Talk:Pnakotic Manuscripts

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pnakotic manuscripts is mentioned in almost every storie by the author August Derlith a personal friend of lovecrafts who continues still to breath life into cthulhu by continuing to create and add to the mythos. madslacker2002@yahoo.

Could use a list of stories, with their authors, that contain "The Pnakotic Manuscripts".

Speculation

I've cut "It is possible that "Pnakotic" is a deliberate pun on "narcotic", as the "P" in the former is probably silent." Lovecraft's dead; I doubt anyone else could speak definitively on the matter. Unless someone knows better? --Kay Dekker (talk) 19:40, 2 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Can not find supporting evidence of the claim either. Though I found some non-wikipedia references to another Cthulhu mythos name 'Voormithadreth' being a speculated pun (lisped homonym of Voormis' Address). Then again, Mount Voormithadreth is a Hyperborean location and Clark Ashton Smith's creation, rather than Lovecraft's-- Obsidi♠n Soul 02:23, 3 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Real World point of view missing

Much of the style of this article seems to be written in such a way that a reader with no knowledge of HPL or the Cthulhu Mythos could mix up the actual facts with the fictional background. Example: "Origin" discusses the fictional origins rather than it's origins in the HPL or other author's works. This could be confusing for someone who didn't know "fictional" meant the existence of the manuscripts is itself fictional rather than the contents of the manuscripts.

I've seen a WP code that has been used to tag articles that fictional topics that indicated the article cleanup that was needed, I think that's in order unless someone has time to just make the changes. I've seen the tag somewhere but can't find it at the moment. Bigjimleo (talk) 23:17, 31 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How do you say it?

Do you pronounce the P? Or is it silent? I've heard people use both methods. Maybe the article needs a section on pronunciation, with references to show how Lovecraft himself said it. 86.187.167.31 (talk) 07:15, 20 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]