Tcho-Tcho

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The Tcho-Tcho, or Tcho-Tcho people, are a fictional human-like race in the Cthulhu Mythos.

[edit] Appearances

The Tcho-Tcho are first mentioned in August Derleth's 1933 short story "The Thing That Walked on the Wind", in which a character refers in passing to "the forbidden and accursed designs of the Tcho-Tcho people of Burma". Later that year, in "Lair of the Star-Spawn", co-written with Mark Shorer, Derleth expanded on the Tcho-Tcho, describing them as a short, hairless people that worship Lloigor and Zhar.

In H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936), they are described as "abominable".

In T. E. D. Klein's novella Black Man with a Horn, first published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos in 1980, the Tcho-Tchos are described by an American missionary who has met them as "the nastiest people who ever lived.... They'd been living way up in those hills I don't know how many centuries, and whatever it is they were doing, they weren't going to let a stranger in on it".

In the Delta Green role playing game, the Tcho-Tcho are said to be cannibalistic criminals devoted to the worship of the Great Old Ones.

Tcho-Tchos attack Charles Fort and Arthur Conan Doyle on a couple of occasions in Gordon Rennie and Frazer Irving's 2000 AD strip Necronauts.