Hello, gentle listener, and welcome to nocturnal transmissions, your friendly provider of short stories and mutterings from the wrong side of midnight.

The fortnightly podcast that brings you spirited renditions of dark fiction, both old and new,

performed by voice artist Kristen Holland.

This episode, we bring you the concluding chapter of our two-part presentation of H.P. Lovecraft's paradigmatic tale. Nocturnal transmissions

is proud to present The Call of Cthulhu

by H.P. Lovecraft

performed by Kristen Holland.

Chapter 3. The Madness from the Sea

If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total effacing of the results of a mere chance which fixed my eye on a certain stray piece of shelf paper.

It was nothing on which I would naturally have stumbled

in the course of my daily round, for it was an old number of an Australian journal, the Sydney

Bulletin for April 18, 1925. It had escaped even the cutting bureau, which had at the time of its

issuance been avidly collecting material for my uncle's research.

I had largely given over my inquiries into what Professor Angel called the

Cthulhu cult, and was visiting a learned friend in Patterson, New Jersey, the curator of a local

museum and a mineralogist of note. Examining one day the reserve specimens roughly set on the

storage shelves in a rear room of the museum,

my eye was caught by an odd picture in one of the old papers spread beneath the stones.

It was the Sydney Bulletin I have mentioned, for my friend had wide affiliations in all conceivable

foreign parts, and the picture was a half-tone cut of a hideous stone image,

almost identical with that which Lagras had found in the swamp.

Eagerly clearing the sheet of its precious contents,

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