mi-go : what fungi sprout in yuggoth
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
– “the call of cthulhu”
HP Lovecraft’s fictional town of Arkham, featured in many of his stories and part of the Cthulhu mythos. Follow {fuckyeahfictionalmaps} for more excellent imaginary cartography, Lovecraftian and otherwise.
I, Cthulhu
or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9’ S, Longitude 126° 43’ W)? — Neil Gaiman
cthulhu : that is not dead which can eternal lie / and with strange æons even death may die
« above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. it seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. if i say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, i shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. a pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings, but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful »
– “the call of cthulhu”
azathoth : the blind idiot god & dæmon sultan welcomes you to his realm
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
I, Cthulhu
"« above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. it seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive. if i say that my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature, i shall not be unfaithful to the spirit of the thing. a pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings, but it was the general outline of the whole which made it most shockingly frightful »"
