🐙 H.P. Lovecraft - The Call of Cthulhu (1926) [Short Story]🐙

"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story written by Lovecraft in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928 < Link to Internet Archive >

Short story By H. P. Lovecraft

The story is presented as a manuscript, and is presented as notes belonging to Francis Thurston, a Boston resident investigating the ancient deity Cthulhu.

The first part, "The Horror in Clay", are the notes left behind by his grand-uncle, George Gammell Angell, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: " [...] my somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature [...].

In the second chapter, "The Tale of Inspector Legrasse", police officer John Legrasse reports a raid of a sect worshipping a deity called Cthulhu.

Art by John Coulthart

In the third chapter, "The Madness from the Sea", Thurston continues his investigation. He learns of the Norwegian sailor Gustaf Johansen, the sole survivor of his crew, and finds manuscripts documenting his last voyage.

Madness from the Sea by Ev Shipard

EXTRA

The Call of Cthulhu page - The H. P. Lovecraft Wiki

The Call of Cthulhu 2005 - Independent silent film adaptation produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society

The Manga Adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu Illustrated by Tanabe Gou.