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** ''The Skull on the Desk'' ends with [[spoiler: Abdul Al-Hazred consigned to a FateWorseThanDeath as his spirit is tied to a skull.]]
** ''Cockroad Suckers'' ends with [[spoiler: The infection of the insect mind spreading with no one to stop it.]]
** ''Cinderella's Outer Godfather'' is a FracturedFairyTale [[spoiler: that ends in the destruction of Earth.]]
** ''Cookies for the Gentleman'' has the protagonist [[spoiler: insane and sacrificing his neighbors to Nyarlathotep.]]
** ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' [[spoiler: results in the destruction of the city and the death of all of its inhabitants but Booth, Mercury, and their daughter.]]
** ''Cockroad Suckers'' ends with [[spoiler: The infection of the insect mind spreading with no one to stop it.]]
** ''Cinderella's Outer Godfather'' is a FracturedFairyTale [[spoiler: that ends in the destruction of Earth.]]
** ''Cookies for the Gentleman'' has the protagonist [[spoiler: insane and sacrificing his neighbors to Nyarlathotep.]]
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** ''The The Skull on the Desk'' Desk" ends with [[spoiler: Abdul Al-Hazred consigned to a FateWorseThanDeath as his spirit is tied to a skull.]]
**''Cockroad Suckers'' "Cockroad Suckers" ends with [[spoiler: The infection of the insect mind spreading with no one to stop it.]]
**''Cinderella's "Cinderella's Outer Godfather'' Godfather" is a FracturedFairyTale [[spoiler: that ends in the destruction of Earth.]]
**''Cookies "Cookies for the Gentleman'' Gentleman" has the protagonist [[spoiler: insane and sacrificing his neighbors to Nyarlathotep.]]
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** ''The "The Final Gate'' Gate" [[spoiler: ends with the destruction of Rebecca, the 1000 year old Yog-Sothoth priestess.]]
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* BadassNormal:
** Captain Cross and Harry Stubbs are somewhat unique in they're perfectly normal 1920s human beings able to survive their occult investigations.
** Cletus Diggs is also a perfectly normal human being (albeit an enormous redneck) who treats the Mythos with surprising levity.
** Captain Cross and Harry Stubbs are somewhat unique in they're perfectly normal 1920s human beings able to survive their occult investigations.
** Cletus Diggs is also a perfectly normal human being (albeit an enormous redneck) who treats the Mythos with surprising levity.
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** "Cinderella and Her Outer Godfather" is a retelling of Cinderella with Nyarlathotep playing the role of the fairy
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* HillbillyHorrors:
** "Cockroach Suckers" is about how the Al-Azif corrupts a small 20th century rural American town and turns everyone into bug worshipers.
** The Cletus Digs stories usually amount to something horrifying happening in rural Lovecraft Country.
** "The Blackwood Relic" is about a rural country family getting corrupted by the ghost of their Nyarlathotep worshiping ancestor.
** "Cockroach Suckers" is about how the Al-Azif corrupts a small 20th century rural American town and turns everyone into bug worshipers.
** The Cletus Digs stories usually amount to something horrifying happening in rural Lovecraft Country.
** "The Blackwood Relic" is about a rural country family getting corrupted by the ghost of their Nyarlathotep worshiping ancestor.
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Despite this, a number of more traditional DownerEnding stories are interspersed between them as well.
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* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The aliens of Callisto are one of these, being a HiveMind race that intends to escape with the ''Al-Azif'' onto Earth at the climax of the ''Tales of Al-Azif'' book.
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* TomeOfEldritchLore: The ''Al-Azif'' in the titular tales is both this and an ArtifactOfDoom as it not only contains the collected wisdom of the Callisto aliens [[spoiler: but can serve as a temporal portal to when their species was about to go extinct.]] It is also what inspired Abdul Al-Hazred to create the ''Necronomicon.''
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** Harry Stubbs is a ex-boxer and WW1 veteran who investigates the occult in 1920s London.
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** Harry Stubbs is a ex-boxer and WW1 veteran who investigates the occult in 1920s London.
*** Captain Cross is an AscendedExtra from the same series who does his own investigations.
** Harry Stubbs is a ex-boxer and WW1 veteran who investigates the occult in 1920s London.
*** Captain Cross is an AscendedExtra from the same series who does his own investigations.
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** ''Cinderella's Outer Godfather'' is a FracturedFairyTale [[spoiler: that ends in the destruction of Earth.]]
