In his first appearance, Nyarlathotep was described as a "tall, swarthy man" who resembles an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. In this story he wanders the Earth, seemingly gathering legions of followers, the narrator of the story among them, through his demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments. These followers lose awareness of the world around them.

In ''The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath'', in which he again manifests in the form of an Egyptian pharaoh when he confronts protagonist Randolph Carter. Leiber describes Nyarlathotep as "evilly intelligent" in this story, in contrast to the mindless Azathoth, his master.

In ''The Dreams in the Witch House (1933)'', Nyarlathotep appears to Walter Gilman and witch Keziah Mason (who has made a pact with the entity) in the form of "the 'Black Man' of the witch-cult", a black-skinned avatar of the Devil described by witch hunters. Although inhuman, some characters mistake him as a human of African descent, though his facial features are described as Caucasian.

In ''The Haunter of the Dark (1936)'', the nocturnal, tentacled, bat-winged monster dwelling in the steeple of the Starry Wisdom sect's church is identified as another manifestation of Nyarlathotep. This avatar cannot tolerate light. Lovecraft suggests that the fake Henry Akeley that appears at the end of ''The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)'' is also Nyarlathotep.

Though Nyarlathotep appears as a character in only four stories and two sonnets, his name is mentioned frequently in other works. In ''The Rats in the Walls (1924)'', Nyarlathotep is mentioned as a faceless god in the caverns of Earth's center. ''In The Shadow Out of Time (1936)'', the "hideous secret of Nyarlathotep" is revealed to the protagonist by Khephnes during their imprisonment by the Great Race of Yith.

*Nyarlathotep (1920)
*The Rats in the Walls (1924)
*The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath (1943)
*Fungi from Yuggoth (1929/30)
*The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)
*The Dreams in the Witch House (1933)
*Shadow Out of Time (1936)

*Nyarlathotep does not appear in Lovecraft's story ''The Crawling Chaos (1920/21)'', despite the similarity of the title to the character's epithet.Lovecraft wrote to a correspondent that he reused the phrase because he "liked the sound of it.

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep Wikipedia]
*[https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/n.aspx H.P. Lovecraft Archive]
*[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/nyarlathotep/4005-48503/ ComicVine]
*[https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Nyarlathotep H.P. Lovecraft Wiki]
*Myths in Media Wiki
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