Introduction to the Cthulhu Mythos

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Comment: the Cthulu stories have been genuinely creepy sinvce I was knee high to Stephen King, great stuff---

The Cthulhu Mythos is a branch of horror fictions which has stood the test of time. Begun more than 80 years ago, it's not quite a shared background, not quite a genre of it's own, not quite a series of homages and inside jokes by the writers who created it, but it has elements of all of these (along with some damn fine story-telling). It has inspired some hoaxes and conspiracies, some terrible movies, and even a few popular video games. [Kuro5hin.org]