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UPDATE, June 18, 2006: Yes, Simon's new book, Dead Names, is out. It seems he doesn't like us much. For an ongoing critique of the book, see Papers Falling from an Attic Window, my new blog.

While I'm updating, also check out my article on Lovecraft and occultism, "Dreamer of the Dark", in Fortean Times.

UPDATE, January 25, 2004: A quick update. Check out an interview with John and I at Paranoia Magazine and a review of the book at The Anomalist.

UPDATE, December 19, 2003: Life's gone a little crazy lately. Thanks to all the neat people we met at the Real Witches' Ball, including M. R. Sellars, A. J. Drew, Tony Mierzwicki, Azure Green, Wendy Rule, Nema, and anyone else we've forgotten.

As a favor to someone, I'm posting The History of Von Unaussprechlichen Kulten, a long-vanished Web classic. This is by special permission of the author until the end of January, so don't repost it elsewhere. (February 1: Too late.)

UPDATE, October 19, 2003: Another review, this one from Goat and Candle, should attract your attention. I've not had time to do much more than update the errata, partially because I'm preparing for an appearance at Columbus' Real Witch's Ball.

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The Necronomicon Files is a collaborative work written by Daniel Harms and John Wisdom Gonce III. It is to be published by Weiser, and you might find copies of the first publication from Night Shade Books.

Our research indicates that the Necronomicon is a book of evil lore which first appeared in the works of the writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). This book became so popular that people started to write more stories featuring it, creating hoaxes, and finally writing entire Necronomicons (at the present writing, almost a dozen have appeared). The most popular of these is the Simon Necronomicon, first published in 1977, which is mainly Sumerian mythology with a little Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley thrown in for good measure. Another, the Hay Necronomicon, came out in 1978 and claimed to be a deciphered work by the Elizabethan thinker Doctor John Dee. None of these date to the specified period, and some (such as the Hay work) have been admitted to be hoaxes.

I'm not going to tell you that this page contains the truth about the Necronomicon. That doesn't mean that the information here is bad, but every other Necronomicon site on the web claims to have the truth about the book, and I want to be different. The main problem with the whole Necronomicon debate is that people tend to believe what they're told. You are perfectly free to ignore this entire site and everything on it. If you want to debate us, however, you had better have some definite proof of your arguments.

If you want a quick introduction to the Necronomicon controversy and our position, you can check out A Dialogue on the Necronomicon. Those who have made up their minds that the book exists should examine our views on the Necronomicon and how you can accumulate evidence to refute us.

The lost sections of The Necronomicon Files

• The Voynich Manuscript

• Movie reviews in B-Movie Metaphysics, including a new review of Cthulhu Triumphant

• An appendix cut from the Weiser edition on The Necronomicon and the Sword.

• For those lucky enough to have our book, here's some errata.

• Some book-related aggravation.

Items of general interest

• "History of the Necronomicon" by H. P. Lovecraft;

• Daniel makes some comments on Lovecraft's "History of the Necronomicon";

• An essay on the Simon Necronomicon (after you get done there, check out another piece by a friend of ours entitled The Simonomicon (and me));

• What about theAbsu? We give you the low-down, and it may not be what you think.

• If there's no real Necronomicon, what's that book you have? Check our annotated bibliography of Necronomicon-related items;

• Daniel's Official (?) Cthulhu Mythos FAQ, for those who are wondering what this Cthulhu thing is all about,

• some thoughts on the Evil Dead movies,

• a humorous Necronomicon play called "Thanks for the Mummery",

• Cthulhu Filks, and

• biographies of project members.

Reviews

• Luis Abbadie reviews some books by Italian occultist Frank Ripel, including Italian Necronomicon, Sauthenerom: The Source of the Necronomicon, and The Red Magic;

• Another review by Luis on The Perez-Vigo Necronomicon

• Daniel's reviews of The Necronomicon Spellbook, the Schnoebelens' Lucifer Dethroned, and Baddeley's Lucifer Rising;

• Some comments on W. H. Müller's Treasurer of the Forbidden; and

• John Gonce's reviews of Necronomicon websites.

In turn, you can check out the three book reviews of the Files by Bkwyrm, Lisa Dumont and Chaos magician Phil Hine. They're all wonderful, but they're all we could find. If you find other reviews (on-line or off-), please let us know.

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Mythos Timeline

by Dru Smith, Donovan Loucks, and Daniel Harms

This timeline was stolen from the alt.horror.cthulhu FAQ, and refurbished a little by me. Mythos fans will probably be dismayed at the amount of material left out. I did this because I'm too lazy to look up the information, and also because the original material is often fragmentary and contradictory. Those who want more info should check the timelines in the CoC rulebook, in the second edition of the Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (forthcoming), or Peter Cannon's The Chronology out of Time (available from Necronomicon Press). Any comments, suggestions, addition, deletions, etc., should be sent to Claude J. Smith III, Berserker Warlord.

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• 18-10 bil BC : Somewhere in this range our Universe began. Big Bang -- space, time, and matter appear. Some blame Azathoth for this mess. (real)

• 4.5 bil BC : Earth formed. (Real)

• ?: According to some, the earth is brought out of an alternate dimension by the Great Old Ones.

• 2 billion BC: Elder Things arrive (crinoid Old Ones from AtMoM). (AtMoM, by HPL) Possibly the Antarctic was already inhabited by something nasty (?) at the time, but the record is unclear. (AtMoM) (Note: The original FAQ said that the something nasty was Tawil at'Umr, but that hardly seems likely.)

Ubbo-Sathla, the progenitor of all earthly life, definitely exists by now. (Smith)

• ?: The people of K'n-yan, who reputedly came to earth with "Tulu" (Cthulhu), migrated to the surface when the land was fit to live on. (HPL/Bishop)

• 600 million BC: Flying Polyps arrive, and build basalt cities with windowless towers (in Australia). (No Ref)

Archaean slate preserves striated triangular footprints of Elder Things. (AtMoM)

• 200 million BC: Pangea broke up. (Real)

R'lyeh emerges(?)/is built(?). (No Ref)

Spawn of Cthulhu arrive, war with the Elder Things, and drive them into the sea. (AtMoM)

• 190-140 million BC: Jurassic. (Real)

Mi-go arrive from Yuggoth (Pluto) and drive Elder Things from Northern Hemisphere. (AtMoM)

• 150 million BC: Permian Age. (Real)

Marine Elder Things re-subjugate Shoggoths. (AtMoM)

Elder Things war with Great Race. (No Ref)

• ?: Great Race of Yith (minds only) flees unknown doom on Yith. They come forward in time and inhabit the bodies of the indigenous Australian conical entities. (No Ref)

• 100 million BC: Rifts seperate Africa from Europe/Valusia and Asia. (No Ref)

• 50 million BC: City founded in Mts of Madness to replace older city on site of first arrival, by Elder Things. (AtMoM)

Land bridge to Americas through Iceland ends, seperating the flora/fauna evolution of America from Europe. (Real)

• 30-25 million BC: Development of CircumAntarctic current, essentially isolating Antarctica from the rest of the continents, and beginning the establishment of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. (Real)

Pliocene map. (Real)

No sea cities of Elder Things north of 50deg S; no land cities outside of Antarctica and tip of South America. (AtMoM)

• 750,000 BC: Civilization of Hyperborea, based around present-day Greenland, destroyed by the ice. Its wisdom, including the Book of Eibon, is passed down through secret cults. (Smith/CoC)

• 100,000 BC: Kull the Atlantean becomes king of Valusia. (Howard)

• 50,000 BC: Civilization of great-headed brown people of South Africa. (No Ref)

• 24,000 BC: Hairy cannibal Gnophkehs overcame many-templed Olathoe and slay all the heros of the land of Lomar (inside 80 deg N). (Polaris, by HPL)

Pnakotic Manuscripts taken to Ulthar in the Dreamlands. (No Ref)

Hyperborean copy of PM preserved by same cult which wrote the Book of Eibon. (No Ref)

• 18,000 BC: Atlantis and Lemuria sink beneath the waves. The years that follow are the Hyborian Age, time of Conan. (Howard)

• c. 9500 BC: Isle of Poseidonis, last remnant of Atlantis, sinks. (Smith)

• 3700 BC: Rise of Uruk period of Sumerian civilization. (Real)

• 3100 BC: The First Dynasty of Egypt is founded. (Real).

