, and not in any sort of metaphorical sense. This was no mere sunrise. It was as though the sky had morphed into a burning field. Fingers of flame reached down from above; most of them clearly too distant to be a danger, while others formed...

WORLD OF PULP Welcome to a world of pulp adventures. A world where trains and airships are the dominant form of transportation, but also where massive submarines ply the seas and cannons deliver vessels into outer space, assisted by Cavorite alloys. A world of weird phenomena, from psychic...

Staring Back AN: As is in the description, this is a possible fic I'm working on when I'm in the mood. I may post more snippets depending on the reviews. Thank you for reading...

Step into the event horizon of the War on Cosmic Horror. In the decades following the U.S. government raid in Massachusetts, a cabal of federal law enforcement agents, military officials, and intelligence officers have waged a shadow war against the Unnatural and their cultic human allies...

I just saw that the trailer for this has come out. It is an HBO series based on the novel of the same name by Matt Ruff and is about Atticus Freeman, his friend Letitia and his Uncle George as they embark on a road trip through the US during Jim Crow, to search for Atticus missing father...

Hello all! I used to be on alternatehistory.com, but I got banned(they are a bit strict over there and the admin doesn't appreciate people disagreeing with him) but that's another story. I was working on a Cthulhu mythos timeline there and really enjoying getting feedback and whatnot from...

What if an ASB decides to make Cthulhu real and Ry'leh at Point Nemo in the Pacific? The Lovecraftian background story of the cults worshipping Cthulhu remains fiction, and people don't go insane by merely looking at him, but Cthulhu is real and arises when it becomes January 1 2020 at Point...

The World of Madness The World of Madness is a major fusion of three fictional universes: H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk, and WhiteWolf's One World of Darkness. *** "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all...