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“The Call of Cthulhu was published in 1928, and it is Lovecraft’s most famous story. It’s a story that’s told in several parts, in which an investigation pieces together, from various clues, the existence of monstrous forces that have impinged upon our world. It introduces the monstrous figure, Cthulhu, who is a tentacle-faced extraterrestrial entity so powerful that human beings can’t resist, so much as just try to keep our heads down and not attract its attention.” Read more...
Jeffrey Weinstock, Literary Scholar
A short story first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, HP Lovecraft’s deranged tale has become a centrepiece in horror fantasy of the slime-covered, otherworldly kind. Cthulhu, “a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body,” is said to be so terrible to behold that it destroys the sanity of those who see it. Lovecraft’s phantasmagorical vision established an entire Cthulhu Mythos and inspired everyone from Stephen King to Neil Gaiman, and Alan Moore. In the figures of the Demogorgon, the Mindflayer and even Vecna himself, you can see the tentacles of this myth extending into the subconscious of the Duffer Brothers, the creators of Stranger Things. If you liked Stranger Things, you’re going to love the books of HP Lovecraft.
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