Honestly I'm not a big Lovecraft guy. Like I read synopses of his stories and impressionable nerds being driven mad by wacky weirdo shit seems like extremely my thing, but reading actual stories is like pulling teeth. Maybe he was just that bad of a writer or maybe I don't know English well enough to enjoy his verbose nerdy prose...
Writing prompt: Lovecraft protagonists are all unreliable narrators, and all their tales about Eldritch monsters are the alien version of orientalism
Cthulhu was just waking up from a nap when some asshole rammed a ship into him
It took the Elder Things hours to calm down their poor pet Shoggoth after a couple of strangers trespassed in their city and stomped around its pen
Some guy in Innsmouth forgets which room he's staying in and tries to open the wrong door, leading the inhabitant to jump out the window while screaming racial obscenities directed at the local tribe of fish people