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. Some loose thoughts (don't have time and/or inspiration for a full coherent review):
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