Cthulhu demands cookies!

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Sounds to me like you'll Never truly understand him anyway. That being said, its no wonder you poke fun at him.

Oh, I understand him well enough, I just like the endings the best!

It's not Cookies Cthulhu demands!

Well, I guess I'll have to dig out Rachael Ray's Necronomicookin' Book of Bakes ...

Nevah

Lovecraft wrote of people with such a weak grasp of reality that they could be driven to gibbering insanity by the mere sight of a giant man with an octopus for a head. It wasn't some occult mind-blasting power - it was the sight of Cthulhu that did it. Others couldn't bear the thought of the existence of Dagon, even though, not being water-breathers themselves, they'd never meet him.

The only Lovecraft story I could enjoy, the only one with what I thought was a believable protagonist, was one in which an astronaut was caught in an invisible maze on Venus (which was widely supposed at the time to be like Earth, but wetter). He did his best to solve the maze, but his tools were pretty much limited to the thin mud, which kept sliding off the walls when he tried to use it as a marker. He died of thirst less than four feet from the exit he couldn't see...

'The Walls of Eryx'

Reading.

Playing P&P RPGs (CoC).

Inspiring classic videogames (Quake, Alone in the Dark).

Alone in the Dark went on to inspire Resident Evil, which was a pretty successful series, I think (and also inspired one very terrible Uwe Boll movie).

Inspiring other great writers/directors/musicians/etc (Stephen King, Mike Mignola, John Carpenter, Black Sabbath, MetallicA).



It was a little bit of both, actually...the shock itself can easily be attributed purely to witness. I've seen ghosts before, and I can tell you, that kind of experience can leave you completely immobile...even the most strong willed of people can have trouble resisting it (John Keel attributes it to some sort of environmental disturbance in his Mothman Prophecies book).

As for the gibberish, I don't think just seeing something that shouldn't exist would cause you to suddenly understand and speak in an arcane language There's definitely a stronger power at work there.

Feed him least he realse his wrath upon the innocent!