HP Lovecraft's List of Horror and Supernatural Creatures / Cthulhu Mythos deities

Name Epithet(s), other name(s) Description References Abholos[4] Devourer in the Mist A grey festering blob of infinite malevolence, described as lesser brother of Tsathoggua or spawn of Cthulhu born from his bile and tears. DM7 Alala[5] Herald of S'glhuo An entity of living sound native of the Gulf of S’glhuo, manifesting as a huge monstrous being. He is served by the Denizens of S’glhuo which are made of his same substance. PL, VA, WP Ammutseba Devourer of Stars A dark, cloudy mass with tentacles which absorbs falling stars. LO, SK Aphoom-Zhah The Cold Flame, Lord of the Pole Appears much like Cthugha but grey, and cold. AF, HG, LP Apocolothoth The Moon-God A mysterious Lunar entity dwelling in the dimension of Enno-Lunn. IS13, MW4, TL Arwassa The Silent Shouter on the Hill A humanoid torso with tentacles instead of limbs, and a short neck ending in a toothless, featureless mouth. AY4 Atlach-Nacha The Spider God, Spinner in Darkness A giant spider with a human-like face. AT, PS, SG Ayi'ig The Serpent Goddess, Aeg, Aega Daughter of Yig and the Outer Goddess Yidhra, appearing as a gigantic octopus-like horror with serpentine eyes and detachable tentacles which may move independently. She dwells in the cavern of a deep canyon somewhere in Texas. ME Aylith[6] The Widow in the Woods, The Many-Mother A tall, shadowy humanoid figure with yellow glowing eyes and strange protrusions like the branches of dead trees. She serves Shub-Niggurath. TT13 Baoht Z'uqqa-Mogg The Bringer of Pestilence A huge, flying scorpion with an ant-like head. MT4,[7] VG Basatan Master of the Crabs Not described, probably a humanoid crustacean or a gigantic crab.[8] MC B’gnu-Thun The Soul-Chilling Ice-God Appears as a cyanotic humanoid followed by an eerie blizzard. The fiery Ruhtra Dyoll is the twin brother of his. CC2, SS2 Bokrug The Great Water Lizard, The Doom of Sarnath Appears as a gigantic water lizard. DC, SC Bugg-Shash[9] The Black One, The Filler of Space, He Who Comes in the Dark Appears as a black, slimy mass covered in eyes and mouths, much like a Shoggoth. DI, EL, KB, RS Byatis The Berkeley Toad, Serpent-Bearded Byatis Appears as a gigantic, multicolored toad with one eye, a proboscis, crab-like claws, and tentacles below the mouth. BY, RC, SF Chaugnar Faugn Horror from the Hills, The Feeder, Caug-Narfagn A vampiric elephant-like humanoid with a mouth on the end of its trunk. FO, HF, HM, RH Coatlicue Serpent Skirted One[10] A humanoid reptilian giant of with two facing snakes in place of head as in Coatlicue statue. She was former mate of Yig revered in K'n-yan along with her consort. FS15, RS2 Coinchenn[11] — A marine tentacled horror made of fish, whale and octopus-like features. Comics[12] Crom Cruach[13] Master of the Runes, Bloody Crooked One[14] Not described, but likely something gigantic and serpent or worm-like. DS11, WW9 Cthaat The Dark Water God, "Cthaat Aquadingen" A formless mass of shape-shifting water. DV, PS4 Cthaeghya — (Half-)sister of Cthulhu, which spawned the Star-Spawn of Cthulhu. OO Cthugha The Living Flame, The Burning One Appears as a living conflagration. DD, EL, HC, LM Cthulhu The Call of Cthulhu A mix between a giant human, an octopus, and a dragon, and is depicted as being hundreds of meters tall, with human-looking arms and legs and a pair of rudimentary wings on its back. DV, PS4 Cthylla Secret Daughter of Cthulhu Appears as a huge winged octopus-like creature with six eyes. Youngest of Cthulhu and Idh-yaa's progeny HW11, ID, TC Ctoggha The Dream-Daemon No description available. GD4 Cyäegha The Destroying Eye, The Waiting Dark Appears as a gigantic black mass of tentacles with a single green eye at the centre. DM, SN11 Cynothoglys The Mortician God, She Whose Hand Embalms Appears as a formless mound with one arm-like appendage. PR, SS11 Dhumin The Burrower From the Bluff A serpentine (likely Tremors-like) earth-shaking horror dwelling in the subsoil of Memphis, USA. BB7 The Dweller in the Gulf Eidolon of the Blind Appears as a huge, eyeless, black, soft-shelled tortoise with a triangular head and two whip-like tails, and suckers on the end of each tail. WL Dygra The Stone-Thing A jewel-facetted, semi-crystalline geode with mineral tentacles. CC2, SS2 Dythalla Lord of Lizards A gigantic saurian creature similar to Bokrug but terrestrial and endowed with a mane of tentacles.