Why the Great Old Ones Aren’t Enough Anymore

Cosmic Horror Is More Than the Overused Lovecraftian Creations which spawned it

From the Call of Cthulhu game “Masks of Nyarlathotep”, Image: Chaosium

Let me start with a cosmic horror confession: I never really found Cthulhu all that scary.

Sure, in the short story “The Call of Cthulhu”, we bear witness to the giant city of R’lyeh beneath the furthest reaches of the South…