• 30 BCE: Ubar/Irem "a many-columned city ... whose like has never been built in the whole land" [Koran] vanishes in sandstorm. [1984 Challenger mission spots buried roadway stretching for 60 miles in desert north of Oman's Dhofar province] [Mankato Free Press, 7/16/1990] [Hitti, HIST.ARABS: "A recently discovered Nabataean site, 'RM, 25 miles east of al-Aqabah, is Kornaic Iram (sur. 89:6)"][2/5/92 NYT "Archeologists and explorers in Oman have uncovered the ruins of eight towers and adjoining walls and deposits of pottery dating to Roman times and as far back as 2,000 BC. The explorers are virtually sure it is UBAR, the fabled entrepot of the rich frankincense trade thousands of years ago."]

• c. 300: Decline and fall of Rome. (Real)

• c. 730: Al Azif written at Damascus by Abdul Alhazred, who claimed to have visited Irem and an even older city; worshipped Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu. (HPL)

• 738: Alhazred dies or disappears under terrible circumstances. Said by Ebn Khiallikan to have been seized in broad daylight and devoured by an invisible monster before a horrified crowd. (HPL) (August Derleth claimed this happened in 731.)

• 950: Al Azif translated into Greek as Necronomicon by Theodorus Philetas. (HPL)

• 1050: Greek text of Necronomicon burnt by Michael, Patriarch of Constantinople (Arabic text lost at this point). (HPL)

• 1228: Olaus translates Necronomicon into Latin. (HPL)

• 1232: Pope Gregory IX bans Necronomicon. (HPL)

• 15th century: Black letter edition of Latin Necronomicon printed in Germany. (HPL)

• 1492 : Columbus discovers New World. (Real)

• 1500 - 1550: Greek text of Necronomicon printed in Italy. (Last known copy vanished in burning of a certain Salem man's library in 1692. Copy kept by Pickman family of Salem? If so, vanished with R. U. Pickman in 1926.) (HPL)

• 16th c.: Ludwig Prinn pens De Vermis Mysteriis while awaiting execution. (Bloch)

• 1692: Salem witch-trials. (Real)

• 17th cent: Spanish printing (in Latin?) of Necronomicon (copies of this edition now at Bibliotheque National in Paris, Widener Library at Harvard, Miskatonic U. library at Arkham, library of Buenos Aires). (HPL)

• 1771: The four Brown brothers, Reverend Manning and the Governor of Rhode Island (Lippincott?) take action against Joseph Curwen. (HPL)

• 1775: The American Revolution begins. (Real)

• 1795: Friedrich Wilheim von Junzt born.("The Black Stone", Howard)

• 1839: Unaussprechlichen Kulten published in Dusseldorf. Written by Friedrich von Junzt [read Necronomicon in Greek translation]. Von Junzt dies six months after returning from trip to Mongolia while working on second book. Less than a dozen copies exist of this edition. ["Von Junzt relates many stories of the survivals of cults worshipping pre-human entities or prehistoric gods, such as Ghatanothoa, Bran, and others. The principle obscurity of the book is in Von Junzt's use of the term 'keys' -- phrase used many times by him, in various relations, such as descriptions of the infamous Black Stone in Hungary and the legendary Temple of the Toad in Honduras."] (Howard)

• 1845: Bridewell, London publisher, does a pirated translation of Unaussprechlichen Kulten. "... full of grotesque woodcuts, and riddled with misspellings, faulty translations, and the usual errors of a cheap and unscholarly printing. ..." (Howard)

• 1860-65: American Civil War. (Real).

• 1882, June: Meteorite lands west of Arkham. ("The Colour Out of Space") (HPL)

• 1892: Body exhumed, heart burned in Exeter, RI. (mentioned "The Shunned House") (HPL)

• 1901, February 22: Climax of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep." (HPL)

• 1907, November 1: Raid near New Orleans captures Cthulhu cultists. (HPL)

• 1908 - 1913: Wingate Peaslee, professor of economics at Miskatonic, is afflicted with amnesia. (HPL)

• 1909: Golden Goblin Press, New York. Expurgated edition of Unaussprechlichen Kulten (fully one quarter of work cut), handsomely bound, illustrated by Diego Vasquez. Approx. 30 known to still exist. (Howard)

• 1910, January: Houdini is "Imprisioned With the Pharaohs." (HPL)

• 1913, August 3: Box delivered to A. Jermyn, who subsequently sets himself on fire. (HPL)

• 1917, August 20: "The Temple" 20 N, 35 W. (HPL)

• 1918, November 11: World War I ends. (Real)

• 1919, August 25: Exploration of the Shunned House. (HPL)

• 1921, August: Reporter encounters "The Lurking Fear." (HPL)

• 1922, January: "The Attic Window" published in Whispers. (See "The Unnameable")

• 1923, July 16: Delapore moves into Exham Priory. (HPL)

• 1925, March 23 to April 2: R'lyeh emerges from ocean. (HPL)

• 1926: R. U. Pickman disappears. (HPL)

• 1927, Good Friday: Charles Dexter Ward revives Joseph Curwen. (HPL)

• 1927, July 6: "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." (HPL)

• 1928, February: Raid on Innsmouth. (HPL)

• 1928, August: The Dunwich Horror. (HPL)

Professor Wilmarth flees from Akeley's house in Vermont. (HPL)

• 1928, October 7: Randolph Carter goes through the Gate of the Silver Key [Aug 30, 1932 letter "Dear Abdul ... And for each plane of cutting, we get a different 3 dimensional solid. Thus from an original, unchangeable 4th dimensional SOMETHING, we get a (sic) infinity of seemingly different 3 dimensional forms; as by varying the angle at which a plane cuts a cone ... All of which is the thesis accounting for Carter's scrambled affairs."]. (HPL)

• 1931, January 22: Plane spots the Mountains of Madness 76 15' S, 113 10' E. (HPL)

• 1931, March: Gale wrecks roof of the Witch House. (HPL)

• 1935, June 3: First blocks found by Peaslee's Australian expedition. (HPL)

• 1935, Night of July 17-18: Peaslee explores ruins. (HPL)

• 1939-1945: World War II. (Real)

During this time, most copies of the Necronomicon are stolen by Nazis or vanish. (Colin Low's "Necronomicon Anti-FAQ")

• 1945: Atom bomb exploded, supposedly with Nyarlathotep's help. (Bloch)

• c. 1968: The Wilmarth Foundation begins its war against the cthonians. (Lumley)

• 1969: Titus Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny killed (?) in freak windstorm. (Lumley)

• 1973: First published Necronomicon hoax appears. (real)

Future

• Great Old Ones return. Either everyone dies, or life becomes extremely unpleasant. (HPL)

• 5000 BC: Empire of Tsan-Chan rises (this may be before or after previous entry). (HPL)

• Great Race returns to earth in bodies of beetles. (HPL)

• Sun grows in size to red giant, then contracts once again, making earth uninhabitable. (Real -- too bad for you)

• End of universe. (Real)

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Cthulhu Mythos Timeline

Created: APR-1997
Last modified: 101-01-30

This file was based on ahcfaq8.txt_Mythos_Lore, written by Donovan K. Loucks. Some dates and terminology were changed to agree to the Evolutionary and Geological Timelines, by Niel Brandt. A major revision was done on 1998-12-18.

