London
cityReal-world: London, England
Site of a nocturnal suicide among the press cuttings of spring 1925 — a lone sleeper leaping from a window after a shocking cry — and later the narrator's port of call en route to Oslo.
London first appears among Professor Angell's press cuttings from the period of Wilcox's delirium: a nocturnal suicide in which a lone sleeper leaped from a window after a shocking cry.
The city returns near the end of the investigation as a waypoint: resolving to visit Mate Johansen, the narrator sailed for London and re-embarked at once for the Norwegian capital, and it was on the London boat, homeward bound, that he began to read the manuscript Johansen's widow had surrendered.
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“Here was a nocturnal suicide in London, where a lone sleeper had leaped from a window after a shocking cry.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 1, The Horror in Clay
“Sailing for London, I re-embarked at once for the Norwegian capital”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea
“Persuading the widow that my connection with her husband's "technical matters" was sufficient to entitle me to his manuscript, I bore the document away and began to read it on the London boat.”
The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea