The Call of Cthulhu

The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft (1926)

How To Pronounce Cthulhu - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkGqJqvWOUs
 * Pronounce Cthulhu the high priest to the Great Old Ones

The Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft - http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecallofcthulhu.htm
 * Has the complete short story

Cthulhu R'lyeh - YouTube - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu-akdyxpUc
 * Pronounce h'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

HowStuffWorks "How Cthulhu Works" - http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/literature/cthulhu.htm
 * Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, entombed within the strange stone city of R'lyeh, lies dormant a being of unimaginable power. To even look upon his form may cost you your sanity. He has lain beneath the waters for eons, and will continue to do so until the stars align, whereupon he will awaken and reclaim dominion over the Earth.
 * He's Cthulhu, and he's one nasty customer. H.P. Lovecraft, one of the most celebrated authors in the genre known as weird fiction, created Cthulhu as part of a larger mythology involving extraterrestrial creatures whose very existence is outside the realm of human understanding.

City of R'lyeh location - S 47° 9', W 126° 43' 47"

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Film
The Call of Cthulhu - 2005 (46min)

Rated: NR

The Call of Cthulhu (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu_%28film%29
 * The Call of Cthulhu is a 2005 silent film adaptation of the H. P. Lovecraft short story of the same name, produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman and distributed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society. It is the first film adaptation of the famous Lovecraft story, and uses Mythoscope, a blend of vintage and modern filming techniques intended to produce the look of a 1920s-era film.

The Call of Cthulhu - an HPLHS Motion Picture - http://www.cthulhulives.org/cocmovie/story.html
 * Lovecraft's Story - The Call of Cthulhu is HP Lovecraft's most famous story. It is the only story to feature the celebrated monster Cthulhu and in many ways it encapsulates the ideas that went on to permeated Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. The film follows the story's three-part narrative construction, and it moves from the 1920s to 1908 to the1870s and back, as the story does. The story embodies HPL's nihilistic world view, his cosmic perspective, and his sense that mankind is doomed by its own insignificance. And it's a pretty good globe-trotting adventure story.
 * (Spoiler Warning) In the story, a dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own. As he pieces together the dreadful and disturbing reality of the situation, his own sanity begins to crumble. In the end, he passes the torch to his psychiatrist, who in turn hears Cthulhu's call.
 * The HPLHS Story - We are a couple of guys with backgrounds in theatre and film. We've run the HPLHS for 20 years now and have created several Lovecraftian CDs and films. We decided we wanted to take one of Lovecraft's stories and make it into a movie that was as effective as the story was. The Call of Cthulhu seemed like a great choice: it's a famous story, never before adapted to film. It also presents some daunting challenges to independent filmmakers (ships at sea, giant monsters, islands rising from the ocean, huge cast, etc...). We started filming the project in the summer of 2004 and completed the movie in the fall of 2005.

Netflix : The Call of Cthulhu - https://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Call_of_Cthulhu/70067488?locale=en-US
 * While sorting through a pile of documents he inherited from his great-uncle (a professor at Brown University), a Boston anthropologist learns secrets about the mysterious Cthulhu cult that fascinated the late professor and likely decided his fate. Adapted from one of writer H.P. Lovecraft's most famous stories, this silent picture blends vintage and modern cinematic techniques to reproduce the look of a classic 1920s horror film.

Amazon.com: The Call of Cthulhu: Matt Foyer, John Bolen, David Mersault, Noah Wagner: Movies & TV - http://www.amazon.com/The-Call-of-Cthulhu/dp/B005MLW4JW/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1346600743&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Call+of+Cthulhu
 * Amazon Instant Video

Computer Game
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_of_Cthulhu:_Dark_Corners_of_the_Earth
 * Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a 2005 first-person survival horror video game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks, in conjunction with 2K Games, for the PC and Xbox systems. The Xbox version is officially compatible with the Xbox 360 in certain regions. The PC version was published in 2006.
 * The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of The Call of Cthulhu and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is a re-imagining of Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth, also containing elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game campaign Escape from Innsmouth. Although the story diverges in several places and features a different protagonist, several levels in the game mirror passages from the The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A major sub-plot of the game is also inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time.
 * Althrough mostly well received by critics, the game was a commercial failure. At least two (and possibly three) additional Cthulhu Mythos games were planned by Headfirst Productions, including its direct sequel, Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End. Due to the very long development cycle of Dark Corners of the Earth, which was originally announced to be released in 2001, these titles were being developed alongside it. They got canceled when the company failed to find a new publisher for them in 2006, resulting in the bankruptcy and liquidation of Headfirst

Call of Cthulhu®: Dark Corners of the Earth on Steam - http://store.steampowered.com/app/22340/
 * $9.99

Call of Cthulhu [scene 1] - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vs-7_JlzJg
 * "Mommy's Upstairs"

My First Encounter
Conscientious Objector mod for Doom III - Mod DB - http://www.moddb.com/mods/conscientious-objector
 * "chineseroom Sep 21 2008, 6:08am replied: well... yeah. the electrical field is in there in case it ever expands, although its not really getting the downloads to justify the time on that (got about 3/4 of the complete game re-written for it, but time-poor!).. Part of what we wanted to look at with it is completely shifting normal story (including endings) in the opposite direction. But it's meant to be a nasty surprise... Bethsheda already did ending on suicide with Call of Cthulhu - it was tempting, though..."

Role Playing Game
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