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  • And perhaps ultimately we should blame Yeats, who wrote stuff like the ominous and vaguely Egyptian-sounding "Second Coming," one year before Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep" - and in the midst of the pessimism-inducing upheavals of World War I, which also influenced Tolkien (and which, as Jacob Levy recently reminded me, make our current political concerns look not so bad).

    ToddSeavey.com 2008

  • It's very like "Nyarlathotep," albeit with a merely personal apocalypse at the coda of the general one revealed in the windows.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • This, I think, would be the middle position between the generally upbeat apocalypse of "Poetry and the Gods" and the more familiar degeneracy-and-devastation of "Nyarlathotep", written about the same time.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • I think the reason behind the third-party explosion is because Chaosium themselves have been a bit quiet over the past few years, and while CoC fandom is quite eager and organised, it’s not hugely productive (although the guys at yog-sothoth. com have produced a companion to Masks of Nyarlathotep, which is something of a first, I think, and should be out soonish … despite the campaign itself being, yes, out of print … sigh).

    Cthulhu Resurgent? « Geek Related 2009

  • H.P. Lovecraft: "Nyarlathotep" (The United Amateur Vol. 20 No. 2, November 1920)

    Free Fiction for 11/22/09 2009

  • it's in "Nyarlathotep" that we get Lovecraft's full-blown Apocalypse.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • "We already changed the name of the school from Abraham Lincoln High to Nyarlathotep Academy," Perry added.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • * Nyarlathotep – Horribly delicious, beyond anything you can imagine.

    Places You Haunt stringmonkey 2009

  • "And vast infinities away, past the Gate of Deeper Slumber and the enchanted wood and the garden lands and the Cerenarian Sea and the twilight reaches of Inquanok, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep strode brooding into the onyx castle atop unknown Kadath in the cold waste, and taunted insolently the mild gods of earth whom he had snatched abruptly from their scented revels in the marvellous sunset city."

    The Best Endings in Science Fiction 2009

  • "We already changed the name of the school from Abraham Lincoln High to Nyarlathotep Academy," Perry added.

    Lovecraft in the Classroom : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

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