In the story, Lovecraft exhibits a universe where humankind is not alone and displays them as frail, which can further assert his opinions on the world.
“Although the 'Cthulhu Mythos' includes such trappings as common names, places, gods, and so forth, how a story evokes horror is what qualifies it as part of the ‘mythos’.”
H. P. Lovecraft was adept at providing eerie details to the point of causing shivers and illustrating all the things in need of explanation. Lovecraft blended his ability to describe and integrated it with a sense of "dread, agony and frenzy" that decisively made the reader feel 'down the drain' and forlorn, like nothing they do would change for them, as if they were doomed. The reader, as well as the narrator, realized that death alone awaited them in the case of the narrator throughout the story. In his research paper on Cthulhu Mythos Mark Lowell explains Joseph Campbell's monomyth (or "A Hero's Journey), a revolution where a hero is summoned to encounter trials. In Lovecraft's story, however, this territory of myth only consists of agony, madness and death; one comes to perceive the legitimacy of humankind's immateriality in the world by entering it. In the end, the author's aim was to convey this idea to the readers.
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Feeling like everything was lost for him, the narrator thought that the only meaningful thing to do would be to proceed on trying to work the mystery out until something, out of nowhere, unknown, strike him dead. However, the narrator doesn't seem to fear from death; this suggests that, as also stated in the story, even dying is a more merciful fate rather than confronting the evil, or the despair that Cthulhu