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Call of Cthulhu

By: H.P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
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Summary

The Call of Cthulhu is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories.

Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extra terrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.

It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, illustrating the story's first line: "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".
Public Domain (P)2022 SNR Audio
Classics Fantasy
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Great give and of course a mad yarn

Bits or intenation and indignency. But I've still listened several times and it slay sends me to sleep. Happy with this for a credit!

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