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The Call of Cthulhu
H. P. Lovecraft · 1928 · Horror & Gothic
An illustrated digital edition of H. P. Lovecraft's 1928 tale of inherited papers, converging testimony and a terror older than human history.
Inside this edition
Every LitLab edition is illustrated from the text itself — the world of the book mapped, its people drawn, its scenes staged. 23 plates are open to everyone in this book; here are 8 of them.
This edition
- Title
- The Call of Cthulhu
- Author
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937)
- First published
- 1928
- Illustrated plates
- 46 original artworks · 23 open to everyone
- Chapters
- 3 · about 12,035 words
- Reading time
- 48 min
- Language
- EN
- Formats
- Read online · EPUB and PDF download with a subscription
- Publisher
- LitLab — The Illustrated Classics
- On LitLab since
- August 2026
- Rights
- Text in the public domain. Illustrations and edition © LitLab.
- Source text
- Project Gutenberg #68283
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