High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Pnakotic Manuscripts (or Pnakotic Fragments) is a fictional manuscript in the Cthulhu Mythos. The tome was created by H. P. Lovecraft and first appeared in his short story "Polaris" (1918). They are mentioned in many of Lovecraft`s stories, including At the Mountains of Madness (1936), The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926), "The Other Gods" (1933), and "The Shadow Out of Time" (1936). The manuscripts are also referred to by other mythos authors, such as Lin Carter and Brian Lumley.