"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. 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."
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 4)
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The Haunter of the Dark (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 63)
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The Shadow out of Time (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 62)
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The Book (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 61)
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The Evil Clergyman (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 60)
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The Thing on the Doorstep (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 59)
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The Dreams in the Witch House (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 58)
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The Shadow over Innsmouth (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 57)
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At the Mountains of Madness (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 56)
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The Whisperer in Darkness (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 55)
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The Dunwich Horror (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 54)
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The Tomb (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 1)
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Dagon (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 2)
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Polaris (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 3)
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Memory (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 5)
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Old Bugs (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 6)
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The Transition of Juan Romero (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 7)
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The White Ship (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 8)
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The Doom That Came to Sarnath (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 9)
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The Statement of Randolph Carter (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 10)
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The Terrible Old Man (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 11)
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The Tree (The Work of H. P. Lovecraft, Episode 12)
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