** ''Cookies for the Gentleman'' has the protagonist [[spoiler: insane and sacrificing his neighbors to Nyarlathotep.]]
** ''Cookies for the Gentleman'' has the protagonist [[spoiler: insane and sacrificing his neighbors to Nyarlathotep.]]
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* TwoFistedTales: The books take a very Pulp hero version of Lovecraft's tales with protagonists that are unafraid to oppose the various cultists as well as forces threatening the world. Occassionally subverted where the protagonists BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu.
* VillainProtagonist: Abdul Al-Hazred and Apophis Zul are both particularly nasty characters devoted to the Mythos.
* VillainProtagonist: Abdul Al-Hazred and Apophis Zul are both particularly nasty characters devoted to the Mythos.
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* AncientPrecursors: The Yithians are a race that existed far before humanity and still continue to influence life on Earth via time travel.
** ''Time Loopers'' has a far less forgiving treatment of them and considers them to be AbusivePrecursors who manipulate humanity as cannon fodder against the Shoggoths while possessing individuals without regard to their autonomy.
** ''Time Loopers'' has a far less forgiving treatment of them and considers them to be AbusivePrecursors who manipulate humanity as cannon fodder against the Shoggoths while possessing individuals without regard to their autonomy.
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** ''Time Loopers'' has a far less forgiving treatment of them and considers them to be AbusivePrecursors who manipulate humanity as cannon fodder against the Shoggoths while possessing individuals without regard to their autonomy.
** ''Time Loopers'' has a far less forgiving treatment of them and considers them to be AbusivePrecursors who manipulate humanity as cannon fodder against the Shoggoths while possessing individuals without regard to their autonomy.
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* AncientPrecursors: The Yithians are a race that existed far before humanity and still continue to influence life on Earth via time travel.
** ''Time Loopers'' has a far less forgiving treatment of them and considers them to be AbusivePrecursors who manipulate humanity as cannon fodder against the Shoggoths while possessing individuals without regard to their autonomy.
** ''Time Loopers'' has a far less forgiving treatment of them and considers them to be AbusivePrecursors who manipulate humanity as cannon fodder against the Shoggoths while possessing individuals without regard to their autonomy.
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* ForScience: Abdul Al-Hazred in "The Skull on the Desk" is obsessed with learning natural philosophy and the secrets of the world beyond the religion of the High Muslim Empire.
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* NayTheist: Abdul Al-Hazred believes in the Great Old Ones and other spirits but finds the idea of religion as well as placating them to be ridiculous.
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* TheCameo: Titus Crow from the Creator/BrianLumley Cthulhu Mythos series, Literature/TitusCrow, shows up in the story, "All The Way Up."
* CanonWelding:
** The books share coherent, if loosely, collected narratives between multiple series like Porter Rockwell, Andrew Doran, and Cthulhu Armageddon. This despite all of the leads having their own series set in their own worlds, effectively making them one single timeline in the Book of Cthulhu series.
** The books take the premise that the Hyborian Age of Creator/RobertEHoward is the past of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, making the TwoFistedTales setting and LovecraftLite a bit more palatable.
** The Literature/DechanceChronicles story "All the Way Up", with the permission of Creator/BrianLumley, includes a short appearance by Literature/TitusCrow.
* CanonWelding:
** The books share coherent, if loosely, collected narratives between multiple series like Porter Rockwell, Andrew Doran, and Cthulhu Armageddon. This despite all of the leads having their own series set in their own worlds, effectively making them one single timeline in the Book of Cthulhu series.
** The books take the premise that the Hyborian Age of Creator/RobertEHoward is the past of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, making the TwoFistedTales setting and LovecraftLite a bit more palatable.
** The Literature/DechanceChronicles story "All the Way Up", with the permission of Creator/BrianLumley, includes a short appearance by Literature/TitusCrow.
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* ActionHorror: The series contain tie-ins to multiple action series (''Cthulhu Armageddon'', Andrea Doran, Harry Stubbs, Porter Rockwell) as well as stories of individuals trying (with varying degrees of success) to stop the Mythos with guns, swords, or magic.
