The Call Of Cthulhu & Other Stories HP Lovecraft is a modern master of horror. The Call Of Cthulhu is a masterpiece. Written in 1926 the story is presented as a manuscript "found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston". In the story, Thurston recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died suddenly in "the winter of 1926-27". It's a chilling tale and richly deserves its accolades.