Rapport
10 œuvres sur 222, 17 occurrences — 61ᵉ entité la plus citée du wiki sur 139. Parutions transcrites de 1923 (The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag) à 1938 (The Notes & Commonplace Book), sur 9 œuvres datées. (dates des numéros transcrits, posthumes comprises.) Le foyer est Hors du temps : 7 occurrences, 41 % du total. Densité : 1,4 occurrence pour 10 000 mots dans les œuvres concernées. Voisine surtout Ghatanothoa : 2 rapprochements dans un même passage. 1 fiche du wiki y renvoie.
Le Pacifique est chez Lovecraft l’espace des profondeurs sans témoin : assez vaste pour qu’une cité y remonte sans que personne le sache, sauf un équipage qui n’en reviendra pas.
Attestations dans le corpus
| Œuvre | Année | Occurrences | Part |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hors du temps | 1933 | 7 | 41 % |
| Dagon | — | 2 | 12 % |
| L’Appel de Cthulhu | 1928 | 1 | 6 % |
| L’Exécuteur électrique | 1929 | 1 | 6 % |
| L’Horreur dans le musée | 1933 | 1 | 6 % |
| Le Dernier Test | 1928 | 1 | 6 % |
| The Notes & Commonplace Book | 1938 | 1 | 6 % |
| The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag | 1923 | 1 | 6 % |
| Le Cauchemar d’Innsmouth | 1936 | 1 | 6 % |
| L’Indicible | 1925 | 1 | 6 % |
| Total | 17 |
Ce que le corpus en dit
Une phrase par œuvre, prise à l’endroit de la première occurrence.
Among the scattered rubble were massive stones of manifestly artificial shaping, and a little examination disclosed the presence of some of that prehistoric Cyclopean masonry found on certain Pacific islands and forming a perpetual archaeological puzzle.
— Hors du temps, 7 occurrences
It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the Pacific that the packet of which I was super-cargo fell a victim to the German sea-raider.
— Dagon, 2 occurrences
Remains of Them, he said the deathless Chinamen had told him, were still to be found as Cyclopean stones on islands in the Pacific.
Having notified my family, fiancée, and principal friends, and made hasty preparations for the trip, I met President McComb at eight p.m. at the Southern Pacific depot, received from him some written instructions and a check-book, and left in his car attached to the 8:15 eastbound transcontinental train.
Before that there had been wild enough stories—accounts of mysterious trips to Tibet, the African interior, the Arabian desert, the Amazon valley, Alaska, and certain little-known islands of the South Pacific, plus claims of having read such monstrous and half-fabulous books as the prehistoric Pnakotic fragments and the Dhol chants attributed to malign and non-human Leng—but nothing in all this had been so unmistakably insane as what …
The fever cases from the Pacific Coast didn’t respond to his serum. They puzzled him. They didn’t even seem like any true fever he knew.
Rencontres dans le texte
Entités dont une occurrence figure à moins de 320 signes de celle-ci — même phrase ou phrase voisine.
Though it flourished chiefly in those Pacific regions around which Mu itself had once stretched, there were rumours of the hidden and detested cult of Ghatanothoa in ill-fated Atlantis, and on the abhorred plateau of Leng.
— Hors du temps, avec Ghatanothoa
… of mysterious trips to Tibet, the African interior, the Arabian desert, the Amazon valley, Alaska, and certain little-known islands of the South Pacific, plus claims of having read such monstrous and half-fabulous books as the prehistoric Pnakotic fragments and the Dhol chants attributed to malign and non-human Leng—but nothing in all this had been so unmistakably insane as what had cropped out that June evening under the spell of the whisky.
He was the only one as kep’ on with the East-Injy an’ Pacific trade, though Esdras Martin’s barkentine Malay Bride made a venter as late as twenty-eight. “Never was nobody like Cap’n Obed—old limb o’ Satan!
Croisements
Entités qui partagent ses œuvres, les plus spécifiques d’abord ; entre parenthèses, le nombre d’œuvres communes.
Personnages — Inspecteur John Raymond Legrasse (1), Zadok Allen (1), Charles Dexter Ward (1)
Divinités — Nug et Yeb (2), Cthulhu (4), Ghatanothoa (1), Rhan-Tegoth (1), Shub-Niggurath (3), Dagon (2), Tsathoggua (2)
Créatures — Les Grands Anciens (4), Les Anciens (2)
Lieux — Irem (3), Boston (5), Y’ha-nthlei (1), R’lyeh (2), La Nouvelle-Orléans (2), Le plateau de Leng (2), Yuggoth (2)
Objets — L’idole de Cthulhu (1), Le Livre d’Eibon (2), Unaussprechlichen Kulten (2), Le Necronomicon (3)
Thématiques — Le narrateur qui ne peut pas dire (2), Le racisme de Lovecraft (2)
Époques — Les années 1920 (2)
Cycles — Les révisions (3), Le mythe de Cthulhu (2)
Entourage — Robert H. Barlow (2), Adolphe de Castro (1)
Dans les revues
L’Appel de Cthulhu — Weird Tales, 1928 (numéro de l’année, pas forcément celui-ci) · L’Indicible — Weird Tales, juillet 1925