The Call of Cthulhu

This legendary 11,000-word novelette is the first piece of writing to come off H.P. Lovecraft's pen after settling into his new home in his old home town of Providence, after his failed attempt to establish himself in New York the previous year. By the time he finished it, he had fully drafted his "master's thesis," Supernatural Horror in Literature, and was mostly just fine-tuning it; but the insights he had gleaned in the course of his researches were finding more and more full expressio ...