Other Cthulhu Mythos Timelines:

• by Jim Hawley
• by Dru Smith, Donovan Loucks, and Daniel Harms

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3,800 million BC

Formation of Earth's Oceans (real)

3,500 million BC

Elder Things (crinoid Old Ones from AtMoM) arrive at Antarctica ("At the Mountains of Madness")

3,000 million BC

Life (as we know it) begins on Earth (real)

Legends say Life began as a jest by the Old Ones (AtMoM)

1,000 million BC

Great Race of Yith (minds only) came forward and inhabited the bodies of the indiginous Australian conical entities. ("The Shadow Out of Time")

?

The people of K'n-yan, who reputedly brought "Tulu" who migrated to the surface when the land was fit to live on. ("The Mound", by HPL/Bishop)

600 million BC

Flying Polyps arrive, and build basalt cities with windowless towers (in Australia) ("The Shadow Out of Time")

Archaean slate preserves striated triangular footprints of Elder Things ("At the Mountains of Madness")

290 - 250 million BC

Permian period (real)

War of Shoggoths resubjugation ("At the Mountains of Madness")

200 million BC ???

Pangea broke up (real)

R'lyeh is built ("At the Mountains of Madness")

Spawn of Cthulhu arrive, and war with the Elder Things and drive them into the sea ("At the Mountains of Madness")

205 - 135 million BC

Jurassic period (real)

Mi-go arrive from Yuggoth (Pluto) and drive Elder Things from Northern Hemisphere ("At the Mountains of Madness")

100 million BC

Rifts seperate Africa from Europe/Valusia and Asia (No Ref)

65 million BC

K-T boundary (real)

Probably this marks the destruction of the Old One's old city at the Plateau of Leng

50 million BC

City founded in the Plateau of Leng to replace older city on site of first arrival, by Elder Things ("At the Mountains of Madness")

The Great Race of Yith disappears from the earth en masse into the future, occupying the race of beetle creatures who inherit the world from the human race

40 million BC

A group of 14 Old Ones is trapped in a cavern in Antarctica .

30-25 million BC

Development of CircumAntarctic current, essentially isolating Antarctica from the rest of the continents, and beginning the establishment of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (Real)

No sea cities of Elder Things north of 50deg S; no land cities outside of Antarctica and tip of South America ("At the Mountains of Madness")

6 - 1.8 million BC

Pliocene epoch (Real)

50,000 BC

Civilization of great-headed brown people of South Africa (No Ref)

24,000 BC

Hairy cannibal Gnophkehs overcame many-templed Olathoe and slay all the heros of the land of Lomar (inside 80 deg N). ("Polaris", by HPL)

Pnakotic Manuscripts taken to Ulthar in the Dreamlands (No Ref)

Hyperborean copy of PM preserved by same cult which wrote the Book of Eibon (Letter #826 of "Selected Letters")

15,000 BC

Hyborean Age ???

30 BC

Ubar/Irem "a many-columned city...whose like has never been built in the whole land" [Koran] vanishes in sandstorm. [1984 Challenger mission spots buried roadway stretching for 60 miles in desert north of Oman's Dhofar province] [Mankato Free Press, 7/16/1990] [Hitti, HIST.ARABS: "A recently discovered Nabataean site, 'RM, 25 miles east of al-Aqabah, is Kornaic Iram (sur. 89:6)"][2/5/92 NYT "Archeologists and explorers in Oman have uncovered the ruins of eight towers and adjoining walls and deposits of pottery dating to Roman times and as far back as 2,000 BC. The explorers are virtually sure it is UBAR, the fabled entrepot of the rich frankincense trade thousands of years ago."]

730 AD

_Al Azif_ written at Damascus by Abdul Alhazred, who claimed to have visited Irem and an even older city; worshipped Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.

738 AD

Alhazred dies or disappears under terrible circumstances. Said by Ebn Khiallikan to have been seized in broad daylight and devoured by an invisible monster before a horrified crowd.

950

_Al Azif_ translated into Greek as _Necronomicon_ by Theodorus Philetas

1050

Greek text of _Necronomicon_ burnt by Michael, Patriarch of Constantinople (Arabic text lost at this point)

1228

Olaus translates _Necronomicon_ into Latin.

1232

Pope Gregory IX places _Necronomicon_ on _Index Expurgatorius_

15th century

Black letter edition of Latin _Necronomicon_ printed in Germany. Copy rumored to exist in the British Museum.

1500 - 1550

Greek text of _Necronomicon_ printed in Italy. Last known copy vanished in burning of a certain Salem man's library in 1692. Copy kept by Pickman family of Salem? If so, vanished with R. U. Pickman in 1926.

1692

Edmund Carter flees from Salem to the hills behind Arkham ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Chapter 5).

17th cent

Spanish printing (in Latin?) of _Necronomicon_ (copies at Bibliotheque National in Paris, Widener Library at Harvard, Miskatonic U. library at Arkham, library of Buenos Aires).

1760's AD

The four Brown brothers, Reverend Manning and the Governor of Rhode Island (Lippincott?) go on a witchhunt for Joseph Curwen ("The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", HPL)

1839

_Unaussprechlichen Kulten_ published in Dusseldorf. Written by Friedrich von Junzt (1795-1840) [read _Necronomicon_ in Greek translation]. Von Junzt dies six months after returning from trip to Mongolia while working on second book. Less than a dozen copies exist of this edition. ["Von Junzt relates many stories of the survivals of cults worshipping pre-human entities or prehistoric gods, such as Ghatanothoa, Bran, and others. The principle obscurity of the book is in Von Junzt's use of the term 'keys' -- phrase used many times by him, in various relations, such as descriptions of the infamous Black Stone in Hungary and the legendary Temple of the Toad in Honduras."]

1845

Bridewell, London publisher, does a pirated translation of _Unauss. Kulten_. "...full of grotesque woodcuts, and riddled with misspellings, faulty translations, and the usual errors of a cheap and unscholarly printing...."

1865

E. A. Hitchcock, _Remarks on Alchemy_ "...the now unattainable secrets of the Aklo tablets."

1882, June

Meteorite lands west of Arkham "The Colour Out of Space"

1883, October 7

Randolph Carter (9 years old) enters Grotto. When he leaves, he gets part of his memories from future

1892

Body exhumed, heart burned in Exeter, RI (mentioned "The Shunned House")

1901, February 22

Climax of "Beyond the Wall of Sleep"

1907, November 1

Raid near New Orleans captures Cthulhu cultists

1908 - 1913

Wingate Peaslee's amnesia

1909

Golden Goblin Press, New York. Expurgated edition of _Unauss. Kulten_ (fully one quarter of work cut), handsomely bound, illustrated by Diego Vasquez. Approx. 30 known to still exist.

1910, January

Houdini is "Imprisioned With the Pharaohs"

1913, August 3

Box delivered to A. Jermyn

1917, August 20

"The Temple" 20 N, 35 W

1919, August 25

Exploration of the Shunned House

1920

Russell Thorp made a breakdown of this year, for those that play Call of Cthulhu

1921, August

Reporter encounters "The Lurking Fear"

1922, January

"The Attic Window" published in _Whispers_ (see "The Unnameable")

1923, July 16

Delapore moves into Exham Priory

1923

HPL writes "The Festival" ("...they included old Morryster's wild _Marvells of Science_, the terrible _Saducismus Triumphatus_ of Joseph Glanvil, published in 1681, the shocking _Daemonolatreia_ of Remigius, printed in 1595 at Lyons, and worst of all, the unmentionable _Necronomicon_ of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, in Olaus Wormius' forbidden Latin translation..." ["The Nameless City" written 1921; "The Hound" 1922]

1925, March 23 to April 2

R'lyeh emerges from ocean

1925, October 9

Letter 197, vol 2, HPL to CAS: "I bedeck my tale [Horror at Red Hook] with incantations copied from the 'Magic' article in the 9th edition of the _Britannica_, but I'd like to draw on less obvious sources if I knew of the right reservoirs to tap." Recommends _Witchcraft in Western Europe_ to CAS.