[15] BB3, LD5, SS2, TH4 Dzéwà[16] The White God A ravenous plant-god arrived from Xiclotl to Earth, awed by the Insects from Shaggai. He appears as a white orb hiding an enormous magenta excrescence, like an orchid or a lamprey mouth with emerald tentacles tipped with hands emerging from the mass. LJ Eihort The Pale Beast, God of the Labyrinth Appears as a huge, pallid, gelatinous oval with a myriad legs and multiple eyes. BS, FP, GS8 Ei'lor The Star-Seed, The Plant-God A plant-like, parasitic horror native of the jungle planet Kr’llyand, which orbits a dead, green star. CC2, EO, SS4, SS8 Etepsed Egnis[17] — A formless monstrosity with a huge, arm-like appendage. EE, GS2, UI Ghadamon A Seed of Azathoth A bluish-brown, slimy monstrosity riddled with holes, and an occasional malformed head. CD2, OF, PC6 Ghatanothoa Lord of the Volcano, Thoa[18] Appears as a colossal horror with multifarious appendages with Gorgon-like powers. OE, RL, TP, DS11 Ghisguth The Sound of the Deep Waters A titanic mass of jelly material. PN, OO Glaaki The Inhabitant of the Lake, Lord of Dead Dreams Appears as a giant three-eyed slug with metallic spines, and tiny, pyramid-like feet underneath. GL, IB, IL Gleeth The Blind God of the Moon An eyeless and deaf Lunar deity worshiped in the ancient continent of Theem’dra as well as in Dreamlands, often mentioned as similar to Mnomquah, though apparently not related each other.[19] MD, HC2, SY5 Gloon[20] The Corrupter of Flesh, Master of the Temple, Glhuun Usually manifests through a Dionysian sculpture, but its true form is that of a gigantic wattled slug-thing. MM, II, TE Gobogeg[21] The Twice-Invoked Appears a colossal pillar of amorphous alien flesh with a cyclopean head. It drags up the continent it is summoned in and causes the world to cave in on itself. Games [22] God of the Red Flux — A vaporous red entity haunting the rainforest of Central Africa. It has the power to turn humans in zombie-like servants, the Tree-Men of M'bwa. MW Gog-Hoor Eater on the Insane A giant entity dwelling in some reverse dimension, resembling a huge bullet with a long proboscis. SC6 Gol-goroth Golgoroth, The Forgotten Old One, God of the Black Stone, Golgoroð Appears as a gigantic, black, toad-like creature with an impossibly malevolent glare, or a tentacled, scaled, bat-winged entity. BP, FO, FR, GB, SC12 Golothess — An entity cut in ten pieces by Yig during a time of great battle (one of these pieces is an alabaster dish found in Egypt, dated back 1,300 BC). It resembles and has a similar domain as Greek god Bacchus. YV The Green God The Horror Under Warrendown A sentient plant-entity dwelling in subterranean caverns where it is always served by mutant rabbit-like worshipers. HW2 Groth-Golka The Demon Bird-God, The Bird-God of Balsagoð A monstrous bird-like fiend with sharp teeth, dwelling beneath Antarctica, vaguely resembling an extinct Pterosaur. BP, FO Gtuhanai The Destroyer God of the Aartna A destructive entity manifesting as a ravenous metallic vortex. He seems to be another half-brother of Cthulhu like Hastur and related to the slug-like Glaaki too. He dwells somewhere in the Pleiades stellar region and when summoned he brings devastation. FN Gurathnaka Eater of Dreams, Shadow of Night A shadowy incorporeal entity dwelling in Dreamlands. PV Gur'la-ya Lurker in Doom-laden Shadows A great shadow-thing with two red, glaring eyes, able to transform the skull of its own victims in green glowing stones carved with strange symbols. DS2, SY3 Gzxtyos Mate of Othuyeg The consort of Othuyeg, likely similar to her bridegroom. GS2, SD14 Han The Dark One A being made of cold, howling mist, bound to Yig's worship SF Hastalÿk The Contagion A microbial entity, responsible for plagues. rpg Hastur The Unspeakable, He Who is Not to be Named, Lord of Interstellar Spaces, The King in Yellow Its true form is unknown, but usually manifests either as a polypous, ravenous floating mass endowed with tentacles, drills and suckers or, more frequently, as the King in Yellow, a humanoid being wearing tattered, yellow clothes and a mask hiding the face. It is said to be Cthulhu's (half-)brother. FA, HS, LT, RH, SS, WD, YS H’chtelegoth The Great Tentacled God A towering greenish trunk with a crown of tentacles, a row of multiple eyes and a couple of additional, lateral grasping appendages. HL, BM9 Hnarqu The Great One Lesser brother of Cthulhu manifesting as a gigantic mouth surrounded by countless tentacles, similar to a titanic sea anemone. TT2 Hziulquoigmnzhah The God of Cykranosh, Ziulquag-Manzah Has spheroid body, elongated arms, short legs, and a pendulum-like head dangling underneath. It is the brother of Ghisguth, and uncle of Tsathoggua. DR14, DS, OO, PN, TA Idh-yaa Cthulhu's Mate, Xothic Matriarch A gigantic, pale, worm-like horror dwelling beneath the crust of star Xoth. She has been Cthulhu's first bride, and with him spawned three sons - Ghatanothoa, Ythogtha and Zoth-Ommog - and a younger daughter, Cthylla. OA Inpesca The Sea Horror A formless expansive bluish-black mass, haunting Ecuadorian and Peruvian coasts, mentioned in Cthäat Aquadingen as inimical to the Deep Ones. YE Iod The Shining Hunter A levitating, sinuous, glowing creature. HU, IN, SZ Istasha Mistress of Darkness A cat deity similar to Bastet but vicious and malignant. Her sister is the sylvan Lythalia. SS2, SS4 Ithaqua The Wind Walker, The Wendigo, God of the Cold White Silence A gigantic, corpse-like human with webbed feet and glowing red eyes. BW, CD, IM, IQ, SW, TW, WE Janai'ngo Guardian and the Key of the Watery Gates, The Lobster of the Deep A crustacean-like tentacled, half-amorphous marine horror which serves Cthulhu, dwelling in the depths of the Bay of Rhiiklu, somewhere in USA East coast. TL Juk-Shabb God of Yekub Appears as a great shining ball of energy. CF Kaalut The Ravenous One[23] Likely a gigantic, larva-like horror, dwelling in the nebulous realm of K'gil'mnon along with the gharoides, its parasitic insectoid servants. GI, HG3 Kag'Naru of the Air[24] — Mentioned in American comics "Challengers of the Unknown" (1977) as sister of M'nagalah. Comics Kassogtha Bride of Cthulhu, The Leviathan of Diseased A huge mass of coiled, writhing tentacles. She is Cthulhu's sister and mate, who bore him two twin daughters (Nctosa and Nctolhu) NH Kaunuzoth The Great One, Cannoosut A squat, sea cucumber-like monstrosity with five eyes, three-toed, taloned appendages and large mouth. He is described as one of Glaaki’s brethren and dwells in Moore Reservoir of Vermont in the USA. MR10 Khal'kru[25] All-in-All, Greater-than-Gods A dark, octopoid horror similar to Norse Kraken, but dwelling inside a temple somewhere in a hidden, warm valley in Alaska. DM9 Klosmiebhyx — Sister of Zstylzhemghi. OO K'nar'st Spawn of the Forgotten A humanoid with four, seven-clawed arms with tentacles in place of legs. The head is lion-like but bony and the mouths encases three long tongues. He lies trapped in the seafloor, inside a seamount called Nayhgof. KN5 Kurpannga The Devil-dingo A giant hairless dingo-like fiend living in Dreamlands (or the Dreamtime of Aboriginal myths). DL Lam The Grey[26] An alien entity similar to Grey aliens dwelling in the dark side of planet Mars.[27] GW6, MR11, rpg Lythalia The Forest-Goddess A female seductive humanoid entity covered in vines and vegetal parts. Somehow she has been mate of the Elder God Nodens bearing him the twin gods Vorvadoss and Yaggdytha.