The fragmentary nature of Cthulhu elevates it above most Lovecraft, at least from a stylistic pov, but I don't recall much about AtMoM beyond its story - which is awesome, obviously.
But even his most conventional writing is now getting interest from literature departments, if only for how it represents a certain 'pulp' style of writing that serious critics had previously dismissed. (The same way film studies programmes are now falling over themselves to focus on b movies or mainstream action movies.)
Postmodernism and all that.
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