List of works influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos

This article provides a list of cultural references to H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. For works that are stylistically influenced by Lovecraft, see Lovecraftian horror.

Literature

Title	Notes
Comissioned (webcomic)	This webcomic featured Cthulhu as a malevolent ninja, and later a zombie, dubbed "Cthulhu Ninja Zombie" after being summoned by a person which claims to be Goth
Sinfest	This webcomic featured Cthulhu when Slick takes a train ride through Hell on the "Infernal Studios Tour." Slick is sure that "... its fake."
Jerusalem's Lot	Horror novelist Stephen King references Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" in his own short story about a demon-worshiping cult in a rural town.
N	Horror novelist Stephen King has a character named Cthun in his novella entitled N. This character is described in same sort of tones of creeping dread that Cthulu is, and the name is clearly an homage to Lovecraft's most famous creation.
I, Cthulhu	Fantasy/Horror novelist Neil Gaiman worte a short story on his website featuring Cthulhu dictating an autobiography to a human slave
Penny Arcade	This webcomic has featured Cthulhu on two occasions, once with him working on a crossword puzzle on a park bench ("What's a ten-letter word for 'a black goat with a thousand young'?"), and the other time with him devouring the Earth on Christmas Eve in Tycho and Gabe's book The Last Christmas (the six-part comic that shows it is called "The Christmas Special That Should Not Be"). The Necrowombicon, an obvious parody of the Necronomicon, is also featured on several occasions.
Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness	In this first Penny Arcade video game, Yog Sethis is an evil god of "unending silence." It's worshiped by a cult of mimes and resembles Cthulhu dressed as a mime. The book that tells of it and the other three gods is entitled the Necrowombicon, a parody of the Necronomicon.
Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse	This parody book features a character called Tuna Lovecraft, a parody of Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter books. Her familiar is mentioned as being Cthulhu. However, Tuna says that "he's just a friend of [her] dad's."
Fuzzy Knights Of The Dinner Table	This webcomic has a storyline where Ben the Rabbit is possessed by a book resembling the necronomicon, and proceeds to summon Kachooloo (an obvious take on the name Cthulu) to the Material world. Since he was summoned by a stuffed animal, Kachooloo comes forth in a plush, stuffed version. The description that is given in this story of Kachooloo is "Green, Tentacled, Winged, Furry Monstrosity....that is just SOOO cute!" The main characters release Kachooloo after he gives Ben his soul back.
User Friendly	This web comic includes Cthulhu, sometimes as an employee of a parody of a Canadian ISP. In the comic, he is referred to as a 'Squid God'. Hastur also appears, given physical form as a blob of pure blackness, when the nastiness of Usenet is extracted and used to flavour coffee.
A Colder War	A novella by Charles Stross mixes the Cthulhu Mythos with both hacker culture and Len Deighton-style spy fiction. His novels The Atrocity Archives and The Jennifer Morgue take the same basic approach, though they are not set in the same universe.
SubGenius	A satirical religious group that borrows heavily from the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Perry Bible Fellowship	A webcomic with a strip called "Zuthulus Resurrection".
America: The Book	In this book by Jon Stewart, he mentions that saying the words "Time Warner Company" backwards would summon the Dark Lord Cthulhu.
Outlanders	A series created by Mark Ellis features elements of the Cthulhu Mythos, notably Shadow Scourge and Iceblood.
