Great Old Ones

He has no compunctions about awakening the Great Old Ones.

The Jennifer Morgue-Charles Stross « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008

You gotta know, when it comes to Great Old Ones news, that BoingBoing would have it.

Pen of the Great Old Ones « raincoaster 2007

You gotta know, when it comes to Great Old Ones news, that BoingBoing would have it.

2007 January 05 « raincoaster 2007

Not to get all geeky, but Delta Green is a Call of Cthulhu role-playing game about a government agency that originated in the 40's to stop the Nazis from using the Great Old Ones as weapons against the Allied Forces.

Cthulhu and Nazis! 2007

Apparently the Great Old Ones think Pluto is a planet, too.

A Special Message for Scott “Pluto Hayta” Westerfeld « Whatever 2006

After killing a gigantic bear named either Mir (by the old people who went in fear of it) or Shardik (by the Great Old Ones who built it ... for the bear turns out to be a cyborg), Roland, Eddie, and Susannah backtrack the beast and dis-cover Path of the Beam.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

Deluded human beings mistake the Great Old Ones and their descendants for gods, worshiping them out of ignorance.

The King of Weird Oates, Joyce Carol 1996

Such extended adventures as "The Shadow Out of Time" and the novella-length "At the Mountains of Madness" collapse millennia within the cataclysmic experience of individuals whose lives intersect with those of the Great Old Ones, alien creatures of immense intelligence from a distant galaxy, until now unknown to Homo sapiens.

The King of Weird Oates, Joyce Carol 1996

In the Cthulhu Mythos, there are no "gods" but only displaced extraterrestrial beings, the Great Old Ones, who journeyed to Earth many millions of years ago, bringing with them, disastrously, their slaves, called "shoggoths," protoplasmic creatures that gradually overpower and defeat their masters.

The King of Weird Oates, Joyce Carol 1996

Hardly any of those would dare be so recidivist as to actually stick to a plot to bring the Great Old Ones across.

Petty Pewter Gods Cook, Glen 1995