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[The Cthulhu]

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[The Cthulhu]

For pictures, see regional thread:

http://www.1addicts.com/forums/showt...=1#post5696095

[BlackjackMulligan]

Ok gotta ask.....what's the meaning behind your user name?

[The Cthulhu]

H.P. Lovecraft - Call of the Cthulhu
1928
Gothic horror short story

Lovecraft was the inspiration for a lot of modern horror writers like Stephen King, and I love his style of writing. Most of his stories boil down to fear of the unknown, but they're pretty deep and creative. The way he writes is pretty unique and one can usually identify it within a sentence or two.

The Cthulhu is an eldritch horror that lies eternally sleeping at the bottom of the sea in the sunken city of R'lyeh. A bunch of unrelated, illiterate tribes around the world, with idols of the Cthulhu, phophesise its awakening. The protagonist, who learned of the Cthulhu after discovering the research of his insane, late uncle (or something like that), does a bunch of research, travels out to sea with a small crew, and watches the awakening of Cthulhu as the sunken island city of R'lyeh raises from the water. It's effing huge, and makes people go batshit insane.

The story is made up of 3 different accounts from different narrators found in the protagonists late uncle's papers, and it he puts them together to form the complete story. The first line of the story is pretty awesome:

"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

Now, who wants a detailing?

[BlackjackMulligan]

Wow, very cool. I love Stephen King stuff too.

So back on topic: Free thread bump!