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The struggle to understand the alien hieroglyphics in the story is an impossible task that repeatedly claims the translator's life. Lovecraft represents writing as a lethal weapon, as when a cache of papers falls on Johansen's head, killing him, or when the acquisition of Johansen's diary ensures Thurston's assassination. The preponderance of written manuscripts in the story correlates inversely with the vague and suggestive fragments that each of the tale's speakers is able to convey, which limits Thurston's ability to understand their implications until he pieces them all together. The transmission of the secrets of the Cthulhu cult through writing is a cursed act that dooms many of the tale's characters, including Johansen, Angell, and Thurston himself.

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Thurston's written document is itself an archive of other writings-his late grand-uncle's papers, various transcribed oral accounts, news clippings, a diary, and so forth. WritingĪs an epistolary tale, " The Call of Cthulhu" consists of written documents left behind by Francis Wayland Thurston. At the end of the story, Thurston himself wonders whether fate has in store for him the same kind of demise that claimed Johansen's and his grand-uncle's lives. Lovecraft also weaves the theme of fate into the musings of the cultist elder Old Castro, who surmises dreamily that the "Old Ones" will rise when the stars achievement a certain alignment with human affairs. Regardless, fate itself is a major theme in the story, as Thurston's attempts to uncover the truth behind the Cthulhu rumors are also aided by strokes of pure luck and good fortune, as when he initially notices Angell's secret manuscripts, or when he spots an issue of the Sydney Bulletin on a chance visit to a local museum.

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The original short story is now out of copyright and can be picked up free of charge, when time permits I will add a download to this page.To what extent Francis Wayland Thurston is ultimately fated to be the lone surviving interpreter of the Cthulhu mythos is an open question in the tale. For anyone beginning their hunt for Cthulhu, this is the ideal place to start. The final chapter, "The Madness from the Sea" details the further investigations of Francis Wayland Thurston and he finds much more than he bargained for.Ĭall of Cthulhu is a great piece of literature, elegant, thoughtful, faintly disturbing and above all entertaining.

The statuette bears a striking resemblance to the sculpture of Henry Wilcox. The second chapter deals with the Tale of Inspector Legrasse, a New Orleans police officer who held a meeting at the American Archaeological Society in an attempt to identify a statuette that have been recovered after a raid on a voodoo meeting. The first chapter "The Horror in Clay" tells of a sculpture created by Henry Anthony Wilcox and based on his vivid dreams of a horrific creature that has a tentacled head, a scaly body and rudimentary wings, as you would imagine if you combined an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature. The three chapters are narrated by way of a recovered manuscript detailing notes of discoveries that relate to terrors from the deep, separated into one chapter per discovery with the final third chapter detailing the further discoveries of the narrator Francis Wayland Thurston. 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. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. Lovecraft really does have a very special way of turning a phrase and Call of Cthulhu is no exception, as the open lines exemplify:

The prose is quite poetic and subtle in places with a complex and dramatic plot. The Short story itself is described from the first person perspective in a documentary style and is divided into three distinct sections relating to three witness accounts of Cthulhu related incidents. These stories differ in Lovecraft's interpretation by the way the characters are more directly involved and do fight back.

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Lovecraft himself created a number of short stories that are related to Cthulhu.īrian Lumley has also since created 6 full novels based on the Cthulhu Mythos, each featuring the characters Titus Crow and Henry deMarigney. These authors have included the original friends and aquantencies of Lovecrafts such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Call of Cthulhu is the original short story by HP Lovecraft that has since spawned the whole Cthulhu mythos, with films, video games, roleplay games and many novels by authors in the shared Cthulhu universe (known as the Cthulhu Mythos or the Lovecraft Mythos), which was the intent of Lovecraft.