Doctor Who	Several spin-off novels of the popular Doctor Who TV show have incorporated aspects of the Cthulhu Mythos into its fictional universe. White Darkness, by David A. McIntee, features the Necronomicon and a Cthulhu-like entity being raised in Haiti. All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane (which also features Sherlock Holmes) says that this entity was Cthulhu, although McIntee has written that this was not his original intent..
The Midnight Eye Files: The Amulet	Minions of Cthulhu attempt to bring the Great Old One back in modern day Glasgow in this book by British author William Meikle .
Resume With Monsters	In this satirical novel by William Browning Spencer, a temp worker gets a job at a company whose upper management interacts with Lovecraft's Elder Gods.
Night of the Living Re-Run	This satirical look at the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series features Clark Ashton Smith's mythos-tome The Book of Eibon.
Maureen Birnbaum at the Looming Awfulness	This anthology by George Alec Effinger is a parody of Lovecraft.
Thomas Ligotti	The works of this author often intersect with the Mythos, whether obliquely or subtly.
Foucault's Pendulum	In the culminating episode of by Umberto Eco, a nocturnal ceremony which takes place in Paris' Musée des Arts et Métiers, a member of the Tres Secret Society pronounces the following incantation: "I'a Cthulhu! I'a S'ha-t'n!" ("S'ha-t'n" is apparently an allusion to Satan.)
Irregular Webcomic	This webcomic featured Cthulhu as a character, until he was wrestled to death by Steve.
Bugtown	A comic series by Matt Howarth has Cthulhu as a keyboard player of the popular interdimensional bar band The Bulldaggers.
Elf Only Inn	This webcomic, on the fictional game Marauders of Gaia MMORPG, refers to a book called the Nexromrun.icon, an object from the Beta period of the game. It is an obvious parody of theNecronomicon. It is both a level editor and a character editor. In essence, it grants whoever owns it virtual omnipotence in the game. Many characters in the comic want to get their hands on it.
Army of Darkness vs. Re-Animator	This comic book based on Army of Darkness features H.P Lovecraft's character Herbert West, who turns out to be the doctor that will be looking after Ash while he stays at Arkham Asylum. West is allied with the Old Ones and they appear at the end of the novel as does a Cthulhu-like creature who pretends to be human to get the Necronomicon.
Jinxremoving	In the 10th issue of this comic by Arpad Crisis, Arpad gets the flu and is conscripted into battle by a talking ghost booger that tells him he must fight the most horrible thing imaginable, a frat-boy Cthulhu named "Frat-Sothoth". Arpad chickens out and runs away.
Megatokyo	This webcomic and manga series briefly features a book called the Necrowombicon, an obvious parody of the Necronomicon. Note that this is also a reference to Penny Arcade, who first used the Necrowombicon.
Twisted Kaiju Theater	This webcomic references Dick Cheny's Reagmonicon, has one of the characters referring to Lovecraft as "a drunk", and features a brief appearance of Nyarlathotep, though stylized after the kaiju SpaceGodzilla.
Little Gloomy	This comic book features a character named Carl Cthulu.
Nothing Nice To Say	This webcomic by Mitch Clem features the Cthulhu as the characters' roommate.
The Pornomicon	A gay-themed erotic comic book by Logan that the author calls "a personal tribute to Lovecraft."
Bionicle	This Lego game franchise features a Lovecraftian being known as Tren Krom, a tentacled monstrosity capable of driving even Makuta into madness. Story writer Greg Farshtey confirmed this as a reference to the Cthulhu Mythos on the Bionicle fan site BZPower.
Unspeakable Vault (Of Doom)	In this webcomic, the character "Cthulhoo" is inspired by Cthulhu.
"Necrotelicomnicon"	or "The Phone Book of the Dead" is Terry Pratchett's parody of the Necronomicon in his Discworld series of books, which also involve Lovecraftian monsters known as 'Things from the Dungeon Dimensions', some of which have similar names to the Old Ones.
Hello Cthulhu	This webcomic features Cthulhu, Dagon, and Lovecraft's story "The Color Out Of Space" in the Hello Kitty universe..

