"The Call of Cthulhu" is the most important and best know work of American writer H. P. Lovecraft First published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928, it introduces the idea of alien influences on humanity, which would come to dominate all subsequent works. Thurston finds a mysterious clay bas-relief depicting Cthulhu among the belongings of his great-uncle Professor Angell. The bas-relief was created by sculptor Henry Wilcox in March 1925 while half-asleep. At the time Wilcox w ...