Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture

A sketch of the Cthulhu statue found in The Call of Cthulhu. The sketch was done by H. P. Lovecraft in 1934

This article provides a list of cultural references to the work of author H. P. Lovecraft. These references are collectively known as the Cthulhu Mythos. For works that are stylistically Lovecraftian, including comics and film adaptations influenced by Lovecraft, see Lovecraftian horror.

Film

Title	Year	Writer	Notes
The Call of Cthulhu	2005	Sean Branney	A silent film adaptation of the Lovecraft short story of the same name.
Cthulhu	2007	Daniel Gildark	Loosely based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
The Haunted Palace	1963	Charles Beaumont	Based on "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".
Dagon	2001	Dennis Paoli	An adaptation of the Lovecraft short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936), set in Spain.
Die Farbe (a.k.a. The Colour Out Of Space)	2010	Huan Vu	A German film adaptation of the Lovecraft short story of the same name. A young man goes searching for his lost father and finds something unexpected.
From Beyond	1986	Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna	An American science fiction body-horror film directed by Stuart Gordon, loosely based on the Lovecraft short story of the same name.
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu	2009	Devin McGinn	A comedy-horror film about the last of Lovecraft's relatives.
Re-Animator	1985	Stuart Gordon, William J. Norris and Dennis Paoli	An American science fiction horror film based on the Lovecraft story "Herbert West–Reanimator."
The Whisperer in Darkness	2011	Sean Branney	A film adaptation of the Lovecraft short story of the same name.

See also listing for Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft.

Games

Game Title	Publisher/Developer	Year	Notes
Nightmare On Azathoth	Divergent Game Studio, Modesto Rabena, PC	2015	Base Management Survival Horror Game.[1]
Arcane Mystery Serial	Sarbakan, PC	2002	Online serial game pitting human investigators against the creatures of the Mythos.[2]
Alone in the Dark	Infogrames, PC	1992	Adventure game based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft.
Arkham Horror	Chaosium Fantasy Flight Games	1987 2005	A board game originally published by Chaosium. The license was later acquired by Fantasy Flight Games, with a revised and expanded version of the game re-released in 2005.[3]
Bloodborne	From Software	2015	An Action role-playing game on the PlayStation 4 that is heavily influenced by the Cthulhu mythos featuring characters and supernatural beings directly based on those found in the works of H. P. Lovecraft[4]
Call of Cthulhu	Chaosium	1981	Award-winning role-playing game based on the Mythos.[5]
Call of Cthulhu Collectible Card Game	Fantasy Flight Games	2004	Collectible card game based on the Mythos.[6]
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth	Bethesda Softworks/2K Games, Xbox/Microsoft Windows	2005	Loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth, with references to other Mythos works.[7]
Call of Duty: Black Ops III	Treyarch	2015	The Shadow Man, a character in the Shadows of Evil campaign, is revealed to be a manifestation of Cthulhu. The setting and gameplay itself is inspired by the mythos.
Chaos of Cthulhu	Imp House Game Company	2016	A Dice game based on the Cthulhu mythos. Take hold of the damaged tome and summon forth a unique Lovecraftian nightmare, mix-and-matched from 6 different Old Ones and Dark Minions. Then clash in strategic dice battle to be the first to assemble a fully matched monster. Part strategy, part luck…all madness! [8]
Chez Cthulhu			A Chez Geek (by Steve Jackson Games) variant where slackers may descend into Lovecraftian madness.[9]
Civilization VI	Firaxis Games	2016	One of the achievements in Civilization VI is called "Armies of Cthulhu". It is achieved by levying the military of the city-state Nan Madol.
Darkest Dungeon	Red Hook Studios	2015	A Roguelike dungeon crawler where the player manages a group of heroes reclaiming an estate where a heavily Cthulhu themed Old One has awakened and drove the residents mad. The player must not only make sure his group survives but also take care of their sanity and stress levels.
Cthulhu Fluxx	Looney Labs	2012	An H. P. Lovecraft-themed variant of the original Fluxx game, including cards based on some of the characters, objects and events in the Cthulhu Mythos.[10]
Cthulhu Gloom			A spin-off of the card game Gloom, wherein players are given a family of Lovecraftian characters. The goal of the game is for the players to kill their own characters in horribly terrifying deaths for negative points, while keeping their opponents' families healthy and happy. All of the cards in the game contain references to Lovecraft themes, places, and characters.
Cthulhu Dice	Steve Jackson Games	2010	A dice game with a custom 12-sided die, embossed with tentacles, Elder Signs, and more. Players roll the dice in an attempt to destroy their opponent's "sanity".[11]
Cthulhu Saves the World	Zeboyd Games	2010	A 2D role-playing video game where Cthulhu must become a hero to recover his dark powers.
Destiny: The Taken King	Bungie	2015	Two of the raid bosses, Golgoroth and Oryx, are loosely based upon the Mythos characters Gol-Goroth and Orryx, respectively.
Dungeons & Dragons	TSR, Inc.	1980	Games company TSR included an entire chapter on the Cthulhu mythos (including statistics for the character) in the first printing of Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook Deities & Demigods (1980). TSR, however, were unaware that Arkham House - copyright holder on almost all Lovecraft literature - had already licensed the Cthulhu property to the game company Chaosium. Although Chaosium stipulated that TSR could continue to use the material if each future edition featured a published credit to Chaosium, TSR refused and the material was removed from all subsequent editions.[12]
Elder Sign	Fantasy Flight Games	2011	A dice game involving a team of investigators attempting to prevent the "Ancient Ones" from awakening. Also, a mobile App Game with the same goal.[13]
Eldritch Horror	Fantasy Flight Games	2013	A board game published by Fantasy Flight Games and inspired by the Arkham Horror board game.[14]
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem	Silicon Knights	2002	A Nintendo Gamecube game inspired by Lovecraft's writings. The game is set in Rhode Island where the main character finds a tome with stories of Cthulhu-like 'ancients'. The game won the honorary "Day of the Tentacle (Cthulhu) Award" at GameSpy's Game of the Year Awards.
Etrian Odyssey III: The Drowned City	Atlus	2010	A dungeon-crawler role-playing game that draws heavily on Lovecraftian mythos. The optional final boss, the Abyssal God, bears heavy resemblance to Cthulhu, and its minions are known as the Deep Ones.
Hearthstone/ Whispers Of The Old Gods	Blizzard	2016	Blizzard released an expansion on the 31st of May 2016, Whispers of The Old Gods. This expansion's theme is largely inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos.
Fallout 3/"Point Lookout"	Bethesda	2008	Bethesda's take on Interplay's "Post-Apocalyptic Role Playing Game" features a minor location in the Capitol Wasteland, the Dunwhich Building, which references loosely the short-story of the same name. Included in the "Point Lookout" DLC is a quest inspire by the Mythos through a mysterious man's attempts to recover a doomed book.
Illuminati			A card game with an expansion supplement, "Servants of Cthulhu".[15]
Knights and Dragons	Gree	2013	Multiple quests are based upon Cthulhu, with Cthulhu appearing as a limited Epic Boss.
Lost Souls		1990	Online game with direct references to the Mythos.[16]
Magicka	Paradox Interactive	2011	An action-adventure video game, featuring Cthulhu-themed expansion "The Stars are Left".[17]
Magic: The Gathering	Wizards of the Coast		In the set Rise of the Eldrazi, the size and descriptions of the Eldrazi are partially based on the Cthulhu mythos.[18]
Magrunner: Dark Pulse	Frogwares	2013	A puzzle video game involving magnetism, leading to a world with Lovecraftian inspired monsters, including Cthulhu.
Mansions of Madness	Fantasy Flight Games		Board game involving one player in the service of malevolent deities and other players attempting to stop them.[19]
Megami Tensei	Atlus	1987 -	A series of Japanese role-playing games featuring creatures and figures from various mythologies, including beings from the Mythos. They serve varying roles throughout the games, sometimes as enemies, sometimes as recruitable allies. In particular, Nyarlathotep served as the chief antagonist for Shin Megami Tensei: Persona, Persona 2: Innocent Sin and Persona 2: Eternal Punishment.
Monsterpocalypse	Privateer Press	2008 -	A tactical board game pitting giant monsters against each other. One of the factions is the Lords of Cthul, a Lovecraft-inspired Fiends faction from another dimension.
Munchkin	Steve Jackson Games	2001	A card game that features a series of parody expansion sets based on the Mythos.[20]
Mythos	Chaosium	1996 - 1997	Collectible card game based in the Lovecraft mythos setting and spanning the 1920s era, dreamlands and modern times via expansions. Players were investigators attempting to complete adventures and not drop to zero sanity.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game	Paizo Publishing	2009	A spin-off of the 3.5 Edition of Dungeons and Dragons, Pathfinder includes several of the Outer Gods and Great Old Ones as deities that can be served by player or non-player characters.
Payday 2	OVERKILL / Starbreeze Studios	2013	A four-player cooperative shooter in which players attempt to rob a bank. Cthulhu's face is available as a cosmetic item.
Prisoner of Ice	Infogrames	1995	An adventure game based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, particularly At the Mountains of Madness
Quake	id Software	1996	A first-person shooter computer game whose final boss was an entity named Shub-Niggurath.[21]
Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse	Telltale Games	2010	A five-episode Point-and-click adventure game from the Sam & Max series. The story features a Cthulhu-like race of elder gods, the most notable of them named "Yog-Soggoth".
Scribblenauts, Super Scribblenauts, Scribblenauts Remix, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Scribblenauts Unmasked	5th Cell	2009, 2010 (Nintendo DS), 2011 (iOS), 2013	Cthulhu and Shoggoth can be summoned during gameplay.[22]
The Secret World	Funcom	2012	An action-adventure MMO. Parts of the game were described by the project lead as being inspired by Lovecraft; there are locations and creatures named after Lovecraft/the Cthulhu Mythos and quests referencing/re-acting elements of it.[23]
Shadow of the Comet	Infogrames	1993	An adventure game based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened	Frogwares, Windows	2006	Features an investigation into a number of disappearances believed to be the work of a Cthulhu cult.[24]
Smash Up	Alderac Entertainment Group	2013	This card game features a "Smash Up: The Obligatory Cthulhu Set" expansion which adds Cthulhu cultists, Innsmouth locals, Elder Things, and Miskatonic University members and "Madness" cards that each of these groups can use to various effects.[25]
SMITE	Hi-Rez Studios	2014	A third person MOBA with gods from different pantheons as playable characters. Ah-Muzen-Cab has a purchasable skin inspired by Cthulhu, named "The Dark Whisperer".
A Study in Emerald	Treefrog Games	2013	A 2-5 player board game based on the short story by Neil Gaiman.[26]
A Study in Emerald (second edition)	Treefrog Games	2015	Second edition of "A Study in Emerald" with shorter play time and streamlined rules.[27]
Trail of Cthulhu	Pelgrane Press	2008	An investigative role-playing game.[28]
Terraria	Re-Logic	2011	Eye of Cthulhu and Brain of Cthulhu are two prominent boss characters. The final boss, the Moon Lord, bears very close resemblance to Cthulhu, as well as having True Eyes of Cthulhu. It has been confirmed that he is Cthulhu's brother, despite him not having a brother in any of Lovecraft's stories.
Warcraft series	Blizzard Entertainment	2003	In the ancient past of the Warcraft universe, a host of Lovecraftian Old Gods—C'Thun, Yogg-saron, N'Zoth, and Y'Shaarj—ruled over the world of Azeroth as the Black Empire, enslaving its primitive species and warring with each other. First hinted at in Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, these beings have become increasingly important to the ongoing story of World of Warcraft and its expansions. Responsible for the corruption of many of the series' chief villains, the Old Gods and their servants have also appeared to directly confront players as bosses and enemies throughout the game.
X-COM: Terror from the Deep	MicroProse	1995	Features multiple aliens that bear a close resemblance to creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos, including Cthulhu himself as "The Great Dreamer". Most names have been altered. A hidden underwater city is called "T'leth" instead of Lovecraft's R'lyeh. However, some of the original names, such as Deep One, were adopted unchanged.[29]
Ayumi: Enhanced Edition	Lord Rutsah	2016	The whole game is heavily based on the Yellow Mythos of Hastur, with multiple references to other Great Old Ones. Byakhees, Nagas, Mi-Gos and other Mythos entities make frequent appearances, while the player is tormented by the voice of the King in Yellow.

Music

Band	Album	Song	Notes
1349	Hellfire (2005)	"From The Deeps"
The Acacia Strain	Continent (2008)	"Cthulhu"	Inspired by Lovecraft.[30]
Antipeewee	Madness Unleashed (2015)	"Rise of Cthulhu"	Inspired by Cthulhu Mythos-
Adagio	Dominate (2005)	"R'lyeh the Dead"	Inspired by R'lyeh
Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath (1970)	"Behind the Wall of Sleep"	The song's title and lyrics are inspired by a short story with a similar name.
Blind Idiot God	Various	Various	Name inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's description of Azathoth
Blue Öyster Cult	Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001)	"The Old Gods Return"	"[...] Of a six eyed god whose wings beat; In a time so odd, so very odd; And we're all lost, all of us blessedly lost [...]"
Bong of Cthulhu	Various	Various	Named after
Caravan	For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night (1973)	"C'thlu Thlu"	"[...] Something seemed nearly dead making me feel so cold; Even the trees seemed to fear there was something unreal"
Christian Muenzner	Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2014)	"Shadow Over Innsmouth", "Mountains of Madness", "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"
Cradle of Filth	Midian (2000)	"Cthulhu Dawn"
Cradle of Filth	Lovecraft & Witch Hearts (2002)		Compilation album. Impressively, none of the included tracks actually have any references to the Cthulhu Mythos.
Dark Moor	Beyond the Sea (2005)	"The Silver Key"	This song is based in the Dreamland of H.P. Lovecraft and the Randolf Carter’s adventure.[31]
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets	Various	Various	Many of the band's songs reference Lovecraft's work.[32]
Deadmau5	4x4=12 (2010)	"Cthulhu Sleeps"	An eponymous instrumental.[33]
Deadmau5	While 1<2	"Rlyehs Lament"
Deicide	Legion	"Dead but Dreaming"	Describing implicitly Cthulhu's latent state, as well as the Elder Ones'
Adam Beyer Ida Engberg	Drumcode	"Lovecraft"
Adam Beyer	Drumcode	"The Color Out Of Space"
Despondent	Awakening The Elder Gods (2015)	"I. Awakening The Elder Gods" "II. The Madness From The Sea" "III. Succumbing To Insanity" "IV. Horrific Revelation"	Inspired by Lovecraft, particular his short story "The Call of Cthulhu"
Dread Sovereign	All Hell's Martyrs (2014)	"Cthulhu Opiate Haze"
Dream Theater	Systematic Chaos (2007)	"Dark Eternal Night"
Electric Wizard	Supercoven (1998)	"Supercoven"	"[...] Yog Sothoth is the gate [...]"
Entombed	Clandestine (1991)	Stranger Aeons	Lyrics mention "dreamquest,” “lurking at the threshold, and “stranger things that eternal lie"
The Fall	Dragnet (1979)	"Spectre Vs. Rector"	"Yog Sothoth rape me lord"
Flint Glass	Nyarlathotep	"Various"
The Gothic Archies	The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events (2006)	"We Are the Gothic Archies"	"[...] Though gothic we are Archie, though Archie we are goth; No Satan-worshipers we, we worship Yog-Sothoth!"
Gwar	Scumdogs of the Universe (1990)	"Horror of Yig"
Fields of the Nephilim	The Nephilim (1988)	"Last Exit for the Lost"	"[...] Between the spaces, along the wall; Appearing faces, that disappear at dawn; We're getting closer. I can see the door; Closer and closer; Kthulhu calls; Forever remain (x4)"
H. P. Lovecraft (band)	H. P. Lovecraft (1967); "H. P. Lovecraft II" (1968)	Various	A 1960s band named for the author, with song content reflecting Lovecraft's works.[34]
Iced Earth	Plagues of Babylon (2014)	"Cthulhu"
Legion of the Damned	Cult of the Dead	"Black Wings of Yog-Sothoth"
Manilla Road	Spiral Castle (2002)	"Spiral Castle"	[...]Yog Sothoth has come; And the ancient ones
Metallica	Ride the Lightning (1984)	"The Call of Ktulu"	An instrumental inspired by "The Call of Cthulhu".[35]
Metallica	Master of Puppets (1986)	"The Thing That Should Not Be"	Lovecraft-inspired, alludes to The Shadow over Innsmouth--"hybrid children watch the sea, pray for father roaming free"—and the rhyming couplet "The Nameless City"--"not dead which eternal lie, stranger eons death my die". "[36][37][38]
Metallica	Death Magnetic (2008)	"All Nightmare Long"	Described by vocalist James Hetfield as being about the Hounds of Tindalos.[39]
Metallica	Hardwired... to Self-Destruct (2016)	"Dream No More"	"[...]Cthulhu, awaken[...]"
Morbid Angel	Altars of Madness (1989)	Lord of all Fevers and Plague	Mentions 'Cthulhu' among other non-Lovecraftian entities.
Morbid Angel	Covenant(1993)	"Angel of Disease"
Nile	Various	Various	Nile have written several songs about the Cthulhu mythos. Vocalist and guitarist Karl Sanders claimed Lovecrafts works were in harmony with the essence of death metal .[40]
Nox Arcana	Necronomicon(2004)	(all songs)	An album entirely about the Cthulhu Mythos.[41]
Opeth	Heritage (2011)	"Pyre"	The lyrics contain references to the short story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"
Portal	Various	Various	This obscure Australian Black/Death band is heavily inspired by Lovecraft's works lyrically, visually, and musically.[42]
Rudimentary Peni	Cacophony (1988)	(all 30 songs)	An album consisting entirely of songs that reference (either directly or indirectly) both Lovecraft's personal life and his literary works (mainly the Cthulhu Mythos).[43]
Saille	Ritu	"Fhtagn"	A slow ritualistic song based on "The Call of Cthulhu" from a cultists perspective.[44]
Septicflesh	Mystic Places of Dawn (1994)	"Mystic Places of Dawn"	The city of Sarnath from the short story "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" is referenced among Atlantis, Lemuria and other mythical sunken or destroyed cities.
Septicflesh	Communion (2008)	"Lovecraft's Death"	The song's lyrics are an amalgam of various Cthulhu Mythos story titles, including "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Whisperer in Darkness", "The Music of Erich Zann" and others.
Shub-Niggurath	Le Morts Vont Vite and other albums	"Yog Sothoth" and other tracks	Avant-rock/zeuhl band from France which received acclaim for its development of Magma's sound. Several tracks are explicitly Cthulhu Mythos-inspired, and the name of the band is a Cthulhu mythos deity.[45]
Thergothon	"Stream from the Heavens" (1994) and Fhtagn-Nagh Yog Sothoth demo (1991)	Various songs	Thergothon's entire catalog is rife with Lovecraftian lyrical reference and atmospheric inspiration. [46]
The Vision Bleak	Carpathia - A Dramatic Poem (2005)	"Kutulu!"	Many of the band's songs are inspired by classic Horror novels and films, including H.P. Lovecraft's work.[47]
Therion	Beyond Sanctorum (1992)	"Cthulhu"	Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's work.[48]
Zardonic	Lovecraft Machine	"Cthulhu"	The first track of this release is named after Cthulhu.[49]
John Zorn	Magick (2004)	Tracks 1-5: Conjurations, The Magus, Thought Forms, Incunabula, and Asmodeus	These 5 tracks combine to form a work called 'Necronomicon'
The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing	This May Be The Reason Why The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing Cannot Be Killed By Conventional Weapons	"Margate Fhtagn"	A story of a Victorian family going on a seaside holiday to Margate, which gets interrupted by Cthulhu's rising from the sea.[50]
Sulphur Aeon	Various	Various	Both their albums Swallowed By the Ocean's Tide and Gateway To the Antishphere are about the Cthulhu mythos

