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Lovecraft Mythos - Cosmic Horror

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H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of humanity, where ancient, malevolent beings known as the Great Old Ones slumber in the depths of space or time. After Lovecraft's death, the Mythos has been expanded and developed by many authors, including August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These and many other authors have helped to flesh out the Mythos into a rich and complex Dark Universe.

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[โ€“] Aeao 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Unfortunately Lovecraft would not be eating much homemade food.

One of the many reasons he died so young is because he was beyond frugal with his food spending. Mainly subsisting on free expired or mystery cans (cans that had no label and we're sold cheaper) a single egg (probably also last it's prime) and a bucket (literally a bucket) of yesterday's unsold coffee he bought for cheap from a store down the road.

He would brag in his letters saying things like 'only spent 3 bucks on food today!' (paraphrasing because I can't remember the exact price amounts but way too low. Not just cheap but impossibly cheap)

Seafood pasta would be out of his price range.

[โ€“] P1k1e 4 points 13 hours ago

He was also terrified of sea life and while I don't dbout he would have eaten fish if the opportunity presented itself I can guarantee this paranoid shell of a man wouldn't touch a mollusk if you paid him

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wow. $3 a week. I wonder what the average grocery spend was in the 30s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1932?amount=3

$3 in 1932 is worth $69.56 today

So, cheap, but not amazingly so. Plenty of families in the US work with much less than $10 a day

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago

Tentacles and Italian culture: that would do it