![]() Regardless of where you come out on the issue of Lovecraft’s best work, let me postulate that HPL never wrote a better passage describing the fundamental philosophical underpinnings of his work than the opening paragraph of The Call of Cthulhu: The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. I certainly wouldn’t disagree having just read it for the fourth time. The story covers so much ground and touches on so many aspects of what would become central “mythos” lore that it’s easy to see why people hold this up as HPL’s best work. Well this one has again rocketed itself to top billing on the HPL chart…for now at least. I think his stories are just amazing.ĭepending on which HPL story I’ve most recently consumed, I vacillate regarding what is my absolute favorite HPL tale, The Call of Cthulhu, the Dunwich Horror or At the Mountains of Madness. Yes, I admit that I’m a Lovecraft/Cthulhu mythos junkie. He just looks so damn regal, this eldritch, malevolent entity that appears part octopus kraken, part dragon, part human caricature…the so called "mountain who walks." Depending on which HPL story I’ve most recently consumed, I vacillate regarding what is my absolute favorite HPL tale, The Call of Cthul This here, folks, is the most impressive image of Cthulhu that I’ve come across: This here, folks, is the most impressive image of Cthulhu that I’ve come across: He just looks so damn regal, this eldritch, malevolent entity that appears part octopus kraken, part dragon, part human caricature…the so called "mountain who walks." Yes, I admit that I’m a Lovecraft/Cthulhu mythos junkie. The u is about like that in full and the first syllable is not unlike klul in sound, hence the h represents the guttural thickness.' (SL V.10-11)". The actual sound - as nearly as any human organs could imitate it or human letters record it - may be taken as something like Khlûl'-hloo, with the first syllable pronounced gutturally and very thickly. The syllables were determined by a physiological equipment wholly unlike ours, hence could never be uttered perfectly by human throats. The name of the hellish entity was invented by beings whose vocal organs were not like man's, hence it has no relation to the human speech equipment. ![]() ![]() The most definitive statement by Lovecraft occurs in a letter of 1934: '.the word is supposed to represent a fumbling human attempt to catch the phonetics of an absolutely non-human word. "On the pronunciation of Cthulu Lovecraft has left several accounts, all slightly differing his associates have also supplied contradictory testimonies. It has an "Explanatory notes" section, in the note 9 can be read: It has an "Explanatory notes" section, in the note 9 …more There is an edition of "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories" (Penguin, 1999, 420 pages). Mario There is an edition of "The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories" (Penguin, 1999, 420 pages).
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