Um question to any prolific Lovecraft readers out there on /tg/:

>inb4 somebody sends him to /lit/
/lit/ is even less about books than /v/ is about video games. You can't talk about Lovecraft there

>>55154372
Real love craft is just name drops and thats the point. Knowing more isnt.

>>55154540
>Knowing more isnt.
Then again, sometimes the context informs the reader a little more about that thing. Namely that they either posses whatever trait the dialog was referencing or that trait is decidedly absent. So unless they name-dropped the name to cite them as an example of something we already know about it we inadvertently learn something about them.

An example I can think of is the creature Dagon, in the short story "Dagon" we learn very little, we know he's a fish-creature living at the bottom of the sea. That's about it, but because he get's name-dropped in "Shadow Over Innsmouth" as the prominent Deity of the Deep Ones we learn a bit more, namely we learn of his sinister nature and hatred of humans by the fact that his followers seek to conquer the surface and enslave/eradicate humanity.

>>55154847
The whole point of comic horror is that the human mind cannot possibly understand the context.

>>55155863
what do you want me to do about it? Hit myself in the head until I'm too concussed to make observations? Look every time one of these things gets referenced it's going to be slightly more defined in it's nature. that's how it works, get over it.

>>55154490
Honestly yeah, and since most substantial (or at least, best organized) lore comes from Call of Cthulhu, this is the best place to ask.