SV: (urth) cthulhu mythos, BotNS

[Andy Robertson]

harlekin at earthlink.net writes: 

> I appreciate the feedback on my post and as always there's something edifying to be found, but I feel the need to clarify myself.  I'm suggesting that Wolfe might have been influenced more by Derleth than by Lovecraft.  There is a qualitative difference between the two in that Derleth recast Lovecraft's mythos into a battle between the benevolent/indifferent Elder Gods and the malevolent Great Old Ones with earth and humanity as a fulcrum of that battle.  Lovecraft just leaves us in space hoping that we don't catch the eye of some entity looking for a snack.  
 

To be honest: I don't think so.   Derleth's deomachy simply echoes an 
hundred religions, and Wolfe gets independent input from religions