Pnakotic Press
Encyclopedia
The cosmic-horror tradition our serials answer to — the gods, beings, places, and forbidden books of the Lovecraft Mythos, and the authors and works that shaped it. Korean spellings follow a naming policy derived from frequency analysis of the canon.
124 entries
Characters
Abdul Alhazred
압둘 알하즈레드
The legendary Arab sorcerer known as "the Mad Arab," reputed author of the Necronomicon.
Forbidden Tomes
Al Azif
알 아지프
The original Arabic title of the Necronomicon, meaning the nocturnal cry of insects.
Key Works
Al Azif (Anthology)
알 아지프 (앤솔러지)
A 2026 anthology of Korean cosmic-horror writers that surfaced and standardized a number of Mythos terms.
Authors
Algernon Blackwood
앨저넌 블랙우드
Author of "The Willows" (1869–1951), a pioneer of awe before nature.
Great Old Ones
Aphoom-Zhah
아품 자
A polar entity described as a descendant of Cthugha, a cold flame that radiates lethal freezing cold rather than heat.
Places
Aquilonia
아퀼로니아
The mightiest kingdom of the Hyborian Age — the seat of civilisation and military power that Conan eventually claims as his throne.
Places
Arkham
아캄
A fictional New England town, home of Miskatonic University.
Authors
Arthur Machen
아서 매컨
Author of "The Great God Pan" (1863–1947), who wrote of ancient evil beneath the ordinary.
Characters
Asenath Waite
어시너스 웨이트
An Innsmouth-blooded sorceress who uses mind-transference magic to displace her husband Edward Derby's identity.
Key Works
At the Mountains of Madness
광기의 산맥
An Antarctic expedition uncovers the city of the Elder Things and the Shoggoths (1936).
Great Old Ones
Atlach-Nacha
아틀락 나챠
A spider god that endlessly weaves a vast web bridging two worlds across a primordial abyss.
Authors
August Derleth
어거스트 덜레스
American author and Lovecraft correspondent who coined "Cthulhu Mythos," co-founded Arkham House to preserve Lovecraft's work, and controversially expanded the Mythos.
Places
Averoigne
아베르와뉴
A fictional medieval French province created by Clark Ashton Smith, marked by dark forests haunted by sorcerers, vampires, and demons.
Outer Gods
Azathoth
아자토스
The blind idiot god that boils mindlessly at the center of the universe; source of all things.
Great Old Ones
Bokrug
보크루그
The great water-lizard god of Ib who outlasted the city of Sarnath and brought about its ruin.
Forbidden Tomes
Book of Eibon
에이본의 책
An ancient grimoire attributed to the great wizard Eibon of Hyperborea, created by Clark Ashton Smith.
Characters
Bran Mak Morn
브란 막 모른
The last king of the Picts, waging a desperate resistance against Rome while brushing against the cosmic horror of the Serpent Men and the god Yig.
Beings & Races
Byakhee
비야키
Interstellar flying servitors of Hastur that can be summoned by ritual and used as mounts to traverse the void of space.
Places
Celephais
셀레파이스
An immortal city in the Dreamlands willed into existence by the dreamer Kuranes, where time stands forever still.
Characters
Charles Dexter Ward
찰스 덱스터 워드
A young Providence antiquarian who resurrects his ancestor Joseph Curwen and pays with his identity and life.
Great Old Ones
Chaugnar Faugn
샤우그너 판
A massive elephantine vampire god from the Himalayas that drains the blood of its worshippers.
Places
Cimmeria
키메리아
Conan's bleak northern homeland in the Hyborian Age — a grim land of dark hills, perpetual cloud, and brooding mist.
Beings & Races
Cimmerians
키메리아인
Conan's people — grim, self-reliant barbarian warriors of the Hyborian Age's northern hills, worshippers of the indifferent war-god Crom.
