>>96758951
>>96759234

They're not the same

Lovecraftian beings aren't evil, they don't follow human morality in any meaningful sense. Demons choose to be wicked.

Lovecraftian entities don't give a fuck about humanity most of the time. Demons do. A lot.

Lovecraftian entities are known to be fictional, but people still believe in demons.

Lovecraftian entities are fairly recent, folklore has centuries if not milennia of cultural baggage deply ingrained into our collective unconscious.

Lovecraftian entities are fundamentally naturalistic, they're just beyond our scope of understanding. Demons are inherently supernatural and thus they instill superstitious fear in us.

Apply that to witches or pagan cults as well. People know that horns means devil, evil and even sexual immorality, but tentacles mean "alien" or even "monster" to them... and that's it.

>>96759249
They're real alright and chances are they run your government to some extent

>>96759246
Not necessarily. A creepy neighbour, an abusive relative, known crimes, well-studied diseases, peer-pressure, bullying, sharks, ventriloquist dummies, insects and spiders... those are all familiar and people are more afraid of them than, let's say, the idea of going to Kazakhstan or any other unfamiiar country.

Sometimes you're afraid of what you already know. Not a single kid out there looks under the bed for a shoggoth, I can tell you that. They may look for clowns, though. Don't follow the reddit pop psychology theory of what horror should be like, just go towards whatever is creepy and scary.

>>96759295
>>96759229

So what scares you?