SATANFUDGE

In John Glasby‘s “A Shadow from the Aeons”, Cthulhu is seen by the narrator roaming the riverbank near Dominic Waldron’s castle, and roaring.

Cthulhu, they call me. Great Cthulhu.

Homage to Lovecraft’s sketch of Cthulhu.

August Derleth, a correspondent of Lovecraft, used the creature’s name to identify thesystem of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors

The 1931 novella At the Mountains of Madness refers to the “star-spawn of Cthulhu”, who warred with another race called the Elder Things before the dawn of man.

Lovecraft conceived a detailed genealogy for Cthulhu (published as “Letter 617” in Selected Letters)^[8] and made the character a central figure in corresponding literature.^[9]

The short story asserts the premise that, while currently trapped, Cthulhu will eventually return. His worshippers chant…

…the character as a malevolent entity hibernating within an underwater city in the South Pacific called R’lyeh.

the “Great Old Ones”: a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a deathlike sleep.

The imprisoned Cthulhu is apparently the source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level, and also the subject of worship by a number of human religions

The imprisoned Cthulhu is apparently the source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level, and also the subject of worship by a number of human religions

Lovecraft didn’t reveal much about Cthulhu in that first story.
He wrote that Cthulhu had once ruled the Earth, and that one day he would do so again.

I shall leave this plane, when this world is a cold cinder orbiting a lightless sun.

I sit here, dead and dreaming, watching the ant-empires of man rise and fall, tower and crumble.

I undulated, writhing my tentacles as if to say “I have met such beings in my time”, but fear the message was lost on the King.

What the unspeakable hells is there to do in this dreary dimension? I asked him.

the delightfully foetid charnel smells of the swamp miasmatised around me

Cthulhu, they call me. Great Cthulhu.

Great Cthulhu is the High Priest of Azathoth. His goal is nothing less than the utter destruction of reality.

So passed my youth.