The Call Number of Cthulhu

The Call Number of Cthulhu is a Cthulhu Mythos novella by American author Tom Bruno. It was independently published on Amazon's digital Kindle platform in May 2018.
The book is the sixth in Bruno's L is for Librarian series, a thematic collection which features libraries and librarians as their core plot device. The series was brought about by the author's background as a librarian in the real world. The title is a reference to call numbers, a form of "address" in book cataloguing which allows the book to be more easily located.
==Synopsis==
During the 1940s, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Professor Vannevar Bush believes he has discovered a way to automate book cataloguing systems to make them more accessible to readers, but is unable to to persuade any to allow him to test his ideas at their institute. That is, until he gets a message from Harriet Kuhlthau, the progressive young director of Miskatonic University, Arkham.
Bush and Kuhlthau hit it off, and embark on a program of testing different methods of categorisation, beginning with the more mundane books, and eventually working their way through to the restricted collection. Simultaneously, a chance encounter with a Russian professor who has knowledge of a previous attempt to implement a similar system, along with his own researches, lead Bush to the slow realisation that the mere act of categorising such works may initiate a ritual to summon a dark god to our world.
Racing back to Arkham in an effort to prevent Kuhlthau from beginning the completed automation process, Bush finds to his dismay that she has started early, and arrives just in time to witness the enormous form of Great Cthulhu emerging from the depths of the Miskatonic River and consuming the entire city, erasing it not only from the face of the planet, but also from the collective consciousness of the human race.
==Behind the Mythos==
Although never explicitly stated, Harriet Kuhlthau is heavily implied to have been a Cthulhu cultist, whose goal was to summon the Great Old One all along. It is also suggested that she was responsible for her predecessor's death, one Professor Henry Armitage.
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