The call of Cthulhu

How it begins

[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Weird Tales, February 1928. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] "Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival ... a survival of a hugely remote period when ... consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity ...