The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft

The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast

Tony Walker

Science Fiction, Fiction, Drama

4.9 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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The Call of Cthulhu by H P Lovecraft was commissioned by Gavin Critchley for me to read for all of you. Thanks to Gavin!The foundation story of Cosmic Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos. Get a cup of tea, sit comfortably and be prepared to go insane at the revelation of monstrous fate that awaits us all. ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!If You Appreciate The Work I’ve Put In HereYou can become a Patreon of the show for exclusive members’ only stories:https://www.patreon.com/barcud (https://www.patreon.com/barcud)And if you want to thank me (think of a busker’s hat) then you can get me a coffee via http://www.ko-fi.com/tonywalker (www.ko-fi.com/tonywalker)Join my mailing list and get a download: https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire)Music By The Heartwood Institutehttps://bit.ly/somecomeback (https://bit.ly/somecomeback)Support the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everybody dies, don't they?
0:10.5	Everybody come back, isn't that same?
0:14.4	You tried to get into the locked drawer today, didn't you?
0:17.4	How do the dead comeback, mother?
0:19.9	What's the secrets of dead comeback?
0:21.7	The Call of Cthulhu by H.B. Lovecraft.
0:27.1	Epigraph
0:27.8	Of such great powers or beings, there may be conceivably a survival,
0:35.4	a survival of a hugely remote period, when consciousness was manifested, perhaps,
0:40.9	in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity, forms of which
0:47.8	poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory, and called him gods, monsters,
0:55.9	mythical beings of all sorts and kinds,
0:59.5	Algin Blackwood,
1:02.2	the horror in the clay.
1:05.4	The most merciful thing in the world, I think,
1:07.8	is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
1:12.4	We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity,
1:18.6	and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
1:22.7	The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little,
1:30.4	but someday the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful
1:37.2	position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark
1:47.0	age.
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