The Call of Cthulhu
| "The Call of Cthulhu" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by H. P. Lovecraft | |
Title page of "The Call of Cthulhu" as it appeared in Weird Tales, February 1928. Illustration by Hugh Doak Rankin. | |
| Text available at Wikisource | |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Cosmic horror |
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| Published in | Weird Tales |
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| Publication date | February 1928 |
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928.
The story is a founding document of the Cthulhu Mythos, a mythopoeia and shared fictional universe expanded upon by Lovecraft and successors.