Authors
Clark Ashton Smith
클락 애슈튼 스미스
Poet and fantasist (1893–1961) who created Tsathoggua.
Characters
Conan
코난
The definitive sword-and-sorcery hero of the Hyborian Age — a Cimmerian warrior who rose from thief and mercenary to become king of Aquilonia.
Concepts
Cosmic Horror
코즈믹 호러
The dread that arises from realizing humanity is neither the center nor the point of the universe.
Beings & Races
Cthonian
크토니안
Enormous burrowing tentacled creatures created by Brian Lumley that tunnel through the Earth's interior.
Great Old Ones
Cthugha
크투가
A living flame entity dwelling near the star Fomalhaut, said to be an enemy of Nyarlathotep.
Great Old Ones
Cthulhu
크툴루
The Great Old One who lies dreaming beneath the sea in R’lyeh; emblem of the entire Mythos.
Concepts
Cthulhu Mythos
크툴루 신화
The shared fictional pantheon of gods, forbidden books, and places built by Lovecraft and his circle.
Great Old Ones
Cthylla
크틸라
Said to be Cthulhu's daughter, she is the hidden guarantee of his eternal return.
Concepts
Cyclopean
키클롭스적
Lovecraft's signature architectural adjective, denoting masonry of such vast, irregular scale as to imply non-human builders.
Great Old Ones
Dagon
다곤
A vast sea deity worshipped by the Deep Ones, closely associated with the town of Innsmouth.
Key Works
Dagon
다곤 (단편)
A stranded sailor discovers a Pacific isle risen from the depths and witnesses a sea-creature worshipping a monolith — the earliest sketch of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Beings & Races
Deep One
심연인
An amphibious race dwelling beneath the sea that interbreeds with humans.
Places
Dunwich
던위치
A run-down rural village where the offspring of Yog-Sothoth was raised.
Authors
E.E.N.D.
E.E.N.D.
The planner of the Korean cosmic-horror anthology "Al Azif."
Characters
Edward Derby
에드워드 더비
An Arkham poet whose fascination with Asenath Waite leads to the theft of his own mind and identity.
Characters
Eibon
에이본
The greatest sorcerer of Hyperborea, author of the "Book of Eibon," and devotee of Tsathoggua — a central figure in Clark Ashton Smith's Hyperborean cycle.
Characters
El Borak
엘 보락
Francis Xavier Gordon, a Texan gunfighter-adventurer operating in Afghanistan and Central Asia, known among the tribes as "El Borak" — the Swift.
Concepts
Elder God
엘더 갓
A category introduced by Derleth denoting higher cosmic powers — such as Nodens — that are benevolent or opposed to the Great Old Ones.
Concepts
Eldritch
엘드리치
An adjective denoting something uncanny, otherworldly, and deeply unsettling, central to the vocabulary of cosmic horror.
Beings & Races
Flying Polyp
날아다니는 폴립
Semi-invisible wind-controlling ancient entities that are the oldest enemies of the Great Race of Yith.
Authors
Gamgi-doryeong
감기도령
Author of the web novel "Reincarnated, I Found Myself Cthulhu."
Great Old Ones
Ghatanothoa
가타노토아
An entity sealed atop a mountain on the continent of Mu whose gaze petrifies the living body while leaving the mind trapped inside.
Beings & Races
Ghoul
구울
Corpse-eating subterranean humanoids depicted in "Pickman's Model" and the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
Great Old Ones
Glaaki
글라키
A spined entity slumbering in a sunken English lake that transforms those it pierces into undead servants.
Concepts
Great Old One
그레이트 올드 원
Immensely powerful cosmic beings currently imprisoned or in deathlike sleep, of which Cthulhu is the most prominent example.
Beings & Races
Great Race of Yith
위대한 종족 이스
A race that projects its minds across time to seize the bodies of other species.
Authors
H. P. Lovecraft
하워드 필립스 러브크래프트
The father of cosmic horror (1890–1937), center of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Great Old Ones
Hastur
하스터
A Great Old One said never to be named, bound to the Yellow Sign and the city of Carcosa.
