The Call of Cthulhuの概要
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- 約50 min40 min fast, 55 min slow
- 所要時間
- 11,500語3 chapters
- ページ数
- 33ページ50 in large print
- ライブラリ内の難易度
- 読み応えがあります long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- 初版刊行年
- 1928by H. P. Lovecraft
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対象読者
Readers who love cosmic mysteries, eerie documents and clues that connect will enjoy this story. It also suits those curious about the roots of modern horror.
本の内容
What would you do if a stack of old papers began to join together into a picture you could not bear to see? That is the trouble of the man who tells The Call of Cthulhu. He opens a dead relative's locked box and finds a small clay carving of a creature with a tentacled head, a scaly body and small wings.
H. P. Lovecraft wrote the story in the 1920s, and it first appeared in Weird Tales in 1928. It is built from a professor's notes, a police inspector's account, a newspaper clipping and a sailor's diary. No single fact seems frightening until they meet.
この要約の内容
- 1A dead professor's box starts a search無料
- 2A young sculptor dreams a drowned city
- 3Dreams and strange news spread across the world
- 4A policeman's idol and a swamp ritual
- 5The cult's creed of sleeping Old Ones
- 6A newspaper scrap sends the narrator to Oslo
- 7Why the horror comes from how the tale is told
重要なポイント 1/7
A dead professor's box starts a search
The story opens with a warning. The narrator says the kindest thing about the human mind is that it cannot connect everything it holds. People live on a calm island of ignorance, surrounded by black seas. He fears the day when scattered facts are joined, because the picture could drive people mad.
He then explains how he joined a few of them. In the winter of 1926 and 1927 his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, dies at ninety-two. Angell was a retired professor of Semitic languages at Brown University. He fell on a steep street near the waterfront after a sailor jostled him, and doctors blamed his heart.
The narrator carries the professor's files to his rooms in Boston. Among them is a locked box. Inside he finds a clay carving that rises from a flat surface, along with notes and press clippings. The carving is plainly modern, yet its rows of marks look like prehistoric writing. Above them is a figure that mixes an octopus, a dragon and a human shape.
The main papers carry the heading Cthulhu Cult. They split into two parts, one about a young dreamer named Wilcox and one about a police inspector named Legrasse. The narrator doubts it all at first. He decides to find the sculptor who seems to have disturbed his uncle's peace.
A small clay carving is enough to start a search that will not let go.
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登場人物の紹介
- The narrator
- Heir to Professor Angell, he pieces together the notes, the clippings and a sailor's diary, and fears what they prove.
- Professor George Gammell Angell
- A retired expert on ancient inscriptions at Brown University, he gathers evidence about the cult until his sudden death.
- Henry Anthony Wilcox
- A young Providence sculptor whose dreams of a drowned city and its strange voice lead him to carve a creature in clay.
- Inspector John Raymond Legrasse
- A New Orleans police officer who raids a swamp ritual and seeks an expert who can name the idol he seized.
- Professor William Channing Webb
- A Princeton anthropologist who remembers a similar idol and chant from an earlier trip to Greenland.
- Castro
- A very old man held among the swamp prisoners, who tells police the cult's legend of the Great Old Ones.
- Gustaf Johansen
- A Norwegian second mate who survives a voyage that ended with a derelict yacht and who writes his story down.
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- 長さ約11,500語
- 読書にかかる時間約50分
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- 言語英語とほか13言語
『The Call of Cthulhu』についての質問
What is The Call of Cthulhu about?
A man inherits his granduncle's papers and follows a trail of dreams, a swamp cult and a sea voyage. Each clue points to an ancient being called Cthulhu, who sleeps in a sunken city and waits for his followers.
What does R’lyeh mean in The Call of Cthulhu?
R’lyeh is the sunken stone city where Cthulhu lies sleeping. The cult's chant says that in his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. Its rising and sinking are tied to earthquakes, storms and the position of the stars.
Who is Cthulhu in the story?
Cthulhu is a being said to have come from the stars before humankind. Statues show him with an octopus head, a scaly body and wings. His cult believes he will rule again when the stars are right.
Is The Call of Cthulhu hard to read?
The story is short and moves through clear stages, with each document leading to the next. Its narrator speaks in a direct voice, and its dates, names and places give you a trail to follow through the mystery.
Is The Call of Cthulhu based on a true story?
No, it is a work of fiction written in the 1920s. Lovecraft borrowed real places such as Providence, New Orleans and the Pacific Ocean, but the cult, its gods and the book called the Necronomicon are invented.
この版を引用します
Lovecraft, H. P. The Call of Cthulhu. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-call-of-cthulhu.
Lovecraft, H. P. (2026). The call of Cthulhu. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-call-of-cthulhu (Original work published 1928)
Lovecraft, H. P. The Call of Cthulhu. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-call-of-cthulhu.
@book{lovecraft2026call,
author = {Lovecraft, H. P.},
title = {The Call of Cthulhu},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/the-call-of-cthulhu},
note = {First published 1928}
}
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