The Call of Cthulhu and Other Dark Tales (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

By H.P. Lovecraft

Book Overview

"The twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale" - Stephen King about H. P. LovecraftH. P. Lovecraft's fiction reveals a universe that is vaster, darker, and stranger than... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435116437
• ISBN13: 9781435116436
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

By a waterfall, I’m calling Cthulhu.

For some reason, this critter is an H.P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft) classic. I have ordered the 2005 movie. I kept waiting for the action, and somehow it ended before it started. I did not realize how meaningful the title was until the end, when I said, “Oh wow, now I understand. After Francis Wayland Thurston (a professor at Brown University) shuffles off this mortal coil, he leaves papers. His great-nephew, an anthropologist who narrates the story, is shocked to find that France Wayland’s research into what started as a spooky dream to find that he uncovers a cabal of Cthulhu worshipers. But who or what is Cthulhu? We travel with the narrator as he pieces together what Francis suspects. When Cthulhu calls, we may even have to confront him/it ourselves. Buyer tip: check the ISBN, check the page count, and if the author isn’t Lovecraft, assume you’re dealing with an adaptation, a derivative, or a tentacle‑shaped metadata accident.