![]() It's a shame how epic the narration explains it because I could not stop laughing at that and take it seriously. Pretty passing though/īut I think my favorite story was the one where the sailors end up accidentally discovering R'lyeh.Īnd Cthulu is defeated by a steamboat ramming on to him. ![]() These creepy cults always have to be a sex cult as well huh?Īlso the first mention of the Necronomicon and Abdul Alhazred. The dreams and cult are decent mystery elements that commanded my attention and kept me dreading what was next.Īnd Cthulhu's cult is also into orgies. The mystery of what the figure of Cthulhu actually is and what it leads to is enthralling even with the basic knowledge of how Lovecraft's stories go and what Cthulhu is. I like the framing device, there's the intro, and the other 3 stories, and then the ending. I gotta say, it really helped and hurt the story that I only mostly know Cthulhu from pop culture. "The best historian is the one with the best bias, rather than the non-existent one with no bias." - CarrĪlright, I finally read The Call of Cthulhu. Then, once again, a lot of people got cancer and they cut that shit out.īasically, they discovered something cool, and it took a while to discover the long term side effects (for context, we're not talking about high exposure, instant radiation sickness and death levels of radiation here, just the sort of slow-burn radiation poisoning you can get from any chunk of low grade uranium ore or x-ray machine (and yes, people have been collecting those rocks, too.)Įdited by Redmess on Feb 18th 2023 at 10:11:50 AM Scientists were doing demos with full body x-ray machines and stuff, for example, when x-rays were first discovered. Not just the greater public, but also manufacturers and scientists. Then a lot of people started getting cancer and all those products were swiftly recalled.Īnd this is why we mandate rigorous product testing these days. ![]() When radiation was first discovered, marketers everywhere jumped on it to make all sorts of nifty glowing products.
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