"Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom."
The works of H.P. Lovecraft were ignored in his lifetime, but gained a huge amount of following postmortem, as the horror literature was rediscovered, and inspiration drew the world from Lovecraft's wild imagination.
The Call of Cthulhu is most likely his most famous short story, which is about the coming of an elderly cosmological god that is worshiped by occult cults of esoterically proportions of knowledge, blind with loyalty.
His way of writing is extraordinary as he describes the abnormal phenomenon in intricate details of horrific nature, such as when men is talking about The Great Old Ones, who are ancient beings residing beyond the surface.
H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos has been inspired, adapted and referred to in numerous media, such as with Bloodborne's creature design, lore and art style, or the silent film namesake of 2005, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem's elderly gods, and several of Metallica's songs.
There's also a theme of dreaming playing, such as being in a state of dreamlike insignificance as mankind is but a microscopic dot compared to what lies beyond the cosmos. I'm sure that I will gradually read Howards Phillip's other works.
"The Thing cannot be described—there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order."
Rating: **
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