Dossiers

A veiled, seated presence encountered at the threshold beyond the Silver Key, said to interpret between Yog-Sothoth and whoever has come far enough…

The nominal ruler of the Outer Gods, imagined as a blind, mindless entity at the center of infinity, surrounded by a court of piping flutes that keep…

The patron idol-god of Ib, a sea-green likeness said to have been carried off as a war trophy when Sarnath massacred Ib's people and settled their…

A titanic, vaguely anthropoid entity — octopoid head, dragon wings, scaled and rubbery hide — currently entombed in the drowned city of R'lyeh, alive…

A titanic, batrachian-limbed figure witnessed only once, embracing a carved monolith briefly heaved up from the sea floor before the ocean reclaimed…

An ancient, bearded god of the deep dark, encountered driving a shell-chariot among sea-beasts and stranger company during a gathering that visits…

Unlike the other Outer Gods, Nyarlathotep acts directly and personally, taking on countless human and inhuman guises to manipulate, torment, or…

Rarely described directly in the earliest stories — more a name invoked by cultists in ritual than a figure who appears on the page. Associated with…

Described less as a being with a location than as a condition of existence — an entity coterminous with all time and space, appearing (when it…

A long-lived, fish-frog hybrid species living in undersea cities, known to interbreed with coastal human populations in exchange for prosperity —…

Canine-faced, rubbery-skinned scavengers that dwell in burrows beneath cemeteries and ancient settlements, feeding on the dead and reputedly capable…

Six-foot, sightless penguins the expedition finds herded through the ruined city's lightless lower levels, apparently kept the way a farm keeps…

Crab-like, fungoid beings that fly between worlds on membranous wings and mine rare minerals from Earth's more remote mountain ranges. The Mi-Go are…

Faceless, black, rubbery-winged creatures that patrol the higher and lower reaches of the Dreamlands, seizing dreamers who wander too far and…

Massive, protoplasmic creatures — described as shifting masses of bubbling cells able to extrude any organ or limb needed — originally bred as living…

The entire feline population of a Dreamlands village, protected since one especially thorough act of collective vengeance by a law no one in Ulthar…

Barrel-bodied, star-headed colonizers who reached Earth before complex life did, raised cities across the planet, and engineered the Shoggoths as…

An unknown population of beings that occupy the same physical space as the everyday world without ever being seen, heard, or felt by unaided human…

Pale, kangaroo-limbed scavengers of the Vale of Pnath, distinguished from the ghouls they superficially resemble mainly by an unsettling absence of…

Ten-foot-tall cone-shaped beings who survive extinction-level threats by projecting their minds across time into the bodies of other species…

Twenty-foot, vertical-mouthed giants confined to their own underground city by a barrier of their own former making, which the Archive notes as one…

The green, bulging-eyed, voiceless original settlers of the lake shore, said to have descended from the moon in a mist long before Sarnath was built.…

A squat, yellow-skinned people who overran the ancient arctic kingdom of Lomar in a single recorded night, aided by a watchman who fell asleep at his…

The multiplied, devolved descendants of a single Dutch colonial family, driven underground by generations of inbreeding and isolation until they lost…

Spectral dancers and pipers said to guard a drowned ancient settlement beneath an Irish peat bog, tolerant of the land left undisturbed but lethal to…

Grey, amorphous, faintly toad-like traders in captives, crewed largely by a near-human labor force too broken to be trusted with weapons of their…

A reptilian civilization that predates humanity by an incalculable margin, evidenced only by low-ceilinged corridors, wall murals depicting their…

Corpses restored to motion and a crude, often furious approximation of life via Herbert West's reagent, with results that degrade badly the longer…

The builders and current occupants of a drowned marble city far older than any surface civilization, encountered only through their dolphins, their…

A pale, humanlike ape said to have ruled a forgotten Congolese city as its queen, and to have borne a Jermyn explorer's child sometime before his…

A furtive, fungus-eating population native to the Enchanted Wood, fluent in a private language of murmurs and rustling the Archive has made no…

A farmer remembered locally as vindictive well before his death, and, on the evidence of one badly injured undertaker, not meaningfully less so after…

An innkeeper's son who, as a boy, watched Ulthar's cats settle an old score and grew up under the law the town passed the same week. He resurfaces as…

An Ulthar scholar whose command of the old texts on earth's gods convinced him his learning had earned him the right to actually see them. He was…

A rat-sized creature with a disturbingly human, bearded face and small clutching hands in place of forepaws, serving as witch-familiar and messenger…

A once-eminent physician who discovered a way to keep his own body technically animate well past clinical death, provided the surrounding air is kept…

An Innsmouth wizard of Deep One descent who, facing old age, transferred his consciousness into his own daughter Asenath's body and forced hers into…

A brilliant, thoroughly amoral medical researcher who spent years refining a reagent capable of restoring life to fresh corpses, treating the ethical…

An unaging singer and self-described lost prince of a golden city called Aira, who spent a very long, unnaturally youthful life searching for a home…

A solitary, wealthy dreamer whose childhood fixation on his family's sealed ancestral tomb deepened, over months of nightly visits, into a full…

A Colonial-era Providence merchant and secret sorcerer who used 'essential saltes' distilled from the dead to interrogate history's great minds for…

A 17th-century Salem-era witch who escaped her cell using geometry rather than magic in the traditional sense, exploiting angles in her prison wall…

An English dreamer who preferred a city he'd visited once as a child to the entirety of the waking world he was born into, and eventually stopped…

A Boston aesthete and sometime occult investigator whose capacity for genuine dreaming — the kind that opens onto real other places rather than…

A Boston painter of old Salem stock whose studio work grew too accurate to pass off as invention, and whose eventual disappearance from human circles…

A colonial-dressed man who has kept himself alive across two and a half centuries by trading a Native tribe's stolen ceremonial knowledge for a very…

An old backwoods farmer of unnaturally preserved vigor, whose decades alone with a seventeenth-century engraving of a Congolese slaughterhouse have…

A winged, batlike shape that hunts down whoever disturbs the grave of the ghoul it was buried to guard, tracking a stolen jade amulet across any…

A reputedly wealthy, exceedingly old resident of Water Street whose habits strike outsiders as harmless senility: rows of bottles hung about his…

Born human-passing but growing at an alarming rate, Wilbur was raised by his cultist grandfather to eventually complete a ritual using the family's…

An insectile, crustacean-limbed wizard of a dying world, whose body Randolph Carter found himself occupying for considerably longer than either of…

The name carved into the marble statue that was, by every account the Archive has been able to take seriously, actively a person a few hours earlier.…

Not a creature so much as a contaminating presence — an alien something that arrived embedded in a meteorite and leached outward into the soil…

A solitary figure raised in total isolation within a decaying, subterranean castle, unaware of its own true nature until a climb toward daylight and…

A shifting, polyglot congregation gathering nightly under a wealthy recluse's late-life patronage, blending stolen fragments of half a dozen…

Not a creature in any conventional sense but an immense, gelatinous, root-like mass occupying the earth beneath a single house, sustaining itself by…

An olive tree that grew from a sculptor's grave considerably faster, and in a considerably more directed shape, than the Archive is prepared to call…

A presence family records call 'the thing with the blemished eye,' documented marking and eventually killing three generations of one Arkham…

A being of pure light and cosmic scale, held prisoner for forty-two years inside the undersized, uncomprehending mind of a Catskills mountaineer by…