Thursday, August 25, 2022

How Cthulhu Transcended its Creator



H.P. Lovecraft was a master of cosmic horror, the kind that stimulates your most primal fears and makes you question reality and the meaning of it all. The embodiment of that horror is his dreaded monster-god Cthulhu. Just the idea of this type of being will make you question the universe. Since Lovecraft died in 1937, his creation has come to mean so much more than the novels contain. (via Geeks Are Sexy)

3 comments:

  1. It is hard to say without a spoiler, but lets just say some have said that there's something in the recent movie 'Nope' that closely resembles something out of one of HP Lovecraft's stories.

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  2. "CTHULHU!" is the sound I make when unsuccessfully trying to hold back a sneeze.

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  3. Read the original:
    http://www.lovecraft-stories.com/pdf/the-call-of-cthulhu.pdf

    Everyone listened, and everyone was listening still when It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway into the tainted outside air of that poison city of madness.

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