First released in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928, 'The Call of Cthulhu' is a terrifying trilogy of horror stories that has influenced writers such as William S. Burroughs, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti and Stephen King.
Autor: H. P Lovecraft
Géneros: Antologías, Ciencia ficción, Cuentos y fábulas, Ficción, Ficción literaria, Terror
The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being jostled by a sailor.
The first chapter, The Horror in Clay, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the notes, which the narrator describes: "My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary win.
