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Back in my online gaming days I named my Warlock "Tornasuk" and my Shadow Priest "Angekok" directly out of a Lovecraft story.

"Besides nameless rites and human sacrifices there were certain queer hereditary rituals addressed to a supreme elder devil or tornasuk; and of this Professor Webb had taken a careful phonetic copy from an aged angekok or wizard-priest, expressing the sounds in Roman letters as best he knew how."

H.P. Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu
 

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From a short story I am writing:

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’yleh wgah’nagl fhtagn!"


Do those familiar with the mythos know what this means?
 

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From a short story I am writing:

“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’yleh wgah’nagl fhtagn!"

Do those familiar with the mythos know what this means?

Lovecraft's literal translation of “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” is that “In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”. By this, Lovecraft meant that Cthulhu is in a form of suspended animation in R'lyeh until such time as the stars are right.
 

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Lovecraft's literal translation of “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” is that “In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming”. By this, Lovecraft meant that Cthulhu is in a form of suspended animation in R'lyeh until such time as the stars are right.
Very good, excellent, even adequate. :bowdown:

The short story I'm writing follows The Call of Cthulhu pretty well, but with some major differences.
 

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i got the "H.P. Lovecraft The Complete Collection" on kindle for a buck or two many years ago... have been (slowly) re-reading it in chronological order, though i don't remember where i found the list
 

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i got the "H.P. Lovecraft The Complete Collection" on kindle for a buck or two many years ago... have been (slowly) re-reading it in chronological order, though i don't remember where i found the list
I have the huge Barnes & Noble hardback that I got several years back. B&N also has a similar volume of Poe.
 

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What was the first Lovecraft story that you ever read? I came across this story quite by accident in an anthology of horror stories called Who Knocks? At the time--close to sixty years ago-- I had never even heard of Lovecraft, and I did not associate the story with him until I got online and happened to see it in the Project Gutenberg Lovecraft collection.

Anyway, it was a very spooky story called The Shunned House, written in 1924.
 

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