Television

Title	Notes
Justice League	In the two-part episode called "The Terror Beyond", inserted the concept of the Great Old Ones into the Justice League series. In the episode the JLA must join forces with mystical Doctor Fate and villain Solomon Grundy to defeat the leader of the Great Old Ones, an extra-dimensional being named Ichthultu (a variant of Cthulhu, which Dwayne McDuffie mistakenly thought couldn't be used for copyright reasons), which once posed as a god on Hawkgirl's home planet.
The Real Ghostbusters	The episode "The Collect Call of Cathulhu" revolves around a cult attempting to revive Cthulhu. The episode made repeated references to various aspects of the Mythos, including Lovecraft himself, and the Derleth name, as well as the Necronomicon, which returned in the episode "Russian About". The episode stated that Lovecraft and the others based their mythos around their own "research" on the real Necronomicon. It also features a fictional story by Lovecraft, "The Horror from the Depths".
Rough Magik (2000)	influenced by "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow out of Time", features the government secretly battling the Sleeping God.
Thirdspace	This Babylon 5 television movie is based upon the Cthulhu Mythos, although the Old Ones are not actually referred to by name in the movie.
Babylon 5	The pak'ma'ra bare a close resemblance to Cthulu and are devout carrion eaters. However they are not evil nor are key players in the series.
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	The episode "Prank Call of Cthulhu" features a phone of Cthulhu which Grim says is the most dangerous phone in the universe, and which Billy hopes to use to avoid being identified by caller ID. Cthulhu then enlists Billy and Irwin into a prank calling business, turning the people of Endsville into squid-like horrors. In the episode, Cthulhu appears more anthropomorphic than usual, with scrawny legs and purple skin.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	The episode "The Darkness Within" features a Cthulhu-like monster.
Freakazoid	This animated series featured a spoof of Cthulhu known as Vorn the Unspeakable.
Dragomon	While named after the Mythos god Dagon, Dragomon physically resembles Cthulhu. As well, he is imprisoned deep beneath the digital sea, much as Cthulhu is imprisoned in R'lyeh.
Pani Poni Dash	An episode had several references to Cthulhu.
The Simpsons	The episode "Brawl in the Family", from the 13th season includes a scene at the Republican Party headquarters in which Bob Dole reads from the Necronomicon.
Whitest Kids U' Know	In an episode of this sketch comedy series, kids accidentally kill their brother with a nail gun and use the Necronomicon to bring him back to life by shouting the word 'jumanji'.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force	In the episode "Gee Whiz" there is a scene when Frylock is going to introduce Meatwad to the Bible, but pulls out another book instead. He then says, "Wait- this is the Necronomicon."
Star Trek	In the original episode "By Any Other Name" the Enterprise is commandeered by life forms from the Andromeda Galaxy. During a mind-meld with one of them, Mr. Spock discovers that despite their human appearance, the Kelvins are actually "immense beings, with hundreds of tentacles."
Doctor Who	A race called the Ood resemble the Cthulhu, which may be a parody as they have the exact opposite nature (complete pacifists).
Morel Orel	Orel acquires the Necronomicon from a library which he uses to resurrect the dead.
Ben 10	The character Vilgax bears a physical resemblance to Cthulhu, as well the shows occasionally features other creatures such as the dark lord Bazel, that resemble H.P. Lovecraft Cthulhu mythos.
The Slayers	In this anime series the highest gods are gods of chaos, with the ultimate creator being the source of all chaos The Lord of Nightmares. Lesser Dark Lords such as Shabranigdo & Dark Star resemble the old Great Ones.
Happy Tree Friends	The episode "Read 'Em and Weep", Pop accidentally purchases a book which is similar to the Necronomicon.
The Venture Bros.	In the Episode "The Trial of the Monarch", when Dr. Orpheus is called to the stand, he gives the baliff a necronomicon (based on the one from "Evil Dead") to swear upon instead of a Bible.

Film

Many other films have used Lovecraft's inventions, often greatly modified from his original versions; see Lovecraft's IMDB entry for a complete list of films crediting him.

Music

Title	Date	Writer	Notes
Cast a Deadly Spell	1991	Joseph Dougherty	Set in a fictional world where magic is common and a private investigator named Harry Philip Lovecraft is hired to find a stolen book called the Necronomicon.
The Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness	1981, 1987, 1992	Sam Raimi	The Necronomicon is described as a text from ancient Sumeria, "bound in human flesh and inked in blood", that can resurrect demons and turn humans into monsters. Writer/director Sam Raimi was apparently unaware of the book's previous existence in the works of Lovecraft at the time of the first film, but was made aware in time for the sequels. This Necronomicon however, seems unrelated to Lovecraft's mythos, instead focusing on the "Simon" Necronomicon's Sumerian basis.
In the Mouth of Madness	1995	Michael De Luca	A movie inspired by the work of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.
City of the Living Dead	1980	Lucio Fulci, Dardano Sacchetti	An Italian film set in Lovecraft's fictional town of Dunwich, but otherwise does not resemble any of HPL's work.
The Beyond	1981	Dardano Sacchetti	A movie featuring The Book of Eibon, a piece of the Mythos invented by Clark Ashton Smith.
Alone in the Dark	2005	Elan Mastai, Michael Roesch, Peter Scheerer	Movie adaptation of the video game (see below).
Dagon	2001	Dennis Paoli	A Spanish film, which tells tale of Dagon.
Night of the Living Dorks			One of the lead characters in the German horror comedy has a book entitled "Necronomicon", which she claims is the only edition. Passages from this book, along with "the ashes of an undead" turn the other lead characters into zombies early in the film.
Mortuary	2005	Jace Anderson, Adam Gierasch	The text "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange æons even death may die" citation is found on a witch tomb (also the town in the film is called Arkham).
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	2006	Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio	The character of Davy Jones bears a resemblance to (and some believe to be inspired by) the commonly accepted appearance of Cthulhu. He is also referred to as an "Elderitch creature">
Cloverfield	2008	Drew Goddard	In the months preceding the film, many thought that the monster was Cthulhu himself. Some believe the monster to be a Cthulhi, even after seeing the film, however this is most likely not the case.
Hellboy	2004	Guillermo del Toro	In the movie, the lords of chaos are based on Cthulhu and the old ones locked away in a void to someday awaken and return, as well as physically resemble them.

