That is not dead which can eternal lie
And with strange Aeons even death may die.

The Cambridge University Worshippers of Cthulhu Society is an old and venerable member of the Cambridge University religious fraternity. Nonetheless, we're also one of the most forward looking of the societies, acting freely within our charter to bring about the rise of Great Cthulhu and the destruction of the world as we know it.

The worship of Cthulhu takes many forms, and we try to allow our members as much freedom as possible when it comes to fulfilling their religious obligations. Regrettably, we have had to cease our ancient practice of virgin sacrifice due to the alarming scarcity of virgins in the university proper these days. When the problem was first recognised, we did make overtures towards CICCU and the other societies related to the popular messianic death cult of the day, but we were coldly rebuffed.

The Society was founded, several years ago, by a group of students of the university. For one reason or another (the chief reason being that they all left), the society fell into disrepair and continued in disrepute. The society was formally resurrected at the CURS AGM in 2003, and has been pottering on since then.

The society exists for a number of reasons; some of them serious, some of them silly. At its simplest, the society exists as a means of gathering like-minded individuals with a taste for the bizarre and a slightly ... eldritch ... way of looking at the world. What they do with their time, be it playing Call of Cthulhu or - as one of our oldest members had it - "getting drunk and listening to the Sisters of Mercy", is their prerogative. The society merely brings them together. On a more unusual note, we also exist to worship Great Cthulhu and bring about his return and rule o'er all the earth. The most serious aspect of the society is our shared enjoyment of the works of H.P. Lovecraft and the other Mythos authors.