L'Appel de Cthulhu

Écrit par H. P. Lovecraft

Raconté par Patrick Blandin

L'Appel de Cthulhu est une nouvelle fantastique de HP Lovecraft. L'intrigue non linéaire est présentée au travers d'un ensemble de documents retrouvés dans les papiers du défunt Francis Wayland Thurston, un anthropologue qui a enquêté sur un culte obscur. L'histoire : Francis Wayland Thurston, un anthropologue originaire de Boston hérite de tous les biens de son grand-oncle, George Gammell Angell, un professeur renommé ayant enseigné les langues sémitiques à l'université Brown, décédé dans des circonstances mystérieuses " pendant l'hiver 1926-1927 ". Parmi les documents de son oncle, Thurston découvre un étrange bas-relief en argile représentant un dragon ou une caricature d'homme " à tête de poulpe munie de tentacules surmontant un corps écailleux et grotesque muni d'ailes rudimentaires " accompagné de différents hiéroglyphes inconnus, de coupures de presse et d'un manuscrit portant le titre Le Culte de Cthulhu...

• Langue: Français
• Éditeur: SAGA Egmont
• Date de sortie: 9 juin 2022
• ISBN: 9782821125490

H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.