Band	Album	Song	Notes
1349		"From The Deeps"	References Cthulhu as well as other elements from the Mythos in the song.
33 Degree Shower		"Booze, Cthulhu, and the Weeds"	refers to Cthulhu
Arzt+Pfusch	S.I.C.K.	"Cthulhu Supermarket"	features comical lovecraft-inspired lyrics ("That is not dead which can eternal lie. In discount stores even death may die.").
Bal-Sagoth	The Chthonic Chronicles		an album about Lord Cthulhu.
Beatallica	Sgt. Hetfield's Motorbreath Pub Band	"Ktulu (He's So Heavy)"	parodies Metallica's song "The Call of Ktulu" and The Beatles' song "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
Brown Jenkins	Call Down The Star Cult		based on Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu"
Cradle of Filth	Midian and Nymphetamine	"Cthulhu Dawn" and "Mother of Abominations"	The first is written about the waking of Cthulhu, the second contains a spoken phrase from Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
Drakkar	Quest For Glory	"The Walls Of Olathoë"	a song about the city mentioned in Lovecraft's story "Polaris".
Dethklok		"Awaken"	The TV show Metalocalypse features this fictional band whose lyrics, according to band member Pickles the Drummer in the episode Dethtroll, are from the Necronomicon. While playing the song live, the band accientally summons Mustakrakish, the Lake Troll.
Electric Wizard		"Weird Tales" and "Dunwich"	references Lovecraft's writings.
High On Fire			has written several songs based on Lovecraft's writings.
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society	A Shoggoth on the Roof		a comedic Broadway-style musical fusing the works of Lovecraft with the music of Fiddler on the Roof
H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society	A Very Scary Solstice and An Even Scarier Solstice		Christmas carols rewritten with Lovecraftian lyrics
Metallica	Ride the Lightning	"The Call of Ktulu"	uses Cthulhu and Lovecraftian themes
Metallica	Master of Puppets	"The Thing That Should Not Be"	references Lovecraft lyrics (That is not dead which can eternal lie. After strange aeons even death may die.).
Mercyful Fate	Time	"The Mad Arab"	references the Necronomicon and its author Abdul Alhazred.
Mercyful Fate	Into the Unknown	"Kutulu (The Mad Arab, Pt. 2)"	Describes rise of Cthulhu and the Arab's duty to finish the Necronomicon.
Morbid Angel	Blessed Are The Sick	"The Ancient Ones"	references Lovecraftian themes in songs, and the guitarist for the band makes reference to the Cthulhu mythos with his name Trey Azagthoth.
Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos			H.P. Lovecraft is listed as a member of this Pittsburgh-based which has released two EPs of music inspired by Caitlin R. Kiernan's mythos-inspired novels
Nile	Ithyphallic	"What Can Be Safely Written"
Nox Arcana	Necronomicon	(all 21 songs)	an album written entirely about the Cthulhu Mythos and visually styled to look like the Necronomicon
HP Lovecraft			a psychedelic folk band from the 1960s that wrote many songs with Cthulhoid lyrics.
Fields of the Nephilim		"The Watchman" and "Last Exit for The Lost"	contain the lyrics "Kthulhu Calls".
Rage	Trapped	"Beyond The Wall Of Sleep"	based on Lovecraft's short story Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Rage	The Missing Link	"Lost In The Ice"	inspired by Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness
Redrum	Dear Satan	"Cthulhu"
Rudimentary peni	Cacophony		an album influenced by H.P Lovecraft and his stories.
Septicflesh	Communion	"Lovecraft's Death"	title song with many references to Lovecraft's stories and characters
Terence Chua		"Do You Hear the Pipes Cthulhu"	a parody of ABBA's "Fernando"
The Awful Lot		"Riot in the Miskatonic Morgue"	incorporates several elements of the mythos
The Acacia Strain	Continent	"Cthulhu"
The Black Dahlia Murder	Unhallowed	"Thy Horror Cosmic"	features lyrics descriptive of the rise of Cthulhu as told by his worshipers.
The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets	The Shadow out of Tim	"Cthulhu Dreams", "Yog-Sothoth" and "Six-Gun Gorgon Dynamo"	Musical adaptations of Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time".
The Vision Bleak	Carpathia - A Dramatic Poem	"Kutulu!"
Uriel		"Azathoth"	recorded under the band name Arzachel.

