Aklo writings - An ancient
set of formulae. The third Aklo ritual makes vague beings solid and visible.
("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Arabian Nights - Mentioned in the
story. ("The Last Test")
Azif - The original title of Alhazred's
Necronomicon. ("The Last Test")
Book of Dzyan - The first six chapters
of this manuscript antedate our earth. It was old when the lords of Venus
came through space in their ships to civilize our planet. This is actually
an invention of Mme. Blavatsky in her Theosophy books. ("The Diary of Alonzo
Typer")
Book of Eibon - Reputed to descend
from forgotten Hyperborea. A copy was in the possession of the wizard Nicholas
Van Kauran which passed down to his descendent, Daniel Morris. It can call
up the 'emanation of Yoth' and the Green Decay. This latter, unfortunately,
smells rather bad. The Morris copy has a manuscript page opposite page
679 which explains the formula for petrification written by Bareut Picterse
Van Kauran. This formula employs calcium chloride and barium sulphate along
with acids and catalytics. When drunk it turns the victim instantly to
stone. A Norman-French copy of the Livre d'Eibon was found in the van der
heyl mansion by Alonzo Typer. ("Out of the Aeons," "The Man of Stone,"
"The Horror in the Museum," "The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Book of Hidden Things - Claes van
der Heyl probably read this in Yian-Ho. It explained the curse of the Key
to him. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Chant, The - The simultaneous use
of the Words of Fear and the Seven Lost Signs of Terror to accomplish the
Chant which will transfigure the Forgotten One who is Guardian of the Ancient
Gateway. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Dhol chants - A series of chants
attributed to malign and non-human Leng. ("The Horror in the Museum")
Diaries of Claes van der Heyl -
Two old bound manuscripts with blackened silver clasps in low Latin, and
full of strange, crabbed handwriting by Claes ven der Heyl--being evidently
the diary or notebooks he kept between 1560 and 1580. One contains a likeness
of Cthulhu and is a history of our world and the worlds which predate it.
Together they cryptically reveal the key to the barrier. ("The Diary of
Alonzo Typer")
Diary of the Green Meadow - A strange
diary, alien in material but ancient Greek in inscription, found in a meteor
which landed in ("The Green Meadow")
Diary of Richard Johnson - A manuscript
by the curator of the Cabot Museum left to be read after his death. ("Out
of the Aeons")
Diary of Daniel Morris - The journal
of the Moutain Top, New York, resident found near his petrified body. ("The
Man of Stone")
Diary of Pánfilo de Zamacona
- An American Indian ethnologist found this diary inside a Tulu-stone cannister
in the excavation of a mound in Binger, Oklahoma. ("The Mound")
Diary of Dr. Thomas Slauenwite -
The journal kept relating to his revenge on Henry Moore. ("Winged Death")
Diary of Alonzo Typer - A book about
6 X 3½ inches in size, with tough paper and an oddly durable binding
of thin sheet metal. It was found in Chorazin resident John Eagle on Nov.
16, 1935. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Diptera of Central and Southern
Africa - Book by Henry Sargent Moore of Columbia University. ("Winged Death")
Eltdown Shards - Alonzo Typer found
a copy in the attic of the van der Heyl mansion along with the Pnakotic
Manuscripts. These were an invention of Lovecraft's correspondent and "Weird
Tales" author Richard F Searight. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Key, the - The key to the Ancient
Gateway was in the possession of the van der Heyl family. Claes, who found
it passed it down until it was lost on Oct. 31, 1872, about the time the
family vanished from the earth. Alonzo Typer found it again just in time
for Walpurgis in 1908. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Key Manuscript, the - A skin wrapping
around the Key which Claes van der Heyl inscribed with an explanation of
the " family curse" that comes with it. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Nameless Cults - Von Junzt's horrific
book sometimes called the Black Book. The original Düsseldorf edition
(1839) was suppressed as was the Bridewell translation (1845). Golden Goblin
Press printed an expurgated reprint in 1909. It has a detailed the legends
of Mu including the account of T'yog going to face Ghatanothoa. ("Out of
the Aeons," "The Horror in the Museum")
Necronomicon - Mentioned in tale.
Stuart Reynolds consulted a copy at Harvard's Widener Library. A Greek
copy was found in the van der Heyl mansion by Alonzo Typer. ("Medusa's
Coil," "Out of the Aeons," "The Horror in the Museum," "The Diary of Alonzo
Typer")
Pnakotic fragments - Also called
the Pnakotic Manuscripts. Alleged to be pre-human. George Rogers claims
to have read them. The eighth fragment is said to contain a long ritual
which led Rogers to the land of Lomar, reached up the Noatak from Fort
Morton, Alaska. Alonzo Typer found a copy in the attic of the van der Heyl
mansion. ("Out of the Aeons," "The Horror in the Museum," "The Diary of
Alonzo Typer")
Seven Lost Signs of Terror - Symbols
related to the cult of Cthulhu used with the Seven Lost Signs of Terror
to accomplish the Chant which will transfigure the Forgotten One who is
Guardian of the Ancient Gateway. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Tulu-metal - A dark, lustrous self-magnetic
stuff nowhere found in nature. It is rare and sacred, believed to have
been brought to earth by Tulu himself. ("The Mound")
Unaussprechlichen Kulten - The German
title of von Junzt's Nameless Cults. ("The Horror in the Museum")
Vathek - Book mentioned in the story.
("The Last Test")
Vermis Mysteriis, De - A first edition
of Ludvig Prinn's book was found in the van der Heyl mansion by Alonzo
Typer. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Walpurgis Eve - The pagan holiday
usually celebrated on April 30th. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Words of Fear - A hideous and unutterable
litany used with the Seven Lost Signs of Terror to accomplish the Chant
which will transfigure the Forgotten One who is Guardian of the Ancient
Gateway. ("The Diary of Alonzo Typer")
Works of Alonzo Typer - Typer specialized
in borderlands of human knowledge and wrote papers on vampirism, ghouls,
and poltergeist phenomena (most printed privately). ("The Diary of Alonzo
Typer")
Xinaián language - Said before
entering a temple: "Oxi, oxi, giathcán ycá relex." ("The
Mound")
