Themes & contextAlien civilizations
Lovecraft’s alien civilizations are societies with histories, technologies, conflicts and environments of their own. They are not all interchangeable collections of hostile monsters. This comparative article examines how the Elder Things, the Mi-Go and the people of K’n-yan make human life part of a larger inhabited world, while preserving the differences in evidence and perspective through which each society is described.
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