Azathoth (short story)
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"Azathoth" is the beginning of an incomplete novel written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in June 1922, and published as a fragment in the journal Leaves in 1938, af
First page of H. P. Lovecraft's original manuscript to "Azathoth"
Cthulhu Mythos
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The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared universe, originating in the works of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The term was coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent and pr
Azathoth (short story)
…in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. It is the first piece of fiction to mention the fictional being Azathoth, one of the major entities in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, though the entity only appears in the title. The story begins by describing how the modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic…
An artist's visual representation of Cthulhu