Talk:The Call of Cthulhu
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[edit] Movie?
From the article:
- The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society is producing a film adaptation of the story, to be released in Spring 2005.
Is this correct? On the IMDb I see a video game that is coming out in 2005, but no movie. Should this be changed or is their really a movie coming out on this? — Frecklefoot | Talk 16:36, Jan 24, 2005 (UTC)\
- It is indeed coming out - it's not a studio or big budget production, but a step above amateur. See http://www.cthulhulives.org/CoC/trailer.html -khaosworks 17:02, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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- It has now been released on DVD, and viewed on my computer... Miraculouschaos 16:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lovecraft stories
I've reverted the edit by Niz. The Call of Cthulhu is the only Cthulhu story by Lovecraft himself. If you dispute this, list the other stories based on the Cthulhu Mythos that Lovecraft wrote. Lovecraft wrote many storires, but only one dealing with the Cthulhu mythos. — Frecklefoot | Talk 20:13, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
- huh? what about all those stories mentioning the Old Ones, yog-sothoth, shub-niggurath etc? chtulhu mythos is not just "cthulhu", its the whole pantheon of gods, plus the necronomicon, abdul al-hazred etc.... its all cthulhu. e.g. these stories are all cthulhy mythos
- Dagon
- Nyarlathotep
- The Nameless City
- Herbert West: Reanimator
- Azathoth
- The Hound
- The Lurking Fear
- The Rats in the Walls
- The Unnamable
- The Festival
- The Shunned House
- The Call of Cthulhu
- Pickman’s Model
- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
- The Colour Out of Space
- History of the Necronomicon
- The Curse of Yig
- The Dunwich Horror
- The Mound
- Medusa’s Coil
- The Whisperer in Darkness
- At the Mountains of Madness
- The Shadow Over Innsmouth
- The Dreams in the Witch House
- The Horror in the Museum
- Out of the Aeons
- The Thing on the Doorstep
- The Shadow Out of Time
- The Haunter of the Dark
--Niz
Okay, then, you've justified your edit. Go ahead and restore it if you already haven't. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 04:14, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Removed from article
I removed the following from the article:
This story was instrumental in launching the so-called Cthulhu mythos, stories and novels based on the idea of the other-worldly creatures who wish to reinhabit Earth.
I believe this to be rather dubious and misleading. I doubt one could make the case that the "The Call of Cthulhu" "launched" the Cthulhu mythos. Rather, the story simply influenced August Derleth to give the mythos its name. In fact, Lovecraft was already encouraging other writers to use the mythos in their own stories (and this was before it acquired its controversial moniker), so "The Call of Cthulhu" really is inconsequential to this issue.
-,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 06:36, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
- Clarification. The problem I have with this is the word "launch" — I'm not quite sure what the original contributor intended, or even if the contributor fully understood the subtleties of what they were saying. Since Lovecraft himself believed that all his stories were — according to S. T. Joshi — "linked philosophically" (Joshi, "The Cthulhu Mythos"), I doubt that HPL felt he was "launching" anything new. The "Cthulhu Mythos" itself came only after Lovecraft's death and was first conceived of and advocated by August Derleth — who did, however, cite "The Call of Cthulhu" as the story in which "the myth-pattern first became apparent" (Derleth, "H.P. Lovecraft—Outsider").
,-~R'lyehRising~-, 04:32, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Copyright Status?
I would like to see some verification of the copyright status of this work. Wikisource has the etext online here: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu ... However, I'm not convinced that it is in the Public Domain. Anyone have more info on this? thistlechick 01:23, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
- There's no evidence that either Arkham House or any other Lovecraft heir renewed any copyrights, as was required under the old copyright laws, so if they did own the rights to any Lovecraft stories, they don't now.
- S. T. Joshi's theory, apparently, is that Weird Tales owned the rights to a few Lovecraft stories, and those rights were renewed, so six Lovecraft stories may be still copyrighted.
- Everything published before 1923 is in the public domain in the U.S.
- Here's a fairly useful discussion:[1]
- And this is maybe more useful: [2]
- Nareek 02:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
