LOVECRAFTOBER: DAY TWELVE Ulthar: Watcher of the Great Old Ones, Master of Beasts
Affiliation: Court of the Elder Gods
And first elder god makes an appearance! The Elder gods are a bit trickier to design as...there is really not much about them safe one or two of their numbers, so more creative liberties to take in fleshing them out/giving them form. As the beings that oppose Great Old Ones and Outer Gods, have to make something formidable c:
Ulthar is a cunning elder god who has managed to seal quiet a few of the Great Old Ones on Earth and is on the hunt to get a few more sealed. Having dominion over the beasts of Earth, every animal s their eyes. Ulthar can adapt different animal characteristics to suit the needs at the time.
Like many elder gods, they have a more humanoid form and often were mistaken and worshipped under several different human given names or though of as an angel. Although not out to harm humans, they aren't particularly worried about saving humans as much as keeping Great Old Ones from destroying the beauty of earth.
Ulthar often works with Bast, their subordinate, to keep tabs on things. The current target of Ulthar though is a certain king of yellow who has been a rather slippery bastard....
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179./180. Anthronomicon & Helionomicon - Ulthar (Blackened Death Metal, 2023 - two LP's, released on the same date)
Art by Ian Miller
Miller is primarily known for his artworks in Tolkien & H.P. Lovecraft books!
Ulthar is a village in the Cthulhu Mythos of H.P. Lovecraft.
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“. . . And back to the northern land, fine Ulthar lies near the River Shai, beyond a great stone bridge in whose arch a living man was sealed when it was built, thirteen hundred years ago. It is a city of neat cottages and cobbled streets where wander cats without number, for the enlightened legislators of long ago laid down laws for our protection. A good, kind village, where travelers take their ease and pet the cats, making much of them, which is as it should be."
-Roger Zelazny, A Night in the Lonesome October
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"La Naturaleza se encuentra llena de ilusiones parecidas que tanto fascinan a los seres imaginarios".
Los gatos de Ulthar
H. P. Lovecraft
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Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dream Cycle - H. P. Lovecraft, Cthulhu Mythos - H. P. Lovecraft
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: The Cats of Ulthar (Cthulhu Mythos)
Summary:
Prompt response I wrote
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My Year of Gothic Reading 2024
Rules: For each month in 2024 you have to pick either a book, poem, or short story to read that carries gothic themes or aesthetic. Here's a list of suggested reading, but feel free to read something else or add others onto this list!
Books
"Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
"The Turn of the Screw" by Henry James
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
"The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe
"The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker
"The Castle of Otranto" by Horace Walpole
"The Monk" by Matthew Lewis
"The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
"Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
"Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Short Stories
"The Great God Pan" by Arthur Machen
"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Hr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson
"The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson
"The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The Sandman" by E.T.A. Hoffman
"The Mark of the Beast" by Rudyard Kipling
"The Vampyre" by John William Polidori
"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier
"The Cats of Ulthar" by H.P. Lovecraft
Poems
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
"The cold earth slept below" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
"The Lady of Shalott" by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"My own Beloved, who has lifted me" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"What Would I Give?" by Christina Rossetti
"Time to Come" by Walt Whitman
"Love and Death" by Lord Byron
"Because I could not stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats
"The End" by D.H. Lawrence
"Hymn to the Night" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Possessed" by Charles Baudelaire
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