What do YOU know about Cthulhu?
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He was an otherworldy creature that lived under the sea, and consumed civilisations. Also he had tentacles for mouths and was enormous, had many followers, all of which he loved to consume.
Calumon: He wasn't real.
Calumon: He wasn't real.
He/She/It is an alien of such enormous power, that human minds can't really understand it. People are driven insane with just a glimpse of its power. It is not a god, nor is the most powerful creature in the H. P. mythos... but its close. It is also not evil, it just is. While certainly not benevolent by nature, to try to categorize its intentions into "good" and "evil" is like having ants rationalise over human behaviour.
The issue I have with Lovecraft is that all the stories feel like the same. I read a collection and, while the first couple felt truly impressive, the following just gave me a sense of deja vu so strong I have to force myself through it.
The issue I have with Lovecraft is that all the stories feel like the same. I read a collection and, while the first couple felt truly impressive, the following just gave me a sense of deja vu so strong I have to force myself through it.
What I know is that Cthulhu was created by H.P. Lovecraft not as a villain, but as a constant threat, sort of a looming, impending dread, like sitting next to an active time bomb with no clock face. He isn't so much a god as an unknowable being of a reality separate from ours, as is the case with all of the Great Old Ones.
As for the people who say that they've read the Necronomicon, there is NO SUCH THING. Lovecraft created the idea of the book the same way he created Cthulhu. Would-be demonologists and whatnot have usurped the name to create a "real" Necronomicon, but it's a complete work of fiction, as verified by his correspondence to William Conover.
Repeat, THERE IS NO REAL NECRONOMICON. Christ.
Okay, off my soap box now. Best Lovecraft stories:
The Music of Erich Zann
The Rats in the Walls
The Outsider
The Call of Cthulhu
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow over Innsmouth
At the Mountains of Madness
As for the people who say that they've read the Necronomicon, there is NO SUCH THING. Lovecraft created the idea of the book the same way he created Cthulhu. Would-be demonologists and whatnot have usurped the name to create a "real" Necronomicon, but it's a complete work of fiction, as verified by his correspondence to William Conover.
Repeat, THERE IS NO REAL NECRONOMICON. Christ.
Okay, off my soap box now. Best Lovecraft stories:
The Music of Erich Zann
The Rats in the Walls
The Outsider
The Call of Cthulhu
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow over Innsmouth
At the Mountains of Madness
I've read a whole bunch of his stories, my favorite of which so far has been Dreams in the Witch House.
Seriously, the concept of Brown Jenkin is just fucking creepy.
Seriously, the concept of Brown Jenkin is just fucking creepy.
I read a bunch. At the Mountains of Madness, Rats in the Walls, Color Out of Space are probably my three favorites.
Having said that, Lovecraft's style is very unique and it makes it hard, for me at least, to read much of him in one sitting.
Having said that, Lovecraft's style is very unique and it makes it hard, for me at least, to read much of him in one sitting.
I know it is a sleeping demon god from beyond time and space. It slumbers under the sea in it's hidden city of R'lyeh. Looking at it can make you go insane. It stands several miles tall and, it once attacked a Norwegian fishing ship. The boat escaped mostly in tact.
I've read quite a lot, I don't have any specific favourites but "The Rats in the Walls" was enjoyable, as was (I think it was called) "Reanimator". Neither of which are linked to Cthulhu, woops. I like Cthulhu and all, but it's the random less-explained stuff which seems a bit creepier.
I see him mentioned a lot in different and unrelated threads, but all I know about him is the little bit I read about him on wikipedia - he's evil and really scary looking. Or something like that.
