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WTF Are People Saying
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And then they all went insane.
The end.
The whole point of The Call of Cthulhu is that Cthulhu doesn’t exist, and The Professor’s son or nephew, whatever he is, is going to drive himself insane with all his paranoia about the cult, and this monster, that are really just fabrications, just like The Professor did. It wasn’t a very good read in my opinion, people just like it because they think the idea of being interested in it is cool, but most have never read a thing by Lovecraft.
That wasn’t the point of Call of Cthulhu at all. HPL wrote numerous stories involving the Cthulhu mythos to some degree and it’s plain from most of them that Cthulhu does indeed exist (even if the narrator doesn’t always realise it).
That wasn’t the point that I got from it. Everything happening at the same time is the Call, and not coincidence.
Lovecraft can be hard going, but he achieves effects that no other writer manages.
Yea, like eye-gougingly terrible writing. I’d rather read the Simarrilion than any of his stuff, his writing’s so bad.
What is this, I don’t even.
Have you read, uh, ANY other Lovecraft? Nyarlathotep, Cthulhu, the Old Ones, the Necronomicon, they’re all real in the Lovecraftian universe. That’s the whole freaking point, that we as humans are actually pathetically insignificant compared to the rest of the universe. We’re an accidental byproduct of the Old Ones breeding the Yaggoths (Yaggothi?).
And TCoC ISN’T my favorite Lovecraft, but I don’t get the hate for his writing. I think it flows very well. Maybe people just aren’t used to reading writing from pre-1950? Whatever, YMMV
I’m really looking forward to the companion volumes, How the Grinch stole the Necronomicon, and Dagon: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
You can also show them this video. I posted it on win a few weeks ago, but it didn’t even go to vote page…
I caught it as it was making the rounds and shared it, I actually had dreams about it after, lol, I think it’s WONDERFUL!
pure pure win
What rhymes with f’tagn?
No it doesn’t.
I read THE CALL OF CTHULHU to my girlfriend a few months ago one night when she was in bed sick with a cold.
I’m not kidding.
You, sir, need to get a life, and your girlfriend needs a new boyfriend!
Ahhh be nice. She’s cute, and quite a fellow geek! And in my own defense I must confess that I didn’t read ALL of it to her. Just the stuff up to the police raiding the swamp cult…
End the story with “remember kids, Cthulhu won’t find you if you stay quiet”.
This is real, btw. A guy on DeviantArt is making a Seuss version of the Call of Cthulhu. http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Cover-260811086
Link to the next page at the bottom
Whoa.