Ktulu?

Yeah, okay, so I started this blog right before I went to see Metallica so they had an influence on the name. The final track on their second album, "Ride the Lightning" is called Call of the Ktulu. But the intrigue extends past Metallica and is rooted more in the story of the creature itself.

It is a fictional creature from a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in 1928. The "Cthulhu" (It has countless spellings and variations in pronounciation) is infamous for the utter terror it arrises in those who encounter it. The creature has been described and depicted in just as many forms, but all of the descriptions stem from some kind of combonation of an octopus, dragon and human.

The thing I found so interesting is that this creature is more infamous for the fear it evokes than being infamous for its actual features. It almost seems that the Ktulu is more of an epitome of fear than an actual creature, which in many ways adds to its mystique. What creature is so terrifying that people are more wrapped up in the fear it brings than in the creature itself. People know the Loch Ness but they arent terrified, but rather simply interested in the creature itself and whether it exists. The Ktulu is its own entity.