Let me pray that, if I do not survive this manuscript, my executors may put caution before audacity and see that it meets no other eye.
title
The Call of Cthulhu
epigraph
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival . . . a survival of a hugely remote period when . . . consciousness was manifested, perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide of advancing humanity . . . forms of which poetry and legend alone have caught a flying memory and called them gods, monsters, mythical beings of all sorts and kinds. . . .