Games

Game Title	Notes
Chaos Gods	from Warhammer and Warhammer 40,000 resemble the Great Old Ones in the fact that they are extradimensional beings who are worshipped and can influence the physical world. The Old Ones in warhammer also share some traits with the Old Ones of Lovecraftian mythos - they came from the stars and created sentient life on the planet. Similarly, their nemeses the C'tan also are extremely Lovecraftian (the Void Dragon being described in several places as dead but dreaming, imprisoned on Mars).
X-COM: Terror from the Deep	contains many mythos based plot elements and enemies.
Legacy of Kain	The Elder God in the video game series is said to have been inspired by Cthulhu.
Arkham Horror	a board game, originally published by Chaosium, that focuses exclusively on the Mythos as "Investigators" attempt to prevent the rising of a Great Old One by sealing gates to other worlds. The license was later acquired by Fantasy Flight Games, who reworked the game and continue to publish it along with numerous expansions.
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter	mentions that the last enemy boss was killed by a ritual involving "twenty thousand pounds of ectoplasm, the Necronomicon and a mis-pronounced Latin proverb."
World of Warcraft	The Murlocs are almost identical to the Deep Ones of Lovecraft's stories. They are one of the primary adversaries encountered in the on-line role-playing game, and recent updates on the game's website suggest that the Lovecraftian connections will be further explored, with the Murlocs worship of ancient aquatic "gods" being a primary feature. One particular quest involves slaying a murloc-worshipped being by the name of Dagun, the whole questline being strongly Lovecraftian.. A boss named "C'Thun" also resembles a Cthonian.
Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne	characters that resemble the star-spawn of Cthulhu named "Faceless Ones". Their boss, a "Forgotten One" resembles a monstrosity with multiple tentacles, probably making reference of Cthonians.
Munchkin	tabletop card game has released many themed revisions of its card set; one (Munchkin Cthulhu) is nearly entirely Cthulhu- and Lovecraftian- ("HP Munchcraft") themed.
Dungeons & Dragons	The Illithids, or "Mind Flayers," bear a notable resemblance to Cthulhu.
Fighting Fantasy	The subterranean "Brain Slayers" of the game are very similar to Illithids, and clearly have the same inspiration.
Max Payne	The Necronomicon is mentioned in the video game. Max states that a copy of the book is laid out on a table in Jack Lupino's nightclub Ragna Rock. In the following level, Max reads Lupino's obsessed call towards numerous dark deities of various sources, including Cthulhu.
AD&D 1st Edition: Deities and Demigods	Cthulhu and the mythos were featured in a chapter of the early printings before a copyright dispute led to later printings omitting the material.
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night	The monster Malachi is based on Cthulhu. Also, there is a monster called Cthulhu, although it looks more similar to a demon. The names of these two creatures have been switched due to license issues or translation error from their Japanese counterparts.
Cave Story	Cthulhu is a mysterious figure dressed in green that gives the main character advice. He does not resemble Cthulhu.
Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem	is highly influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos. Game themes include a book resembling the Necronomicon that chronicles the activities of alien gods, or "Ancients," as well as Lovecraft books lying in the Roivas library.
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened	features an investigation into a number of disappearances believed to be the work of a Cthulhu cult. Also, a statue of Cthulhu may be seen in the sequel Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis, in a corner of 221b Bakerstreet. Watson comments that "What is that statue still doing here? I asked Mrs. Hudson to remove it for us," as a low roar is heard in the background.
