Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 2

We Have Already Seen...

Title Page from the first appearance of this tale, in Weird Tales V11N2 (1928)!

Inheriting the papers and personal effects of his late grand-uncle, linguistic professor George Gammell Angell, our narrator discovers a small bas-relief sculpture which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", along with documents mentioning frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh!

Tracing the documented incidents leads to a larger statue of indeterminate, but undeniable antiquity...perhaps predating known history...

To Be Concluded Next Wednesday!

Here's a couple of pages from this section of the original Spanish language publication, showing the unique color palette used for the story!

Pity these have never been reprinted in any of the several English-language editions!

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Wednesday Worlds of Wonder HP LOVECRAFT'S THE CALL OF CTHULHU "Call of Cthulhu" Part 1

  If we're going to present Lovecraft...

...let's start with the seminal tale of cosmic horror by H P!

To be Continued Next Wednesday!
Adapted by Esteban Maroto, who did both script (in Spanish) and art for Editorial Bruguera in 1982.

Howver, Bruguera went bankrupt before publication.

Maroto shopped the material around and it finally appeared in Ediciones B's Capitán Trueno magazine in 1986.
Here are a couple of pages from that adaptation...

In 1990, a new American comics publisher, CrossPlains, made a deal with Maroto to publish the project in English, with the translation supplied by Roy Thomas.

But, due to budget limitations, they printed it in b/w.
That's the version we're running here.
It's been re-published since with another translation, but still in b/w.

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Houdini's WEIRD TALES!

In 1924, the one-year-old Weird Tales magazine had not yet achieved the fame (or notoriety) that would make it a best-seller synonymous with fantasy and horror stories...

...so, for a couple of issues, the publisher brought in the famed Harry Houdini to write the cover-feature.

Sales didn't pick up, and the magazine was forced to go from monthly to quarterly.

For the third and final Houdini cover story...

...the publisher had an up-and-coming young author ghost-write the final Houdini entry, doing a first-person mystery-adventure instead of the non-fiction charlatan spiritualist exposes of the previous issues.

The writer was H P Lovecraft.

You can read both the tale and the story behind it (explained in a letter by Lovecraft to fellow author Frank Belknap Long HERE.

It's been reprinted numerous times, ususally under the title "Under the Pyramids", and credited to Lovecraft.

Weird Tales and Lovecraft remained together, each inspiring the other to amazing creative heights.

Lovecraft began work with Houdini and C M Eddy, Jr. on a non-fiction book entitled "Cancer of Superstition", but Houdini's death ended the project which was fully-outlined with several chapters written.