The following characters appear in H. P. Lovecraft's story cycle — the Cthulhu Mythos. Overview: Name. The name of the character appears first. Birth/Death. The date of the character's birth and death (if known) appears in parentheses below the character's name. Ambivalent dates are denoted by a question mark. Description. A brief description of the character follows next. == A == === Alhazred, Abdul === (655?–738) The infamous "mad Arab" credited as the author of Al-Azif (the Necronomicon)…