For my very first blog entry, I want to dedicate it to an entity that has fascinated me for many years: Gorvorra’h.
The first time I encountered the name was in an old horror magazine I found in my local library. It feels like a lifetime ago now. Back then, the article described Gorvorra’h as a Great Old One associated with sharks. Since I had always been fascinated by sharks, I immediately tried to learn more about this entity.
For years, there were no traces, no references, no confirmed appearances anywhere.
That changed in 2015, when I finally discovered fragments online mentioning a Great Old One that was simultaneously part of an Outer God — a being supposedly created directly by Azathoth itself. The descriptions portrayed it as something resembling a monstrous cosmic shark.
Then, a year later, I stumbled across a Tumblr blog discussing a woman named Az’l-Ra’h, whose father was said to be Gorvor-Ra’h: a shark-like Great Old One so unimaginably malevolent that even Tsathoggua would pale in comparison.
According to scattered accounts, the original story first appeared around 1991 under the title The Sevenfold Torment. The contents were allegedly considered so disturbingly vile and extreme that no publisher was willing to print it. Only a handful of copies were supposedly preserved and circulated privately.
To this day, nobody seems to know who actually wrote the story.
Some claim it originated from Ambrose Bierce, while others insist it belongs to the expanded Mythos and could not possibly have been written before the Second World War. Their argument is simple: the themes and imagery are said to be far too grotesque and psychologically extreme for pre-war literature. According to them, no human mind before the war could have conceived something so utterly depraved.
I have never read the original story myself.
However, in 2017, I discovered several posts and stories about the entity on well-known fan fiction forums. They contained what many users referred to as “confirmed lore.” Most of these Storys disappeared two years later and were seemingly lost — until fragments of them resurfaced again roughly a year ago.
This time, I want to do my part to ensure that the story of this entity does not vanish once more.
More broadly, this blog will explore lesser-known beings and entities from the Lovecraft Mythos — those overshadowed by more famous names, yet no less fascinating.
My next entry will begin with:
Gorvorra’h — End of the Cosmos