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Andrew Doran is a classic one as he works as a two-fisted pulp hero as well as professor of antiquities for Miskatonic University.
* AfterTheEnd: The ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' stories take place in a world destroyed by the Great Old Ones where humanity is surviving in scattered towns as well as tribes.
* AllForNothing: ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' has the protagonists up against an entire army of undead horrors led by what seems to be Nyarlathotep himself. Booth is prepared to give his life to buy the people some time to evacuate. [[spoiler: Mercury ends up making a HumanSacrifice of the survivors to save Booth's life.]]
* AdventurerArchaeologist: Andrew Doran is a classic one as he works as a two-fisted pulp hero as well as professor of antiquities for Miskatonic University.
* AfterTheEnd: The ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' stories take place in a world destroyed by the Great Old Ones where humanity is surviving in scattered towns as well as tribes.
* AllForNothing: ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' has the protagonists up against an entire army of undead horrors led by what seems to be Nyarlathotep himself. Booth is prepared to give his life to buy the people some time to evacuate. [[spoiler: Mercury ends up making a HumanSacrifice of the survivors to save Booth's life.]]
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* AllForNothing: ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' has the protagonists up against an entire army of undead horrors led by what seems to be Nyarlathotep himself. Booth is prepared to give his life to buy the people some time to evacuate. [[spoiler: Mercury ends up making a HumanSacrifice of the survivors to save Booth's life.]]
* AllForNothing: ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' has the protagonists up against an entire army of undead horrors led by what seems to be Nyarlathotep himself. Booth is prepared to give his life to buy the people some time to evacuate. [[spoiler: Mercury ends up making a HumanSacrifice of the survivors to save Booth's life.]]
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** ''Tales ofindividuals trying (with varying degrees of success) to stop the Mythos Al-Azif'''s Abdul Al-Hazred goes mad with guns, swords, or magic.
* AllForNothing: ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' haspower as soon as he discovers the protagonists up against ''Al-Azif''. So, you don't feel too sorry for him when he is torn apart by an entire army invisible monster. [[spoiler: That's not the end of undead horrors led by what seems to be him, though.]]
** Apophis Zul is a EvilChancellor and EvilSorcerer in the waning days of the Hyborian Age. [[spoiler: The fact Nyarlathotephimself. Booth is prepared causes him to give die of old age listening to his life to buy stories leaves the people some time to evacuate. [[spoiler: Mercury ends up making a HumanSacrifice of the survivors to save Booth's life.reader with very little sympathy.]]
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* DownerEnding: Most of the stories end more on the BittersweetEnding side of things but others fall upon this.
** ''The Skull on the Desk'' ends with [[spoiler: Abdul Al-Hazred consigned to a FateWorseThanDeath as his spirit is tied to a skull.]]
** ''Cockroad Suckers'' ends with [[spoiler: The infection of the insect mind spreading with no one to stop it.]]
** ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' [[spoiler: results in the destruction of the city and the death of all of its inhabitants but Booth, Mercury, and their daughter.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The stories are generally told in chronological order and end with some small measure of hope.
** "The Last Page" [[spoiler: The Al-Azif is destroyed along with the race of the Callisto insects attempting to destroy the last of humanity.]]
** ''The Final Gate'' [[spoiler: ends with the destruction of Rebecca, the 1000 year old Yog-Sothoth priestess.]]
** ''Andrew Doran and the Journey to the Serpent Temple'' has [[spoiler: Yig himself intervene with Andrew Doran preventing the renegade Yithians from destroying humanity.]]
* DownerEnding: Most of the stories end more on the BittersweetEnding side of things but others fall upon this.
** ''The Skull on the Desk'' ends with [[spoiler: Abdul Al-Hazred consigned to a FateWorseThanDeath as his spirit is tied to a skull.]]
** ''Cockroad Suckers'' ends with [[spoiler: The infection of the insect mind spreading with no one to stop it.]]
** ''The Siege of New Ulthar'' [[spoiler: results in the destruction of the city and the death of all of its inhabitants but Booth, Mercury, and their daughter.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: The stories are generally told in chronological order and end with some small measure of hope.
** "The Last Page" [[spoiler: The Al-Azif is destroyed along with the race of the Callisto insects attempting to destroy the last of humanity.]]
