An Ode To Cthulhu
by Theresa Bane

I don’t know how “normal” people are introduced to the world of H. P. Lovecraft, but for me I think it was via “Mad Magazine”. Crazy, I know. I was a little kid, maybe in the fourth grade, when I came upon an issue which had a two-page spread dedicated to Lovecraft in their own special way. Like only “Mad” can, they had taken popular songs and set them on their ear by replacing the lyrics with their own. There were likely six or eight such parodies but I only remember part of one. They took the song “Chattanooga Choo Choo,” originally written by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon and popularized by Glenn Miller and His Orchestra. The whacky “Mad” writers morphed this jaunty little ditty I knew so well to their evil and twisted liking. I can only remember the first verse of the parody but it went like this:
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