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The Call of Cthulhu.
TrifibianTerror - wrote on 05/26/2010
The Call of Cthulhu.
Adapted from the celebrated short story by American horror maestro H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu tells its story through 3 narratives, The Horror in Clay, The Tale of Inspector LeGrasse and The Madness from the Sea. Telling these stories is Francis Weylond Thurston, executor os his late great-uncles estate. Essentially set in a mental asylum, Thurston tells an unnamed detective his story of how he came to know of the Cthulhu Cult, by way of recounting the stories he found in a locked box belonging to his great uncle, George Gammel Angell.
The Horror in Clay explains Thrustons first delving into the mystery, with his discovery of his great uncles involvement with a young, 'psychically sensitive' artist named Henry Anothony Wilcox. Wilcox had been suffering …
