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H.P. Lovecraft: The Call of Cthulhu
76 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2023
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H.P. Lovecraft
6,111 books19.3k followersHoward Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
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April 27, 2024
This is terrible.
About 40% of the book is a terrible, disjointed cartoony sort-of adaptation of Lovecraft's story. Then the story is reprinted. Then there's a bunch of text filler.
Awful.
About 40% of the book is a terrible, disjointed cartoony sort-of adaptation of Lovecraft's story. Then the story is reprinted. Then there's a bunch of text filler.
Awful.
June 3, 2024
This is a fairly short, abridged, graphic novel adaptation of The Call of Cthulhu. All in all, it hits the key plot beats of a man inheriting a box of items from an uncle, and his journey through them as he attempts to verify their veracity. It describes his time with the artist, Wilcox, who experienced dark dreams and captured them in art. The account of the policeman, Legrasse, hunting Cthulhu cultists in US swamplands. And the sailors who survived pirates only to accidentally discover the risen city of R’lyeh and Cthulhu.
The art is a bit rough, but I enjoyed aspects of it. The text of the story is nice, but for me, unnecessary, as I have it many forms. The discussion of the story has some interesting points in amongst a number of opinions that don’t always stack up. The biography of Lovecraft is short and rose-coloured. The essay on adapting Lovecraft was the one that had the most authority.
The art is a bit rough, but I enjoyed aspects of it. The text of the story is nice, but for me, unnecessary, as I have it many forms. The discussion of the story has some interesting points in amongst a number of opinions that don’t always stack up. The biography of Lovecraft is short and rose-coloured. The essay on adapting Lovecraft was the one that had the most authority.
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