90 years ago, in the summer of 1926, H.P. Lovecraft wrote “The Call of Cthulhu.” The three part story mixes an essay structure with narrative elements, and Lovecraft himself didn’t consider it one of his best. But Conan creator Robert E. Howard considered the tale to be a classic, and Michel Houellebecq rates the story as Lovecraft’s “first great text.” Of course the book is the cornerstone of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and it’s hard to imagine Lovecraft’s long-lived reputation if he hadn’t written the tale.
Of course another important book in the Cthulhu Mythos is the fictional Necronomicon. Here’s a fun adaptation of that title from 1993. Happy Cthulhu!
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