#she's like an eldritch horror that's pro-union and working class she's the best is what i'm saying

[pvtjoker22]

Yeah, so I haven't seen it discussed much around but Verna is almost definitely an eldritch being from the 'Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket' but she's less Cthulhu and more monkey's paw/devil on the crossroads figure for awful people.

The ending of Arthur Gordon Pym has the following:

Their conversation in the final episode essentially confirms that:

He knows her

They saw each other during Arthur's expedition

she's from the above-mentioned chasm in the hollow earth

She left the chasm because she was curious about humanity

As the wiki states here, he basically 'submits willingly' in the show to her and kind of just excepts who she is. Of course, he declines to make a deal with her, and faces death/punishment quite willingly

Ultima-Thule, the race of people in the hollow earth in the show's continuity is from Poe's poem 'Dream-Land'

“I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime Out of SPACE — out of TIME.”

which given some of the dialogue that Verna espouses should make it pretty clear

"The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket" even uses Antarctica as a setting which Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness would go on to homage.

This story is fairly clear proto-Cosmic Horror