THE CALL OF CTHULHU (PT I) by H.P. LOVECRAFT
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In "The Call of Cthulhu, Pt 1" by HP Lovecraft, a Boston Anthropologist named Thurston takes on the job of clearing up his recently deceased grand-uncle's files, and finds that he had been studying the existence of a monstrous entity that once ruled Earth. Clues lead Thurston closer to the enigma and to danger.
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| 0:00.0 | The The Welcome everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.3 | We're going to introduce you to a short story from H.P. Lovecraft today, a sure sign we're reaching |
| 0:39.7 | out to his many fans who enjoy his works, which included everything from odd tales to horror stories. |
| 0:46.2 | He is recognized today as one of the best classic authors dealing in supernatural and science fiction, |
| 0:51.9 | and this story, The Call of Khatulhu, is considered one of the best of his short stories. |
| 0:59.0 | Lovecraft died in 1937, unknown and in poverty, but achieved great acclaim after his death. |
| 1:06.4 | This is part one of his two-part story. |
| 1:09.7 | And now the call of Khatulhoo, by H.P. Lovecraft. Found among the papers of the late Francis |
| 1:17.8 | Wayland Thurston of Boston. Part 1, The Har in Clay. |
| 1:25.0 | The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to |
| 1:29.4 | correlate all its contents. |
| 1:31.8 | We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of |
| 1:34.0 | black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The |
| 1:39.2 | sciences, each straining in its own direction, hitherto harmed us little but someday the piecing together of disassociated knowledge |
| 1:47.5 | will open up such terrifying vistas of reality and of our frightful position therein that we shall either go mad from the |
| 1:55.2 | revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. |
| 2:01.2 | Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle, |
| 2:07.0 | wherein our world and human race from transient incidents. |
| 2:12.0 | They have hinted at strange survival in terms which would |
| 2:14.7 | freeze the blood if not masked by bland optimism. But it is not from them that |
| 2:20.4 | there came the single glimpse of forbidden eons which chills me when I think of it |
| 2:24.6 | and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed |
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