Here's a vaguely interesting article for those with interests in Oceanography.

(<a href="http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/gg/classroom@sea/JC007/about.html" target="_blank">Drilling the Mid-Atlantic Ridge</a>):

"Scientists have discovered a large area thousands of square kilometres in extent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean where the Earth's crust seems to be missing entirely… Where there should be a four-mile-thick layer of crust, there is instead that much mantle - the very dense, dark green rock that makes up the deep inner layer of the Earth."

*Gasp!* Could it be… the… Cthulhu?

And a thought for the LoveCraft reader. I wonder if LoveCraft had ever expected his creation to really find its way from being a literary entity to a <a href="http://www.cthulhu.org" target="_blank">cultural icon</a>.

No, this chunk of mantle couldn't be it. After all, R'lyeh was in the Pacific Ocean.

I am not one who has a great interest in horror films, fiction or games, but "Call of the Cthulhu" is certainly among the best of horror fiction I have read. I do believe that horror can be delivered tastefully; there is certainly a lot more than just simply bombarding the reader (or audience) with explicitly macabre scenes of death and grotesque mutiliation. I appreciate it more when horror deals with speculation on the unknown (and not necessarily on the supernatural) to unsettle the audience. It should leave you disturbed so that you really think about the matter, instead of being freaked out or shocked by the degree of violence the creators managed to present. Nor should it be about receiving the admiration for being immune to it all.

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