Hastur (The Unspeakable One, The King in Yellow, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, Fenric, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd" as a benign god of shepherds.

Hastur is the name of a city in the Robert W. Chambers short stories "The Yellow Sign" and "The Repairer of Reputations", which appeared in his short story collection The King in Yellow.

Cthulhu is a cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", [2] published by the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, this creature has since been featured in numerous pop culture references.

Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story " The Call of Cthulhu ". First appearing in the February 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, he is depicted as an octopoid Great Old One of enormous power who lies in a death-like slumber in his sunken city of R'lyeh beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Hastur, also known as the King in Yellow, is one of the many Great Old Ones and Cthulhu Mythos deities, acting as one of the most mysterious of Lovecraftian gods. First appearing in Ambrose Bierce's Haita the Shepherd, the god has been stated …

A Cthulhu Mythos anthology is a type of short story collection that contains stories written in, or related to, the Cthulhu Mythos genre of horror fiction launched by H. P. Lovecraft. Such anthologies have helped to define and popularize the genre.

Cthulhu is characterized as the priest or leader of the Old Ones, a species that came to Earth from the stars before human life arose. The Old Ones went dormant, and their city slipped under Earth’s crust beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents. They have hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism.

As its name might suggest, The Hastur Cycle focuses on the Great Old One Hastur, first incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos by H. P. Lovecraft from a short story by Ambrose Bierce. It also explores the mythology of the King in Yellow as invented by Robert W. Chambers and elaborated by other authors.

The Hastur Mythos is a term coined by John Tynes to describe the Great Old One Hastur through his manifestation as the King in Yellow, though it can also be used to connote the more Hastur-centric versions of The Yellow Mythos in general. The name Hastur reached The Cthulhu Mythos, a …