Editing Nyarlathotep (section)

=== Other appearances ===
Nyarlathotep has also appeared outside of Lovecraft's own writings. The light novel and anime series ''[[Haiyore! Nyaruko-san]]'' (2009) is based on the Cthulhu mythos, with the main character Nyaruko directly referring to Nyarlathotep.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! (TV) – Anime News Network|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13719|access-date=2020-06-16|website=www.animenewsnetwork.com}}</ref>

Nyarlathotep appears in the guise of the Dark Man in [[Larry Correia]]'s story "Dead Waits Dreaming" (2013).<ref>{{Cite book |editor1-last=Shumate |editor1-first=Nathan |year=2013 |title=Space Eldritch II: The Haunted Stars |location=United States |publisher=Cold Fusion Media |isbn=978-0-615-91859-4 |oclc=899217941}} Reprinted in: {{Cite book |first=Larry |last=Correia |author-link=Larry Correia |year=2018 |title=Target Rich Environment Volume 1 |location=Riverdale, N.Y. |publisher=Baen Books |isbn=978-1-4814-8344-5 |pages=29–48}}</ref>

Though he does not appear in Lovecraft's original short story, Nyarlathotep in his "Black Man" form appears in the 1993 [[Caliber Comics]] adaption of ''[[The Music of Erich Zann]]'', in [[Flashback (narrative)|flashbacks]] for the eponymous Erich Zann.<ref>{{cite comic | writer=Steven Philip Jones | artist=Aldin Baroza | title=The Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft: The Music of Erich Zann | publisher=[[Caliber Comics|Caliber Press]] | date=1993}}</ref>

[[Alan Moore]]'s limited comic series ''[[Neonomicon]]'' (2010–2011) utilizes Nyarlathotep in the form of Johnny Carcosa, a masked drug dealer who frequents Cthulhu-themed clubs and occult shops. His manner of converting new followers is to place them in a vegetative state, susceptible to "Aklo"—words related to Lovecraft's work, which alter the consciousness of those who listen to them. In Moore's story, he serves the allegorical role of the [[Archangel Gabriel]] at the [[Annunciation]], informing the protagonist that she has been impregnated and will soon give birth to Cthulhu. Carcosa takes a more active role in Moore's follow-up volume ''[[Providence (Avatar Press)|Providence]]'', "rewarding" the protagonist, Robert Black, for his work as the "herald" of H. P. Lovecraft's effects on the world and later overseeing the birth of Cthulhu.<ref>{{cite comic | title=[[Neonomicon]] | issue=#3 | date=October 2010 | writer=[[Alan Moore]] | artist=[[Jacen Burrows]] | publisher=[[Avatar Press]]}}</ref>

In the video game ''[[Dusk (video game)|Dusk]]'', Nyarlathotep appears as the final enemy encounter. Instead of taking the form of a humanoid in the fight, however, he takes the form of a leviathan eldritch beast. How he has been worked into the plot is deliberately very vague, as he only appears at the very end, though it is clear that he was up to the trickery and manipulation of his past portrayals.

In the manga series ''[[Ghost Reaper Girl]]'' the head of the Eastern Branch is a woman called Nyarlathotep who uses the title "The Chaos".  She is a dark skinned woman, with the lower half of the eye of Horus below her right eye.

Nyarlathotep is featured in several of the ''[[Megami Tensei|Shin Megami Tensei]]'' video games, as well as the ''[[Persona (series)|Persona]]'' spin-offs, including ''[[Revelations: Persona]]'' and also the ''[[Persona 2]]'' duology, in which he is the main antagonist. He showcases shape shifting abilities there, by donning several characters' appearances and when fought as "himself", changes to a more unsettling and tentacled appearance. Although it can be noted that when defeated for the last time, he switches back to the human appearance of one of the playable characters.

In Charles Stross' series ''[[The Laundry Files]]'', a human avatar of Nyarlathotep under the name Fabian Everyman becomes UK's prime minister.

In the mobile video game ''[[Dragalia Lost]]'', there is a dragon named Nyarlathotep who appears in the Accursed Archives raid event.

Nyarlathotep appears as a playable unit in the 2016 Japanese mobile game ''[[Tokyo Afterschool Summoners]]'', where he is depicted as a popular DJ with a rep for causing chaos simply to cause chaos.

Nyarlathotep is the focus of an [[augmented reality]] game distributed by The Mysterious Package Company.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Nyarlathotep appears in the loosely-based '[[Azathoth]] Rising' by Joseph S. Dale, as the guardian of the [[Necronomicon]], as he tries to make wizards and other people of power use the spells in the book ostensibly to gain power.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

In the 2007 [[visual novel]] ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth: What a Beautiful Tomorrow]]'', Nyarlathotep is revealed to be the true identity of the character simply named 'the M'. The dimension of Sharnoth which is closely associated with Nyarlathotep also plays a significant part in the game's story.

In the 2017 game ''[[Sundered]]'', Nyarlathotep appears as the final boss, the god of a group of worshippers based on Lovecraftian mythology.

In the podcast ''[https://www.malevolent.ca/ Malevolent]'' created by Harlan Guthrie, Nyarlathotep appears as an enigmatic, manic, unpredictable and dramatic antagonist. In the podcast he uses the name Kayne, but is later revealed to be Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep makes an appearance in the 2022 video game [[Sucker for Love: First Date]], as well as in its 2024 sequel, [[Sucker for Love: Date to Die For]], as a character named Nyanlahotep, a female catgirl version of Nyarlathotep.