{"id":8474,"date":"2017-04-21T05:31:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T10:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilbertthm90.wordpress.com\/?p=8474"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T17:27:15","slug":"year-of-short-fiction-part-5-the-call-of-cthulhu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amindformadness.com\/2017\/04\/year-of-short-fiction-part-5-the-call-of-cthulhu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft Analyzed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Somehow I went my whole life without reading a single thing by H.P. Lovecraft. Since we’re still doing short fiction from the early 20th century, I decided to rectify that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’m not much of a reader of horror, but there’s certainly a lot any writer can learn by studying the genre. And let’s face it, The Call of Cthulhu<\/a><\/em> is one of the most important works of horror to every be written both from a literary and cultural perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There is a joy in experiencing this story with little knowledge of the plot, so I’ll word things in a vague way to keep the secrets untold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n