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Chronicle · Written 1926 → Published 1928

The Call of Cthulhu

Weird Tales, Feb. 1928

The Call of Cthulhu

A man sorts through his late granduncle's papers and finds three threads pulling toward the same abyss: a sculptor's fever-dream carving, a swamp cult raided by police in Louisiana, and a sailor's account of an island that should not exist rising from the Pacific. Piecing the threads together costs him his peace of mind and, eventually, his life.

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