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Literature

The Call of Cthulhu

A scholar’s inherited papers, a young sculptor’s dreams, a police raid and a sailor’s hidden account converge on a being waiting beneath the Pacific. The Call of Cthulhu turns the act of connecting evidence into the central action of cosmic horror: its narrator discovers that a coherent explanation may be more frightening than an unexplained mystery.

14 min read · 2,771 words

Film & television

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The Call of Cthulhu is a 2005 American independent adaptation directed by Andrew Leman from Sean Branney’s screenplay. Its 47-minute, black-and-white silent-film form uses the language of early cinema to follow Lovecraft’s geographically dispersed investigation into a submerged city and its surviving cult.

5 min read · 943 words

Characters

William Channing Webb

William Channing Webb is the Princeton anthropologist whose recollection of a Greenland ritual gives Inspector Legrasse’s Louisiana idol its first independent parallel. In The Call of Cthulhu, his limited contribution connects two distant investigations without solving the mystery either has uncovered.

3 min read · 520 words