Cthulhu fhtagn! Lovecraft fans unite!

lost_sheep

I noticed under_believer's "O R'lyeh?" avatar, (cracked me up, by the way) so i thought i'd see who else on this board digs H.P. Lovecraft. I'm a huge fan of his work & the gnarly pantheon of freakish alien beings that his imagination spawned. I've always loved mythology, so when i discovered Lovecraft & the Cthulhu Mythos i was hooked. Lovecraft had a knack for building tension in a story & a unique way of using the English language. *geeky snort*
Fellow aposta-nerds, what are your favorite Lovecraft stories?

For the uninitiated, Wikipedia has a good introduction to Cthulhu.

lost_shoggoth, Devourer of Worlds, Killer of Threads

daystar

You do know that there is a musical out there, don't you?

http://www.cthulhulives.org/Musical/

metatron

I liked the "Cthulhu for President! Why Vote for the Lesser Evil?" bumper sticker.

metatron

under_believer

ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

I like everything except for the Derleth extensions to the mythos. It was such a wonderful non-dualistic system, and then he had to come in with his Catholicism and turn it into good vs evil. When in reality Cthulhu is above good or evil... the universe just is.

May I humbly also suggest this interesting graphic novel.