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H.P. Lovecraft: A TVCU Quickie

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What's a quickie?   See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The  Cthulhu  Mythos  is a  shared fictional universe , based on the work of  American   horror  writer  H. P. Lovecraft . The term was first coined by  August Derleth , a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature  Cthulhu —a central figure in Lovecraft literature [1]  and the focus of Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " (first published in  pulp magazine   Weird Tales  in 1928)—to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors. The writer  Richard L. Tierney  later applied the term "Derleth Mythos" to distinguish between Lovecraft's works and Derleth's later stories. [2] Authors writing in the  Lovecraftian milieu  use elements of the Mythos in an ongoing expansion of the fictional universe. [3] From me: I know I said I wasn't going to update any of the horror blogs until my new