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Written in 1926 and first published in the magazine Weird Tales two years later, The Call of Cthulu is almost certainly H.P. Lovecraft's best known short story. Drawing inspiration from Alfred Tennyson's sonnet 'The Kraken' as well as one of Lovecraft's own dreams, the story sees a police officer from New Orleans ask the American Archaeological society for help identifying an idol carved in a mysterious green-black stone that was seized in a raid on a supposed voodoo cult. However, learning about the cult of Cthulu might not be the best of ideas...This version of H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale has received minor edits to ensure suitability for a modern audience.… (más)
I think Lovecraft's writing is very beautiful... it just seems inefficient, which is something I've always disliked in authors. Why use six words when you can use one? On the other hand, I'm glad I can finally say I've read this. ( )
Definition of horror: “painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay” —Merriam-Webster. Despite some lively atmospheric descriptions, it wasn't enough to keep me in suspense. It certainly lacks an intimate psychological narrative to be considered horror. ( )
I am not particularly interested in Sci-Fi horror genre but kept encountering the word "Cthulhu" in urban culture and realize the "elder god" has quite a cult following ; So when Kindle had a offer going on H.P Lovecraft's 1917 short stories , I went for it . The Call of Cthulhu- exposes how fragile the human psyche is ; how limited are our cognitive capacities , reinforcing our weaknesses as we continue living in our mental echo chambers that when confronted with a superior alien absurdity , there is no place for logic and rationality .
It just seemed to me like I was witnessing the unfolding of a bizarre nightmare . ( )
An okay book, but not what I was expecting from this "cult" author. Frankly, nothing happens to the main character. The real story is all told through his research, which is not a very engaging technique. I would skip this for your first Lovecraft read. ( )
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(Found Among the Papers of the Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston)
"Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival… a survival of a hugely remote period when… consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity… forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds… ."
- Algernon Blackwood
(Found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston).
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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.
They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died. This was that cult, and the prisoners said it had always existed and always would exist, hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.
That cult would never die till the stars came right again, and the secret priests would take great Cthulhu from His tomb to revive His subjects and resume His rule of earth. The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and reveling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.
There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other.
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Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise. Loathsomeness waits and dreams in the deep, and decay spreads over the tottering cities of men. A time will come - but I must not and cannot think! Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.
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This is the short story, do NOT combine with the various collections it is included in.
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Written in 1926 and first published in the magazine Weird Tales two years later, The Call of Cthulu is almost certainly H.P. Lovecraft's best known short story. Drawing inspiration from Alfred Tennyson's sonnet 'The Kraken' as well as one of Lovecraft's own dreams, the story sees a police officer from New Orleans ask the American Archaeological society for help identifying an idol carved in a mysterious green-black stone that was seized in a raid on a supposed voodoo cult. However, learning about the cult of Cthulu might not be the best of ideas...This version of H.P. Lovecraft's classic tale has received minor edits to ensure suitability for a modern audience.