The Call of Cthulhu

A Monstrous Deity. A Nightmare from the Deep. The Chaos That Threatens Sanity. Humanity lives on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, completely unaware of the ancient terrors that sleep beneath the waves. When Francis Wayland Thurston untangles the bizarre papers left behind by his late grand-uncle, he stumbles upon a terrifying puzzle. A series of horrific nightmares gripping artists worldwide, a grotesque bas-relief of a tentacled monstrosity, and a blood-soaked cult ritual in the swamps of Louisiana all point toward a single, catastrophic truth: something older than time is beginning to wake. As Thurston pieces together the fragments of evidence, his investigation leads him from the dark archives of academia to a shifting, non-Euclidean island that has risen from the depths of the Pacific Ocean. There lies R'lyeh, the colossal stone city where the dead Cthulhu waits, dreaming and broadcasting his madness into the minds of susceptible mortals. But the closer Thurston gets to uncovering the ultimate cosmic secret, the faster he realizes that the truth does not bring enlightenment—it brings absolute, shattering madness.