You're a Lovecraft fan if...
1. You've changed the name badge on your car to read "Innsmouth" instead of "Plymouth."
2. You ever bought a plush Cthulhu doll.
3. You play acid jazz under the stage name Erich Zann.
4. You know at least 10 different ways to pronounce "Cthulhu."
5. You go into a pet store looking for a Cat of Ulthar.
6. When a vegetarian says "I don't eat anything with a face", then you reply "So I suppose you don't have anything against eating a Shoggoth, or for that matter, a Night-Gaunt??"
7. All your dreams are about the Dreamlands.
8. You flunk in Astronomy because you refer to Pluto as "Yuggoth."
9. You model your personal diet upon that of H.P. Lovecraft, even though he mostly ate canned foods.
10. You ever used the term "Olde English Yog-Sothoth."
11. You wonder why Miskatonic University never has been on Playboy's list of "Best Party Schools."
12. Your favourite anti-creationism argument is "How many creation scientists have degrees from Miskatonic??"
13. When you read in the Old Testament that the Philistines worshipped Dagon, you envision the Philistines as having the Innsmouth Look, wearing weird crowns and yelling "IÄ R'LYEH!! CTHULHU FHTAGN!! IÄ! IÄ!" as their battlecry....
14. ... and you also imagine Goliath as being a Deep One.
15. You've ever made a pilgrimage to cemetary where H.P. Lovecraft is buried, only to lay flowers upon his tombstone. (Many Lovecraft fans actually do this!)
16. You saw "Cthulhu Mansion" just because it was called something with "Cthulhu"...
17. ... and after seeing it, you sued the filmmakers for false advertisement.
18. You know that all the "Necronomicons" which can be bought in occult bookstores just are forgeries, but you are STILL convinced that the REAL Necronomicon exists somewhere.
19. You have a pet goat named Shub-Niggurath.
20. You can't design a
Dungeons & Dragons campaign without throwing in at least one Shoggoth.... or, for that matter, a giant mindflayer with wings.
21. And when you play D&D as a character, you beg the Dungeon Master whether you can use your rules for Deep One/Human Hybrid player characters. (they start out as humans on level 1, but they become increasingly fishy as increase in level!!!)
22. You know of the "conspiracy theory" that Father Dagon is a pseudonym of Great Cthulhu.
23. You hear of japanese Tentacle Hentai and think "Cthulhu, I never knew you could sink this low."
24. You believe that Azathoth and/or Yog-Sothoth can be shoehorned into any theory about the nature of the universe.
25. Each time you see a shooting star, you think of "The Colour Out Of Space."
26. You keep your daughter from dating somebody because he looks like Wilbur Whateley... (In "The Dunwich Horror", the protagonist/antagonist Wilbur Whateley is described as having a very unique appearance)
27. .... or because he has the "Innsmouth Look."
28. You always refer to sugar by its chemical formula (
C12
H22
O11), just because Lovecraft did that.
29. You attempt to eat on a budget of two dollars and ten cents a week just like Lovecraft...
30. .... Even though you know that US$ aren't worth as much as they used to be.
31. You own several biographies of H.P. Lovecraft.
32. You have written a biography of Lovecraft.
33. You've asked your psychiatrist what possible psychosises Lovecraft could have suffered from... just for fun.
34. You saw "Evil Dead" just because the Necronomicon was in it.
35. You go to a paint shop and ask for "Colour Out Of Space."
36. You read
"Hello Cthulhu" without laughing.
37. You believe that the Chupacabra is some sort of..... oh, what the heck! IÄ CHUPACABRA! IÄ! IÄ!
38. You think that the Beatles song "In The Octopus' Garden" is about R'lyeh.
39. You wonder why Erich von Däniken never, EVER, mentions the Elder Things in his works.
40. You have an irrational fear of things on your doorstep.
41. You not only aknowledge that most Cthulhu Mythos fan fiction is bad, but you also claim that it makes Lovecraft roll in his grave.
42. Your car is a 1972 Innsmouth, painted in Colour-Out-Of-Space with a hood ornament shaped as a Night-Gaunt.
43. You have injured your speaking apparatus attempting to pronounce the strange incantations in "The Call Of Cthulhu."
44. You have written one of the numerous fake "Necronomicons" in existence.
45. You believe that the Necronomicon doesn't exist, but you do believe that the Pnakotic Manuscripts are real.
46. You own one of the fake Necronomicons just to "complete" your Cthulhu Mythos collection.
47. You also own a lot of old dictionaries and other mundane books, with "PNAKOTIC MANUSCRIPTS" and "CRYPTICAL BOOK OF HSAN" written on them, with the only purpose of filling up space on your shelf.
48. You try to find Arkham, Dunwich and Innsmouth on travellers' guides to New England.
49. You know what "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" means.
50. In fact, you have an "English-Cthulhuish" dictionary.
51. You believe that your uncle's fowl were killed by a Fungus from Yuggoth.
52. You have at least hundreds of blurry photographies which allegedly are of Great Old Ones.
53. You have attempted to summon a Shoggoth.
54. You succeeded.
55. Some crackpot claims to have seen Cthulhu, and you believe him.
56. You not only believe that he had seen Cthulhu, but you then told him that you had seen Cthulhu too.
57. And seeing Cthulhu is not a pleasant experience.
58. You're aware of the punk rock band called "The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets."
59. The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets is, in fact, your favourite band.
60. You blame everything on Nyarlathotep.
61. You know how Lovecraft came up with names for his creations. (I do - "shoggoth" is derived from "shaggathai", which means "fornication" in Chaldean)
62. You know the Olde English names for all the Cthulhu Mythos gods. (Yog-Sothoth is Yogge-Sothothe, for instance - and Nyarlathotep might be... Nyarrelathehoteppe?)
63. When you watched "Legend Of The Overfiend", when the Demon Of Destruction first appeared you thought of Wilbur Whateley.
64. You understand previous comparison between the Demon Of Destruction and Wilbur Whateley.
65. You attempt to fit the Esoteric Order Of Dagon into every possible conspiracy theory.
66. You feel sorry for Nodens being turned into a carbon-copy good guy by August Derleth.
67. Your canine companion is called "Bulldog-Sothoth"
68, You appreciate that David Icke has managed to shoehorn Yig into his "reptile-controlled world" conspiracy theory.