The Call of Cthulhu

"Francis Wayland Thurston, as he recounts his discovery of various notes and accounts all connecting to a mysterious cult in 1926. The first chapter, "The Horror in Clay," follows Thurston as he looks through the notes of his recently deceased great uncle George Gammell Angell, a professor of languages at Brown University.

 

Among his notes, Thurston also discovers a small sculpture of a strange creature that he describes has having aspects of an octopus, dragon and human. It's here that the perspective and narration switches to that of Professor Angell through his left behind notes.

 

Angell discovered that the sculpture was the work of Henry Anthony Wilcox, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design who based his art off of a strange dream he had of a mysterious monolithic city underneath the ocean. Angell also discovered reports of a spike in madness from all around the world at the same time as Wilcox's dream. Wilcox's sculpture and mention of the name "Cthulhu" in his dreams, a name all too familiar to Angell."