Short storyHorror · 1928Study guide · no full textSteady

The Call of Cthulhu

Lovecraft's horror is epistemological: nothing is seen whole, and the investigator collects other people's breakdowns. Read the last paragraph as a warning about curiosity.

Horror Cosmic Science Madness

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

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Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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