Cultes des Goules
The fictional book Cultes des Goules is part of the Cthulhu myth created by HP Lovecraft and was used by his fellow writer and pen pal Robert Bloch for the first time in his story "The Suicide in the Study" (1935), but appears in many other stories other authors.
According to the various authors, the book essentially describes a cannibalistic ghoul cult in Paris and its fertility rites and practices, and was originally written by Antoine-Marie Augustin de Montmorency-les-Roches, Compte d'Erlette , a French nobleman who wrote the book was a member of this cult, but it was only passed around in manuscript form among friends and acquaintances. A later Comte of his family ( Francois Honore-Balfour ) found the manuscript, added his own comments and published it in 1703 at his own expense. A censored edition was published in Rouen around 1737. There should also be some handwritten translations into Italian and Spanish.
The name of the author of the book, Comte d´Erlette , pays homage to Lovecraft's friend August Derleth .
The Cultes des Goules is a theme that is often taken up in various scenes, such as the metal scene , although the ghoul as a horror figure has not yet found widespread use in Europe.
Other uses of the fictional book by other authors: "Darkness, My Name Is", Bertin ; "The Grinning Ghoul", Bloch ; "Realm of Shadows", Crowe ; "The Adventure of the Six Silver Spiders," August Derleth ; "Keeper's Compedium", "Spawn of Azathoth", Herber ; "Books of the Cthulhu Myth", Herber and Ross ; "The Haunter of the Dark," Lovecraft ; "The Caller of the Black," Lumley ; "They Only Come Out at Night," Medoff
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Daniel Harms: The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia . A Guide to HP Lovecraft's Universe. 3. Edition. Eldar Signs Press, Lake Orion, MI 2008, ISBN 978-1-934501-05-4 , Section: CULTES DES GHULES , pp. 62 (English).