Santa Cthulhu Comes to Town

As the snow falls on holiday festivities throughout the continental USA and Europe, the sounds of sleigh bells are punctured by a blasphemous gibbering. Santa Cthulhu, that curious transition of Old St. Nick, has returned in new forms to herald Christmas' arrival. Or is it Cthulmas? Either way, elvish crafters are exceptionally hard at work this year, bringing miniature idols of this purveyor of strange gifts into reality.

The Needle blog is currently exhibiting a Santa Cthulhu plush doll with a removal cap and beard. Unfortunately, for anyone drooling over acquiring one as a gift, these will probably be sold out by the time of this writing. Not so at Amy L. Rawson's Etsy store, which offers Santa Cthulhu figurines and a Cthulhuvian snowman ornament. These items appear to be plentiful.

If that's not enough to bring a thoroughly weird touch to the Christmas season, then perhaps these instructions on making a Cthulhu stamped Christmas card will do the trick. Yes, Cthulhu has come a long way from the ominous, domineering, and utterly alien depictions found in art books like The Art Of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos or A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. With the proliferation of Lovecraft's work throughout online sub-cultures, HPL's best known entity is becoming as iconic as Dracula or Che Guevara. Or, in fact, going one step further by actively subverting existing icons, as in this example:

Communism, like Christmas, is no match for the trans-politico-cultural might of the Great Old Ones.

-Grim Blogger