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The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, coined Cthulhu Mythos to identify the system of lore originally employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. The name Cthulhu derives from a central figure in Lovecraft’s short stories, “The Call of Cthulhu” ^{[1] [full citation needed]} (which pulp magazine “Weird Tales” first published in 1928). The writer Richard L. Tierney later applied the term "Derleth Mythos" to distinguish between Lovecraft's works and Derleth's later stories.^[2]

Authors of Lovecraftian horror use elements of the Mythos in an ongoing expansion of the fictional universe.^{[3]: viii–ix}