CthulhuChick is editing the ebook edition of the complete works of HP Lovecraft, so she decided to see how often Cthulhudaddy's favorite words crop up in his oeuvre:
Abnormal – 94
Accursed – 76
Antediluvian – 10
Antiqu (e/arian) – 128
Blasphem (y/ous) – 92
Charnel – 20
Comprehension – 9
Cyclopean – 47
Decadent – 32
Daemoniac – 55
Effulgence – 4
Eldritch – 23
Faint (ed/ing) – 189
Gibbous – 9
Hideous – 260
Immemorial – 25
Wordcount for Lovecraft's Favorite Words
(via Tor)
(Image: J_20 College Hill – The H. P. Lovecraft Memorial Plaque at 22 Prospect Street, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from cthulhuwho1's photostream)
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