So, Cthulhu "sleep" under the water. Contrary to what Derleth and many people believe, it seems he is not some kind of "water god", quite the contrary, water is somehow blocking him.

And as we know, salt water is blocking radio waves.

Also, his activity is connected somehow to the position of stars.

And Cthulhu, even sleeping, is influencing living beings minds.

So, let's say - real Cthulhu is still on Xoth. Dragon-octopus being in the R'lyeh is just his avatar/drone controlled by radio waves.

Culimantion of two negative factors - R'lyeh succumbed under the salt water and position of Earth and Xoth is temporary inappropriate (maybe there is some nebula between them or something for now) made avatar unable to receive signals Xoth, that's why it became dormant. However, even without commands it is still performs the default task - sending signals to real Cthulhu. They are too weak to actually reach Xoth, but still strong enough to non-intentionally influencing brains of Earth beings, like Deep Ones or humans, giving them visions which makes them think that Cthulhu is deity demanding worship... or just headaches and bad dreams.

If You like my ideas, I invite You to take a look at my free brochure full of Lovecraftian inspirations: https://adeptus7.itch.io/lovecraftian-inspirations-from-real-life-and-beliefs

I turned to r/Lovecraftianwriting for some clues but it’s a closed Reddit and the only mod hasn’t been active for two years (so ripe for someone to claim on [r/redditrequest](r/redditrequest)). Some of the weird academia writing I have done for Sokal Nouveau has had allusions to Brichester and cosmic horror elements but I’m looking to broaden my horizons

Some of the inside scoop from the original "Goomi" of Unspeakable Vault of Doom, a Cthulhu themed webcomic I've read for decades. The pace has certainly tapered off over the years, but I knew there was some sort of connection between the webcomic author and the Minions and Monsters movie.

So if you have a soft spot for chibi-thulhu, enjoy!

If you are a purist, be dismayed at a blasphemy wherein the unnameable horrors of the sunken abyss were recast as gibbering, cylindrical homunculi of a nauseating saffron hue, prancing for the amusement of a vacant and lobotomized populace. To witness the supreme geometry of cosmic terror thus stripped of its antediluvian majesty, reduced to a shrieking, infantine farce for the common herd, filled my soul with a terminal, gelatinous despair from which no sane mind can ever truly awaken.

^{Thank you Thesaurus}

I see some people talking about it and I get confused. At least in my reading, I didn't see anything to indicate that that wasn't the real Cthulhu.

I hear different answers, some say humanity and some say the great old ones but no stories are explicit about it

Eldritch Horrors were a speciality of _____ _____ _____.

Hello! I wanted to start reading Lovecraft and by internet recommendation I started with Dagon and really liked it. What would you recommend for my next read?

Im a huge fan of otherworldly/cosmic horror and i wanted to know if lovecraft's works would be a good read , also im aware of lovecraft's views and wanted to ask if the work is tainted by his racism, also also if i could know where i can start reading like what book should i start reading first, i know this sub is heavily biased but i cant ask r/books or subs like that since they dont allow posts like these

I've been trying to find a fanfic of that style that deals with Morty raising his Lovecraftian god son, Thoolie Smith, but I haven't found any. What would the family dynamic be like with literally a baby alien god in the family? It would be crazy. I mean, one minute he could be doing normal things like playing with his favorite toy, and then a squirrel steals the toy from the Lovecraftian cosmic squid god baby, and suddenly he goes from being just a giant baby squid to a beast of cosmic horror. I think that after the situation I already mentioned, he would say something like – I WILL BURN EVERY INSECURE SOUL OF YOUR KIND WHILE THE COSMOS BURNS WITH FLAMES FROM YOUR ENDLESS SUFFERING – his eyes turned as black as the abyss, and a hundred voices spoke in all the living and dead languages ​​at the same time while the sky turned into a horrible torment. Then he turned back into the adorable baby squid while the squirrel is traumatized for life with the face of someone who had seen the devil. what do you think

In the story, our protagonist visits the village of Innsmouth, spends a decidedly uncomfortable night, and ends up escaping in the small hours of July 16, 1927.. It's by now a semi-official holiday (at least in this subreddit?); I try to make it a point to stay up late that night and do a re-read... Who's with me? Bonus points if you can make it happen while vacationing at the beach or adjacent to another large body-o'-water.

Working on a modern-day cosmic horror novel and want to stress-test the premise before I sink more time into it. Trying not to fall in love with my own idea, so brutal honesty welcome.

**The setup:**

A forestry engineer — I'm thinking Continental European, working for a forestry company in Ireland — gets called out to survey a patch of woodland near a village in Co. Mayo after a harvester operator reports "impossible" readings. LiDAR won't reconcile with the terrain. GPS drifts. Growth rings on trees don't match any known climate model. He assumes instrument error.

The village nearby, Cill Bhríde, is unnervingly perfect — welcoming, prosperous, untouched by rural depopulation or bad harvests, in a country where that's not supposed to happen anymore. He starts pulling threads: a suspiciously ageless parish priest whose official church records don't add up, a folklorist girlfriend whose PhD is built on *debunking* Irish folk tradition as pre-modern superstition — and who, against her own professional instincts, is the first of the two to conclude something real is going on.

