I had to look up Whitman’s to fully get the joke, but who hasn’t wondered how those chocolate selection descriptions would read like if they were written by Lovecraft?
McSweeney’s – SELECTIONS FROM H.P. LOVECRAFT’S BRIEF TENURE AS A WHITMAN’S SAMPLER COPYWRITER.
The horror of the unearthly, corpselike pallor of this truffle’s complexion is only offset by its fiendish deliciousness.