Because I am so damn cool, I make all those other terrors from time and space look like raw garbage. (Of course, they already looked pretty disgusting, even without comparing them to me, but still…)
It is actually 11,250 virgins that you have promised me, human, and if you do ever become the Emperor of your kind, I intend to hold you to your promise. Also, I prefer Japanese schoolgirls - hey ** I do have tentacles. ** 
I saw one of these before…thought it was a Pocket Dragon.
Am I the only one who likes Lovecraft’s essay “ibid.”?
I have to confess, the first time I read Mountains of Madness I was waiting and waiting and waiting, cause he was really building it up. And then it was like yer kid brother jumping out of the closet and yelling “Boo!”
Pretty much all Lovecraft is like that, actually.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! Why didn’t anyone tell me about this one sooner!?!
Just ordered mine from a different website. Now all my other Cthulhus will have another driving buddy in the car, though it is kind of weird having a Santa Cthulhu in the back seat in April.
This thread is of a quite singular, cyclopean, and eldritch geometry. Sorry, my HPL books get kinda wyld with the italicisation, especially when describing the geometry of certain things.
Back to the OP, I don’t think the idea of Cthulhu and the “Old Ones” is all that crazy (i.e. great beings that existed before humans, etc.), at least not any more crazy than any other religion. For full disclosure, I’ll mention that I’m what people refer to nowadays as a “bad Catholic”; in truth, I can’t remember the last time I attended a mass.
ah, also, that website indicates that “Summer Fun Cthulhu” is sold out (or has sold out:dubious: )
Anyways, is this permanent, or will we at one point in the future be able to buy a little piece of mayhem for ourselves again?
I don’t know if I’ve read it. Got a link?
I think it’s still under copyright, so I can’t link to the story. I believe you can find it if you google for the H. P. Lovecraft Library.
As you know, ibid. is an abbreviation often found in footnotes, which you use when you’re citing a source you’ve just previously cited. Lovecraft came across an essay written by a student who didn’t know that, so the student wrote “…as Ibid says in his famous Lives of the Poets.” So, taking that line as his theme, he wrote an biography of Ibid, who’s best known for his work"Lives of the Poets"
Well, it’s not named after the crawling chaos because it’s far to hard to easily spell or pronouce his name(I still can’t pronouce it to save my life). Cthulhu is far easier in comparison
[pointless hijack]Any other opera users spend about five minutes trying to figure out if there are any pentagram/pentacle mouse macros on that “Summer Fun Cthulhu” page?[/PHJ]
Honey, do you think this dress makes me look squamous?
Not at all dear, not the least bit rugose either.
No, dear, that dress doesn’t make you looks squamous. It’s your cyclopean TENTACLES that make you look squamous! 
Well, for one thing, Cthulhu is one of the few deities to actually make a personal appearance in any of Lovecraft’s stories.
Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, He who is not to be Named, and so on are spoken about, but almost never seen. Cthulhu appeared in one of HPL’s most famous stories, and actually got to rip some stuff apart.
Of course, you also forget the 15 pages in front of his post describing the fascinating architecture of the town he was driving through previous to the eldritch forest in terms his intended would not be likely to understand or enjoy.
Blame August Derleth.
Lovecraft never really gave an overall name to the mythos he (and others) invented; the Hastur mythos or the Yog-Sothoth mythos would have been equally valid.
After Lovecraft’s death, fellow writer August Derleth took it upon himself to keep Lovecraft’s fiction and the mythos alive. While opinions vary on Derleth’s own writings and contributions to the mythos, it is probable that most people would never have heard of Lovecraft if it were not for his efforts in keeping his stories in print. (IIRC he founded Arkham House publishing for the purpose of continuing to print Lovecraft’s stories.)
It was Derleth who started calling Lovecraft’s work the “Cthulhu Mythos”. Since he was the one pushing and publishing Lovecraft, the name stuck.