Poetry and the Gods that Lovecraft and Winifred Jackson co-wrote with a Greek mythology basis. What Anna Helen Crofts contributed to "Poetry and the Gods" is unknown. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi reports that she "appeared sporadically in the amateur press, and may have been introduced to [Lovecraft] by Winifred Jackson." Lovecraft's surviving letters do not mention "Poetry and the Gods". In his 1955 essay on the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft scholar George Wetzel compares the messenger god Hermes in "Poetry and the Gods" with Nyarlathotep, the "messenger of Azathoth". Wetzel considers the dream communication used by Hermes to be "the same psychic device used
The Unknown Gods whose players are too familiar with the traditional gods. I'd recommend it to referees who suffer from a difficulty in creating deities." The Unknown Gods The Unknown Gods is a supplement for fantasy role-playing games published by Judges Guild in 1980. "The Unknown Gods" is a supplement briefly describing 83 gods and deities, all illustrated by Paul Jaquays. "The Unknown Gods" is a compendium of original deities not specifically drawn from real mythologies. Each god or goddess is set up as per "Deities and Demigods", with the addition of a disposition chart. "The Unknown Gods" was written by Bob Bledsaw,