I've been talking about the Digimon anime a lot today, and I remembered that it was because of Digimon that I discovered one of my favorite horror writers, H.P. Lovecraft. Let me take you back to an episode from Digimon season two. The dub title of the episode was called, His Master's voice. If you don't remember the episode from its title, it's the episode where Kari somehow get sucked into that dark ocean realm of the digital world. At the end of the episode, we see the silhouette of a large Digimon that had a semi-humanoid body, an octopus head, and bat like wings, plus two red glowing eyes. The show never did anything with that ominous creature, and I found out many years later that the reason is because the writers dropped that story line. Still, that image stayed with me for years. I actually tried finding a screenshot of the ominous Digimon at the end of that episode to use for this post, but I couldn't find one. Anyway, many years passed, and a student in one of my art classes was talking about H.P. Lovecraft, because no one in the class had ever heard of him, and because the sculpture he was working was apparently inspired by his work. I had heard Lovecraft's name before, attached to a few B-movies, but I didn't know that much about him. So after class, I went to the computer lab and looked up Lovecraft online. I found out that he was a horror writer who worked during early 1900s, and his most famous story, The Call of Cthulu, was about a horrible monster sleeping beneath the ocean, waiting for the day when it could awake and destroy the world. The monster, Cthulu, was described on the website I found as having a semi-humanoid body, an octopus head, and bat like wings. The moment I read that description, the memory of that Digimon episode rushed back to me. Later on, I managed to find and read an online copy of The Call of Cthulu. A few years later, I found a whole book of short stories by Lovecraft that I checked out a couple of times. I hope to get my own copy of that book one day. I also found out that the name of the ominous Digimon was Dragomon, and and his design was inspired by Lovecraft's Cthulu. So if it wasn't for Digimon, I probably wouldn't have discovered H.P. Lovecraft.