1926

R. U. Pickman disappears.

1927, Good Friday

Chas. Dexter Ward revives Joseph Curwen

1927, July 6

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth"

1928, February

Raid on Innsmouth

1928, August

The Dunwich Horror

1928, October 7

Randolph Carter goes through the Gate of the Silver Key [Aug 30, 1932 letter "Dear Abdul...And for each plane of cutting, we get a different 3 dimensional solid. Thus from an original, unchangeable 4th dimensional SOMETHING, we get a (sic) infinity of seemingly different 3 dimensional forms; as by varying the angle at which a plane cuts a cone... All of which is the thesis accounting for Carter's scrambled affairs."]

1930, September 2nd

The Miskatonic Expedition to Antartida leaves Boston Harbor (AtMoM)

1931, January 22

Plane spots the Mountains of Madness 76^o 15' S, 113^o 10' E.

1931, January 23

Lake et al, of the Miskatonic Expedition, discover a cavern with several fossils. Among them there are 14 Old Ones, 8 of them intact (AtMoM)

1931, March

Gale wrecks roof of the Witch House

1935, June 3

First blocks found by Peaslee's Australian expedition

1935, Night of July 17-18

Peaslee explores ruins

2169

Mongol hordes are repelled from Australia by Pickman Carter, who uses strange means ("Through the Gates of the Silver Key", Chapter 5).

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A timeline of the Cthulhu Mythos
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This page attempts to set a definitive time line to the events portrayed in the fiction of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos. As I review stories, more and more events will be added. If you have an event you think should be listed here, use the following form to submit it to me. It doesn't have to come from a Lovecraft story, just so long as the story is of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Another excellent source on the timelines of H.P. Lovecraft is The Chronology Out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon.

Note that in some stories, Lovecraft never gave a year to work from. Time lines for such stories are listed below, using the year that Lovecraft wrote the piece as its base.

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c. 1,000,000,000 B.C.

The Great Race of Yith come to earth and occupy the bodies of the cone creatures in what is now Western Australia.

c. 300,000,000 B.C.

Beings of indescribable shape rear towers that reach to the sky and delve into the very secrets of nature.

c. 150,000,000 B.C.

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is abducted and his mind transferred with a Yithian for study purposes. Peaslee learns the past and future of the Yithians.

c. 50,000,000 B.C.

The Great Race of Yith disappear from the earth en masse into the future, occupying the race of beetle creatures who inherit the world from the human race.

c. 50,000 B.C.

Great, brown-headed people dominate and hold South Africa.

c. 15,000 B.C.

Crom-Ya, a Cimmerian chieftain, is subject to the mind transfer effect of the Great Race of Yith.

1000

Month unknown

The Exham Priory is mentioned in a chronicle as being a substantial stone priory housing a strange and powerful monastic order.

1261

Month unkown

Henry the Third grants the Exham Priory to Gilbert de la Poer, First Baron Exham.

1305

Month unknown

An Anchester chronicle mentions a de la Poer as cursed of God.

1643

Month unknown

Innsmouth, Massachusetts is founded.

1692

Month unknown

Keziah Mason is arrested and tried as a witch. Under pressure from the interrogaters, she reveals the correlation between angles and curves and the ability to travel between dimensions. Mason escapes from her cell using the same concepts and disappears.

1747

Month unknown

Reverend Abijah Hoadley preaches a sermon to the Congregational Church at Dunwich Village on the close presence of Satan and his imps. Reverend Hoadley disappears from existence soon afterward.

c. 1750-65

Year uncertain

Sir Wade Jermyn discovers the lost gray city of the Congo and marries the white ape-princess. After birthing a son, the three left the city for Jermyn House in England. Sir Wade and his wife returns to the lost city, where the ape-princess dies and is mummified. Sir Wade returns to England alone.

1765

Month unknown

Sir Wade Jermyn, one of the earliest explorers of the Congo region of Africa, is committed to the madhouse in Huntingdon.

1768

Month unknown

Sir Wade Jermyn dies while committed in Huntingdon.

c. 1780

Month unknown

Sir Phillip Jermyn marries the daughter of his gamekeeper.

c. 1783-84

Month unknown

Sir Phillip Jermyn becomes a merchant sailor and disappears off the shore of the Congo.

1815

Month unknown

Sir Robert Jermyn marries the daughter of the Seventh Viscount Brightholme and is subsequently blessed with three children (the oldes and youngest both suffer a deformity which prevents them from ever being seen in public).

1832

Month unknown

Nahum Gardner is born.

1842

Month unknown

Ammi Pierce is born.

1838

Month unknown

The group of villagers found by Captain Obed Marsh in the South Seas is decimated by other local villagers when it is discovered they worship, sacrifice to, and interbreed with the Deep Ones. The Sign of the Old Ones is scattered across the village and the small vocanic islet where the sacrifices are made to repel the Deep Ones.

1844

May

Professor Enoch Bowen returns from his journey in Egypt to Providence, Rhode Island.

July

Professer Enoch Bowen purchases the Free-Will Church atop Federal Hill. Begins the Starry Wisdom cult.

December

29 - Doctor Drowne of the 4th Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, warns against the Starry Wisdom cult in a sermon.

1845

Month unknown

Locals of Innsmouth, Massachusetts, stumble upon devil-worshipping and sacrifices near the wharves of the town.

By the end of the year, the Starry Wisdom cult of Providence has grown to 97 members.

1846

Month unknown

Captain Obed Marsh and thirty-two other members of the Esoteric Order Of Dagon are arrested on Devil’s Reef. No official charges are made, but Captain Marsh is held for a couple of weeks in jail. The Deep Ones, upset at the lack of human sacrifices, attacks Innsmouth and kills or carries off over half the population. The losses are attributed to epidimic. The human population of Innsmouth and the Deep Ones begin to interbreed.

The seaboard between Newburyport and Innsmouth undergoes drastic changes from lush vegetation to dead stumps and crumbling sea walls above drifting sands. Locals attribute the change to devil worship.

Captain Obed Marsh takes a second wife, Pth’thya-l’yi, one of the Deep Ones. He has three children by her.

Three disappearances occur in Providence, Rhode Island, all attributed to the Starry Wisdom cult. The first public mention of the Shining Trapezohedron is made.

1848

Month unknown

Seven disappearances occur in Providence, Rhode Island, all attributed to the Starry Wisdom cult. Stories of blood sacrifices within the Free-Will Church begin.

1849

Month unknown

Sir Robert Jermyn's second son, Nevil, runs away and marries a vulgar dancer.

Francis X. Feeney joins the Starry Wisdom cult in Providence, Rhode Island. Later confesses some of the secrets of the cult to Father O'Malley on his deathbed.

1850

Month unknown

Nevil Jermyn returns to the family and is pardoned of his disgrace. He returns a widower and father of a son named Alfred.

1852

October

19 - Sir Robert Jermyn is visited by Samuel Seaton. Samuel carries with him documented legends of the Onga tribes, some of which contain information about the lost gray city. The information drives Robert insane. Before he is subdued, he kills Samuel Seaton and all three of his children. Nevil dies in the successful defense of his son, Alfred.

1853

Month unknown

An investigation is mounted against the Starry Wisdom cult in Providence, Rhode Island and its involvement in numerous disappearances, but comes to nothing.

