Originally Posted by Prime Junta 
(By the way, The Witcher was chock-full of that sort of thing, and not just Ch IV — the hard-boiled detective story spoof in Ch II, the drugged-out hippie druids, the other Lovecraftian storyline in the swamp, that whole Great White Hope boxing thing, and so on.)
Oh I caught most of those things, it was just using Dagon and LotL that surprised me a bit, being that they're unique individuals rather than themes.