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The Call of Cthulhu

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First published: 1928
Pages: 44

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The Horror in Clay
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The Tale of Inspector Legrasse.
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The Madness from the Sea.
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A short story that launched a whole mythology of cosmic dread, presented as the assembled papers of a man piecing together a secret his late grand-uncle stumbled upon. From a sculptor's fevered dreams, a police raid on a swamp cult, and a sailor's account of a drowned city risen from the Pacific, a picture emerges of Cthulhu, a vast alien god sleeping beneath the waves and waiting for the stars to align. Lovecraft's horror lies less in gore than in scale: the terror of realizing how small and accidental humanity is against forces older than the world itself. The tale gave weird fiction its most enduring monster and named a genre.

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H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like "Lovecraftian horror" and an enduring fandom.