>Spend the whole story building Cthulhu up as some grand cosmic entity that is powerful beyond imagination>Some random sailor dude single-handedly defeats him by ramming his boat into him and gets awayIs this some sort of practical joke? Did Lovecraft hide the pages of the true ending inside the cover of the book somewhere?
>>25330538>defeats himhe didn't "defeat" anything, retardthere's no stopping what can't be stoppedno killing what can't be killedthat does not sleep which can eternal lieand with strange aeons even death may die
For me it's Ktulu like that Metallica song.
>>25330637"Ride the Lightning" is named after a line from The Lurking Terror>a wolf-fanged ghost who rode the midnight lightning
>>25330641Fuck yeah. I didn't know that. I'll read that soon.
>>25330571He didn't kill it, but squidboi lost almost all his aura points.in that encounter.
>>25330653eldritch mogging
It was a sucker punch that dazed Cthulhu a bit but he recovered. If iPhones were around when it happened the cephalopod of the stars would have never gotten any cosmic pussy ever again.Random sailor dude remains high testosterone as most random sailor dudes do. The whole ordeal was basically a zero sum game for the whole universe.
How did CoC become the most popular story of his when it's clearly one of the worst?
>>25330955I don't think it's one of the worst, but there are certainly better ones.Which stories do you like more?
>>25330955which are his better ones, all I've read have been unfortunately mid
>>25330538I got unreasonably angry the other day when I saw some fag on youtube criticizing another guy, telling him that he "didn't read the book, because Cthulhu doesn't even have a corporeal form in it. People only think he looks like a squid because of the statue."Never mind that Cthulhu gores a guy with his claws. Never mind that Cthulhu gets fucking brained by a boat.The fag I mentioned above said Cthulhu was made of smoke, btw.
>>25332724>>25330970NTAHis GOAT is obviously At The Mountains of Madness.His other best works are The Shadow Out of Time, The Temple, and 'Til a' the Seas.
>>25333214"The Temple" is great. I really love "The Colour out of Space" and "The Rats in the Walls". And "Dagon".I have yet to read "At The Mountains of Madness" or "The Shadow Out of Time". I'll get around to them, eventually.
>>25333214>>25333467The Shadow Out of Time is great, one of my Top 5 favourite HPL stories.
>>25330970>From beyond>The outsider>The other Gods>What the moon Brings>Dreams in the Witch HouseEnjoy
>>25330955sick-ass rhymes, naturally
>>25332724The Randolph Carter Saga, particularly Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath.But most of his stuff is pretty good, just pick up a complete collection and go to town.