Characters
Henry Akeley
헨리 에이클리
A Vermont farmer-scholar who discovers the Mi-go and is captured and transformed by them before help can arrive.
Characters
Henry Armitage
헨리 아미티지
The head librarian of Miskatonic University who deciphers the Whateley threat and leads the scholars who destroy the Dunwich Horror.
Characters
Herbert West
허버트 웨스트
A Miskatonic medical student whose obsession with reanimating the dead ends in his destruction by his own undead subjects.
Key Works
Herbert West–Reanimator
허버트 웨스트—리애니메이터
Six linked episodes follow Herbert West's increasingly depraved experiments in reanimating corpses, each success breeding worse catastrophe than the last.
Concepts
Hyborian Age
하이보리안 시대
Robert E. Howard's invented prehistoric epoch between the fall of Atlantis and the dawn of recorded history — the entire setting of the Conan series.
Places
Hyperborea
하이퍼보리아
A mythical ancient northern continent created by Clark Ashton Smith, ruled by sorcerers and alien gods in an antediluvian age.
Places
Innsmouth
인스머스
A decayed seaport town that has interbred with the Deep Ones.
Beings & Races
Insects from Shaggai
샤가이에서 온 곤충
An insectoid refugee alien race created by Ramsey Campbell, survivors of the destroyed world Shaggai, who parasitize human hosts.
Great Old Ones
Ithaqua
이타콰
A colossal wind-striding entity of the Arctic, a cosmic-horror reinterpretation of the wendigo legend.
Characters
Joseph Curwen
조지프 커웬
An eighteenth-century Providence necromancer who prolonged his life across centuries and possessed his own descendant.
Places
Kadath
카다스
A vast onyx castle in the cold waste of the Dreamlands, where the gods of Earth make their abode.
Concepts
Korean Cosmic Horror
한국 코즈믹 호러
A current of Korean cosmic-horror writing centered on web-novel platforms such as Munpia and KakaoPage.
Characters
Kull
쿨
An Atlantean warrior who seizes the throne of Valusia in the pre-Cataclysmic Thurian Age, serving as Howard's thematic precursor to Conan.
Great Old Ones
Lloigor
로이거
One of a twin pair of ancient entities slumbering deep within the Earth, paired with Zhar.
Authors
M. R. James
M. R. 제임스
Master of the English ghost story (1862–1936), of horror waking from old books and antiquities.
Beings & Races
Mi-go
미고
A fungoid alien race from the planet Yuggoth (Pluto).
Places
Miskatonic University
미스카토닉 대학교
The university in Arkham, famous for a library holding an original Necronomicon.
Beings & Races
Moon-beast
문 비스트
Pale, toad-like beings from the moon of the Dreamlands who trade in moon-wine and rubies while keeping enslaved humans.
Great Old Ones
Mordiggian
모르디기안
The charnel god of Zul-Bha-Sair, a vast darkness that claims every corpse within the city as its own.
Forbidden Tomes
Necronomicon
네크로노미콘
The most infamous forbidden book of the Mythos, written by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred.
Beings & Races
Night-gaunt
나이트건트
Faceless, black, winged creatures of the Dreamlands that seize intruders and carry them away into the outer dark.
Elder Gods
Nodens
노덴스
A rare Elder God not hostile to humanity, set against the Outer Gods.
Outer Gods
Nug and Yeb
누그와 예브
Twin dark deity offspring associated with Shub-Niggurath and Yog-Sothoth, with mythological links to Cthulhu.
Outer Gods
Nyarlathotep
니알라토텝
The thousand-faced messenger of the Outer Gods; the one who deals with humanity directly.
Characters
Obed Marsh
오베드 마시
The Innsmouth captain who brokered a pact with the Deep Ones, transforming his town into a place of hybrid worship.
