Lovecraft’s 10 Most Powerful Entities

Cthulhu is the face of Lovecraftian horror—but by the scale of H. P. Lovecraft’s own fiction, he is not even among the five most powerful entities.

This atmospheric documentary ranks ten of the most powerful beings, civilizations, and cosmic forces in Lovecraft’s universe. We compare their abilities, influence, scale, and relationship with space, time, life, and reality itself.

Why is Cthulhu only number six? What makes Nyarlathotep more dangerous than many sleeping gods? And what could possibly stand above Yog-Sothoth?

The main ranking is based on Lovecraft’s own fiction rather than later expansions of the Cthulhu Mythos.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Why Cthulhu Is Not Number One
01:04 #10 — The Colour Out of Space
03:19 #9 — The Mi-Go
05:30 #8 — The Great Race of Yith
07:40 #7 — The Flying Polyps
10:24 #6 — Cthulhu
12:53 #5 — Shub-Niggurath
15:20 #4 — Nyarlathotep
18:44 #3 — The Other Gods
21:27 #2 — Yog-Sothoth
24:44 #1 — Azathoth
28:32 Honorable Mentions
30:56 Why Cthulhu Is Only the First Door

Which entity would you place at number one? Share your own ranking in the comments.

Yog-Sothoth’s Library explores H. P. Lovecraft, cosmic horror, weird fiction, forbidden history, and the ideas behind the Cthulhu Mythos.