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The Call of Cthulhu

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

The Call of Cthulhu

Paper book: €13.99

Digital: €3.99

Original publication
1928
Bilingual edition
12 June 2026
Pages
96
Difficulty
Medium
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Moods
Get the chills
Translated from
English

Book summary

Sorting through the papers of his great-uncle, who died suddenly, a man discovers strange notes, accounts of nightmares and a monstrous statuette. He gathers testimony from the four corners of the world, and follows the trail of a very ancient cult devoted to Cthulhu, a creature asleep at the bottom of the ocean.

In this short tale, fear comes not from a monster you see, but from everything you sense. It is this story that created the Cthulhu myth, taken up since in games and novels.

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The plot

Three clues, one monster. In Providence, Rhode Island, a sculptor dreams of a monster before a giant city. He shapes it in clay and shows it to an old professor.

The world of the book

A secret older than mankind. In the 1920s, a man gathers notes and press cuttings from three corners of the world. Pieced together, they reveal a secret: long before us, beings from the stars lived on Earth. And they…

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