“Them things liked human sacrifices. Had had ’em ages afore, but lost track o’ the upper world arter a time. What they done to the victims it ain’t fer me to say, an’ I guess Obed wa’n’t none too sharp abaout askin’.
H.P. Lovecraft The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Only known photo from the 1939 German expedition to Bal-Sagoth island, the location of the island was lost along with all records of the expedition but some occultists suggest the island is located somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle.
There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults and sending out at last, after cycles incalculable, the thoughts that spread fear to the dreams of the sensitive and called imperiously to the faithful.
H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu
The priests of Nyarlathotep brought forth the body of a dead man, with rune inscribed copper knives they performed strange mutilations to make the vessel suitable for their god. Then they called down the soul of Nyarlathotep into this body, the thing rose and spoke to me.
It said by the Prophets of Pnom that the gods despise all sorcerers but most despised is the necromancer, for what blasphemy is more abhorrent than the quickening of dead flesh to a mockery of life.
Sorcerers ruled in Lemuria as gods, the statue of great Nodens was defiled in the temple and men swore that the elder gods of earth had lost their power. But in far Kadath, Nodens watched and waited.
He locked away the Necronomicon with a shudder of disgust, but the room still reeked with an unholy and unidentifiable stench. “As a foulness shall ye know them,”
H.P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror
Cthulhu still lives, in that chasm of stone which has shielded him since the sun was young. His accursed city is sunken once more, but his ministers on earth still bellow and prance and slay around idol-capped monoliths in lonely places.
H.P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu
An image of Yhoundeh found in the Book of Primal Elders, little is known of this goddess except that she was worshipped widely in Hyperborea until supplanted by the dark god Zhothaqquah just before the onset of the ice age.
(inspired by Clark Ashton Smith's The Door to Saturn)
Out of the shaft came a slavering mad nightmare which swords carved but could not slay. It fell slobbering upon the warriors, crushing them to crimson pulp, tearing them to bits as an octopus might tear small fishes.
Robert E. Howard The Valley of the Worm
He could see only the god-like face, the finely molded head which swayed curiously from side to side. It spoke a single word, in a rich vibrant tone that was like the golden chimes that ring in the jungle-lost temples of Khitai.
Robert E. Howard The God in the Bowl
Thasaidon, lord of seven hells
Wherein the single Serpent dwells,
With volumes drawn from pit to pit
Through fire and darkness infinite —
Thasaidon, sun of nether skies,
Thine ancient evil never dies.
Clark Ashton Smith, The Dark Eidolon
In violation of the Commandments of the H'Klim, Avuch practiced sorcery during the festival of S'sebseb. A fortnight later the body of Avuch was found seated at his dining table and the victuals set before him were his own organs delicately prepared with the utmost culinary art.
A ghastly cult older than Altantis--vines and human beings and goatish monstrosities that interwove and twined together.
Robert E. Howard, The Temple of Abomination
They dragged us hither and all but that carrion scattered—bearing word of the sacrifice through all their burrows, I doubt not. Il-marenin alone knows how many of my people, stolen in the night, have died on that altar.
Robert E. Howard People of the Dark
Their semblance can no man know, saving only in the features of those They have begotten on mankind; and of those are there many sorts, differing in likeness from man’s truest eidolon to that shape without sight or substance which is Them.
H.P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror
When the armies of Rasuum came to the city of Surin Varat they found no living thing, and the tribesmen who dwelt in the hills around the city swore that a terrible wind had swept all the people into the sky to be devoured by demons among the stars.
(Book of the Veiled Gods)
In the spaces between the gates dwell the Larvae of Yog Sothoth that seek to devour all that is flesh. But they are bound by the seal of Yog Sothoth, as when Ysra called them down upon the armies of Raasum-Ka and that great host was consumed in a single night.
At first they seemed like gray stone statues, those motionless shapes, hairy, man-like, yet hideously human; but their eyes were alive, cold sparks of gray icy fire.
Robert E. Howard The Servants of Bit Yakin
It seemed to me to be another of Von Junzt's many ambiguities, for it merely stated that a temple's god was the temple's treasure. Then the dark implication of the hint struck me and cold sweat beaded my forehead.
Robert E. Howard The Thing on the Roof
In the last days of Lemuria sorcerers were given great power by those Old Ones who dwell in the primal dark, and the sorcerers ruled over men as though they themselves were gods.
She appeared at midnight, the witch's hour, whispering to me the dark things the elder gods had decreed that I should know. At dawn she faded into a shadow and I looked out onto a city gone to ruins, its people long dead, the rising sun red and swollen with maggots.
It will always be Salome, the witch, even when the mountains of ice have roared down from the pole and ground the civilizations to ruin, and a new world has risen from the ashes and dust.
Robert E. Howard A Witch Shall be Born
From what subterranean hell it crawled in the long ago I know not. But it was not a beast, as humanity knows beasts. I call it a worm for lack of a better term. There is no earthly language that has a name for it.
Robert E. Howard
The Valley of the Worm
I watched the degenerate priests mumble the incantations but their words were mere sounds they could not shape the ectoplasmic forces that linger all around us.
All in the band of the faithful—Order o’ Dagon—an’ the children shud never die, but go back to the Mother Hydra an’ Father Dagon what we all come from onct—Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah-nagl fhtagn"
H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
I wonder how I shall look when the earth is cleared and there are no earth beings on it. He that came with the Aklo Sabaoth said I may be transfigured, there being much of outside to work on.
H.P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror
Certainely, there was Noth’g butt ye liveliest Awfulness in that which H. rais’d upp from What he cou’d gather onlie a part of.
H.P. Lovecraft The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
"There are many worlds besides this earth, and life takes many shapes. I am neither god nor demon, but flesh and blood like yourself, though the substance differ in part, and the form be cast in a different mold."
The Tower of the Elephant by Robert E. Howard