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"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft

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Home     His Life     His Writings     His Creations     His Study     Popular Culture     Internet Resources     About This Site   The Call of Cthulhu By H. P. Lovecraft (Found Among the Papers of the Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston) “Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival . . . a survival of a hugely remote period when . . . consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity . . . forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds. . . .” —Algernon Blackwood. I. The Horror in Clay. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto h

"The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft • Home • His Life • His Writings • His Creations • His Study • Popular Culture • About This Site • The Call of Cthulhu By H. P. Lovecraft (Found Among the Papers of the Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston) "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival . . . a survival of a hugely remote period when . . . consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity . . . forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying me

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