The Call of Cthulhu, Paperback

"They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men...and...formed a cult which had never died...hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him." Francis Wayland Thurston recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being jostled by a sailor. The Horror in Clay ... The Tale of Inspector Legrasse ... The Madness from the Sea ... "The Call of Cthulhu" was written in the summer of 1926, and was first published in Weird Tales magazine in February 1928.