Lovecraft Create Suspense In Dagon, And The Call Of Cthulhu

H.P Lovecraft is a well-known American writer that created the very genre that intrigues the human sub-concussion for a chilling thrill of suspense in cosmic horror, that’s intertwine within his two short stories, Dagon, and The Thing on the Doorstep, and his popular novella, The Call of Cthulhu. In these works, Lovecraft demonstrates dreadful foreshadowing, picturesque flashbacks, and the unnerving supernatural element.
First a little background on the author; H.P. Lovecraft was born as Howard Phillips Lovecraft in 1890, raised by his mother and maternal grandfather in Providence, Rhode Island. Being an intelligent child that he was, his grandfather encouraged him to continue reading by gifting him with the child’s version of “The Iliad”
The main introduction of the narrator Francis Wayland Thurston disclosing his discovery of the manuscript that was found among the things that were left in his care following the mysterious death of his great uncle George Gammell Angell a professor at Brown University. The first part of the manuscript is labeled “The Horror in Clay” it revolves around a small stature that was found with the manuscript which the narrator describes it as a monster. The stature was made from the dreams of Henry Anthony Wilcox, who had these dreams periodically, leaving Wilcox in a delusional state, but Angell’s discovers that Wilcox was not the only one that was having these strange dreams. The second part is labeled, “The Tale of the Inspector Legresse”, Apparently, Angell had heard about Cthulhu and seen a similar image earlier. During a meeting of the American Archaeological Society, a New Orleans police inspector by the name of John Raymond Legrasse had asked the group to identify the statuette that was found after a raid of a voodoo meeting. Only one of the members knew what the statuette and the chant. the late William Channing Webb explains to the inspector that the statuette as well as the chant he heard was part of an old occult that worshiped unseen gods known as the old ones, that lead to their follows to do hideous fetishes and death. The narrator wants to reveal this ancient cult to make him famous and believes that his uncle was killed from knowing too much. The third part of the manuscript was labeled, “The Madness from the Sea”, Thurston dives deeper in to the Cthulhu cult then his uncle could have discovered. He finds an article from the Sydney Bulletin, an Australian newspaper, surprised that it survived the cutting bureau, the article starts with Gustaf Johansen a Norwegian sailor saying that a heavily armed yacht attached his ship the Emma, well the Emma sank but her crew climbed aboard the yacht and killed all their