“Hither came Cthulhu, the Vhoorlian,
be-tentacled, swollen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a
slayer and a dreamer, with cyclopean melancholies and gargantuan
girth, to tread the jeweled thrones of Earth under his slimy
pseudopodous feet.”
H. P. Lovecraft, The Squamous Sword of
Cthulhu (unpublished), 1933.