Riordinando le vecchie carte di un defunto prozio, Francis Wayland Thurston s’imbatte in un bassorilievo mostruoso nato dagli incubi e dalle visioni di un ignoto artista e in alcuni documenti in cui si narra di un culto infernale osservato nelle paludi della Louisiana. Seguendo queste tracce e quelle del marinaio norvegese Gustaf Johansen, naufrago in un’isola fantasma comparsa dal nulla, Thurston viene così a conoscenza di Cthulhu, una creatura gigantesca, tentacolare e informe che abita da tempi immemorabili il fondo degli abissi marini e la cui scoperta rischierà di rivelarsi fatale. Magnetico e folgorante, «Il richiamo di Cthulhu» ha stregato intere generazioni di lettori imponendosi come uno dei capolavori del genio visionario e ossessivo di H.P. Lovecraft.
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality. Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. — Wikipedia