[28] The feline Istasha is the sister of Lythalia. SS2, SS4 Mappo no Ryujin Harbinger of Doom, Mappo's Dragon A dragon-like entity covered in pseudopods, regarded as the mother of the Snake-God Yig and said to be imprisoned beneath the sunken continent of Mu. JN M’basui Gwandu The River Abomination A spider-eyed, bat-winged horror lurking in Congo River. NT8 M'Nagalah[29] The Devourer, The Cancer God[30] A mass of entrails and eyes, or a massive blob-thing. NH, TU, comics[31] Mnomquah Lord of the Black Lake, The Monster in the Moon A very large and eyeless lizard creature with a "crown" of feelers. MD, MQ, SB Mordiggian The Charnel God, The Great Ghoul, Lord of Zul-Bha-Sair, Morddoth[32] A shapeshifting cloud of shadow. DT5, CG, GD7, IC, NS7, RE Mormo[33] The Thousand-Faced Moon Mormo appears in many forms, but three are most common: as a mocking vampiric maiden, as a tentacle-haired gorgon, or as a hunched toad-like albino with a mass of feelers instead of a face. This last is the form of her servitors, the Moon-beasts. BX, HR2, TR5 Mortllgh Storm of Steel A lustrous orb floating at the centre of a whirling vortex of razor-sharp, metallic looking blades. KN2 Mynoghra She-Daemon of the Shadows A succubus-like fiend with alien traits and tentacles in place of the hair. She is mentioned as cousin of Nyarlathotep in the O’ Khymer Revelations and worshipped in witch-cults of Salem, Oregon. WN2 Nctosa & Nctolhu The Twin Spawn of Cthulhu Twin daughters of Cthulhu, imprisoned in the Great Red Spot of planet Jupiter. They appear as huge shell-endowed beings, with eight segmented limbs and six long arms ending with claws, vaguely resembling their "step-sister" Cthylla. NH Ngirrth’lu The Wolf-Thing, The Stalker in the Snows, He Who Hunts, Na-girt-a-lu A ferocious and towering wolf-like humanoid with bat wings. He is served by werewolf servants known as the Lupine Ones. SS2 Northot[34] The The Forgotten God, The Thing That Should Not Be[35] A mysterious entity related to Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath and Azathoth too which manifests either as a faun-like humanoid with colour-changing hair or as a glowing halo of unknown colour. NT4, RE3 Nssu-Ghahnb[36] The Heart of the Ages, Leech of the Aeons Sort of a gigantic beating heart secluded in a parallel dimensions. It would have spawned the monsters of all the times. rpg Nug and Yeb The Twin Blasphemies Two horrid nebulous masses of shape-changing vapour from which eyes, tentacles, maws and hooves emerge; somewhat like Shub-Niggurath. They have been spawned by Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath and both (or either) are regarded as blasphemous parents of Cthulhu[37] and perhaps Tsathoggua too.[38] BF, EH, LA, OA, TO Nyaghoggua The Kraken Within[39] A blurry, dark, kraken-like entity mentioned in the Song of Yste and said to dwell in the Outer Space. AB, NY7 Nycrama The Zombifying Essence A tall larva-like monstrosity with hundreds of segmented, taloned tendrils, exiled by the Elder Gods in a parallel dimension with close connection with South America rainforests, wherefrom he lures human victims to enslave from other dimensions. Formerly he was too an Elder God. NY4 Nyogtha The Thing which Should Not Be, Haunter of the Red Abyss Appears as an inky shadow. AF, HG, SH, SR, SY4 Ob'mbu The Shatterer A giraffe-like reptilian monster. NH Oorn[40] Mnomquah's Mate Appears as a huge, tentacled mollusc. HW10, MD Othuum The Oceanic Horror A twisting, ropy-tentacled mass with a single alien face somewhere in the center of the slimy squirming mass. OT, RS Othuyeg The Doom-Walker Appears as a great, tentacled eye similar to Cyäegha, but much more to the monster featuring in the horror movie The Crawling Eye.[41] It dwells in the subsoil of Kansas in the fabled Seven Cities of Gold along with the consort of his, Gzxtyos. DF, SD14, SP, VC Pharol Pharol the Black A black, fanged, cycloptic demon with arms like swaying serpents.[42] The entity normally dwells in another dimension—a "seething and sub-dimensional chaos" beyond the mundane universe.[43] The wizard Eibon of Hyperborea sometimes summoned Pharol to query him for arcane information.