CharactersGustaf Johansen
Gustaf Johansen is the Norwegian sailor whose manuscript supplies the direct encounter with R’lyeh and Cthulhu in The Call of Cthulhu. As second mate of the Emma and later commander of the captured Alert, he survives the opening of the city’s immense door and escapes by driving the yacht into the pursuing being. His account reaches Thurston only after his death, and it does not contain all the connections that the later investigator makes from it.
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