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His story The Masque of the Red Death which you can read online is one of his finest works that, in my opinion, inspired Robert W. Chambers to create the stories of the King in Yellow who Mythos fans know as Hastur originally credited by Ambrose Bierce.
Archive 2008-02-01 Aaron M. Wilson 2008
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The GOP gets it back in the 1990s, and we get Gingrich/Livingston which leads dreadfully to Hastert (any RPGer is terrified of this name; it sounds too much like "Hastur").
Obama: The Washington Old-Boy Network Is A McCain "Staff Meeting" 2009
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"Hastur", "the Dread City of Carcosa", and "the King in Yellow" are nebulous things that first appeared in the writings of Ambrose Bierce and a relatively unknown author named Robert Chambers.
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Yesterday, my wife and I collected our baby leopard geckos; Hastur the Unspeakable, and Mokele-Mbembe.
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The name, which seemed appropriate, was inspired by Lovecraft's Elder God, Hastur, He Who Must Not Be Named. least you accidentally summon him to you; which never ended well
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A flash and a pop filled the air, and a handful of winged Byakhee appeared; a dash of bird, a dab of insect, and a pinch of bat thrown in as though Hastur made them during a pique of indecision.
Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010
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Hastur be three times that name's, been... said... in...
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Find out for yourself; I honestly do not want to spoil it for you -- start with The Heritage Of Hastur.
MIND MELD: Who are the Most Memorable Characters in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror? 2008
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You and Hastur, always talking about boring old work work: "Destroy this, devastate that, crush them under the remorseless feet of our dead-eyed zombie slave hordes" the other.
Being Yog-Sothoth juliette 2009
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As a last sacrifice, I put back on the shelf Strange And Dangerous Dreams, by Geoff Powter, a clutch of short biographies of dodgy, daffy, or deranged mountaineers including our boy Aleister Crowley which just cried out to be read in the light of Hastur-worship.
princeofcairo: Some Corner Of A Foreign Fields That Is Forever Cairo princeofcairo 2009
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