Why are Lovecraft's Cthulhu/Dagon related writings so celebrated?

[jollygreengiant]

Recently, I picked up a collection of Mr. Howard Philips' works, and I absolutely loved them. Personally, I enjoyed 'Facts Concerning Arthur Jermyn' the most, but his mini-mythology(or antimythology, if you prefer) was a good read as well. That being said, why is this more celebrated than his other stories? I know it has something to do with this August Delreth person, but that is all I know. Care to elaborate, anyone?

 

[Proteus214]

I think it's mostly because it was the first time that anything like that had been done in a modern medium. Also there is the Blair Witch factor. Those stories are written as second-hand memoirs, which for some reason, tends to "stick" with people more.

Considering that it unfolds like an unfinished mythology (which it kind of was since Lovecraft died young and in obscurity), it opens a whole world of fiction to creative minds. The most interesting part of a mythology isn't the parts that have been written, but the parts that have yet to be discovered.