call of cthulhu was one of his weaker workwhy did it become his most popular one?
manchildren love their monsters and lore, simple as
i think it's literally just that Cthulhu is fun to say.
>>25216711Big sexy tentacle mommy makes my pp the hard pp
>>25216711Are you sure you're not conflating the popularity of the Cthulhu Mythos as a whole with the eponymous story?
>>25216711>>25216758Cthulhu was in a South Park episode which is where 99% of Redditor manchildren first heard of Lovecradt.
>>25216711he tapped into the collective unconscious
>>25216711I wouldn't say it's one of his weaker works. It's not the best-written story as a story, but it's not below average.Yes, it's narratively weak, but most of them are. HPL was a poor storyteller, as he himself admitted in his letters. (He gets away with it as well as he does because his pieces are short. When he tries something more expansive, e.g. Mountains Of Madness, his deficiencies become painfully apparent.)>>25216758>i think it's literally just that Cthulhu is fun to say.This is definitely a big part of it. Cthulhu is a cool name and Call Of Cthulhu is a cool title.There's also the suggestion of a whole vast mythology behind the story, which makes it stand out. Rats In The Walls, for example, is really only about one specific thing. You can't imagine dozens of stories about that setup. Colour Out Of Space likewise. But you *can* imagine dozens of stories about the Cthulhu mythos.Also notice the phrase "Cthulhu mythos". A nice memorable tag for the whole concept. You can't say "Colour Out Of Space Mythos" or "Fish-Men Of Innsmouth Mythos" or "Mountains Of Madness Mythos". It really is that simple.
>>25216711Read the Alan Moore "Lovecraft Trilogy", it explains it all. Basically, information travels like a fungus. Also, jews are gay.
>>25217729At the Mountains of Madness was one of his best works, you pleb.
Why does /lit/ have so much trouble comprehending authors of the pulp fiction scene? The users here can't handle Lovecraft or Howard worth a damn.
>>25217740Because pulp fiction was just a front for the mob to run booze out of Canada during prohibition.
>>25216711Shadow over Innsmouth is the GOAT. Fish chads > squid chuds
>>25217936but the fish "chads", as you call them, were literally just the niggers of the squid chuds
>>25217936The scene in the inn where the villagers are sneaking up to break into his room is surely HPL's best bit of narrative writing. But the rest of the story is not on that level.Also, the fish-people just aren't awe-inspiring. They're laughable. I mean come on, they're fish people. (Admittedly, Cthulhu is a bit of a joke too, to be fair.)
>>25218032>awe-inspiringthey're supposed to be disgusting, to evoke the repulsion severely inbred people do. >But the rest of the story is not on that level.I think it's great. The architecture autism. The setup of the town. The evil imported from mysterious indigenous people. A multi generational corruption of this community, conspiracy, disappearances. The reveal the protagonist himself is a fish. It's all great. It's not high literature bro lol
>>25218032I actually remember that scene being used to great effect in a video game. You go to sleep and dream that people are sneaking up the stairs or something so you wake up and they're trying the door and you have to push furniture against it and escape somehow.Not sure what game it was though. I've never played it; I just saw a clip somewhere, maybe YouTube "ten greatest survival horror games" or something.
>>25217644No, retard. "Call of Cthulhu" was a name that was slapped on all kinds of Lovecraft compilation paperbacks, back in the day, and then it became the name of a tabletop roleplaying game, and a video game.
>>25216711can't unthink it
I like Lovecraft from time to time but it's not a coincidence 99% of his fans these days are larpers and gamers lol, he is definitely genreslop, even if he is one of the better ones.
CoC is one of my favourite HPL stories, personally. I wish he had revisited the voodoo theme in his other stories.
>>25218187You missed a K
>>25216711its a safe choice. mountains of madness is too much like creation for evolutionists and too much like evolution for creationists. dream quest of unknown kadath is too pious and too magical. but cthulhu is a great plushie idea
