[ATDrake]

Originally Posted by BenG

You may want to try Shadows Over Baker Street and Move Underground ( a mashup of Lovecraft and Jack Kerouac). Last I looked Move Underground was in the MobileRead library.

Thanks for the recs. Shadows Over Baker Street has been in the downtown library for ages*, but I'd never heard of the Kerouac mashup before, which sounds fun.

Originally Posted by taosaur

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.

I think it's because Cthulhu is more easily depictable, and therefore more easily relatable. Slap some bat wings on an octopus† and spray-paint it all green, and voilà! InstaCthulhu!

* Not to be confused with strange aeons.

† Make a lovely Great Old One, he would‡.

‡ That is not dead which can eternal lie. It's just pining for the Dreamlands.