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Friday Fun Thread for April 14, 2023

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With all the shoggoth talk nowadays, I finally got around to reading (listening to) At the Mountains of Madness. There were definitely some good parts, but it kind of dragged in the middle. You probably couldn't cut it down as short as The Call of Cthulhu (the only other Lovecraft I've read), but this should have been a two-and-a-half hour audiobook instead of a four-and-a-half hour audiobook. One thing I haven't seen remarked upon is that the shoggoths were created by the Elder Things to facilitate construction and economic growth before they became too powerful to control, making the metaphor quite apt.

If you like Lovecraft's general vibe, I strongly recommend The Rats in the Walls, which is both short enough to be read in one sitting and more purely frightening than anything else I've read by him (and I've read a lot).

It's a shame that's the one with the unnameable cat, because it's harder to promote it more broadly.