But the description of Ctulhu is actually one of the weirdest. There's a large amount of strange creatures found in literature.

I've only read one story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and I found myself reminded of it when reading Lovecraft's story (even if Lovecraft is not part of Romanticism, obviously). It does not refer to any sort of love story (although there must surely be some Japanese fanfiction about Ctulhu's love life), but rather to Romanticism, which tried, among other things, to look into the depths of the human psyche and towards things outside of human perception. Romantic some may ask (and rightfully so, because that term is one of the weirdest terms to use when talking about literature). Admittedly, there are very few things I actively find creepy (King's It being one of them), but what Call of Ctulhu left me with was a pretty standard romantic tale with a monster. The end result is horror, of course, but in the sense of the literary genre, not in the sense of the feeling it invokes in me. The things I heard about it and the fact that the entire thing has a lot of followers contributed to my expectation of finding something that could accurately be described as horror. So going into the story, I was interested to see how a single text could lay the foundation for something resembling a 'modern mythology'.

I've never read anything by Lovecraft before, but I was aware of the existence of the 'Ctulhu Mythos' and its fame. As if all that weren’t enough, Cthulhu also possesses psychic abilities and can communicate telepathically – hence why it was able to create a cult while sleeping.Some loose thoughts (don't have time and/or inspiration for a full coherent review): When the protagonist of the story strikes it in the head with a boat, Cthulhu’s face merely reforms. A single glance at the creature would drive a person mad just by looking at its face, meaning the video game based on the short story understood the character the best by giving him only a brief cameo at the end. Near Godlike and immortal, Cthulhu’s great strength is impossible to comprehend. This story also showed us some of Cthulhu’s immense powers. This doomsday cult wished to awaken the Old One and bring about an apocalyptic age of darkness where the human race would destroy itself in a fit of madness. This 1926 short story showed readers the creature, described as being a “ vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers.” Since its time on Earth, a Cult of Cthulhu had developed, reaching all across the globe.

The call of cthulhu by hp lovecraft