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The Call of Cthulhu
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a cosmic horrorshort story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazineWeird Tales in February 1928.
The story is a founding document of the Cthulhu Mythos, a mythopoeia and shared fictional universe expanded upon by Lovecraft and successors.