Print

Title	Author	Year	Notes
14	Peter Clines	2012	A speculative fiction novel which explores the Cthulhu Mythos in a contemporary setting[51]
The Adventures of Samurai Cat	Mark E. Rogers	1984	The character Samurai Cat traverses time and space on a mission of revenge, and at one point wreaks havoc in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".[52]
Afterlife with Archie	Archie Horror	2014	A comic series in which Sacthubrina ends up at an otherworldly asylum run by "Dr. Lovecraft" after setting off the zombie apocalypse in the series. Due to her use of the Necronomicon, she has inadvertently awakened Cthulhu, who intends for her to serve as his bride.
All-Consuming Fire	Andy Lane	1994	This Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures novel is set on a planet called Ry'leh and features an alien claiming to be Azathoth. It also equates several pre-existing Doctor Who monsters with Mythos creatures, claiming Fenric (from The Curse of Fenric) is Hastur, the Great Intelligence is Yog-Sothoth, and the Animus (from The Web Planet) is Lloigor.[53]
And Another Thing...	Eoin Colfer	2009	The final installment in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, and, in a humorous vignette, features Cthulhu interviewing for the position of god of the planet "Nano".[54]
Awoken	Serra Elinsen	2013	A young adult paranormal romance about a girl who falls in love with Cthulhu who appears at her high school in the guise of a teenage boy. The novel was created by internet film critic, Lindsay Ellis and her friends Nella Inserra and Elisa Hansen along with their fanbase as a parody of Twilight and subsequent novels of the young adult paranormal romance genre.[55]
The Book of the SubGenius and other SubGenius literature	J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and The SubGenius Foundation	1983	Contains many references and allusions to the Cthulhu mythos, such as identifying J.R. "Bob" Dobbs' real identity as Nyarlathotep and numerous mentions of the Elder Gods and Great Old Ones, who include SubGenius deities such as Jehovah 1 and the Discordian/SubGenius deity Eris Discordia, and mentioning Cthulhu as one of the common choices for a ShorDurPerSav (short-duration personal savior).[56]
The Call of C'rruso	Mark Shaw, Laura Shaw and Flemming Andersen	2016	In Donald Duck #16, this Disney comics adventure story is a loose parody of the Cthulhu mythos. Wannabe star singer Donald Duck is taken to the lost city of "Sp'too," where the many-eyed monster-god "Pf'legmwad" lies sleeping—with all of our world existing only as a part of his dream. "Mr. C'rruso," a humanlike manifestation of Pf'legmwad's mind, thinks that Donald's quacky singing voice will wake the monster up, as he eventually does.[57]
A Colder War	Charles Stross	1997	A novella that blends the political fiction and technothriller genres with the Mythos.[58]
The Crawlin' Chaos Blues	Edward Michael Erdelac	2010	A blues singer in 1964 who makes a deal with Nyarlathotep for fame and fortune.[59]
Crouch End	Stephen King	1980	A short story concerning a young couple lost in the London suburb, featuring several references to the Mythos.[60]
Discworld (series)	Terry Pratchett	1983 -	Numerous allusions exist throughout the series; the most explicit of these is the Necrotelecomnicon, after Lovecraft's iconic Necronomicon grimoire.[61]
Famous Monsters of Filmland			A variant cover for #281 featured Cthulhu locked in battle with Godzilla.
Green Lama Unbound	Adam Lance Garcia	2010	The Green Lama, a pulp hero from the 1940s, battles Nazis as they attempt to raise Cthulhu. Features strong elements from the Mythos.[62]
I, Cthulhu	Neil Gaiman	1986	A short story on Gaiman's website featuring Cthulhu dictating an autobiography to a human slave.[63]
The Illuminatus! Trilogy	Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea	1975	Features several Mythos references.
