Appearing in "Dig Me No Grave"
Featured Characters:
- Professor Conrad (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Dan Kirowan (First appearance)
Supporting Characters:
- John Grimlan (First and only known appearance; dies) (Main story as a corpse and flashback)
Antagonists:
- Malik Tous, the Prince of Darkness (also named Satan, Beelzebub or Ahriman) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Leopard Cults (Mentioned)
- Von Boehnk (Mentioned)
Deities and Invocations:
- The Devil (Invoked)
- Shuma-Gorath (Mentioned)
- Good Lord (Invoked)
- Nameless One (Invoked)
- Elder Ones (Invoked)
- Lord of the Elder Ones (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans
- "God-thing"
- Elder Ones (Invoked)
Locations:
- Earth
- Undisclosed country
- Kirowan's house (First appearance)
- Grimlan's house (First appearance)
- Sunken Cities (Mentioned)
- Acheron (Mentioned)
- Vienna, Austria (Mentioned)
- Deep Asia (Mentioned)
- Undisclosed country
- Heaven (Invoked)
Items and Concepts:
- Voodoo rituals (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Dig Me No Grave"
A story that details the events of an occultist's death when Satan comes for him.
Appearing in "House"
Featured Characters:
- Jim Staton (First and only known appearance; dies)
Antagonists:
- The House
Other Characters:
- Mary, Queen of Scots (Mentioned)
- God (Invoked)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "House"
A man seeks shelter from a storm in a house that turns out to be a living creature which devours him.
Appearing in "You Show Me Your Dream--I'll Show You Mine"
Featured Characters:
- Mark Russel (First and only known appearance; dies) (Main story and flashback)
- "Angel of Retribution" / Laura Warmer (First appearance)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Mark Russel's victim (First and only known appearance; dies) (Only in flashback)
Races and Species:
Vehicles:
- Mark Russel's car
Synopsis for "You Show Me Your Dream--I'll Show You Mine"
Two people are having the same dream, a young woman and a hired killer. The man tries to use drink to get himself to sleep without the dream but he runs out so he gets into a car to drive out into the night for more. The woman rises out of her bed, sleepwalking into the path of the car where the man panics at the sight of his dream's 'angel of retribution' and swerves into a crash. The woman returns to her bed and dreams the dream no more.
Solicit Synopsis
Marvel's newest voyage into the World of the Weird! And with titles like "Dig Me No Grave!" - "House!" - and "More Than Blood!" - how can any ghostly-tales aficionado go wrong?
Notes
- Dig Me No Grave (February, 1937) is adapted from the story by Robert E. Howard, which is considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos.[1] The adaptation contains some variations, including the change of some of names:
- Only Grimlan is named John (in the original story, both Grimlan and Conrad are named by their first name). John Conrad is only named "Professor Conrad", and John Kirowan became "Dan Kirowan". Those changes were possibly made for the sake of clarity and to avoid the repetition.
- The names-droppings mentions "Shuma-Gorath" (the first mention of that name -created by Robert E. Howard-, and later developed in Marvel comics as the lord of the Great Old Ones), instead of "Yog-Sothoth" and "Kathulos" in the original story, ignore a mention to the "black cyclopean walls of Koth", and replace "Yuggoth" by "Acheron".
See Also
Links and References
References
- ↑ "Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard" is a collection of Cthulhu Mythos short stories by Robert E. Howard. It was first published in 2001 by Chaosium Press.
