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Jonathan Wyke. Scott Dorward. Charlie Krank. Badger McInnes. The Thing on the Doorstep is a short story written by H. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. The story describes a man who finds himself stranded in a half-deserted town with strange inhabitants. They look human — mostly, but there is something odd about their eyes and their behavior. He meets the town drunk, Zadok Allen, who tells him the terrifying history of the town, about Devil Reef and mutant humanoids, sea gods, gold Despite being a horror story about necromancers, mutated creatures and summoning rituals, The Case of Dexter Ward is at its heart a cautionary tale about knowledge.

Charles Dexter Ward is the scion of a well established Providence family who begins investigating esoteric matters and discover Dom, Moda, Hobby. Literatura faktu. This is actually a non-fiction piece, and the secret language used in it is actually the language of the Necromicon. The whole thing is written in this language, yet everyone is able to understand it.

It just goes to show how true the stories really are-- which make them that much more frightening. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Anybody here knows how to Pronounce Cthulhu? It has an "Explanatory notes" section, in the note 9 can be read: "On the pronunciation of Cthulu Lovecraft has left several accounts, all slightly differing; his associates have also supplied contradictory testimonies. The most definitive statement by Lovecraft occurs in a letter of ' The name of the hellish entity was invented by beings whose vocal organs were not like man's, hence it has no relation to the human speech equipment.

The syllables were determined by a physiological equipment wholly unlike ours, hence could never be uttered perfectly by human throats The u is about like that in full; and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness.

See all 4 questions about The Call of Cthulhu…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Call of Cthulhu. I think his stories are just amazing. Well this one has again rocketed itself to top billing on the HPL chart…for now at least.

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 harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age Those few sentences say so much.

They touch on the insignificance of man…the substantial ignorance of humanity regarding the universe…the concept of things so vast, unknowable and unable to be comprehended…and the soul-chilling coldness of what lay beyond our tiny sphere of knowledge. Let me just say that narrative stretches around the globe, from Boston to New Orleans to Greenland to China to the uncharted waters between Antarctica and New Zealand and involves shared nightmares, bizarre rituals, the dread Necronomicon, a failed expedition to hell on Earth and the sick, twisted devotees of a religion as old as man itself.

The man can make walking down a dark staircase feel like the scariest moment in history. If you find that kind of atmosphere-manipulating prose to be off-putting, than HPL is likely not your cuppa.

It is certainly mine and I have been drinking the kool-aid for a while now. In my opinion, this is about as good as classic horror gets and I can feel gush welling up even as I type this.

Still, even as a complete fanboy of Lovecraft I try not to read too much of his work at one time because I find the stories have a tendency to blur together and lose a bit of their emotional power. View all 69 comments. Jul 20, Sean Barrs rated it it was amazing Shelves: modernist-movement , darkness-horror-gothic , short-stories , 5-star-reads.

Lovecraft does not waste a single word. Every expression, every phrase, is masterfully selected to evoke a sense of the macabre. Such expertise is carried across the body of his writing, though The Call of Cthulhu is undoubtedly the best example.

The brilliance of it resides in the way it can Lovecraft does not waste a single word. The brilliance of it resides in the way it can be mysterious, ethereal and untouchable yet so real and physically haunting. Cthulhu is an ancient entity, shrouded and forgotten, yet he is very real in the minds of those he touches and those that worship him.

Hidden away, buried, in a dark underground city deep under the ocean, Cthulhu is older than the sun and the stars. Like nothing that has ever walked the earth, he is part man, part dragon and part octopus; he is a being of unimaginable cosmic proportions: beholding his form is enough to drive the sanest man into the lowest pits of hysteria and despair.

Although he is near impossible to find, even for the most devout and deranged of his followers, he has the power to find you: he has the power to invade your dreams and unhinge your thoughts forevermore. Cthulhu is one of my favourite creations within fiction, period.

I find the scope of such an entity magnificent and the open-endedness of this story spectacular. Will Cthulhu ever rise? Could anything stop him mastering the earth? Will he finally call his followers to his side? Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be ready to liberate him.

View all 10 comments. The Call of Chut I finally got around to this one. And what did I think? I think it's a well-known short story that has spawned countless far better stories. Which is something I'm finding to be true across the board when it comes to classics.

A vast amount of the source material for famous characters is utter shit, at least plotwise. The core ideas are different and interesting, so over the years, you have other authors take those ideas and run with them i The Call of Chut The core ideas are different and interesting, so over the years, you have other authors take those ideas and run with them into some very cool territory.

Eventually, those characters become completely iconic, and then some ignorant peasant like myself grows a wild hair and decides to read the original stuff.

It's almost always a disappointment. Well, not this time! No, I'm kidding. This was shit, too. Well, not shit. But certainly not terrifying or creepy. It's wordy and more meandering than you'd think Lovecraft could manage in such a few short pages. The gist is that this dude inherited his dead uncle's papers.

Now his uncle was a respected science-y guy, and the papers were related to this research he had been doing about some long-forgotten space god that was showing up in artsy-fartsy people's dreams on a certain date, driving some of them mad.

His uncle died under mysterious circumstances. Sounds like Kthooloo! Then he finds out about this policeman who raided some cultists in a jungle. They were undulating and screaming around a tentacle monster statue that they were worshiping. Which was weird, but it was actually all the dead humans they'd managed to sacrifice that got them in trouble with the law. And last, he finds the lone survivor of a ship. Well, he almost finds him. That dude also drops dead for no good reason.

But not before he leaves a letter describing how he and his crew were almost eaten by the monstrous Ctttttoolou as he rose from the depths of the frothy ocean. Now our narrator knows his own days are numbered. So, shhhhh. Don't tell anyone the secrets you learned here I decided it would be easier to swallow his verbose style if I just grabbed the one story that I actually wanted to read.

It's not some great tale of cosmic horror, but as a teeny-tiny audiobook novella, this was cool enough for me to be glad I ticked it off the bucket list. View all 68 comments. Jan 10, Lyn rated it it was amazing.

Perhaps no story more defines H. Pronounced: Cthulhu. First published in , in Weird Tales magazine, this launched what is now known as the Cthulhu Mythos. Readers will also enjoy another mention of the un-mentionable Necronomicon, written by the "Mad Arab" Abdul Alhazred.

We are also introduced to the Old Gods and humans who are initiated into this unknowable and blasphemous sect. A classic and a MUST read for fans of speculative fiction. View all 32 comments. Nov 30, Adina rated it it was ok Shelves: stories , fantasy-sf , horror. This is a short story about a cult which worships a strange and ancient monster called Cthulhu. Basically, you can do anything with it but sell it.

Not too hard…except for one person. Updated again: I've put an illustrated version on Amazon, which can currently only be purchased abroad. I would like to express my gratitude to three websites without which I could not have made the book: HPLovecraft.

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