H.P. Lovecraft's Monster Is Wrapping Family Game Night Up In Tentacles
A century after the horror writer created Cthulhu, board game creators and players have resurrected the deep sea monster and brought it into pop culture. Why is this beast making a comeback?
H.P. Lovecraft, the early 1900s horror writer, is best known for his creation of the deity Cthulhu — a monster of great power who sleeps in the Pacific Ocean in the sunken city of R'lyeh.
Now, almost 100 years after its conception, Cthulhu is making a creepy comeback via a new crop of board games.
Lovecraft created Cthulhu, which is typically pronounced Ka-thu-lu, in his 1920s short story "." In illustrations, the monster's depiction has taken on a look similar to a mixture of the Kraken, the dragon from Shrek and Xenomorphs from , but with
