Lovecraft was to 'otherworldly' horror what Tolkien was to sword-and-sorcery fantasy. Subtract Lovecraft's influence from any of Stephen King's works, and you'd only have every third page remaining.
It is odd that Cthulhu has become the poster-child for Lovecraft's 'hidden world' antagonists when he/it is one of the more prosaic examples--basically a big rubber monster with sanity-jamming effects.
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Originally Posted by ATDrake
For some weird reason, I've always been fonder of the derivative works and the parodies.
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I can't believe no one has mentioned A Shoggoth on the Roof:
http://www.cthulhulives.org/shoggoth/
Awesome Lovecraftian Legos, despite the poor camera work