1854

Month unknown

Sir Robert Jermyn dies of apoplexy while in confinement. Alfred Jermyn becomes a baronet.

1857

Month unknown

Orrin B. Eddy tells of how members of the Starry Wisdom cult summon the Hautner of the Dark by gazing into the depths of the Shining Trapezohedrom.

1860

Month unknown

Professor William C. Webb tours Iceland and Greenland in search of Runic inscriptions. Discovers, instead, a degenerated tribe of Eskimos who practice an obscure form of devil worship.

1863

Month unknown

The government draft opens in Innsmouth, Massachusetts, though no males are found able to meet the minimum standards.

By the end of the year, the Starry Wisdom cult has over 200 people in its congregation.

1865(?)

Month unknown

Benjamin Orner of Arkham, Massachusetts, is tricked into marrying the half-breed daughter of Captain Obed Marsh and Pth’thya-l’yi, a Deep One.

1867

Month unknown

Eliza Orne is born in Arkham, Massachusetts. Eliza’s mother is daughter of Captain Obed marsh and Pth’thya-l’yi, a Deep One.

1869

Month unknown

Irish boys mob the Free-Will Church in Providence, Rhode Island after Patrick Regan disappears.

1870

Month unknown

Sir Alfred Jermyn joins a band of music-hall performers.

1872

March

14 - A veiled article about the Starry Wisdom cult appears in a Providence newspaper referred to as J. (Journal ?).

1873

Month unknown

Tiara of Dagon is pawned in Newburyport by an Innsmouth man. Man is soon after killed in a brawl. The tiara is purchased directly from the pawnbroker by the Newburyport Historical Society and is put on display.

1876

Month unknown

Six more disappearances occur in Providence, Rhode Island, directly linked with the Starry Wisdom cult. Mayor Doyle is called upon by a secret committee to do something about the cult.

1877

February

Action against the Starry Wisdom cult is promised by city council.

April

The Free-Will Church is closed.

May

A gang of Federal Hill boys threaten a doctor of some prominence and the vestrymen of the Free-Will Church.

End of year

The standing congregation of 181 people in the Starry Wisdom cult leave Providence, Rhode Island.

1878

Month unknown

Captain Obed Marsh dies.

1880

Month unknown

Ghost stories about the Free-Will Church atop Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, begin.

1881

April

12 - George Birch, undertaker of Peck Valley, begins the task of burying the winter's dead as the ground becomes soft enough to dig in. Only buries one body, that of Darius Peck.

15 - George Birch becomes trapped in the internment tomb when a wind blows the door shut and the latch breaks. Takes most of the evening to dig a way out.

16 - Upon trying to scramble out of the vault in which he was trapped, George Birch's feet fall through the lid of a casket and the spirit of Asaph Sawyer shreds his legs and ankles, this done in revenge for Birch cutting Sawyer's feet off at the ankles to fit him in a casket.

1882

June

A meteor falls on Nahum Garder’s property next to his well. Three professors from Miskatonic University investigate, finding the composition of the stone unidentifiable.

September-October

Nahum Gardner experiences a bountiful harvest near the impact area of the meteorite. Unfortunately, the fruit of his labor is ruined, tasteless and unsellable.

1883

February

The McGregor boys from Meadow Hill discover the strange effects of the Gardner meteorite on the local wildlife.

March

The trees at the Gardner farm begin to bud early. Nahum’s second son, Thaddeus, swears the branches sway without the wind.

April

The country-folk begin disuse of the road that goes by the Gardner farm because of the strange vegetation.

May

Insects overrun the Garder farm. The other members of the Gardner family now notice the strange swaying of the trees. People begin to see the strange nocturnal glow that infests the farm after dark.

June

Nabby Gardner goes insane.

July

Nabby Gardner ceases to speak and Nahum notices a glow about her. Something spooks Nahum’s horses in the barn and they stampede. All have to be shot. Vegetation around the well turns gray and brittle.

September

Thaddeus Gardner goes mad after visiting the well, tittering and whispering about "the moving colours down there." The mortality among Gardner livestock rises sharply.

October

19 - Thaddeus Gardner dies, victim of the gray brittle death of the Colour Out of Space.

22 - Merwin Gardner is killed by the Colour Out Of Space in the well.

November

Ammi Pierce visits the Gardner farm after not hearing from Nahum for over two weeks. Ammi finds Nahum barely alive, although the rest of his family is dead. Something kills Nahum while Ammi is in the house. Ammi contacts the police, who return to the farm the same day to investigate. While there, they empty the well and disturb the Colour Out Of Space, sending it back into the heavens.

1886

Month unknown

Sir Alfred Jermyn deserts his wife and child and joins the circus. Alfred meets his death at the hands of one of the circus gorillas when he suddenly attacks it. The beast is momentarily bested, but attacks back and kills Alfred.

1895

Month unknown

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee becomes an instructor of political economy at Miskatonic University.

1896

Month unknown

Nathaniel Peaslee marries Alice Keezar of Haverhill.

1898

Month unknown

Robert Peaslee is born of Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee.

1900

Month unknown

Wingate Peasleee is born of Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee.

1903

Month unknown

Hannah Peaslee is born of Nathaniel and Alice Peaslee.

1904

Month unknown

Herbert West attempts his first experiment at the reanimation of a human corpse. The experiment is successful, but the corpse escapes.

1905

Month unknown

Drs. Torres and Munoz’ experimentation with preserving life after death meets with some success. Dr. Torres dies a first time, but is revived. Dr. Torres dies of shock from the process.

Summer

Arkham, Massachusetts is overcome with a typhoid plague. The peak of the plague occurs in August.

August

14 - Dr. Allan Halsey dies while fighting the typhoid plague in Arkham, Massachusetts.

15 - Dr. Allan Halsey is buried.

16 - Early morning (2 a.m.). Herbert West reanimates Dr. Halsey's corpse. The corpse escapes.

16-17 - A series of gruesome murders plagues Arkham.

17-18 - Dr. Halsey's corpse is trapped and interred at Sefton Asylum.

1906

March

Herbert West reanimates the corpse of Buck Robinson, a black boxer killed in an illegal boxing match in Bolton, Massachusetts. Thinking the initial experiment a failure, West buries Robinson's body in the fields behind his house. The next evening, Robinson's corpse shows up covered with mud and eating the dismembered arm of a child. West shoots Robinson six times.

1907

October

31 - An unknown terror visits a group of squatters in the swamps south of New Orleans. Some women and children disappear and hideous screams are heard from the depths of the swamps.

November

1 - Squatters summon the New Orleans police to the swamps. Police discover the Cthulhu Cult. Forty-seven worshippers are arrested, five are killed, and two are severely wounded. Police estimate a total of near one hundred worshippers are orginally in the area. The Statue of Cthulhu is discovered and confiscated by police.

1908

Month unknown

The American Archaeological Society holds it annual convention in St. Louis, Missouri. Inspector John Legrasse of the New Orleans police department brings the Statue of Cthulhu for investigation.

May

14 - A queer amnesia overcomes Nathaniel Peaslee quite suddenly at approximately 10:20 a.m. This amnesia would last until 1913.

15 - At 3 a.m., Nathaniel Peaslee opens his eyes and begins to speak, though in an expression and language that frightens his family.

1909

Month unknown

Nathaniel Peaslee spends a month in the Himalayas.

1910

Month unknown

Alice Peaslee receives a legal divorce from Nathaniel Peaslee.

July

Herbert West turns to murder in order to procur fresh corpses for his experiments.

18 - Herbert West's colleague and assistant discovers West's method of procurment.

1911

Month unknown

After the death of his mother, Sir Arthur Jermyn begins exploring the Congo region of Africa to continue the work of his ancestors. There he meets Mwanu, an ancient tribal chief, who confirms the existence of the lost gray city.

