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.

• 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