



The Call of Cthulhu
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4.7 • 3 Ratings
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- €1.99
Publisher Description
"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."
Customer Reviews
Racism, but well written racism.
The incidents, the dates, all piece together like a Lego set, and the frightful description is mesmerising and baroque. But the racism is undeniable. Like, the way that professor Angell’s death is revealed would’ve been a masterpiece if it weren’t for the fact that it implies a black sailor killing him, with him being black supposedly meaning that he is in the Cthulhu cult. Another reveal that is less racist, is with the encounter with an armed yacht. It doesn’t explicitly mention it, but the yacht was going over to stop anybody from going near the island of Cthulhu’s tomb and that Cthulhu would soon awake. AND ALSO HOW IN THE NAME OF GOD DID H.P. LOVECRAFT COME UP WITH THE LYRICS FOR THAT CULT CHANT??