In one of his most acclaimed short stories, horror genius H.P. Lovecraft unspools an eerie tale about an ancient cult-like religious practice that has persisted in rural backwaters and isolated communities up through the twentieth century. Stringing together a number of isolated incidents that occurred across America and around the world, the tale concludes with a terrifying encounter with what may be the fearsome beast at the center of the cult.
H.P. Lovecraft's most famous story, featuring Cthulhu, the extraterrestrial entity.
This definitive collection reveals the development of Lovecraft’s mesmerizing narrative style and establishes him as a canonical—and visionary—American writer.
"The late Professor Angell's research has been discovered by his grand-nephew, Francis Wayland Thurston.
"In this hauntingly illustrated adaptation of two of H. P. Lovecraft's most famous stories from the Cthulhu Mythos, illustrator Dave Shephard captivates readers with stories of supernatural monsters so powerful that humanity is deemed ...
The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories presents the definitive corrected texts of these works, along with Lovecraft critic and biographer S. T. Joshi's illuminating introduction and notes to each story.
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survival of a hugely remote period when...consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity...forms ...
It is the only short story written by Lovecraft in which the entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. Discover cosmic horror in a way that only Lovecraft can portray.
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.
The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the ...
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