[44] AF Poseidon — A powerful extragalactic entity awed by ‘Ymnar. It battled against the Elder God Paighon. NN Psuchawrl The Elder One A tall humanoid with an eyeless, sea anemone-like face and a beaked grinning mouth, who can be summoned like a jinn. OJ Ptar-Axtlan The Leopard That Stalks the Night A mysterious entity related to zoomorphic shapeshifters, especially werecats. CD8 Quachil Uttaus Treader of the Dust Appears as a miniature, wrinkled mummy with stiff, outstretched claws. KU, RU Quyagen The Eye of Z'ylsm,[45] He Who Dwells Beneath Our Feet Worshiped as a deity in a lost continent located in southern Atlantic Ocean. It appears related to Nyarlathotep and its form is likely octopoid, with myriads of horns along a maddening body. TL, TN5, VC Q'yth-az The Crystalloid Intellect A towering mass of crystals, residing on the lightless planet Mthura. EF Raandaii-B'nk — A shark-like humanoid native to the Bermuda Triangle, possibly similar to Cthulhu's avatar the Father of All Sharks. FD Ragnalla Seeker in the Skies A titanic raptorial fiend with a huge, single eye and a crown of tentacles. CC2, RA, SS2 Raphanasuan The One From Sun Race[46] A gigantic and likely multiarmed fiend. WT10 Rhan-Tegoth Terror of the Hominids, He of the Ivory Throne A three-eyed, gilled, proboscidian monster with a globular torso, six long, sinuous limbs ending in black paws with crab-like claws, and covered in what appears to be hair, but is actually tiny tentacles. AF, HM, LT, PD, RR Rhogog The Bearer of the Cup of the Blood of the Ancients A dead-black leafless oak tree, hot to the touch, with a single red eye at the centre. RG Rh'Thulla of the Wind[47] — Mentioned in American comics "Challengers of the Unknown" (1977), as brother of M'Nagalah. Comics Rlim Shaikorth The White Worm A gigantic, whitish worm with a huge maw and eyes made of dripping globules of blood. CW, HG, LP Rokon — A mysterious extradimensional entity regarded as brother of Yig, ruling over a dimension called Zandanua. SS10 Ruhtra Dyoll The Fire God Not described, likely fiery and the opposite of his sibling, B'gnu-Thun. CC2, SS2 Saa'itii The Hog A gigantic, ghostly hog. H5 Scathach — One of Hziulquoigmnzhah's children, supposedly female.[48] OO Sebek The Crocodile God A crocodile-headed reptilian humanoid, equal to the Ancient Egyptian god Sobek. EK Sedmelluq The Great Manipulator, Ishmagon A colossal glowing worm with starfish-shaped head dwelling in Antarctica and served by the Mi-go. IO Sfatlicllp The Fallen Wisdom The granddaughter of Tsathoggua, an amorphous mass which mated with a Hyperborean Voormi and spawned the legendary thief Knygathin Zhaum. In Chaosium's Dead Leaves Fall RPG supplement she appears as a fiend with oily, snakey skin and prehensile dreadlocks like a Gorgon. BT11, ES4, PN, VH Shaklatal[49] Eye of Wicked Sight Dark skinned humanoid horror with tentacles sprouting from his head and glowing red eyes, worshiped by earliest African civilizations as the god Amun. He is said to be rival of Cthulhu. UF Shathak Mistress of the Abyssal Slime, Death Reborn,Zishaik, Chushaik Not described, likely an amorphous mass. PN Shaurash-Ho — Mysterious entity mentioned in Howard Phillips Lovecraft's letter to James F. Morton[50] as descendant of Cthulhu which spawned other two horrid descendants (K'baa the Serpent and Ghoth the Burrower). The latter would have sired with a Roman noblewoman Viburnia the legendary ancestor of Lovecraft himself in a fictional family tree. The appearance of Shaurash-Ho has never been described. S4 Sheb-Teth[51] Devourer of Souls An eyeless, alien humanoid entity massively overgrown with strange flesh and machinery. MN3 Shlithneth[52] — A gigantic, slimy worm with a mass of black tentacles surrounding its maw. CT4 Sho-Gath The God in the Box, The Big Black Thing A dark smoky column with red malevolent eyes and a grotesque face imprisoned in a vintage box. GO Shterot[53] The Tenebrous One A starfish-like horror spawned by the Outer God C'thalpa. It has been cut in pieces but individual fragments live independently. AF2 Shudde M'ell The Burrower Beneath, The Great Chthonian Appears as a colossal worm with tentacles for a head. BU, BT3, CS, LO, TC, WU, Shuy-Nihl The Devourer in the Earth A dark blob of darkness endowed