At The Mountains of Madness<\/em> to get “that snowy Christmas feeling”.<\/p>\n* You fasten your Christmas present parcels with tape printed to look like a tentacle.<\/p>\n
* Roasting chestnuts by the fire reminds you of the cultists’ scene in “The Call of Cthulhu”.<\/p>\n
* At parties you begin to gibber wildly that Santa is an anagram of Satan.<\/p>\n
* Christmas carollers are met at your door by a wreath of mistletoe, ivy and holly twisted into a hideous pre-Christian mask.<\/p>\n
* Scrooge seems like a rationalist atheist hero to you…<\/p>\n
* Your oddly-shaped Christmas tree is delivered by an in-bred backwoods man, who warns you not to listen to the voices that may come from it.<\/p>\n
* You think the Three Wise Men were named Alhazred, Atal, and Kuranes.<\/p>\n
* “The Festival” seems like a description of an ideal Christmas with the family.<\/p>\n
* You get the North Pole mixed up with the Plateau of Leng.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You know you’re having a Lovecraftian Christmas when… * You read At The Mountains of Madness to get “that snowy …<\/p>\n
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