Lovecraft recognized that each writer had his own story-cycle and that an element from one cycle would not necessarily become part of another simply because a writer used it in one of his stories. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner and others. This group included Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. First stage (Cthulhu Mythos proper)ĭuring the latter part of Lovecraft's life, there was much borrowing of story elements among the authors of the " Lovecraft Circle", a clique of writers with whom Lovecraft corresponded. Tierney later applied the term "Derleth Mythos" to distinguish between Lovecraft's works and Derleth's later stories. The second stage occurred under August Derleth who attempted to categorize and expand the Mythos after Lovecraft's death, writer Richard L. The first stage, or "Cthulhu Mythos proper" as Price calls it, took shape during Lovecraft's lifetime and was subject to his guidance. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos", sees two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos. 1.1.1 The Mythos as a background element.1.1 First stage (Cthulhu Mythos proper).Joshi, it has long since moved beyond Lovecraft's original conception.
Although this legendarium is also sometimes called the Lovecraft Mythos, most notably by the Lovecraft scholar S. The term itself was coined by the writer August Derleth. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used - and continue to use - to craft their stories.
Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. These must be handled with unsparing realism, (not catch-penny romanticism) but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown-the shadow-haunted Outside-we must remember to leave our humanity-and terrestrialism at the threshold. Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negligible and temporary race called mankind, have any existence at all.
To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form-and the local human passions and conditions and standards-are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes. Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. 🔀 This article is about the literary understanding of the Mythos, see canon for clarifications on how the wikia organizes its articles and its policy regarding the canon
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