The Horrifying History of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos

Go to https://buyraycon.com/Existsexplained to get up to 30% off during Raycon’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale Intro: 0:00 What exactly is Cthulhu?: 1:29 Raycon Ad: 7:20 The Greater Mythos : 8:54 Writing, Themes, & Criticism : 13:30 The Books and Phases of Cthulhu: 19:25 The Many Adaptations: 24:00 The Future, Fandom, & Conclusion: 32:45 There are few names in fiction that have crawled so deeply into our collective nightmares as Cthulhu. You might not have read a single Lovecraft story, but you know that name. But the strange thing is, the so-called “Cthulhu Mythos” was never meant to exist the way we think of it today. What started as one anxious man’s bizarre stories about cosmic insignificance turned into one of the most sprawling, fan-built mythologies in all of literature. So today, we’re diving into the deep end — into the murky history of how Cthulhu and his many eldritch friends came to rule the world of horror. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:   / endingsexplained   Subscribe to my second channel: / @jadedinu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSIC & DESIGN: Thumbnail Design - Dabi Design: https://dabigraphics.my.canva.site/ Hard Boiled, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Rising Tide, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Celtic Impulse, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Vibing Over Venus, Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCES AND RESOURCES:    • H.P. Lovecraft: A Titan of Terror   https://archive.org/details/lovecraft... the complete list of Cthulu mythos - according to the book:   / the-complete-cthulhu-mythos-tales   link to all the first generation of Cthulu mythos: https://www.cthulhufiles.com/cthulhu_... Interview with S.T Joshi about miscconpcetions of Lovecraft:   / interview_with_s_t_joshi_regarding_the   Letters lovecraft: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/... https://hplovecraft.com/ 2005 Call of Cthulhu film - is available on Tubi! Dr zeuss style Cthulhu:    • H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu for B...