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Howard Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu

“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.”
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  • Cooper Kelleyделится впечатлением8 лет назад
    👍Worth reading
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths

    Not sorry that I picked this one up. My body will hate me for a general lack of rest these next couple of days, but my mind is pleased. Lovecraft is brilliant and horrific. I expected a story of a monster, but instead found a mystery of the deep, of the stars and of man's ability to test the waters of madness.

  • tekla ugulavaделится впечатлениемв прошлом месяце
    👍Worth reading

    Great story. American horror story could tack it as one of season ideas.

  • cgpppnsp01делится впечатлением5 лет назад
    💀Spooky
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🚀Unputdownable

    So great this mystic tale can really bring chluthl to life

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  • sneakYMfцитирует5 лет назад
    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. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
  • Tara Nivian-Bealцитирует6 лет назад
    That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die
  • Tara Nivian-Bealцитирует6 лет назад
    Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms

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