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Sunday, August 22, 2010

Cults of an Unwitting Oracle: The (Unintended) Religious Legacy of H. P. Lovecraft

A man of Providence, Rhode Island, horror writer, self-proclaimed atheist, and “mechanical materialist” who spent most of his life ridiculing religion in his many extant letters, Lovecraft invented one of the most absurd and terrifying pseudomythologies (often called “The Cthulhu Mythos”) in the history of modern literature.
Prof. Hex at 12:29 AM
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