User blog comment:Whitix/Possible Contest/@comment-5632489-20151227043859

I was interested in the contest until you mentioned in the comments it has to be among the "Cthulhu Mythos". It's a personal thing, but I am not fond of it when people use that term, because it implies you're writing in the same universe as the works of Lovecraft - which always seemed like fanfiction to me, even since August Derleth officially did it - and there are many great stories within the Mythos, like The Abalone Thief, but I'd stick with using the umbrella term "Lovecraftian". Why not just make up your own mythos? I think being inspired by Lovecraft, but not forcing it by an obligatory Cthulhu reference is a better way to go.