Johannes Cabal: The Fear Institute	Jonathan L. Howard	2011	The third novel in the Johannes Cabal series is set primarily in Lovecraft's Dreamlands and features many Lovecraftian references, locations, and elder gods.[64]
The Laundry Files	Charles Stross	2004 - 2012	Influenced by Lovecraft's visions of the future, and set in a world where a computer and the right mathematical equations is just as useful a toolset for calling up horrors from other dimensions as a spellbook and a pentagram on the floor.
Legacy: Shadow Watch	Andrew Lawrenson	2015	A Mystery/Thriller set against a backdrop of the Cthulhu Mythos, where the protagonists must face a dark cult who worship the Great Old Ones.[65]
The Long War	A.J. Smith (author)	2013 (launched)	A series of dark fantasy novels described as "Martin meets Lovecraft".[66] Shub-Nillurath, or "the Black God of the forests with a thousand young", is a primary antagonist as are the Dark Young. The first novel "The Black Guard" contains several references to the Cthulhu Mythos.[67]
The Midnight Eye Files: The Amulet	William Meikle	2008	Set in modern-day Glasgow, the worshippers of Cthulhu attempt to revive the god.[68]
Move Under Ground	Nick Mamatas, Nightshade Books	2004	A pastiche of the work of Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Neil Cassady and other luminaries of the Beat Generation milieu, juxtaposed with the Cthulhu Mythos transposed into the late fifties/early sixties within California.[69]
The Philosopher's Stone	Colin Wilson	1969	Two scientists, now possessing heightened consciousness, discover mankind is the creation of Lovecraft's Old Ones.[70]
Practical Demonkeeping The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove The Stupidest Angel	Christopher Moore	1992 1999 2004	Eggs Sothoth are a popular breakfast at HP's Cafe in Pine Cove, the setting of these and other Moore novels. The owner of HP has been driven to drink by his encounters with supernatural creatures and other monsters.
Prophecy: The Dreamlands	Andrew Lawrenson	2016	The sequel to Legacy, continuing the protagonist's struggle against a dark cult who worship the Great Old Ones. [71]
Resume With Monsters	William Browning Spencer	1996	A humorous novel about a worker who battles a series of bad jobs and Lovecraft's Elder Gods.[72]
Shoggoth's Old Peculiar	Neil Gaiman	1998	A short story, in Smoke and Mirrors (story collection), where an American tourist happens upon Innsmouth, an English seaside town, and its elderly Cthulhu followers who explain about their master, whilst getting drunk on an odd local beer.[73]
Some Notes Concerning a Green Box	Alan Dean Foster	1971	A short story, in "With Friends Like These..." A book of short stories published in 1977. Story documents expedition somehow related to H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu.[74]
Soul Eater (manga)	Atsushi Ōkubo	2004	The Black Mass that resides within The Book of Eibon is most likely a nod to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu.[75]
A Study in Emerald	Neil Gaiman	2003	A Sherlock Holmes/Lovecraft cross-pastiche.[76]
Tales of the Plush Cthulhu: Time Wasted[77]	Jon Hansen[78]	accessed 2014	Online photo story, featuring plush animals and household objects.
That Which Should Not Be	Brett J. Talley	2011	Set in the early 20th century, concerning a quest for an ancient book that can restore the Lovecraft deities to power.[79]
Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)	François Launet	2003 (launched)	A humorous web-comic strip featuring the Lovecraft deities and monsters. Anders Sandberg noted this comic as an example of the trend of poking fun at formerly horrifying concepts.[80]
The Unthinkable[81]	Bruce Sterling	1994	Discusses the consequences of the US developing the "Azathoth Bomb" during World War II.
The Secret Memoir of the Missionary	Hirofumi Tanaka	2002 (Japanese) 2006 (English)	A retelling of the arrival of St. Francis Xavier in Japan as influenced by the Cthulhu mythos.[82]

