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Azathoth (short story)
"Azathoth" is the beginning of a never-completed novel written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft.〔("H. P. Lovecraft's original fragment, 'Azathoth'" )〕 It was written in June 1922 and published as a fragment in the journal ''Leaves'' in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. It is the first piece of fiction to mention the fictional being Azathoth, one of the major entities in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, though the entity only appears in the title.
==Inspiration==
Lovecraft described his planned novel as a "weird Eastern tale in the 18th century manner" and as a "weird ''Vathek''-like novel", referring to a novel of Arabia written by William Thomas Beckford in 1786.〔S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, "Azathoth", ''An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia'', p. 13.〕 Suggesting that his story would involve "material of the ''Arabian Nights'' type", he wrote that
:I shall defer to no modern critical canon, but shall frankly slip back through the centuries and become a myth-maker with that childish sincerity which no one but the earlier Dunsany has tried to achieve nowadays. I shall go out of the world when I write, with a mind centred not in literary usage, but in the dreams I dreamed when I was six year old or less--the dreams which followed my first knowledge of ''Sinbad'', of ''Agib'', of ''Baba-Abdallah'', and of ''Sidi-Nonman''.〔H. P. Lovecraft, letter to Frank Belknap Long, June 9, 1922; cited in Joshi and Schultz, "Azathoth", p. 13.〕
Though Lovecraft likely never got past the 480-word fragment that survives, he later wrote a novel with a similar theme, ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''.
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