cthulhu for president – why settle for a lesser ev T-Shirt

by strk3

Note: this post was originally written March 3, 2010 when I started this blog on the now-defunct platform, Open Salon. It was my second post ever. It’s a badly written piece but I’m interested in how I saw all the resentment and paranoia against President Obama mirrored in Lovecraft’s tales. There are certainly now in 2019 more dire parallels. 

“The general tension was horrible.  To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical danger; a danger widespread and all-embracing, such a danger as may be imagined in only the most terrible phantasms of the night.”