The Call Of Cthulhu

by H. P. Lovecraft

Overview

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories.

It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.

It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative.

In tales such as the iconic 'The Call of Cthulhu', Lovecraft reaches into the cosmos, bridging the divide between horror and science fiction. The extra-terrestrial 'gods' and cursed histories that would emerge from these stories now form the cornerstones of Lovecraft's unique mythology: the Cthulhu Mythos. This fictional universe, built in large part by his friend and most ardent supporter August Derleth, has in the years since been reimagined in myriad forms, and continues to act as a haunted playground for countless illustrators, fans and authors.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161291894
Publisher:	LightHouse Publisher
Publication date:	04/03/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	374 KB

About the Author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: /'l?vkræft/; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of horror and weird fiction.[1]

Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island where he spent most of his life. Among his most celebrated tales are The Rats in the Walls, The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time, all canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor, and he saw commercial success increasingly elude him in his latter period. He subsisted in progressively strained circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was nearly depleted by the time he died of cancer, at age 46.[2]