Concepts
Outer God
외신
The highest class of Mythos deities, comprising vast, largely indifferent cosmic entities such as Azathoth and Yog-Sothoth.
Key Works
Pickman's Model
픽맨의 모델
A narrator visits painter Richard Pickman's hidden studio, only to realise the lifelike ghouls in his canvases were painted from living models.
Beings & Races
Picts
픽트족
An ancient, savage people recurring across Howard's fictional cycles — from the age of Bran Mak Morn to the Hyborian era of Conan.
Forbidden Tomes
Pnakotic Manuscripts
프나코틱 필사본
One of the oldest forbidden texts, predating humanity; the source of this imprint’s name.
Great Old Ones
Quachil Uttaus
쿠아칠 우터스
The Treader of the Dust, a god of entropy whose touch instantly reduces living matter to ash and dust.
Places
R’lyeh
를리에
The sunken Pacific city where Cthulhu lies dreaming.
Forbidden Tomes
R'lyeh Text
르뤼에 이본
An ancient pre-human scripture associated with Cthulhu and the sunken city of R'lyeh, introduced by August Derleth.
Characters
Randolph Carter
랜돌프 카터
Lovecraft's recurring dreamer-protagonist and alter ego, a Boston mystic able to traverse the Dreamlands.
Forbidden Tomes
Revelations of Glaaki
글라키 묵시록
A multi-volume cult text dictated by the entity Glaaki to its servants, introduced by Ramsey Campbell.
Characters
Richard Pickman
리처드 픽맨
A Boston painter of genius whose nightmarish canvases prove to depict real ghouls — because he used them as models.
Outer Gods
Rlim Shaikorth
림 샤이코스
A colossal white worm deity of cold created by Clark Ashton Smith, appearing in "The Coming of the White Worm."
Characters
Robert Blake
로버트 블레이크
A horror writer whose investigation of a shunned Providence church wakens the Haunter of the Dark to fatal awareness of him.
Authors
Robert E. Howard
로버트 E. 하워드
Creator of Conan (1906–1936); sword-and-sorcery and a member of the Mythos circle.
Places
Salem
세일럼
A real Massachusetts town infamous for its 1692 witch trials, recurrent in Lovecraft's fiction as a backdrop for occult heritage.
Places
Sarnath
사르나스
A proud Dreamlands city utterly destroyed as divine retribution for the slaughter of the beings of Ib.
Beings & Races
Shantak
샨타크
Enormous horse-headed flying creatures of the Dreamlands that can serve as mounts but are ultimately untrustworthy.
Beings & Races
Shoggoth
쇼고스
A formless protoplasmic mass bred as slaves by the Elder Things.
Outer Gods
Shub-Niggurath
슈브 니구라스
A deity of monstrous fertility, "the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young."
Characters
Solomon Kane
솔로몬 케인
A grim sixteenth-century Puritan adventurer who wanders Africa and Europe with an implacable sense of divine mission against evil.
Places
Stygia
스티기아
An ancient sorcerous kingdom of the Hyborian Age devoted to the serpent-god Set, the darkest and most sinister power in Conan's world.
Concepts
Tekeli-li
테켈리-리
A haunting cry from Poe's "Arthur Gordon Pym," redeployed by Lovecraft as the utterance of the shoggoths in "At the Mountains of Madness."
Key Works
The Call of Cthulhu
크툴루의 부름
The starting point of the Mythos, first appearance of Cthulhu and R’lyeh (1928).
Key Works
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
찰스 덱스터 워드의 사례
A Providence antiquarian's research into his necromancer ancestor leads to his own dissolution and replacement by the sorcerer he sought to understand.
Key Works
The Colour Out of Space
우주에서 온 색채
The horror of an unnameable colour that fell with a meteorite (1927).
Key Works
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
미지의 카다스를 향한 몽환의 추적
Randolph Carter journeys through the Dreamlands to find the wondrous sunset city he glimpsed in slumber, descending at last to unknown Kadath.
