The Feaster from Afar: A black, shriveled, flying monstrosity with tentacles tipped with razor-sharp talons that can pierce a victim's skull and siphon out the brain.In this incarnation, Hastur has several Avatars: Lovecraft not only recognized Hastur as one of the mythos gods, but even made him so recalling Chambers' book.ĭerleth also developed Hastur into a Great Old One, spawn of Yog-Sothoth, the half-brother of Cthulhu, and possibly the Magnum Innominandum. Judging from these two quotes, it is quite possible that H. In Chambers' "The Yellow Sign" the only mentioning of Hastur is:.after stumbling queerly upon the hellish and forbidden book of horrors the two learn, among other hideous things which no sane mortal should know, that this talisman is indeed the nameless Yellow Sign handed down from the accursed cult of Hastur-from primordial Carcosa, whereof the volume treats. In "Supernatural Horror In Literature" (written 1926–27, revised 1933, published in The Recluse in 1927), when telling about "The Yellow Sign" by Chambers, H.It is against these aggressors-not against normal humanity-that the drastic precautions of the Outer Ones are directed. There is a whole secret cult of evil men (a man of your mystical erudition will understand me when I link them with Hastur and the Yellow Sign) devoted to the purpose of tracking them down and injuring them on behalf of monstrous powers from other dimensions. Later in the same story, it is described that the Mi-Go have been attacked by followers of Hastur, and Hastur is an enemy of the Outer Ones whom the Mi-Go serve:Īctually, they have never knowingly harmed men, but have often been cruelly wronged and spied upon by our species. This ambiguity is recurrent in Lovecraft's descriptions of mythic entities. It is unclear from this quote if Lovecraft's Hastur is a person, a place, an object (such as the Yellow Sign), or a deity. I found myself faced by names and terms that I had heard elsewhere in the most hideous of connections- Yuggoth, Great Cthulhu, Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth, R'lyeh, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Hastur, Yian, Leng, the Lake of Hali, Bethmoora, the Yellow Sign, L’mur-Kathulos, Bran, and the Magnum Innominandum-and was drawn back through nameless aeons and inconceivable dimensions to worlds of elder, outer entity at which the crazed author of the Necronomicon had only guessed in the vaguest way. There are two places in Lovecraft's own writings in which Hastur is mentioned: Lovecraft read Chambers' book in early 1927 and was so enchanted by it that he added elements of it to his own creations. The latter two stories also mention Carcosa, Hali, Aldebaran, and the Hyades, along with a " Yellow Sign" and a play called The King in Yellow. In Chambers' The King in Yellow ( 1895), a collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign". Another story in the same collection ("An Inhabitant of Carcosa") referred to the place " Carcosa" and a person "Hali", names which later authors were to associate with Hastur. In Bierce's "Haïta the Shepherd", which appeared in the collection Can Such Things Be?, Hastur is more benevolent than he would later appear in August Derleth's mythos stories. Hastur as he appears in The King in Yellow. Later writers have also adapted Hastur in a variety of tales.Īppearances Hastur in the mythos Lovecraft was inspired by Chambers's stories and briefly mentioned Hastur in The Whisperer in Darkness (1930). Chambers used the name in his late 1800s stories to represent both a person and a place associated with several stars, including Aldebaran. Hastur first appeared in Ambrose Bierce's short story "Haïta the Shepherd" ( 1893) as a benign god of shepherds. Hastur ( The Unspeakable One, The King in Yellow, Him Who Is Not to be Named, Assatur, Xastur, H'aaztre, or Kaiwan) is an entity of the Cthulhu Mythos. Price published in Crypt of Cthulhu #6 "August Derleth Issue", St. Hastur the Unspeakable as he appears in August Derleth's short story "The Gable Window".
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