Vote Cthulhu 2024 1.25" Button HP Lovecraft Mythos God President Elect Monster

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Vote Cthulhu 2024
HP Lovecraft Inspired Monster Candidate Button
A 1.25" humorous button suggesting that you "Vote Cthulhu 2024."
The Cthulhu Mythos is an informal and appropriately chaotic Shared Universe that squarely defines the darkest and edgiest of genres, cosmic horror.
It was started unintentionally by HP Lovecraft and his circle of peers (informally called the 'Kalem Club') who belonged to the embryonic Fandom. At that stage less about Speculative Fiction, and more about writing short amateur "weird" stories for the 'pulp' magazines, at least for Lovecraft.
Lovecraft had already incorporated small elements of Robert W. Chambers' earlier The King in Yellow and the writings of Arthur Machen by way of Shout Outs. As time went on, Lovecraft and his friends began referring to his Eldritch Abominations and Tomes of Eldritch Lore in their writings, though usually not actual characters, and to share references made in his friends' stories or private letters. The actual term "Cthulhu Mythos" (depending on how you define it) post-dates Lovecraft's death, at which time H. P. Lovecraft's work got expanded on by August Derleth.
The Call of Cthulhu is arguably the most famous short story by horror writer HP Lovecraft. The story is presented as a manuscript found among the belongings of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, which is used as a narrative which joins together three short stories, each bigger, darker, bleaker, and more memorable than the last. In the second tale, a New Orleans cult is revealed in all its unclean revels as they chant around their monstrous idol, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.")
And now that you have read these stories, now that you know
too much
, perhaps you realize that it would be for the best if humanity made way for those eldritch abominations that will scourge us from this plane with no more attention than we would give to an errant bit of mould along the side of the sink. If you are tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, Vote Cthulhu 2024!
This button can be worn at loathsome rituals around fires burning unnatural colours; at beach parties; at election rallies; and while paying homage to entities from outside time and space. Or while gardening. Or while Trick-or-Treating - maybe campaign for Cthulhu?
Looks good on suit jackets, straight jackets, book jackets, squamous sheathings of ichor, adorning your weapon of choice, or simply soaring free through the abyssal void! WARNING: DO NOT STICK INTO SHOGGOTHS!
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