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Title:
The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu #2
Series:
Cthulhu Anthology #22
Editor: Will
Murray
Rating: 1 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Cosmic Horror
Pages: 210
Words:
77K
The first story in this anthology ends like this:
“All mysteries are contained in the Great Mystery. The Great Mystery has authority over all lesser mysteries. Lesser mysteries have no power over the Great Mystery. Wakan Tanka is far more powerful than they. I walk with Wakiya medicine. So I partake of that power.”
Thus, the Great Spirit is elevated so far above Cthulhu and his ilk that humanity doesn’t need to worry. Then you have a later story about a preacher of Christianity and it goes as you’d expect. God and Jesus are denigrated and spit upon and shown to be impotent and powerless before Cthulhu.
I’m stopping reading these anthologies. The hypocrisy shown here finally pushed me over the edge. I’ll revisit the idea of reading more cosmic horror later this year or early in ‘26.
Not exactly the way I wanted to start the month.
★☆☆☆☆
Table of Contents
Introduction 5
God General Nakji 7
Evacuation Day 31
The Hindmarsh Abomination 46
Moonday 60
Smoking Mirror 88
In The Lightless Chambers of Hellish N’gah-Kthun 100
The Purple Emperor 127
The Cow-Men of Coburn 134
The Arcade 149
The Wild Ones of Weirport 158
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