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It was released in October 1999 and is still in print. The volume is named for the Lovecraft short story, "The Call of Cthulhu". This edition, the first new paperback publication of Lovecraft's works since the Del-Rey editions, contains a new introduction and explanatory notes on individual stories by noted Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi.
Edward Guimont has argued that H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds was an influence on "The Call of Cthulhu", citing the thematic similarities of ancient, powerful, but indifferent aliens associated with deities; physical similarities between Cthulhu and the Martians; and the plot detail of a ship ramming an alien in a temporarily successful but ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre ... The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories; D.
Few video games are direct adaptations of Lovecraft's works, but many video games have been inspired or heavily influenced by Lovecraft. [253] Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, a Lovecraftian first-person video game, was released in 2005. [253]
A webcomic, Lovecraft is Missing, debuted in 2008 and takes place in 1926, before the publication of "The Call of Cthulhu", and weaves in elements of Lovecraft's earlier stories. [42] [43] Boom! Studios have also run a number of series based on Cthulhu and other characters from the Mythos, including Cthulhu Tales [44] and Fall of Cthulhu. [45]
Michael Alan Nelson writes (in his Fall of Cthulhu series for Boom! Studios ) that the signer attracts the attention of the Other Gods by writing their name in the book. Glynn Owen Barrass states (in The Starry Wisdom Library ) that the Book of Azathoth praises the Lovecraftian pantheon and renounces/mocks the Christian scripture.
Cthulhu has also been spelled in many other ways, including Tulu, Katulu, and Kutulu. [8] Long after Lovecraft's death, Chaosium stated in the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game: "we say it kuh-THOOL-hu" (/ k ə ˈ θ uː l uː /), even while noting that Lovecraft said it differently. [9] Others use the pronunciation / k ə ˈ t uː l uː /. [10]
The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November – December 1931.It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations.