The entity first appeared in August Derleth and Mark Schorer's short story "The Lair of the Star Spawn" (1932), and has been used in subsequent fictional works by others though often departing from the original concept.
August Derleth and Mark Schorer originally created a being called Lloigor in their short story "The Lair of the Star-Spawn" (1932).
The Lloigor[1] take the form of invisible vortices of psychic energy, though they may sometimes make themselves manifest as great reptilian beasts, akin to the legendary dragons.
Nonetheless, they can draw psychic energy from sleeping humans in nearby towns or villages — the victims so affected awaken feeling drained or ill, yet regain all lost vitality by nightfall — with which they can perform strange, preternatural feats, such as causing mysterious explosions or altering the flow of time.
In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, Nyarlathotep is referred to as an emissary of the Lloigor when he is sent to negotiate a truce with the Blazing World at the end of the comic.
[5] The DC comic book Hitman, by Garth Ennis, briefly featured demons called "The Multi-Angled Ones", similar in concept to the Many-Angled Ones of Zenith.
[6] The many-angled ones also appear in Simon R. Green's Secret History series of books The Man with the Golden Torc (2007), Daemons Are Forever (2008), and The Spy Who Haunted Me (2009).
In the Marvel Comics cosmic crossover event "Realm of Kings," written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, Quasar travels through a time/space rift to an alternate earth with multiple Lovecraftian elements being part of the everyday reality of that world.
[volume & issue needed] In the 2010 remake of the video game Splatterhouse, scripted by 2000 AD writer Gordon Rennie, the Many-Angled Ones is one of the names for the demonic race known as the Corrupted.