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The Call of Cthulhu

H. P. Lovecraft

HorrorEnglish
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After the death of his great-uncle, a professor in Rhode Island, the narrator finds his papers and begins to piece together a terrifying pattern: a clay…

Catalogue details

Author
H. P. Lovecraft
Category
Horror
Language
English
Source
Project Gutenberg

About this book

After the death of his great-uncle, a professor in Rhode Island, the narrator finds his papers and begins to piece together a terrifying pattern: a clay sculpture shaped in a young artist's nightmare, a strange cult in the swamps of Louisiana, and a Norwegian sailor's account of a city rising from the Pacific, where something vast and ancient lies dreaming, waiting to wake.

Context and significance

Published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928, the story opens with one of the most famous lines in horror, about the mercy of the human mind's inability to connect all it knows. H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) died poor and almost unknown, but his cosmic horror has influenced countless writers, films and games; his letters, however, reveal ugly prejudices. Continue with At the Mountains of Madness.

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