What Is Cthulhu? A Beginner’s Guide to Lovecraft’s Cosmic Horror
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in his 1928 short story “The Call of Cthulhu.” Lovecraft described him as a gigantic, vaguely humanoid creature with an octopus-like head, a mass of writhing tentacles around the mouth, a scaly rubbery body, and rudimentary wings — an…
