This latter description, which is featured in his novel The Lurker at the Threshold (1945), has become the most well-known and popular version of the Elder Sign. However, Lovecraft is known to have drawn it in at least one of his correspondences as a single line with 5 shorter lines branching off.Īuthor August Derleth, who wrote several Cthulhu Mythos stories, described it as a warped, five-pointed star with a flaming pillar (or eye) in the center. Prob'ly them was the Old Ones' signs." In this story, the sign is used as a defense against Deep Ones apparently, the Deep Ones cannot harm someone protected by an Elder Sign. Lovecraft described the Elder Sign only once in his writings, as given by the aged alcoholic Zadok Allen in " The Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1936): "In some places they was little stones strewed abaout - like charms - with somethin' on 'em like what ye call a swastika nowadays. Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath written in 1926. The Elder Sign is a fictional icon or glyph in the Cthulhu Mythos and it is first mentioned in H. Lovecraft (about the Elder Sign), The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. At another house, where people were stirring, he asked questions about the gods, and whether they danced often upon Lerion but the farmer and his wife would only make the Elder Sign and tell him the way to Nir and Ulthar.
Once he stopped at a farmhouse well for a cup of water, and all the dogs barked affrightedly at the inconspicuous Zoogs that crept through the grass behind.
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