![]() ![]() ![]() When I stumbled across the Mythos, for some years I was convinced that ol' calimari face was a real occult entity, from an obscure tradition I was never able to access. His pulp fiction friends, Howard, Smith, Leiber, Derleth and others often shared ideas, which made for a somewhat confused canon, and the illusion of a real occult system, obscured by time.įor years, the Lovecraftian was little more than a joke-'Fantasy and Science Fiction' magazine ran a shriekingly funny spoof called "Ralph Woolstoncraft Hedge" in the sixties that lampooned Lovecraft mercilessly, and parodies abound-Cthulhu lurked in the literary shadows, then. ![]() The Necronomicon is actually an inspired blunder, Lovecraft had another dream, this time of a book, "The Book of the Laws of the Dead", and his Greek wasn't up to the task(Lovecraft never finished High School, he was self educated-and a respectable amateur astronomer, too). Lovecraft invented Cthulhu and company-he got the idea from one of his monumental nightmares-and there is no mention of the Yog-Sothoth cycle before his original "Call of Cthulhu". At this point, a very old fan is moved to speak up. ![]()
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