with tentacles. CC2, MT13, SS2 Sthanee The Lost One[54] A gigantic marine horror with twelve snaky limbs endowed with suckers and a beard of tentacles, served and revered by a vicious merfolk known as the "Children of Sthanee". Comics,[55] NY7 S'tya-Yg'Nalle The Whiteness An invisible entity made of snow and chill, servitor of Ithaqua. WT2 Summanus Monarch of Night, The Terror that Walketh in Darkness A mouthless, grotesque humanoid with pale tentacles protruding from underneath a dark robe. FH, WG Swarog[56] — A hideous being appearing as a dark gigantic, legless bird-like horror swathed in dark flames, with its long neck topped by a black lump, half of which endowed with a big glowing eye and the other being covered in innumerable tentacles. It was revered by Slavic and Viking folks as the Solar god Svarog, though sharing almost nothing with the traditional deity. JS Thanaroa[57] The Shining One A mysterious evil entity manifesting as a pillar of dazzling light dwelling in the ruins of Nan Madol near Ponape. Its name recalls that of Polynesian creator God Tangaroa. MN9, MN10 Tharapithia The Shadow in the Crimson Light Slavic and Ugric God-like creature, photophobic and burrowing fiend awed in Middle Ages. It cannot endure the Solar light and eludes it by tunnelling deep under the roots of the oaks. CL2 Thog The Demon-God of Xuthal[58] An octopoid monster of Hyborian Age which haunts the underground of Xuthal city. SS28 Th'rygh[59] The Godbeast A monstrous entity manifesting as a horrible patchwork of flesh and soil and alien matter. VT Tsathoggua The Sleeper of N'kai, The Toad-God, Zhothaqqua, Sadagowah Appears as a huge, furry, almost humanoid toad, or a bat-like sloth. BC, DS, IU, OL, PN, RT, SG, TZ Tulushuggua The Watery Dweller Beneath A mysterious subterranean horror dwelling deep within the flooded caves of Florida, served by the eel-like horrors known as the Tulush. SN9 Turua[60] Father of the Swamps, The Bayou Plant God A fungine entity with tentacles and tendrils which haunts the swamplands of Florida, somehow similar to the The Green God. UF Uitzilcapac[61] Lord of Pain[62] A sadistic entity trapped by the Elder Gods in a remote dimension of Space-Time continuum and appearing as a 4-m tall lizard-like horror with 6 legs and a mouth filled with vicious fangs. MT21 Ut'Ulls-Hr'Her The Great Horned Mother, Black Glory of the Creation A huge faceless creature with various appendages sprouting from its head, a beard of oozing horns, and many reddish teats and fish-like fins sprouting from an egg-shaped body. NH Vhuzompha Mother and Father to All Marine Life, The Hermaphroditic God An amorphous monster of prodigious size, covered in a multitude of eyes, mouths, projections and both male and female genitalia. BV, CC2, SS2 Vibur The Thing from Beyond A huge furry and rapidly shifting entity casting radioactive stones. MT3 Vile-Oct — A dragon-like or reptilian entity said to be familiar of Yig. CC10 Volgna-Gath Keeper of the Secrets A slimy shape-shifing mass, which can be summoned with mud and the blood of the invoker. SC2, SS2 Voltiyig Yig's Terrifying Son Spawn of the Snake-God Yig appearing as a winged and feathered serpent with flaming nostrils, somehow similar to the Aztec God Quetzalcoatl, trapped inside a dark tower topped with a giant five-pointed star. IS13, TL Vthyarilops The Starfish God A tentacled horror similar to a Sun star but endowed with branching tentacles, spines, myriads of blue glaring eyes and gaping maws. KN6 Vulthoom The Sleeper of Ravermos, Gsarthotegga May appear as a huge, unearthly plant. VU The Worm that Gnaws in the Night Doom of Shaggai A massive, worm-like fiend, similar to a Graboid from Tremors. AG Xalafu The Dread One A titanic, globular mass of various dark colours, endowed with a huge, single eye in the middle of the alien bulk. ZS Xcthol[63] The Goat God A sadistic, mind-controlling, faun-like humanoid, likely related to Shub-Niggurath. RS7 Xinlurgash The Ever-Consuming A bristly mass with large gaping maws, made up with tentacles and spidery limbs. MN7, MN8 