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- From: lassites@math.concord.wvnet.edu (SHAWN LASSITER)
- Subject: Re: Mythos limits (Survey for FAQ)
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- Organization: Mathematics Department, Concord College
- References: <1992Nov18.055731.18927@news.mentorg.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:12:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.055731.18927@news.mentorg.com> bcannard@hppcb36.mentorg.com (The Human Mi-Go) writes:
- >
- >Having been stupid enough to nominate myself for compiling a FAQ, I need
- >some help with a question: What constitutes the Cthulhu Mythos?
- >
- >Stories such as "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Dunwich Horror" are obvious
- >Mythos. "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath" isn't - it's a Dreamlands tale.
- >I also discount August Derleth's "war-in-heaven" stories. What about "From
- >Beyond"? "Herbert West - Re-animator"? Lumley's "The Burrowers Beneath"?
- >"Illuminatus"?
- >
- >So I would like to know:
- >
- >(a) How do you define the Mythos?
- >
- I define the Mythos as being any of the utterly alien Things Man Was Not
- Meant To Know, thus August Derelith does not really count because a war in
- heaven is comprehensible to man, though the reasons are not always clear.
- Also my understanding of the dreamlands is that they are a reflection of the
- real world ( or the original to our reflection), thus the Mythos creatures
- often have an exhistance in both worlds, Nyarlethotep(sp?) for example.
-
- >(b) Which stories (by HPL or others) do you think form the core of the
- Mythos?
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Call of Cthulhu,... um ... er ...
- sorry, but my mind has been fried from reading too many mythos
- books ',) and I cannot remember any other titles.
-
- >(c) Which stories are part of the Mythos but not core material?
- see (b).
-