Cthulhu Cthursday: On The Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space

Over at io9, the incredible Geoff Manaugh of BLDG Blog analyzes the sanity-breaking influences of Lovecraft’s Eldritch Architecture:

In another hallucination, for instance, the man stands on the “titanic flat roof” of a massive dream-structure, from which he sees “almost endless leagues of giant buildings, each in its garden, and ranged along paved roads fully two hundred feet wide… Many seemed so limitless that they must have had a frontage of several thousand feet, while some shot up to mountainous altitudes in the gray, steamy heavens.”

He even stumbles across “aberrant piles of square-cut masonry” and “dark cylindrical towers,” where “fungi of inconceivable size” grow amidst “great jungles of unknown tree ferns.”

It’s as if the surrealist montages of Max Ernst have been combined with Le Corbusier’s Ideal City.

Even if you don’t read the entire article, the gallery of images featuring R’lyehian towers hulking ominously over the squirming tentacle hummus of alien worlds out of time is worth the click through.

On The Trail of Grotesque Gods from Space [io9]