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The Cthulhu Mythos was H.P. Lovecraft’s greatest contribution to supernatural literature: a series of stories that evoked cosmic awe and terror through their accounts of incomprehensibly alien monsters and their horrifying incursions into our world.
"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.
Cthulhu, fictional entity created by fantasy-horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and introduced in his story ‘The Call of Cthulhu,’ first published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The creature is described as having ‘an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers.’
Publication History. The following entries include the first publication of this work and any publications currently in print. Weird Tales vol. 11, no. 2 (February 1928): 159–178, 287. The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, October 1982. 76–99. The Dunwich Horror and Others.
Cthulhu is fictional cosmic entity created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story "The Call of Cthulhu". First appearing in the February 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, he is depicted as an octopoid Great Old One of enormous power who lies in a death-like slumber in his sunken city...
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The Cthulhu Mythos encompasses the shared elements, characters, settings, and themes found in the works of H.P. Lovecraft and associated horror fiction writers. Together, they form the mythos that authors writing in the Lovecraftian milieu have used — and continue to use — to craft their stories.
