Comments on: Anthrax terrorist quotes frequently from H.P. Lovecraft

By: Chris Jarocha-Ernst

Chris Jarocha-Ernst — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:26:43 +0000

The all-seeing eye is more likely to come from the back of the dollar bill.
Nothing in HPL suggests Cthulhu has an all-seeing eye, nor is that eyeball image anything uniquely Lovecraftian. Seeing the actual quoted passages would be more helpful.

By: Erich Orser

Erich Orser — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:26:40 +0000

J.D., I think you’re putting the literary scholar levels of a police detective a little too high. We get to research through our countless books or online all we need to. This guy might be juggling multiple cases. So he “crammed” and got some Lovecraftian facts wrong. Poor bastard. He’s not a lifelong geek like us. I don’t want a “Lovecraft Terrorist” (you know how this will be spun by the media) running amok. And likely, somebody in our community already knows this hoaxter without realizing it. We ought to look out. I mean, this is without victims, physically, but it causes terror. Not cool. Who cares about the minutia? Only dorks like us. Not actual humanity.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:56:13 +0000

you know, if they wanted people to ‘recognize the Lovecraft references,’ it would have been helpful if they’d told us what they were.

By: J. D. Worthington

J. D. Worthington — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:37:23 +0000

Having read the entire article now, I must say I see the Lovecraft connection (based solely on this information) to be tenuous at best. For example, the “eye” which the investigator says “may” represent Cthulhu, due to a reference in a story describing him/it as “having tentacles coming out of his face and one all-seeing eye”. I don’t see any sign of tentacles in the examples given, nor do I recall any reference to any “one all-seeing eye”, not even in the revisions. The closest which springs to mind is “the three-lobed burning eye” from “The Haunter of the Dark”, but that was not Cthulhu, nor is it indicated that it is “all-seeing”. Perhaps he is taking the Polyphemus reference a bit too literally, but in any event, this seems a rather serious stretch…..

By: fzman60

fzman60 — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:29:56 +0000

well this seems to be a case of some mis-guided, and weak minded fool

By: J. D. Worthington

J. D. Worthington — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:28:17 +0000

I would be very interested in knowing just WHAT the quotations from HPL are, and how they are connected to the bilge such as we see in the examples above. What we have here, it seems to me at first blush, is either a particularly nerdy social misfit hoaxer, or someone who genuinely is against the wars in the Middle East and approaches the entire matter with more than a bit of delusional tninking. Either way, someone who does need to be caught, but is likely in need of some industrial-strength psychological help more than anything else… unless they have been engaging in something having actually physically dangerous consequences…..

By: Justin Zimmer

Justin Zimmer — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:12:23 +0000

“The curse of Allah be upon you!” – sounds like a mad Arab.

By: Darren Mitton

Darren Mitton — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:04:10 +0000

I SWEAR it’s not me……