Television

Title	Notes
A.N.T. Farm	In "performANTS" Sunshine, an employee at a store where Chyna and her friends to go, tells Cameron that she meditates to "Cthulhu, Dark Lord of the Underworld". She later mistakes Angus, dressed as OctoPanda, for Cthulhu. Angus tricks her in believing he is and demands macarons, which he didn't get in the green room of the store.
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)	TV Movie. The movie is very much an homage to the works of H. P. Lovecraft. Though not based on any one particular story by Lovecraft, the film features many Lovecraftian tropes, and can be considered to take place against the unified backdrop which has come to be known as the Cthulhu Mythos. The nightclub is called Harry Bordon's Dunwich Room. Frequent references are made to the Necronomicon, the Great Old Ones, Cthulhu and Yog Sothoth throughout the film.
Dark Shadows	Episodes 885 to 980 of the gothic soap-opera, a storyline commonly known as 'The Leviathans', was inspired by 'The Cthulhu Mythos'.[83]
Digimon	At the end of Episode 13 of Adventure 02, "His Master's Voice", the silhouette of Dragomon appears rising from the sea, bearing a striking resemblance to Cthulhu. In the same episode, DigiCode (a fictional alphabet featured in the Digimon franchise) translating to Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn and Innsmouth appears. The Japanese title of this episode, ダゴモンの呼び声 ("Dagomon no Yobigoe"), translates to "The Call of Dagomon", a reference to "The Call of Cthulhu".
Fate/Zero	Caster can summon monsters with the chant Cthulhu fhtagn, and in Episode 13, Caster summons a giant sea monster by chanting Ph'nglui mglw'nafh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	The season 1 episode "Big Trouble in Billy's Basement" and the season 5 episode "Prank Call of Cthulhu" feature Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu respectively.
Haiyore! Nyaruko-san	The entire light novel series was based on Cthulhu Mythos, for what it features many of Lovecraft's characters such as Nyarlathotep (depicted in girl form under the name of Nyaruko). Despite the series has been based on the mythos, it is a humor parody series that makes references to a lot of different media.
House	Season 6, Episode 18 "Knight Fall" features the Necronomicon, predominantly as a plot piece.
Justice League	The double episode "The Terror Beyond" (Season 2, episodes 15-16) has as main antagonist a creature inspired by Chtulhu, called Icthultu. The episode itself draws heavily from the Mythos.
The Real Ghostbusters	The episode "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" references the Necronomicon and an attempt to revive the so-called "Cathulhu," described as one of the "Great Old Ones". Lovecraft is also mentioned by name.[84] The Old Ones were again mentioned in the episode "Russian About".
Rod Serling's Night Gallery	The season 2 episodes "Pickman's Model"[85][86] and "Cool Air"[85][87] are based on the original 1926 Lovecraft short stories of the same name, while "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture" heavily references the Mythos.[85]
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated	The episodes "The Shrieking Madness" and "Pawn of Shadows" guest-star Professor H.P. Hatecraft, author of otherworldly horror stories, whose name is a play on Lovecraft's. Mythos symbolism abounds, and Hatecraft's character Char Gar Gothakon closely resembles Cthulhu.[88]
South Park	Features Cthulhu as a character in the 2010 season 14 3-episode saga "Coon 2: Hindsight", "Mysterion Rises", and "Coon vs. Coon and Friends", along with the sunken city of R'lyeh, many mentions of the Cthulhu mythos, the Goth kids at South Park being revealed to be members of the Cult of Cthulhu, and the reason for Kenny McCormick's constant death and resurrection being a ritual Kenny's parents did when Kenny's mom was first pregnant with Kenny and they joined the Cult of Cthulhu.[89]
Supernatural	In season 6, episode 21 "Let it Bleed", Lovecraft and six others performed a ritual to pierce the veil between worlds, opening a door into Purgatory on March 10, 1937. A creature of Purgatory came through and killed Lovecraft a few days later on March 15.[90] In season 7, it would become clear that the 'Old Ones' of Cthulhu Mythos are Leviathans, which were the first beings created by God before being locked into Purgatory so that they would not be a threat to later creations.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	In the Season 3 episode The Darkness Within the Turtles confront a Cthulhu-like alien monster underneath Manhattan.
True Detective	Hastur is vaguely mentioned as the "Yellow king", Carcosa is also featured.
Musaigen no Phantom World	In episode 8 of the series, Haruhiko summons Cthulhu using a spell called Abramelin's Finger in order to defeat an evil primate.

Audio drama

Title	Year	Notes
Thrilling Adventure Hour	2014	The 153rd episode of the podcast features an episode titled "When Cthulu Cthalls," which was recorded on September 7th 2013 and released on February 17, 2014. The episode is part of the "Beyond Belief" series and features stars Frank and Sadie Doyle protecting their friend's baby from chipper cultists and an entity only referred to as "The Old One." The Old One/Cthulu is voiced by Parks and Recreation star Jim O'Heir.

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