The Mainstreaming of Cthulhu: How a Fringe Horror Creation Became Popular, by Auroch Digital
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In the summer of 1926, a then little-known writer, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, was writing what would become his most well-known work, The Call of Cthulhu. This story would be published in Weird Tales…
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