Yog-Sothoth

Literary invention
Menzione 1927, edita postuma 1941 · prima stampa: «Weird Tales», aprile 1929

Yog-Sothoth — coterminous with all time and all space, described as a congeries of iridescent globes.

First appearance

Mentioned in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; first narrative role in The Dunwich Horror.

What is told

Coterminous with all time and all space, described as a congeries of iridescent globes. It is the gate and the key, the point at which the dimensions touch.

In the corpus

It is the entity that gives its name to the playful term Lovecraft used for his own construction: Yog-Sothothery. Not «Cthulhu Mythos», which is Derleth's.

Publication data

The Dunwich Horror, «Weird Tales», April 1929, pp. 481-508. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, written in 1927, appeared posthumously and abridged in 1941.

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