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So i've been reading lovecraft like a maniac lately and i'm surprised how mysterious and open ended some of his stories are, why don't I see people discussing the endings of his stories more often?
For example, what the hell even happens at the end of The rats in the walls? Yeah, I get the point that that the rats are not real, probably a manifestation of the black magic that has corrupted his bloodline and . But what exactly happened down there in the grotto? Why is it full of corpses and rats, why are there skeletons in prisions wearing rings with the symbol of his house? Is it related to the fact that the family replaced it's own family members or something?
At the end of The color out of Space, i'm just clueless at what it all meant.
And in The whisperer in the Dark: was it Nyarlathotep desguised as Akeley or was it a Mi-Go? Surely the Mi-Go were lying about having humanity's best interests in mind, but if they were lying, what was the true plan?
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Call of Cthulhu is fine as a story, maybe the part in which Cthulhu actually appears is a bit too pulpy and melodramatic, but overall is very interesting. I fondly remember to this day the description of what would happen if Cthulhu finally awakens and governs the earth once again: people learning new ways of loving and fearing, and everyone converging in an ecstatic orgy of violence and sex which would least eternally.
That shits creeps me out and fascinates me at the same time. They are not just evil cultists who want to bring doomsday, they are even worse.

So i've been reading lovecraft like a maniac lately and i'm surprised how mysterious and open ended some of his stories are, why don't I see people discussing the endings of his stories more often?
For example, what the hell even happens at the end of The rats in the walls? Yeah, I get the point that that the rats are not real, probably a manifestation of the black magic that has corrupted his bloodline and . But what exactly happened down there in the grotto? Why is it full of corpses and rats, why are there skeletons in prisions wearing rings with the symbol of his house? Is it related to the fact that the family replaced it's own family members or something?
At the end of The color out of Space, i'm just clueless at what it all meant.
And in The whisperer in the Dark: was it Nyarlathotep desguised as Akeley or was it a Mi-Go? Surely the Mi-Go were lying about having humanity's best interests in mind, but if they were lying, what was the true plan?