Nathaniel Peaslee takes a camel trip into the unknown deserts of Arabia.

1912

Month unknown

Sir Arthur Jermyn discovers the lost gray city described by his ancestor, Sir Wade Jermyn. He finds out about the mummified ape-princess, and hires M. Verhaeren, a Belgian agent at a trading post, to acquire the artifact for him.

Summer

Nathaniel Peaslee charters a ship and sails in the Arctic, north of Spitzbergen.

1913

February

2 - Wilbur Whateley and his twin brother are born at 5 a.m. in Dunwich, Massachusetts.

June

M. Verhaeren sends a letter to Sir Arthur Jermyn, telling him that he has purchased the mummified remains of the ape-princess. Verhaeren sends the mummy and promises it to be in Arthur's possession within a month.

Summer

Nathaniel Peaslee's interest in strange things and places begins to wain.

August

Nathanial Peaslee returns to Arkham and reopens the long-closed house in Crane Street. Once there, he begins to set up a strange mechanical device, a queer mixture of rods, wheels, and mirrors, about two feet tall, one foot wide, and one foot thick.

3 - Sir Arthur Jermyn receives the boxed mummy of the ape-princess from the Congo. Opening it in solitude, he discovers the strong family resemblance between the mummy and himself. His fears are further confirmed when he discovers a necklace bearing the Jermyn Coat of Arms. Arthur douses himself with oil and burns himself to death.

September

26 - Nathaniel Peaslee dismisses his housekeeper and maid until noon the next day. The lights in the house burn till late, and a lean, dark, curiously foreign looking man called in an automobile.

27 - At about 1 a.m., the lights in Nathaniel Peaslee's house go out.

27 - At 2:15 a.m., a policeman observes Nathaniel Peaslee's house with all light out, but with the stranger's auto still at the curb.

27 - 4:00 a.m., the stranger's auto outside Nathaniel Peaslee's house is gone.

27 - 6:00 a.m., Dr. Wilson receives an anonymous phone call from the North Station in Boston to go to Nathaniel Peaslee's house and revive him from a faint. Upon arriving there, Dr. Wilson finds Nathaniel unconscious in his sitting room. At 11:15 a.m., Nathaniel stood up vigorously and began to show signs of recovery. The expression on his face reminded Dr. Wilson of Peaslee's old self prior to 1908. At 12:00 a.m., Nathaniel resumed in his lecture which was so abruptly interrupted by his amnesia on May 14, 1908.

October

31 - Wilbur Whateley is spotted running up the slope of Sentinel Hill with his mother by Silas Bishop.

1914

January

Wilbur Whateley begins to talk.

February

Nathaniel Peaslee begins to work again. He is haunted by vague dreams and queer ideas. Over the next few years and up till 1935, these dreams and ideas take on visual and auditory substance.

Autumn

Nathaniel Peaslee begins to have infrequent dreams of strange floatings over the city of his dreams.

September

Wilbur Whateley grows to the size of a child of four.

Month unknown

Unnamed sailor is taken prisoner by a German warship in the Pacific. He escapes and discovers a vast, uncharted island of mud, presumably risen from the sea. After traversing the expanse for over three days, he spies a column marked with strange glyphs and the creature Dagon retrieving it.

1915

Month unknown

Herbert West and his colleague go to Flanders as members of the Canadian Medical Corps during World War I.

The dreams and visions Nathaniel Peaslee experience become so intense that he is forced to quit work.

March

Herbert West reanimates the decapitated corpse of Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapman-Lee. An intensive German artillery barrage keeps West from destroying the corpse.

May

Nathaniel Peaslee sees the first of the Great Race of Yith in his dreams.

1 - Recording of mysterious religious rites between Mi-Go and a human counterpart (later identified as Mr. Noyes) is recorded by Henry Akeley at Lee’s Swamp.

1 - Tremors rattle Dunwich, Massachusetts, and are felt as far away as Aylesburg, Massachusetts.

October

31 - Underground rumblings shake Dunwich, Massa. Townsfolk attribute the disturbance to them witch Whateley’s doin’s.

1917

Month Unknown

Alfred Delapores is sent to England as an aviation officer during World War I. While there, he learns of the legends surrounding Exham Priory and arranges for his father to purchase the place.

Nathaniel Peaslee enrolls in special course in psychology at Miskatonic University in order to better decipher his dreams.

June

18 - The German submarine U-29 sinks the British Freighter Victory and kills all hands on board. Surbmerges and resurfaces at dusk. Crew finds the corpse of a sailor from the Victory clinging to the rails. In the corpse's pocket, crew finds an ivory head. Throws corpse overboard.

19 - Boatswain Müller is put into irons after babbling on about seeing the corpse swimming by the portholes of the submarine in the lead of other corpses. Seamen Schmidt and Bohm become violently ill.

20 - Seaman Schmidt and Bohm are executed by Lt. Cdr. Heinrich when they become violently insane.

29 - An explosion in the boiler room of U-29 cripples the ship. It still has the ability to submerge and rise, but it cannot propel itself. The submarine is left to the mercy of the current.

July

2 - An American ship is spotted by the crew of U-29. Seaman Traub tries to lead the crew to surrender, but Lt. Cdr. Heinrich shoots him.

3 - The U-29 is force to submerge due to bad weather. When it tries to rise to the surface, it finds itself unable to do so.

4 - General mutiny breaks out on U-29. Lt Cdr Heinrich quells the mutiny and shoots the mutineers.

August

12 - Lt. Klenze, first mate of U-29, goes completely mad. He commits suicide by exiting the crippled submarine and drowning.

13 - Lt. Cdr Heinrich discovers lost Atlantis as his submarine settles to the bottom of the ocean. Over the next few days, he conducts minor underwater explorations from the crippled U-29.

20 - Lt. Cdr. Heinrich leaves his submarine for the last time to follow the lights he sees in a sunken temple. He releases his manuscript in a bottle, which is found later on the coast of Yucatan.

1918

Month Unknown

The Exham Priory is purchased by the Delapores family. Delapores delays restoration to care for his son, Alfred, who is injured during the war.

1920

Month unknown

Nathaniel Peaslee begins to feel more comfortable with his strange dreams after extensive and satisfying research into the subject.

1921

Month unknown

Dr. Allan Halsey escapes from the Sefton Asylum with the aid of a group of silent men led by a menacing military figure.

Herbert West is brutally killed (?) by a silent tomb legion led by Sir Eric Clapman-Lee.

December

Delapores visits Edward Norrys in Anchester, England, and sees, for the first time, Exham Priory.

1922

Month unknown

Nathaniel Peaslee is finally at ease enough with his dreams that his can continue with a normal life.

1923

Month unknown

Old Whateley begins building on to and remodeling his house, especially in the attic area.

July

16 - After two years of restoration, Delapore moves into Exham Priory and retakes the original name of de la Poer.

October

The gasoline pumps which sustain life and prevent the decay of Dr. Torres limbs through an ammonia heat absorption unit fails. Dr. Torres dies a second death.

1924

August

1 - (Lammas Day) Old Whateley dies.

1925

February

28 - Earthquake hits New England. Henry Wilcox dreams of Cyclopean cities and hears the dreaded phrase "Cthulhu fhtagn."

28 - Artists and poests report various degrees of horrific dream states, the intensity of which were stronger during Henry Wilcox’s delirium. The affect lasts until April 2nd.

March

1 - Henry Wilcox visits Professor Angell with the bas-relief he created from a dream the night before. Professor Angell insists that Wilcox report any more such dreams to him immediately.

1 - (February 28 EST) The Alert sets sail from Dunedin rather hastily after strange storms and earth tremors.

2-22 - Henry Wilcox reports new and terrible dreams of Cyclopean, dripping backgrounds and unnamed horrors to Professor Angell daily. The two sounds most frequently identified during this period is Cthulhu and R’lyeh.

