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The Call of Cthulhu

1928

The executor of a Providence professor's estate pieces together his grand-uncle's notes: a sculptor's dream-haunted bas-relief, a New Orleans inspector's account of a swamp cult, and the log of a Norwegian sailor. The three threads converge on the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh in the Pacific and the entity imprisoned there.

Engraved plate of the yacht Alert driven head-on against rising Cthulhu, the squid-head with writhing feelers towering over the bowsprit in a stormy sea
Plate IV — The Alert against the risen thing, drawn after the text:“The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly.”The Call of Cthulhu (1928) — Chapter 3, The Madness from the Sea
Feb. 20Mch. 22EmmaMch. 23Apr. 12Johansen adriftMch. 25Apr. 18Vigilant
The voyage of the Emma and the Alert, February–April 1925 — tracks drawn after Johansen’s story. Open the chart →

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