Lovecraft’s classic short story “The Call of Cthulhu” reimagined as a children’s book. Seuss book” repackaged with Mythos themes-this is H. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers is NOT a derivative “Dr. Regarding the headline “Call of Cthulhu is Now a Dr Suess book”. Chaosium Vice-President Michael O’Brien said: He points out they were born a mere 14 years apart, and both were influenced by 20th century art movements such as post-impressionism and surrealism, though they worked to different ends.Ĭlick here to pick up a copy of The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers today!Ĭhaosium, the publishers of The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers would also like to point out that their work uses no characters, settings, or plots from any Dr. Random bits of paper and post-it notes with fragments of a line, or a few scribbled words are still turning up every now and then in drawers all over the house.”įor Ivankovic, the pairing of Lovecraft and Seuss is more than “simple synchronicity.” Rather, Ivankovic suggests Lovecraft and Seuss walked similar paths, though they reached different destinations. In an interview with Geek & Sundry, genius poet-artist RJ Ivankovic said getting the poetry right was an endless task “For weeks (months? years?) I spent just about every waking moment running variations of anapaestic tetrameter through my head trying to get the story to fit: driving to and from work, in the shower, watching television, lying in bed, whenever, wherever. This work is what Seuss would have written, executed with effort and precision, if he had wanted to translate HP Lovecraft into his own body of work. The author pairs the opening of Lovecraft’s Call of Cthulhu, which may be the most famous sentence he ever wrote (“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”) and seamlessly and gracefully translates it into anapaestic tetrameter.
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