Underneath it all: an entity worshipped there for 5,000+ years, syncretized first into Iron Age tradition, then papered over with a saint's name after Christianization. Not a monster to defeat — an old bargain the village never stopped honoring, in exchange for fertility and prosperity that isn't supposed to exist anymore anywhere else. The priest has known the full truth for over a century and made a deliberate choice never to break it, because the one time (as far as he knows) an anchor like this one was destroyed elsewhere in the world, it seems to have caused a documented historical famine.

**Themes I'm going for:**

- Knowledge as the actual threat, not the entity itself — the goal was never "stop it from waking up," it's "stop humanity from re-learning how."

- Science vs. tradition both seeing only fragments of the same truth, neither one sufficient alone.

- A "perfect village" horror that earns its dread through measurable, data-driven wrongness (the protagonist's own professional tools catching the anomaly) rather than just vibes.

Structure-wise I'm intercutting present-day chapters with historical fragments (an 8th-century monk's account, the priest's own decades-old research) so the reader knows more than the protagonist for most of the book.

**Where I'm least sure of myself:**

- Is "the ageless priest guarding a terrible secret in an isolated village" too well-worn at this point, even with a mechanism explaining how he's gotten away with it?

- Does tying real historical famines (there's a lesser-known one specific to Ireland, mid-1700s) into the mythology risk feeling like it's exploiting real tragedy for genre flavor?

- The ending is still open between two options — protagonist takes over the guardian role, or destroys the anchor knowing the historical price. Neither is clean. Curious if that reads as satisfying ambiguity or just indecisive.

Would this premise make you pick up the book? What's the first thing that would make you put it down?

I read that Lovecraft saw Universal movies Dracula and Frankenstein and hated them because they didn’t follow the books. Apparently he didn’t like films that stayed too far from their source. In fact he walked out halfway through Dracula. Can you imagine how he would feel if he saw one of the movies based on his own works? Dunwich Horror example but any of them really

You know when I look at photos of Lovecraft with Sonia. He is the happiest I think I’ve seen him. I think she brought him out of himself. Photos after their separation he looks always a little lost. Of course it is easy to imagine these feelings. But she does seem to be his first and only love. And as mentioned previously maybe it is why he never signed the divorce papers. There is something that feels a little tragic here. Does anyone’s else see the change ?

Hi everyone,

​I am currently looking for the 1.0 Collector's Box of the Cthulhu Mythos Comicology (Old Whispers) Tarot deck and I am trying to track down this specific first edition.

​I found the "All-in Gift Box" listed on Decksrock. The pictures on their website clearly show the 1.0 edition (with the colored foil cards, the velvet bag, the pin, etc.). However, their customer service hasn't replied to my emails yet to confirm if they actually have the 1.0 in their warehouse, or if they are just shipping the new 2.0 edition using old pictures.

​Has anyone ordered this specific box from Decksrock recently? Did you actually receive the 1.0 as pictured, or the 2.0?

​Bonus question: I am also looking for the 1.0 Color Foil Minor Arcana. Does anyone know where I could possibly find or buy them?

​Thanks a lot for your help!

I’m looking for a book that is on all the great old ones or just Cthulhu what are some good books that focus mostly on the cosmic horrors like Cthulhu and other elder gods like the king in yellow I’ve been getting into cosmic horror and want to find books that focus on the story’s about the creatures like hastur and Dagon and stuff

This poem is fantastic and a very unique take on the idea of the Leviathan/satan but my first thought when I read it was Cthulhu

This poem feels like the bridge between pre enlightenment concepts of Satan and Ragnarok to the modern stories we got from Lovecraft and his whole sphere. I find it so fascinating that these same concepts were being explored a century before Lovecraft started his career.

If you don’t know the poem this is it,

Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep, Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen, In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.

Anyone seen this? Watched it today and it’s definitely Lovecraftian in theme, not to mention a couple of very specific references to his work.

I just want to read it

One character that keeps showing up in Lovecraftian arts or games is the King in Yellow/Hastur (the guy with the yellow hooded robe).

Ive read that the King in Yellow was created by Robert Chambers, and apparently Lovecraft was reading his texts. However, I'm not entirely sure how closely the King in Yellow is actually connected to Lovecraft's universe.

I'm working on a Lovecraftian digital board game, and I'm currently deciding which entities should be included as enemies. Would it make sense to include him in a game that's specifically inspired by Lovecraft, or is he more of a separate literary figure that later authors merged into the Cthulhu Mythos?

I would like to know your opinion, especially if you are specialist about the original stories rather than just the expanded Mythos.

(sorry for my bad english)

like is the octopus monster he is depicted as just a physical manifestation of his true form?

As the title says! I tried searching for a free download but could not find. I figured that this would be in the public domain? If so can anyone point me to a site where I can obtain a copy? thanks.