"The Elder Gods are coming and everyone is doomed!"

Via Maud Newton, who says this is a perfect parody of Christian pamphlets.

Also Cthulhu related, although it's been on the net for a while, Charles Stross' novelette A Colder War. Stross has never quite done it for me, but this is a neat twist on the tropes of apocalyptic SF.

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