The Call of Cthulhu” is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. So states the mighty Wikipedia article. This month of February is 85 years since the publication of The Call of Cthulhu. Bringing the being to full scope upon the minds of readers of Weird Tales. Not that you’d know it from the cover. They apparently thought that a man pointing a revolver at a table was m0re interesting. Though admittedly it was probably the ability to have a woman in distress on the cover that swayed them. She really looks broken up over the moron shooting her dining table. But we here at the Miskatonic University Podcast say Happy Birthday, and Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn to our favorite sleepy giant alien god-monster.]]>