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Eldritch Effulgence: HP Lovecraft's favorite words

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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