** ''The Final Gate'' [[spoiler: ends with the destruction of Rebecca, the 1000 year old Yog-Sothoth priestess.]]
** ''Andrew Doran and the Journey to the Serpent Temple'' has [[spoiler: Yig himself intervene with Andrew Doran preventing the renegade Yithians from destroying humanity.]]
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The Books of Cthulhu is an anthology series based on Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos by a variety of Neo-Lovecraftian authors like David Niall Wilson, David Hambling, Matthew Davenport, and Creator/CTPhipps.
The book series are generally LighterAndSofter than typical HP Lovecraft CosmicHorrorStory fiction with the protagonists being on the Pulpier heroic side of things versus LovecraftLite versions of the Mythos. They sometimes tie into pre-existing series like the Literature/AndreaDoran, Literature/HarryStubbs, and ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon.''
Despite this, a number of more traditional DownerEnding stories are interspersed between them as well.
Each book has a framing device that justifies the inclusion of the various tales within the story ranging from Abdul Al-Hazred reminescing, a undead sorcerer trying to destroy the world, a time traveler observing various events, and Nyarlathotep relating tales to a selfish priest.
* ''Tales of the Al-Azif''
* ''Tales of Yog-Sothoth''
* ''The Book of Yig''
* ''Tales of Nyarlathotep''
* ''Time Loopers''
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This series contains the following tropes:
* ArtifactOfDoom:
** The Al-Azif in ''Tales of the Al-Azif'' is a book that contains the entire history of an alien race before communicating part of that knowledge to Abdul Al-Hazred.
** The Windlass ap in ''Time Loopers'' allows humans to be able to reset days within their timelines but slowly undermines reality.
* ActionHorror: The series contain tie-ins to multiple action series (''Cthulhu Armageddon'', Andrea Doran, Harry Stubbs, Porter Rockwell) as well as stories of individuals trying (with varying degrees of success) to stop the Mythos with guns, swords, or magic.
* GenreAnthology: The Books of Cthulhu series is about action filled pulp horror stories.
* WeirdWest:
** The Porter Rockwell series are about the historical cowboy and his various encounters with the Mythos.
** The ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' stories take place in a post-apocalypse eldritch version of this with cowboys, gunslingers, frontier towns, magic, and ghouls in a giant Wasteland.
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The Books of Cthulhu is an anthology series based on Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos by a variety of Neo-Lovecraftian authors like David Niall Wilson, David Hambling, Matthew Davenport, and Creator/CTPhipps.
The book series are generally LighterAndSofter than typical HP Lovecraft CosmicHorrorStory fiction with the protagonists being on the Pulpier heroic side of things versus LovecraftLite versions of the Mythos. They sometimes tie into pre-existing series like the Literature/AndreaDoran, Literature/HarryStubbs, and ''Literature/CthulhuArmageddon.''
Despite this, a number of more traditional DownerEnding stories are interspersed between them as well.
Each book has a framing device that justifies the inclusion of the various tales within the story ranging from Abdul Al-Hazred reminescing, a undead sorcerer trying to destroy the world, a time traveler observing various events, and Nyarlathotep relating tales to a selfish priest.
* ''Tales of the Al-Azif''
* ''Tales of Yog-Sothoth''
* ''The Book of Yig''
* ''Tales of Nyarlathotep''
* ''Time Loopers''
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This series contains the following tropes:
* ArtifactOfDoom:
** The Al-Azif in ''Tales of the Al-Azif'' is a book that contains the entire history of an alien race before communicating part of that knowledge to Abdul Al-Hazred.
** The Windlass ap in ''Time Loopers'' allows humans to be able to reset days within their timelines but slowly undermines reality.
* ActionHorror: The series contain tie-ins to multiple action series (''Cthulhu Armageddon'', Andrea Doran, Harry Stubbs, Porter Rockwell) as well as stories of individuals trying (with varying degrees of success) to stop the Mythos with guns, swords, or magic.
* GenreAnthology: The Books of Cthulhu series is about action filled pulp horror stories.
* WeirdWest:
** The Porter Rockwell series are about the historical cowboy and his various encounters with the Mythos.
** The ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' stories take place in a post-apocalypse eldritch version of this with cowboys, gunslingers, frontier towns, magic, and ghouls in a giant Wasteland.
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