The Very Hungry

  Cthulhu

  (c) 2009 Adrian Tchaikovsky

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  Explanation: the work, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, is a true masterpiece of children’s fiction, and needs no introduction, save that it deserves better treatment than to be sent up in such a manner.

  The character Cthulhu is the poster child for H.P. Lovecraft’s “Cthulhu Mythos”, a series of novels and short stories, added to by many contemporary and subsequent writers, setting out a world where humankind is insignificant before the power of vast, ancient star gods that any moment might wipe us all out on a whim, most especially Cthulhu, who lies dreaming in his underwater city of R’lyeh waiting for the stars to align, when he will wake up and make things very unpleasant for everyone. He is most particularly described in the story The Call of Cthulhu.

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  One Sunday at midnight some cultists performed a ritual

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  And out of the rift came a tiny and very hungry Cthulhu

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  He started to look for some food 5

  On Monday he devoured one

  policeman

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  But he was still hungry

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  On Tuesday he devoured two

  archaeologists

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  But he was still hungry

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  On Wednesday he devoured

  three librarians

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  But he was still hungry

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  On Thursday he devoured four

  detectives

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  But he was still hungry

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  On Friday he devoured five

  professors,

  but he was still hungry

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  On Saturday he devoured

  One accountant

  One estate agent

  One Choirmaster

  One tramp

  One vicar

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  One barrister

  One burglar

  One farmer

  One novelist

  and the Bishop

  Of Bath and Wells

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  That night he had a stomachache.

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  The next day was Sunday again The Cthulhu devoured one nice coven of cultists, and after that he felt much better.

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  Now he wasn’t hungry any more, and he wasn’t a little Cthulhu any more. He was a big, fat Cthulhu 19

  He built a horrible city, called R’lyeh, about himself. He will stay inside for an unmeasurable period of time.

  Then, when the stars are right, the city will rise out of the sea, and...

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  He will destroy the world!

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