Talk:The Call of Cthulhu

message: Shouldn't there  be some mention of the problematic content and language? I don't think it is necessarily just a case of Lovecraft simply being a product of his time...
184.56.35.130 (talk) 01:26, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Racism?

message: 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)
replies: text: It has now been released on DVD, and viewed on my computer...  Miraculouschaos 16:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Movie?

message: 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)
thread_title: Removed from article

message: I have started to create a video reading the book and this article.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nd07QaCnEc
Mdupont (talk) 10:13, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reading of the book 

message: The article currently reads "The story is presented as a manuscript 'found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of New York'." The editions on google books that I can see all have "... the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston". Where did New York come from? Echalon (talk) 16:53, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francis Wayland Thurston: from Boston or New York? 

message: In the plot summary is a curious spelling of the word Eskimos/Esquimaux: "a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Esquimaux whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship…" (my italics).
In my printed version of the short story  and in the etext at WikiSourcehttp://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Call_of_Cthulhu the quote is "a singular tribe or cult of degenerate Eskimos whose religion, a curious form of devil-worship…" (again my italics).
Does anybody know which source the Esquimaux-spelling comes from? Has it been changed in later editions of the short story? 
And shouldn't the quote be corrected to a verifyable source?
MBHertz (talk) 10:28, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of Eskimos/Esquimaux in quote 

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message: Self-explanatory, not included in Lovecraftian Horror, HP Lovecraft, nor Call of Cthulhu pages, nor does it have it's own page.  Pretty good game, it's said in this article that video games are an intrinsically difficult medium to portray cosmic horror into, however I think that this game, if played first hand, and concluded to acte of it's endings, conveys the experience rather well... Sceak (talk) 17:39, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Call of Cthulhu Video Game