Y'golonac (the Defiler) is a fictional deity in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. He is the creation of Ramsey Campbell and first appeared in his short story "Cold Print". A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Cthulhu in Rlyeh Cthulhu mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared themes, characters, and elements in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, his protegés, and writers influenced by him. ... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives. ... John Ramsey Campbell (born January 4, 1946 in Liverpool) is a British writer, who is considered by many literary critics to be one of the greatest masters of horror fiction. ... This article is in need of attention. ...

Y'golonac in the mythos

Beyond a gulf in the subterranean night a passage leads to a wall of massive bricks, and beyond the wall rises Y'golonac to be served by the tattered eyeless figures of the dark. Long has he slept beyond the wall, and those which crawl over the bricks scuttle across his body never knowing it to be Y'golonac; but when his name is spoken or read he comes forth to be worshipped or to feed and take on the shape and soul of those he feeds upon. For those who read of evil and search for its form within their minds call forth evil, and so may Y'golonac return to walk among men . . .
—Revelations of Glaaki, Volume 12^[1] The Revelations of Glaaki is a fictitious work appearing in the Cthulhu Mythos story The Inhabitant of the Lake by Ramsey Campbell. ...

Y'golonac is a Great Old One and is the god of perversion and depravity – not just "average" human perversions or depravities, but any that can be conceived of by a sentient being (sane or otherwise). His demeanor is much like that of Nyarlathotep, but he is much more perverse and sadistic. Y'golonac can sometimes be summoned merely by reading his name (not necessarily aloud; just reading it is sufficient) in the Revelations of Glaaki. A Great Old One is a type of fictional deity in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. ... Nyarlathotep (the Crawling Chaos) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu mythos of H.P. Lovecraft. ...

Y'golonac is imprisoned behind a wall of bricks in unknown ruins, possibly in the less travelled regions of the Dreamlands. His true form is uncertain, but when he possesses a human host to manifest, he appears as a grotesquely obese man, lacking a head or neck, with a mouth in the palm of each hand. The Dreamlands is a fictional location in the Dream cycle of H. P. Lovecraft. ...

When Y'golonac is summoned, he offers to grant the summoner the dubious honor of becoming one of his human hosts, or simply kills him. It is possible that the headless humanoid form is just a mere avatar, and his true unthinkable form exists hideously behind the wall of bricks.

References

• Campbell, Ramsey. "Cold Print" (1969) in Cold Print (1st ed.), New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, Inc., 1987. ISBN 0-812-51660-5.

• Harms, Daniel. "Y'golonac" in The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana (2nd ed.), pp. 339–40. Chaosium, Inc., 1998. ISBN 1-56882-119-0.

Notes

1. ^  Campbell, "Cold Print", pp 204.