![]() Wafting throughout its plot is a preoccupation with artists, artworks, architecture, writings, occultism, exotic-seeming locations, and dreams-all of which help create and contribute to the rich scent of Decadence lingering upon the narrative-mingled with a contemplation for history, science, geometry, and various artistic movements, schools, or characteristics. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” is a well-structured, eloquent story enhanced by touches of Decadence. ![]() Reading the tale while thinking of the main narrator and the quasi-narrators of the story as unwell, feebleminded, unreliable cravens (maugre the possibility of them perchance being well-educated or reputable) may permit a discovery of numerous, ambiguous interpretations of the whole story thus, reimagining the characters and the voice of the text preserves or adds to the aesthetics of and appreciation for the short story, the quintessence of which is partly weirdness. ![]() Its attitudes concerning themes of purity, decline, and upheaval seem tailored to be uncomfortable and uncomforting. It is like an embodiment of madness and self-righteousness. Serious artistic and aesthetic vanguards, literary intellectuals, and dedicated pulp connoisseurs should defend, not discount, the arcane charms which “The Call of Cthulhu” exhibits with shades of materialist nihilism and cosmic fantasy, malgré the regrettable circumstance that it is one of the most elitist, classist, and xenophobic works ever written by Lovecraft. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” short story! Through this composition of mine, I hope to form new artistic conversations, and to illuminate new ways of thinking artistically and creatively. I wished only to share my mercurial thoughts, interpretations, opinions, hypotheses, and beliefs. ![]() This article and its contents are not intended to defame any business, anyone, or anything. Nor are they intended to be attacks or accusations of any kind against anyone who enjoys their works. Lovecraft Historical Society, Sean Branney, Andrew Leman, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, or anyone involved in any way with the making or presenting of the short story “The Call of Cthulhu” or the film The Call of Cthulhu and such. This article and its contents are not intended to be attacks or accusations of any kind against the H. Lovecraft Historical Society silent movie The Call of Cthulhu (screen adaptation by Sean Branney directed by Andrew Leman). Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short-stories collection to build your digital library.What follows is a subjective, informal, unorthodox review based on my personal opinions about Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s short story “The Call of Cthulhu” and the H. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Lovecraft’s horror writing served as the basis for what is now called “The Cthulhu Mythos,” a universe created by Lovecraft and subsequent writers-most famously Lovecraft’s publisher August Derleth-that centered around the horror of “The Great Old Ones.” The Cthulhu Mythos has become influential in popular culture and has inspired numerous books, comics, films, and games. The story is written as an academic account of evidence of Cthulhu, including encounters with the ominous and murderous “Cult of Cthulhu.” Lovecraft’s most famous creation, the mythological octopus-like creature Cthulhu, one of “The Great Old Ones,” a pantheon of cosmic entities who once ruled Earth but have since fallen into deep slumber.
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