Xirdneth Maker of Illusions, Lord of Unreality An illusion-making entity with no true form. KI, SS2, SS4, TH4 Xotli Lord of Terror, The Black Kraken of Atlantis[64] A rolling cloud of ebony darkness or a vortex of boreal cold, revered by Atlanteans priests of Hyborian Age. IS14 Xoxiigghua[65] — A three-eyed, octopoid and parasitic horror trapped inside a mountain range of Central America. OL7 Yegg-Ha The Faceless One A 10 foot-tall winged being which rules over the Nightgaunts, defeated in ancient Britain by a centuria of Roman soldiers. IE Y'golonac The Defiler Appears as a naked, obese, headless humanoid with a mouth in the palm of each hand; other features are nebulous. CP, LN6, TN12 Yhagni — A hideous female or hermaphroditic entity of tremendous power, cousin of Cthulhu and Hastur imprisoned by the Great Old Ones being themselves awe of her powers. She dwells in Temple of Pillars in the depths of Kyartholm, located somewhere in Northern Hemisphere. Her appearance is never described, but likely formless, larva-like and tentacled as the minion-spawn which serve her parasitizing human victims. PS6 Yhashtur The Worm-God of the Lords of Thule A worm-like monster dwelling at Northern Polar latitudes, said to be rival or inimical to Nyarlathotep. SC4 Yig Father of Serpents A giant snake with human arms covered in scales. Son of the Mappo's Dragon, children of his are Ayi'ig and Voltiyig, whereas Rokon is regarded as the brother of Yig. CY, SJ, VY Y'lla Master of the Seas A monstrous, barrel-shaped sea worm with tentacles and lamprey-like mouth. CC2, DR12 'Ymnar The Dark Stalker A shape-shifting entity spawned by the Outer God Ngyr-Korath to serve him only. It may grant great powers to whoever chooses to serve it and its master but its final aim is the destruction of all sentient and intelligent life in the Cosmos. FS4, HW3 Yog-Sapha The Dweller in the Depths,[66] Lord of the Things Which Dwell Beneath the Surface A gigantic, amoeboid, glowing and multihued gelatinous mass living in dark depths of Earth. TH3 Yorith The Oldest Dreamer A huge crystalline being residing in the seas of the ocean planet Yilla. Its hypnotic abilities force those spacefarers who stray too closely to plunge into the depths of its lethal sea. OR Ysbaddaden Chief of the Giants[67] One of Hziulquoigmnzhah's children, supposedly male and gigantic.[68] OO Ythogtha The Thing in the Pit Appears as a colossal Deep One, with tentacles surrounding its one eye. OA, PD, TC, TP Yug-Siturath The All-Consuming Fog A vampiric vaporous entity which adsorbs vital forces. DY Zathog The Black Lord of Whirling Vortices A festering, bubbling mass that constantly churns and whirls, putting forth vestigial appendages and reabsorbing them. Bubbles burst on its surface to reveal hate-filled eyes, and slobbering mouths form and close randomly about his horrible body. It dwells in Xentilx galaxy served by the Zarrian aliens. FB, WZ Zhar and Lloigor The Twin Obscenities Both appear as a colossal mass of tentacles, trapped in the Plateau of Sung, somewhere in Burma. LS, MT11, SA, SX, TP Zindarak The Fiery Messenger A mysterious fiery entity that shall release Cthulhu from his prison as the stars are right. DX Zoth-Ommog Dweller in the Depths A gigantic entity with a cone-shaped body, a reptilian head, a beard of tentacles, and starfish-like arms. HG, OA, TC Zstylzhemghi Matriarch of Swarms, Zystulzhemgni Spawn of the Outer God Ycnàgnnisssz, she is described as a living, alien swarm. She has also a sister named Klosmiebhyx. OO, PN, TA, ZY Zushakon Dark Silent One, Old Night, Zul-Che-Quon, Zuchequon Appears as a swirling, black vortex, revered by Mutsune Native Americans as a dire death god. It is also worshiped by the mysterious servitors known as the Hidden Ones.[69] BH, DN, EB, KD Z'toggua[70] — An obese bat-winged humanoid with a long polypous snout and a wide mouth opening in the belly, served by the Deep Ones. CG8, SY6, ZG Zvilpogghua Feaster from the Stars, The Sky-Devil, Ossadagowah A bat-winged, armless toad with tentacles instead of a face. LT, RM, SV