The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

A brilliant, morally compromised medical student in Arkham whose obsession with reanimating the dead drives him to escalating and horrifying experiments in "Herbert West—Reanimator."

An ancient, monstrous cosmic entity imprisoned beneath the ocean near R'lyeh, whose awakening would bring chaos and madness to humanity.

A New Orleans police inspector who, seventeen years before the story's main events, led a raid on a swamp cult worshipping Cthulhu and testified about it to the American Archaeological Society.

A Princeton anthropology professor whose account of a Cthulhu-worshipping tribe in Greenland corroborates Legrasse's report of the same cult in Louisiana.

The narrator of "The Call of Cthulhu," a Boston antiquarian who assembles his late granduncle's papers and other testimonies into an account of the worldwide Cthulhu cult.