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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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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

And in Netflix's mystery series "Archive 81," it takes on a power as mysterious and majestic as Cthulhu.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2022

It’s a mask some human wears, just as Cthulhu is a mask Lovecraft wore.

From The Verge ● Sep. 9, 2019

For the uninitiated, Cthulhu is the most powerful and loathsome of Lovecraft’s demonic aliens.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019

The answer is murky even to the writers, but at last week’s Los Angeles premiere scribe Will Beall described it as “a Lovecraftian, Cthulhu kind of a character that was eons old.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2018