Runescape	features a summoning monster named Karamthulhu, an overlord that is supposed to represent Cthulhu in a fishbowl. It also has a character called Ezekial Lovecraft who claims his father is Howard in reference to H.P. Lovecraft. . It also features aquatic monsters called Dagannoths, which live beneath a lighthouse.
Quake	is set more or less in an adaptation of Lovecraft's universe. The later episodes are inspired by several dark fantasy influences, notably that of H. P. Lovecraft; the end game boss is named Shub-Niggurath (one of Lovecraft's mythical "Ancient Ones") and the end boss of the first episode is named Chthon, although there is little resemblance between the game's portrayal and the original literary description. Some levels have Lovecraftian names such as the "Vaunts of Zin" or the "Ebon fortress".
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth	The 2005 PC-/Xbox-game by Headfirst Productions is based loosely on the Lovecraft Story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth." It sporatcially incorporates elements from other Lovecraft works as well.
Alone in the Dark	by Infogames is also based on Lovecraftian themes, and features many Lovecraft-inspired creatures, like Deep One's, a Chthonian in the cellar and two Nightgaunts.
The Legacy: Realm of Terror	contains many elements from Lovecraftian themes including Deep Ones, Asylums, Zombies, etc.
Shadow of the Comet	by Infogames is also (however loosely) based on the Lovecraft-Story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
Prisoner of Ice	by Infogames is based loosely on the Lovecraft-Story "At the Mountains of Madness".
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion	by Bethesda Softworks contains a side-quest called "A Shadow Over Hackdirt," based on events in Lovecraft's story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."
Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil	The dark god Tharizdun and its cult of Doomdreamers from the D&D 3.0 adventure bear a striking resemblance to an Old Ones and its followers. Madness and insanity figure heavily into the cult and its attacks.
Mass Effect	for the Xbox 360 and PC contains a villainous, sentient, and near-invincible starship called Sovereign which resembles Cthulhu's squid-like appearance. Both Sovereign and Cthulhu are feared as near-omnipotent beings and have cult followings. In Mass Effect, a race of sentient machines known as the geth worship Sovereign's race, the Reapers, and Cthulhu has his own cult following in Lovecraft's works.
Tibia	The Quara Constrictor and the Scout look just like Lovecraft's description of Cthulhu. "A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body..." Also the Quara Boss is named Thul, clearly from removing the first and last letters from Cthulhu. There is also an NPC, the vampire Vladruc in Venore, who, when asked about the undead, uses a well known phrase from the Necronomicon,' "It is not dead, which can eternal lie, and in strange aeons, even death may die."
Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness	The game's title is a reference to the titles of Lovecraft's works, and a mysterious book called "The Necrowombicon" is mentioned several times and is eventually used by a cult of mimes to bring their dark god, the "Silent One", onto the human plane.
Monsterpocalypse	The Lords of Cthul are obviously based on the Cthulhu Mythos, as interdimensional monsters from a realm of darkness. Their appearance is also Cthulhu-inspired, with green skin and mouths full of tentacles.
Tales of Symphonia	The console game features a boss named Abyssion who reads from a black book, identified by Raine as the Necronomicon.
Warhammer 40k (Tyranids)	The universe of Warhammer 40k features an alien race known as the Tyranids a hive mind composed of thousands of mile long bioships that can destroy all sentient life on a planet. one particular unit, the Lictor, is a flying creature, with tentacle like mouth area.
Pokethulu	A small press role playing game marrying the Cthulu Mythos and the popular Pokemon franchise.
Shin Megami Tensei	The series allows the player to recruit and summon an army of demons which includes, however can not be recruited, Elder Things, Dagon and Cthulhu (though heavily stylized compared with its well known depiction). Persona, an offshoot of the main series, features Nyarlathotep as a major antagonist.