Cheap Truth was a 1980′s free newsletter published by the group of authors known as The Movement, which later became the Cyberpunk movement.

And wow. Just wow.

Because back in 1983, Cheap Truth editorial staff was succesful in getting ahold of H. P. Lovecraft and squeeze an exclusive and post-mortem interview out of the Master of Untold Horrors. Totally scrumptious:

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Daikichi Amano (whose real name remains a mystery) is a very secretive paranormal investigator from Japan who uses the cover of this fake “artistic” website to publish the results of his investigations on the very popular cult of Cthulhu and Dagon in his homeland.

In his latest update, he displays the horrors of human sacrifice, a widespread practice among Nipponese cultists, and gives us the rare proof that the Deep Ones aren’t just a myth invented by H. P. Lovecraft in his description of the terrifying town of Innsmouth.

Let’s have a look at his new findings:

After catching a group of Deep Ones in its nets by accident:

this grisly group of saddened cultists:

was forced to offer a human sacrifice to appease its feared Gods’ wrath:

As the tradition wants it, the poor girl was methodically tortured and cephalopodically suffocated:

She finally died in a pool of her own blood mixed to the replete octopi’s gooey slime:

only to be resurrected as a Hybrid a few days later in one of the cultits bathtub:

We can only hope that Daikichi Amano’s true identity will never be revealed and wish that his amazing work of publishing the secret horrors that are perpetrated behind our dull backs will never stop.

While playfully strolling through the attractions of the Lagoon amusement park, the Ape Lad encountered this scary Cthulhu thing:

The American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction. Lovecraft’s major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Originally aired on BBC Radio in 2006 with contributions from Neil Gaiman, S.T. Joshi, Kelly Link, Peter Straub, China Mieville and others. Divided in 5 parts.

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