Hastur

entity in the Cthulhu Mythos; created by A. Bierce in "Haïta the Shepherd" (1893); briefly mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Whisperer in Darkness"
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Hastur

Summary

Hastur is a Great Old One[1]. He draws 2,277 Wikipedia views per month (great_old_one category, ranking #2 of 3).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hastur is the creator of Ambrose Bierce[3].
  • Hastur's image is recorded as Hastur-the-Unspeakable-Robert-M-Price.gif[4].
  • Hastur is recorded as male[5].
  • Hastur's instance of is recorded as Great Old One[6].
  • Hastur's instance of is recorded as fictional deity[7].
  • Hastur's Commons category is recorded as Hastur[8].
  • Hastur's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-JEP2022-visiteur24 (Madehub)-Hastur.wav[9].
  • Hastur's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01l0lr[10].
  • Hastur's present in work is recorded as Haïta the Shepherd[11].
  • Hastur's present in work is recorded as The Whisperer in Darkness[12].
  • Hastur's first appearance is recorded as Haïta the Shepherd[13].
  • Hastur's Fandom article ID is recorded as lovecraft:Hastur[14].
  • Hastur's Fandom article ID is recorded as de.lovecraft:Hastur[15].
  • Hastur's Fandom article ID is recorded as es.hplovecraft:Hastur[16].
  • Hastur's Fandom article ID is recorded as kinginyellow:Hastur[17].
  • Hastur's Personality Database profile ID is recorded as 66083[18].

Body

Works and Contributions

Hastur is the creator of Ambrose Bierce[3].

Why It Matters

Hastur draws 2,277 Wikipedia views per month (great_old_one category, ranking #2 of 3).[2] He has Wikipedia articles in 15 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] He is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . personality-database.com. Retrieved . personality-database.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_hastur_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Hastur}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/hastur}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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