The Call of Cthulhu

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The Call of Cthulhu
by H.P. Lovecraft

"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 extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance'

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Versions of The Call of Cthulhu include:
  • "The Call of Cthulhu" published in Beware After Dark!: The Worlds Most Stupendous Tales of Mystery, Horror, Thrills and Terror, (1929). The Macaulay Company
  • "The Call of Cthulhu" published in The Outsider and Others, (1939). Arkham House


This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1928, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1937, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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