Cthulhu

Horror that needed no extensive gore to elicit a chill down the reader’s spine. Call of Cthulhu was so powerful in story that people created a group called the Cthulhu Mythos, who held an almost cult like adoration for the stories. Mathew Baldwin (2012) explains this group as “Members of “The Lovecraft Circle,” a group of HPL contemporaries that included Robert E. Howard (creator

Like space the ocean has no gravity when diving. Without a suit, you will most definitely die. The only difference between the two is that in the ocean, there is always a living threat. Are you familiar with a creature known as megalodon, cthulhu, maybe even the creature who made the bleep? All these strange phenomenons are probably from the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. The Mariana trench is a deep mystery. We still don’t know what lays beneath the surface of this unknown

plentiful harvest, you may want to break one heart/orb before and one after midnight (I haven’t tested this, but it should work in theory.) This way you can harvest meteorite armour and tools before fighting the Eye of Cthulhu, ensuring the odds in your favor. After beating the Eye of Cthulhu, you probably have enough equipment to make better weapons, such as the Blood Butcherer and Light’s Bane (NOTE: the War Axe of the Night costs the same and does more damage than the Light’s Bane, and is an axe), but

dimensions in the “violet westward mountains” (Lovecraft, 101). Danforth’s ramblings of observations indicate multiple beings and planes in the universe that it is impossible to identify the source of his fear as a single entity. As stated in the Cthulhu Mythos, Kadath is home to a race of gods

This is an example of the Lovecraftain genre style of writing. Cthulhu is a god like creature with tentacles that lives under water. For many this character is one that many could only dream of in their own nightmares. Though it is a half creature and half human deity. This story is a great example of the style of writings

This semester was in awkward transition for me, mostly due to the expectations that were implied from day one. I have always written basic and monotonous five-paragraph essays about a pre-determined topic because that was what was wanted of me. Having independence from that process has helped me become a better writer in this class, but also others. This freedom has enhanced how I think when I write. For instance, when I would write a paper a year ago for English 11 I would just type away with little

two legged snake with the head of a chicken and the wings of a dragon from just mythology in general coming from urban legends and or Fantasy books. Books written by H.P. Lovecraft are very famous for the creatures in them such as the Cthulhu from “call of the Cthulhu” from the magazine Weird tales back in 1928. Jenny Greenteeth is another example, is a hag who lives in the water and would pull people in and drown them like naiads, no one is sure where the she comes from maybe it’s made to scare children

Horror, what is it, according to literary historian J.A. Cuddon, it is “a piece of fiction in prose of variable length…which shocks or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing.” This sets the guidelines for how the generic horror piece is written, as long as it can scare the reader in one sense or the other, or cause them to loath a certain part or character, then it can be called horror. The horror today has roots stemming from old folklore and religious

The three short stories written by Stephen King that I read for class were Night Surf, Graveyard Shift, and Jerusalem’s Lot. The first thing I noticed while reading Night Surf was that it mentions a super-flu that wipes out nearly the whole human race called “Captain Trips.” This same super-flu called “Captain Trips” is later used in a story written by Stephen King called The Stand. After doing some research, it appears to be that Night Surf was King’s precursor to the epic horror story, The Stand

The being depicted in the sculpture here is what is known as an “Elder Thing”. First appearing in Dreams in the Witch House by H.P. Lovecraft, these extraterrestrial beings are far from human. The Elder Things are a race of half-vegetable, half-animal beings, having the feature of plants and animals simultaneously. They are capable of reproduction via spores and enter into states of death-like hibernation, yet they also eat and move and have minds of their own. In the Lovecraft story, At the Mountains