H. P. Lovecraft’s “Call of Cthulhu” is a story about a monster and the monstrous. The Lovecraft canon is replete with monsters. The “Dream-Quest” tales overflow with fantastical shamblers, and his earliest published stories, like “Herbert West: Reanimator” and “The …

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