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Cthulhu

American  

[kuh-thoo-loo] / kəˈθu lu /

noun

1. an otherworldly entity, usually portrayed as a gigantic winged creature with a humanoid body and a tentacled face, that was created by the horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in the 1928 short story The Call of Cthulhu and became an important part of Lovecraft's mythos, later also becoming a popular culture reference.

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Etymology

Origin of Cthulhu

Coined in 1928 by U.S. writer H.P. Lovecraft ( def. ) (1890–1937) in his short story The Call of Cthulhu, published in the U.S. pulp magazine Weird Tales; resemblance to chthonian or chthonic is accidental

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There is a cultural feeling of doom, this sense that Cthulhu underlies modern society, and we are waiting for it to collapse, or worse.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2023

Later writers expanded Heyer’s imagined world — meaning the Regency setting is romance’s version of the Cthulhu mythos, albeit one populated with handsome dukes instead of tentacular horrors.

From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2022

Moreno-Garcia has written a vampire novel set in Mexico City, edited an award-winning anthology of Cthulhu Mythos stories by female writers, and, later in 2021, will publish a sword-and-sorcery novella.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 14, 2021

It looks a good bit like Cthulhu fan art.

From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2019

In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu awaits his cameo in an all-new “Treehouse of Horror” on “The Simpsons.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2018