22-23 - New York policemen are mobbed by hysterical Levantines.

22-23 - The Emma encounters the Alert and a battle ensues. All hands on the Alert, as well as three of the crewmembers of the Emma, are killed. Gustaf Johansen and seven shipmates commandeer the Alert. Johansen discovers R’lyeh and accidentally releases Cthulhu from his tomb. Johansen escapes aboard the Alert with only one other crewmember who dies soon afterward.

23 - Henry Wilcox is stricken with fever and is taken to his family home on Waterman Street. Wilcox’s dreams intensify and are now infested with a gigantic thing miles high.

23 - Scattered cases of uneasy but formless nocturnal impressions are reported. Reports continue until April 2nd.

25 - The Vigilant sets sail from Valparaiso.

April

2 - All traces of Henry Wilcox’s strange malady completely disappear at about 3 p.m.. All memories of what had occured since March 22 are gone as well.

2 - Exceptionally heavy storms drive the Vigilant south off course. R’lyeh sinks beneath the ocean.

12 - Gustaf Johansen aboard the derelict Alert is spotted and rescued by the crew of the
Vigilant.

18 - Arcticle describing the rescue of Gustaf Johansen adrift in the Alert appears in the Sydney Bulletin.

1926

Month unknown

Lavinia Whateley expresses a deep fear of Wilbur Whateley to Mamie Bishop.

October

31 - Lavinia Whateley disappears.

1927

Month unknown

Surveyors investigate the area west of Arkham, Massachusetts, to begin groundwork for a new reservoir. The surveyor meets Ammi Pierce and learns of Blasted Heath.

Summer

Wilbur Whateley repairs two sheds in the farmyard and moves his books and effects to one of them.

July

16 - Narrator of The Shadow Over Innsmouth travels by bus from Newburyport, Massachusetts to Innsmouth on his way to Arkham. Encounters the bleak history of Innsmouth as told by Zadok Allen. He is chased through the dark streets of Innsmouth from his room at the Gilman House.

November

3 - Vermont floods, shortly after which local folk report strange, bloated bodies of unknown creatures floating in swollen streams and rivers.

Winter

Wilbur Whateley visits Miskatonic University to study the library’s copy of the Necronomicon. Asks Dr. Armitage to allow him to borrow the copy, but was quickly refused. Subsequent trips to Cambridge and Widener Libaries to borrow their copies were fruitless.

1928

Month unknown

The Journal of the American Psychological Society publishes a series of articles written by Nathaniel Peaslee about his dreams. They gain little attention.

February

Walter Gilman begins to experience strange dreams of alternate dimensions. The dreams are accompanied by a strange, lingering fever.

U.S. Government forces conduct a vast series of raids in Innsmouth, Massachusetts, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting of an enormous number of houses along the waterfront. A submarine fires torpedoes into the abyss at the base of Devil’s Reef, partially destroying the Deep Ones’ city of Y’ha-nthlei.

March

Keziah Mason begins to appear along side Brown Jenkins in Walter Gilman’s dreams. Toward the end of March, Gilman begins showing an uncanny knack for solving Riemannian equations.

April

Joe Mazurewicz begins to pray in earnest to keep Keziah Mason at bay as May Eve approaches.

1 - Walter Gilman worries considerably because his slow fever has not abated. Reports of his recent sleepwalking adds to his worries.

16 - Walter Gilman goes to the doctor’s office and is surprised to find his fever is not as bad as he feared. The doctor refers him to a nerve specialist.

19 - Walter Gilman experiences full interdimensional travel for the first time, travelling to an alternate world of excessive gravity.

20 - Walter Gilman travels to a world of horrific beauty and brings back an artifact that turns out to raise quite a furor at the university because of its strangeness.

21 - Keziah Mason takes Walter Gilman to stand before Nyarlathotep. Nyarlathotep shows Gilman the book he must sign since he now knows how to travel between dimensions. Gilman refuses to sign and is bit on the left wrist by Brown Jenkin.

22 - Walter Gilman takes the spiky image to Frank Elwood’s room and explains everything that has happened to him so far. Elwood invites Gilman to stay in his room for a short while. While there the first few nights, Gilman enjoys uninterrupted sleep.

23 - Summary on local and mythological folklore by A. Wilmarth is printed in the Brattleboro Reformer.

27 - A fresh rathole appears in Frank Elwood’s room.

28 - Walter Gilman begins to dream again. He accompanies Keziah Mason, Brown Jenkin, and Nyarlathotep when they kidnap Anastasia Wolejko, a two-year-old child of a laundry
worker.

29 - Walter Gilman awakes to find his feet and pajamas covered with mud.

30 - Walter Gilman witness Keziah Mason preparing to sacrifice the Wolejko child. He stops her and kills her. Brown Jenkin kills the child.

May

1 - Brown Jenkin kills Walter Gilman by burrowing through his body and devouring his heart.

25 - Henry Akeley sends first letter to Albert Wilmarth, explaining he has conclusive proof that creatures sighted floating in Vermont rivers and streams do, indeed, exist.

July

18 - Telegram received by Albert Wilmarth from Henry Akeley notifying him that Akeley was expressing the Black Stone he spoke of in his letters to Wilmarth by train. The stone never arrives.

Narrator of The Shadow Over Innsmouth learns the truth of his heritage and plans to return to the city of the Deep Ones with his cousin.

August

3 - Wilbur Whateley attempts to steal the Miskatonic University’s copy of the Necronomicon. Whateley is killed by the university’s watch dog and is discovered by Dr. Armitage and two colleagues for what he really is. The body disappears into a pool of white, sticky material.

12 - Henry Akeley’s farmhouse comes under gunfire and three of Akeley’s twelve dogs are found dead in the morning.

15 - Alber Wilmarth receives a frantic letter from Henry Akeley explaining the attack on August 12-13, 1928.

28 - Albert Wilmarth receives a letter from Henry Akeley stating he is ready to give up and leave, moving to California with his son.

September

2 - Dr. Armitage finally deciphers the journals of Wilbur Whateley.

4 - Professor Rice and Dr. Morgan visits a besieged Dr. Armitage and walk away from the meeting ashen faced and trembling.

5 - Letter from Henry Akeley arrives at Albert Wilmarth’s, telling of more gunfire and of his dogs attacking something which landed on his roof. Five more dogs are found dead from gunshots. Letter is dated September 3.

6 - A second letter arrives at Albert Wilmarth’s from Henry Akeley, informing Wilmarth that the Mi-Go are now talking directly to Akeley from outside his house.

7 - A third letter arrives at Albert Wilmarth’s from Henry Akeley. Akeley relays he has actually touched a dead Mi-Go, one his dogs apparently killed. Akeley also divulges that you can’t actually photograph a Mi-Go for some unknown reason.

8 - Albert Wilmarth receives a letter from Henry Akeley dated September 6. The letter shows a 180 degree turn around in Akeley’s attitude toward the Mi-Go. Akeley admits a truce and alliance with the creatures and bids Wilmarth visit his farm.

9 - Albert Wilmarth telegrams Henry Akeley, telling him he will visit Akeley’s farm on September 12. Wilmarth receives a confirmation telegram that night.

9 - The horror of Dunwich breaks loose.

10 - Luther Brown reports the horror rampaging through the countryside.

10 - The horror of Dunwich attacks the Frye farm, killing or devouring all the livestock in the barn. Only a quarter of the livestock can be found, either dead or in such a state that they had to be killed.

12 - Dr. Armitage discovers the horror of Dunwich is loose in an obscure article in the Arkham Advertiser about a creature imagined by bootleg whiskey drunk townfolk in Dunwich.

