The only Lovecraft story Cthulhu makes a personal appearance in is “Call of Cthulhu”. He is mentioned in passig and his statue, portrait, carving etc seen in most of Lovecraft’s other stories.
Not surprising really. The return of Cthulhu should technically be the end of the world.
Seince it has already been mentioned I will simply add my recommendation to The Shadow Over Innsmouth which displays his talents. I have recently met a lot of people who actively dislike Lovecraft, mainly for his use of language, but suspect that may be because they have some difficulties in understanding his somewhat archaic terminology.
** UnwrittenNocturne ** would you be so kind as to tell me those who actively dislike Lovecraft? I have some “associates” I would like them to meet.
I have no problem understanding his language. But I do find him actively boring. Strangely (much like JRR Tolkien) I find people inspired by his witting very good but the original source tiresome.
And before anyone trots out that old “you just don’t have patience or you want to have everything jammed in your face” Line of argument give me a break. It’s not unreasonable to expect something interesting to happen before the first 100 pages and have the climax more then “they went inside lights flashed they came out all crazy…nobody knows what they saw for they never could remember, but they could never fully forget” crap.
Having said all of that though I have to admit I only read Dexter Ward all the way through. I started another Lovecraft but never finished it. So if there’s one you think might be a better fit for me I’m willing to give it a shot.
I thought that Dagon was doing pretty good until the last half hour to 15.
A lot of people aren’t wild about his hyperactive use of adjectives and his fondness for archaisms and British spellings, particularly considering the man never visited England.
His ideas are quite good, though.
Thanks for giving Robert E. Howard some mention.
Conan, Kull, Cormac and Solomon Kane. The Puritan Kane may approach the civilized person vs. mythical horrible evil.
YOU FIND HIM BORING!!! :mad: :mad:
I WILL SEND DEEP ONES TO EAT YOUR CHILDR . . . curses, you live in Wyoming.
You wouldn’t happen to be planning a vaction to the coast anytime soon?
Oh, and get used to the word “eldritch”. HPL loves it and the Lovecraft knowers like to drop it as kind of a password, as in “The eldritch leftovers waiting in my fridge to devour me!”
And don’t forget “cyclopean.”
Well I am planning a trip to Brazil in July. Can the deep ones take down a plane? I really wouldn’t worry about driving me insane/torturing/killing me living in Wyoming is a version of insanity/torture/death all in it’s own.
I would like you and your associates to meet Conan the Cimmerian on a professional basis.
AIP did three Lovecraft films of uneven success-
DIE MONSTER DIE with Boris Karloff, from THE COLOUR FROM OUTER SPACE- not too good
THE HAUNTED PALACE starring Vincent Price, w/ support from Lon Chaney Jr & John Carradine, from THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD- better
THE DUNWICH HORROR starring Dean Stockwell, Sandra Dee (and PERHAPS a flash of her breasts), Sam Jaffe, and Ed Begley Sr, and perhaps the first screen appearance of Talia Coppola (Yo, Adrian!)- a personal favorite
a late 1980s version of WARD starring Chris Sarandon titled THE RESURRECTED was damn good!
Sure - a nice snack that comes with its own metal toothpick. 
DreadCthulhu In lost R’lyeh…
You want phone numbers or addresses?
I recommend starting with The Festival. It contains the proper New England setting, dark practices from a vanished and evil age, and hints of unspeakable horrors. It also runs under 20 pages. It’s an excellent introduction to HP and the Mythos.
One of these days, I’ve gotta post my ceremonial mask, the 2 Cthulhu statuettes I’ve made, and my Cthulhu Is Coming! pamphlet.
Incidentally–in case you’re a glutton for punishment–I believe there’s an annual H. P. Lovecraft film festival held in Portland Oregon. I went to this year’s showing (a friend of mine did some work on the soundtrack of one of the films), and the entries ranged from “not too bad” to “bloody awful”, with most of the films falling toward the latter end of the scale.
Deepone Maifisos?
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“It’s a ediritch message. It means that the fishes are sleeping with him”
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Back to the OP, I’ve got an anthology called Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology that’s quite delightful - a fairly sizable group of modern writers exploring the of the Cthonian mythos.
Grrr. Now I’m digging out my “Best of Lovecraft: Black Seas of Infinity” to see if I judged this guy too soon.