who made cthulhu

Cthulhu was created by the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft as a fictional cosmic entity in his short story “The Call of Cthulhu,” first published in 1928 in the pulp magazine Weird Tales.

Quick Scoop

• The character Cthulhu is not from ancient myth or religion but is a modern literary invention by H. P. Lovecraft.

• Cthulhu first appears in “The Call of Cthulhu,” where it is presented as a gigantic, tentacled, part-humanoid, part-dragon-like being that drives humans to madness.

• In later fandom and fiction, Cthulhu becomes central to what is now called the “Cthulhu Mythos,” a shared universe inspired by Lovecraft’s stories.

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