12 - Albert Wilmarth goes to Brattleboro station and is met there by Mr. Noyes. He is driven to Akeley’s farmhouse where a Mi-Go disguised as Akeley explains the history of the Mi-Go to him. Later that evening, Wilmarth overhears the Mi-Go and their human allies talking. After discovering the ruse, Wilmarth flees the Akeley farm in Akeley’s Ford.

13 - Albert Wilmarth returns to Henry Akeley’s farm with the Townshend sheriff in tow. Discovers Akeley has disappeared from the face of the earth.

13 - The horror of Dunwich attacks the Frye farm again, destroying the house. No trace of any thing living or dead was found. The Frye family disappears.

14 - Dr. Armitage, Dr. Morgan, and Professor Rice set out for Dunwich.

15 - Dr. Armitage and his colleagues face and defeat the Dunwich horror.

1930

September

2 - The Miskatonic University Expedition sets sail aboard the brig Arkham and the barque Miskatonic from Boston to the Antartic.

October

20 - The Miskatonic University Expedition crosses the Antartic Circle and encounters considerable field ice.

26 - The Miskatonic University Expedition sights their first glimpse of the Antartic (Admiralty Range).

November

7 - The Miskatonic University Expedition passes Franklin Island.

8 - The Miskatonic University Expedition sights Mt. Erebus and Mt. Terror on Ross Island.

9 - The Miskatonic University Expedition lands on Ross Island and begins its exploration of Antartica.

December

13-15 - Professor Pabodie, along with two graduate students—Gedney and Carroll—make their arduous and triumphant ascent of Mt. Nansen.

1931

January

6 - Members of the Miskatonic University Expedition fly over the South Pole on one of many observation flights.

22 - Professor Lake of the Miskatonic University Expedition leads a subexpedition from the main camp northwest in hopes of finding new fossils and samples.

23 - Professor Lake's subexpedition discovers a cave in the foothills of the Mountains of Madness. The cave yields extensive fossils, along with 14 frozen bodies of the Old Ones. Lake has the specimens taken to camp. The dogs become vicious and must be seperated from the specimens. Lake attempts to dissect one of the damaged Old Ones.

24 - All contact between the base camp, McMurdo Sound, and Lake's subexpedition is lost. A storm of unbelieveable strength pours from the west, destroying what is left of the subcamp. Of the specimens collected, the 8 Old Ones still in good condition thaw from hibernation and are awaken by the dogs attacking them. The Old Ones kill everyone in the camp and leave to return to the Plateau of Leng. With them they bring two specimens for further study of their own, a human and a dog.

25 - A single plan makes for the Lake camp. Everyone is found dead. The camp is in utter ruins. Dyer believes Gedney went insane and killed everyone, accounting for his missing corpse.

26 - Dyer and Dansforth fly over the Mountains of Madness. There they discover the Plateau of Leng and the City of Leng. They barely escape with their lives from a Shoggoth.

27 - Dyer and Dansforth return to the base camp, but swear prior to their arrival never to tell a single soul what they've discovered. Dansforth goes mad.

28 - All planes and material still available return to McMurdo Sound.

February

2 - The Miskatonic and the Arkham, with all hands on board, set sail for Boston, cutting the Miskatonic University Expedition drastically short.

March

A gale wrecks the roof and great chimney of the Witch-House.

December

Workman and police discovered bones and other artifacts amongst the rubble of the upper rooms in the Witch-House. Children's bones, along with bones of other animals, or things, were found in abundance. A silver bowl and sacrificial dagger were found, as was the bones of a rat-like creature with hands and feet like a human.

1934

May

18 - Robert Mackenzie writes a letter to Nathaniel Peaslee, telling him about the strange blocks of stone he discovered in Western Australia and how they correspond with those of his dreams.

July

10 - Nathaniel Peaslee receives the letter from Robert Mackenzie, which was originally sent to the American Psychological Society and forwarded to him. After discussion with his son and others from Miskatonic University, Peaslee prepares to go on an expedition into Australia to study the stones.

Winter (month unknown)

Robert Blake returns to Providence, Rhode Island from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and takes up residence on College Street. Through the winter into early 1935, Blake produces five of his best short stories and paints seven canvases.

1935

First part of year

Robert Mackenzie comes to Arkham to assist Nathaniel Peaslee in preparing for his expedition.

March

28 - Aboard the Lexington, the Peaslee Expedition sets sail to Australia via the Mediterranean.

April

Robert Blake makes his way across Providence, Rhode Island to visit Free-Will Church atop Federal Hill. While there, he discovers the skeletal remains of Edwin Lillibridge and the Shining Trapezohedron. Blake accidentally summons the Haunter of the Dark by staring into the depths of the stone.

May

31 - The Peaslee Expedition fords a branch of the De Grey and enters a region of "utter desolation."

June

Robert Blake finally unlocks the secret of the cryptogram in a notebook he found in the Free-Will Church. The text, in Aklo, describes the Shining Trapezohedron, and how it is used to summon the Haunter of the Dark.

3 - The Peaslee Expedition discovers the first of the half buried blocks. Nathaniel recognizes the block and the hieroglyphics that adorn it from those in his dreams. A month’s worth of digging yields a total of 1250 blocks.

July

During the first week of the month, Nathaniel Peaslee develops an unaccountable mixed feeling of the area to his northeast. He takes the habit of going on long walks toward that area at night.

Citizens of Providence, Rhode Island who live near the Free-Will Church begin to whisper of the stirrings, bumpings, and scrapings inside the church ever since Blake violated it.

11 - Nathaniel Peaslee discovers a block belonging to the dark masonry of the Flying Polyps during one of his nocturnal walks.

12 - Peaslee takes Dyer, Freeborn, Boyle, and his son out to find the dark basalt block he discovered the night before with no luck.

16-17 - A thunderstorm hits Providence, Rhode Island and put's the city's lights out for an entire hour. Those living near the Free-Will Church describe vicious flopping and bumping in the main building of the church during this absence of light.

17 - The Journal carries the story of the noises in the Free-Will Church. Reporters of the Bulletin enter the Free-Will church to investigate, and find the area in shambles, a terrible odor everywhere, and bits of yellow stain and charring. They do not find the skeleton or the Shining Trapezohedron in the tower.

18 - Nathaniel Peaslee discovers the absolute truth of what happened to him during his spell of amnesia. He finds access to the city of his dreams and discovers the library where his own recollections of earth’s history has been stored for over 150,000,000 years. On his way out, he is chased by a Flying Polyp and barely escapes with his life.

30 - Robert Blake sleepwalks and awakes to find himself opening the trapdoor that leads into the upper tower of the Free-Will Church. In the following week, Blake takes his food by telephone and ties cords around his legs in knots tight enough to waken him if he tries to sleepwalk again.

August

8 - A great thunderstorm breaks around Providence, Rhode Island.

9 - At just prior to 1 a.m., Robert Blake attempts to telephone the power company, but the lines are dead. At 2:12 a.m., the lights go out all over Providence. Watchers around the Free-Will Church stand vigil with candles under umbrellas, but great gusts of winds blow the candles out. At 2:35 a.m, the Haunter of the Dark bursts from its confines in the church and rushes to Blake. A great blast of lightning banishes the beast, but not before Blake is killed.

Doctor Dexter investigates the church and finds the Shining Trapezohedron, along with numerous forbidden tomes. He tosses the stone into the deepest channel of the Narragansett Bay and keeps the volumes in his own library.

2518

Month unknown

Australian physicist Nevel Kingston-Brown dies.

5000

Month unknown

The Tsan-Chan empire dominates earth.

16,000

Month unknown

Nug-Soth, a magician of the dark conquerors of earth, lives.

Hombres y Mujeres - Isabel Allende

Es mejor ser hombre que mujer, porque hasta el hombre más miserable tiene una mujer a la cual mandar.

Isabel Allende