Count of Lovecraft’s Favorite Words
I compiled all of Lovecraft’s original works in one file. So I took suggestions for words to count on the H.P. Podcraft forums and on Twitter.
The list is below. The only big surprises were “squamous,” which only appears once in an original story—”The Dunwich Horror”—, and “unutterable,” which only appeared 13 times.
Abnormal – 94
Accursed – 76
Amorphous – 19
Antediluvian – 10
Antiqu (e/arian) – 128
Blasphem (y/ous) – 92
Cat – 46 (whole word search)
Charnel – 20
Comprehension – 9
Cyclopean – 47
Dank – 19
Decadent – 32
Daemoniac – 55
Effulgence – 4
Eldritch – 23
Faint (ed/ing) – 189
Foetid – 22
Fungus/Fungoid/Fungous – 54
Furtive – 60
Gambrel – 21
Gibbous – 9
Gibber (ed/ing) – 10
Hideous – 260
Immemorial – 25
Indescribable – 25
Iridescence – 2
Loath (ing/some) – 71
Lurk – 15
Madness – 115
Manuscript – 35
Mortal – 27
Nameless – 157
Noisome – 33
Non-Euclidean – 2
Proportion/Disproportionate – 53
Shunned – 54
Singular (ly) – 115
Spectral – 60
Squamous – 1
Stench – 59
Stygian – 6
Swarthy – 14
Tenebrous – 9
Tentacle(s) – 28
Ululat (e/ing) – 4
Unmentionable – 16
Unnamable – 22
Unutterable – 13
At a commenter’s request, I ran the names of some of the god/great old ones/other eldritch beings:
Gods, Great Old Olds, and other Eldritch Beings
Azathoth – 22
Cthulhu – 42
Dagon – 16
Nodens – 8
Nyarlathotep – 47
Shoggoth – 22
Shub-Niggurath – 8
Yog-Sothoth – 28
And in answer to another request:
Eldritch Tomes, Things and Locations
Tomes
Necronomicon – 49
Pnakotic Manuscripts – 16
De Vermis Mysteriis – 2
Book of Eibon – 3
Eltdown Shards – 1
Nameless Cults (Unaussprechlichen Kulten) – 4
Things
Elder Sign – 2
Locations
Arkham – 159
Dunwich – 41
Innsmouth – 104
Kadath – 67
Kingsport – 43
Leng – 158
Miskatonic – 62
R’lyeh – 16
Yuggoth – 21
Irem – 12
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