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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Lovecraft really does have a very special way of turning a phrase and Call of Cthulhu is no exception, as the open lines exemplify: The prose is quite poetic and subtle in places with a complex and dramatic plot. The Short story itself is described from the first person perspective in a documentary style and is divided into three distinct sections relating to three witness accounts of Cthulhu related incidents. These stories differ in Lovecraft's interpretation by the way the characters are more directly involved and do fight back.

Lovecraft himself created a number of short stories that are related to Cthulhu.īrian Lumley has also since created 6 full novels based on the Cthulhu Mythos, each featuring the characters Titus Crow and Henry deMarigney. These authors have included the original friends and aquantencies of Lovecrafts such as Clark Ashton Smith and Robert E. Call of Cthulhu is the original short story by HP Lovecraft that has since spawned the whole Cthulhu mythos, with films, video games, roleplay games and many novels by authors in the shared Cthulhu universe (known as the Cthulhu Mythos or the Lovecraft Mythos), which was the intent of Lovecraft.