Suite au décès dans d'étranges circonstances de son grand-oncle, Francis Thurston apprend dans les documents dont il hérite de l'existence d'une secte dévouée à Cthulhu, une créature innommable, endormie depuis des millions d'années. Intrigué par ces écrits, Francis reprend le flambeau et se lance sur la piste du culte, au cœur des ténèbres et au péril de sa vie... Grâce aux superbes illustrations de Dave Shephard, découvrez ou redécouvrez cette mythique nouvelle de H. P Lovecraft et plongez dans son univers étrange et effrayant pour percer le mystère de Cthulhu.
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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