Key Works
The Dunwich Horror
던위치의 공포
The offspring of Yog-Sothoth and the tragedy of an unseen twin (1929).
Key Works
The Festival
축제
A narrator arrives in ancient Kingsport at Yuletide for an ancestral rite and is drawn into a subterranean ceremony far older than Christianity.
Key Works
The Haunter of the Dark
어둠 속을 헤매는 자
Writer Robert Blake discovers the Shining Trapezohedron in an abandoned Providence church and wakens the Haunter of the Dark — an avatar of Nyarlathotep that destroys him when the lights fail.
Key Works
The Music of Erich Zann
에리히 잔의 음악
A student lodger witnesses a mute German violist playing frantic, unearthly music each night to hold at bay something beyond his high window.
Key Works
The Rats in the Walls
벽 속의 쥐
An American heir restoring his ancestral English estate hears rats in the walls and follows them into a subterranean pit where his bloodline's truth awaits.
Key Works
The Shadow Out of Time
시간의 그림자
A professor recovers from amnesia to discover his mind was possessed by the Great Race of Yith, who traverse time by swapping consciousnesses across eons.
Key Works
The Shadow over Innsmouth
인스머스의 그림자
The secret of a decayed seaport — and the narrator’s own lineage (1936).
Concepts
The Unnameable
형언할 수 없는 것
Lovecraft’s central technique of evoking horror by implication rather than description.
Key Works
The Whisperer in Darkness
어둠 속에서 속삭이는 자
A folklorist's correspondence with a Vermont farmer draws him into the reality of the Mi-go, who harvest human brains and carry them to the stars in metal cylinders.
Great Old Ones
Tsathoggua
차토구아
A toad-like, sluggish Great Old One created by Clark Ashton Smith.
Great Old Ones
Ubbo-Sathla
우보 사틀라
The primordial source of all earthly life, dwelling in formless protoplasmic chaos at the dawn of time.
Forbidden Tomes
Unaussprechlichen Kulten
무명 제례서
A forbidden grimoire compiled by Friedrich Wilhelm von Junzt, cataloguing the secret rites and prohibited gods of the pre-human era.
Places
Valusia
발루시아
The ancient kingdom of the pre-Cataclysmic Thurian Age ruled by Kull, secretly infiltrated at every level by Serpent Men disguised as humans.
Characters
Walter Gilman
월터 길먼
A Miskatonic mathematics student who, lodging in a witch-haunted garret, is drawn through non-Euclidean spaces to his death.
Characters
Wilbur Whateley
윌버 와틀리
The half-human son of Yog-Sothoth who seeks a complete Necronomicon and dies mauled by a guard dog at Miskatonic's library.
Great Old Ones
Y'golonac
이골로냑
The god of depravity, a headless entity with mouths on its palms, summoned merely by reading its name.
Outer Gods
Yhoundeh
이호운데
The elk goddess of Hyperborea created by Clark Ashton Smith, whose state religion persecutes forbidden cults as heresy.
Great Old Ones
Yig
이그
The Father of Serpents, a reptilian deity that curses any who harm snakes.
Outer Gods
Yog-Sothoth
요그 소토스
A being coterminous with all space and time, known as "the Gate and the Key."
Places
Yuggoth
유고스
The outermost dark world of the solar system, identified with Pluto and serving as the primary outpost of the fungoid Mi-go.
Characters
Zadok Allen
재독 앨런
An aged, half-mad Innsmouth drunkard who, loosened by whiskey, reveals the town's terrible history to the narrator.
Great Old Ones
Zhar
차르
The twin of Lloigor, an ancient entity imprisoned alongside its counterpart deep beneath Indo-China.
Places
Zothique
조시크
The last continent of a dying far-future Earth, created by Clark Ashton Smith, where decadent humanity and alien gods coexist under dimming stars.