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"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. [2]
On November 1st, 1907, there had come to the New Orleans police a frantic summons from the swamp and lagoon country to the south. The squatters there, mostly primitive but good-natured descendants of Lafitte’s men, were in the grip of stark terror from an unknown thing which had stolen upon them in the night.
American author H. P. Lovecraft‘s gothic horror story “The Call of Cthulhu” has become iconic for its depiction of the monster Cthulhu, one of Lovecraft’s so-called Eldritch Gods (or Eldritch Abominations), which have entered popular culture as a category of grotesque, otherworldly beings.
One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world. 43 pages, Kindle Edition.
Brown University holds the typed manuscript of “The Call of Cthulhu” and has scans of the entire manuscript on the Brown Digital Repository.
The film Cthulhu produced in 2000 by Onara Films is a Cthulhu Mythos story loosely based on The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The story was adapted as a silent movie of the same name in 2005 by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. The story was adapted as a children's book in 2017 by R. J. Ivankovic.
Jan 1, 2024 · "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'
