The Call of Cthulhu

by H. P. Lovecraft

Overview

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. 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. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity; and it was not meant that we should voyage far."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012218308
Publisher:	RainWall Publishing
Publication date:	03/15/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	107 KB

About the Author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy,
horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of
science fiction and horror; and for popularizing "cosmic horror":
the notion that some concepts, entities or experiences are barely
comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk
their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror
genre and is noted as creator of the "Cthulhu Mythos," a series of
loosely interconnected fictions featuring a "pantheon" of nonhuman
creatures, as well as the famed Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical
rites and forbidden lore. His works typically had a tone of "cosmic
pessimism," regarding mankind as insignificant and powerless in the
universe. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, and
his works, particularly early in his career, have been criticized
as occasionally ponderous, and for their uneven quality.
Nevertheless, Lovecraft’s reputation has grown tremendously over
the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most
important horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting an influence
that is widespread, though often indirect. Source: Wikipedia