Neil Gaiman gives an excellent little monologue about H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu mythos. He rightly mentions a fact a lot of Lovecraft fans gloss over: that H.P. was a downright amateurish writer a lot of the times. What most people are fans of is not Lovecraft, but Lovecraft’s ideas, his vision of humanity being weak and helpless and surrounded by malevolent cosmic evil. Yes, there are gods. We are not alone in the universe. But our gods hate us. And, as Gaiman puts it, we’re totally screwed.

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PS: Is it just me, or does Neil Gaiman speak exactly like Gaius Baltar?