The Call of Cthulhu - H.P. Lovecraft feat. Dr. Seuss (short animation)

[Music] thank you the most merciful thing in the world is I think that the mind is unable to connect and Link all the disparate pieces of things that we know and thus learn of the horrors that lurk down below the professor who died so unfortunately when a rough-looking sailor pushed him carelessly was my great uncle George was spurred in the winter of late 26 this occurred the locals whispered that they did not believe the story that doctors were forced to conceive when they could not explain why the old man had died it was just his old heart the Physicians had cried as George Angel's Soul Heir and his last relative I reviewed all the research for which he had lived it had fallen to me to clear up his Affairs and I there found a thing to which Nothing Compares on a night when nightmares turned to horror and pain in the Restless Slumbers of the weird and in had a sculptor one Wilcox carved visions of grief above mad hieroglyphics all in bass relief it was March 25th when the sculpture was carved and carving it wilcox's sanity halved so the sculptor had visited Angel to find any clues to the visions that crowded his mind although Angel initially had shown some doubt he vinced when he later found out that the words Wilcox heard were Cthulhu blonde and then he knew something big was about to then happen you see Angel had once heard those two words before so he took out a key and he opened the drawer where he kept his most secret of research results in a secret old file marked with cult the professor asked willios to wit down his dreams and for most of that month he had done that it seems but then Wilcox stopped writing what he'd seen and heard he had fallen unconscious on March 23rd after April 2nd No Visions occurred I imagined that wilcox's hoax was exposed and thus it appeared The Strange Case could be closed I believed that my research had met an impasse and then I picked up a file on inspector lagrasse when I read through the pages of file number two I learned more than a little of what Angel knew the most recent events had come really quite late as this tale had begun back in 1908. and academics explorers and other great minds were discussing their archaeological finds when lagrasse had presented a stone statuette then with questions from experts lagrasse was beset just one of the members who were there assembled could think of a thing that the thing there resembled a respected old man who had studied Greenland and had there seen a similar Idol first hand it was in 1860 and out in the snow the young Webb had encountered some fellas Kimo he phonetically copied their guttural cries and lagrasse knew them too to the expert's surprise it was year that he'd first heard the phrase in a dark Southern swamp it was shouted In Praise the inspector Amazed by translating its meaning in his house at relia dead Cthulhu lies dreaming with these simple words he unhid what was hidden and opened the door to a thing long forbidden in the swamps there are squatters way out in the trees and these squatters were gripped by a growing unease there were rumors of men who avoided the light and who entered their homes in the midst of the night the police were informed that these men were around when some women and children could then not be found so 20 men into the dark ventured bravely and not one man laughed not they all ventured Gravely of course even policemen will freeze where they stood when they hear tomtoms beating out deep in the wood the policeman took her to avoid certain Trails as the locals had told them some terrible Tales they were warned of a lake and its polypooh's thing to which cultists at midnight would crazily sing when lagrasse and his men had uncovered the place they discovered the worst of the whole human race the policemen had paused to recover their breath all the kidnapping victims had been put to death when lagrasse got his captives back into the town some had mentioned great old ones that live underground they'd arrived here on Earth when the stars were just right falling out of the sky coming in from the night great Cthulhu had led them from some other place when the Great old ones came from across outer space for a time at some humans they'd psychically screamed up until religion sank now they wait there and dream in the Necronomicon though easy to miss the Mad Arab al-hazrid had referenced this writing that is not dead which can Eternal lie and with strange eons even death May yet die most convicts kept silent Secrets their own for some parts of their faith were for their ears alone so extracting this knowledge was no easy task it was not just as simple as having to ask a mestizo named Castro had told them the most of immortal Chinese and Undead off the coast of the statements from Castro one should be most feared when the stars in the night sky have rightly appeared then the old ones are able to rise once again the cultists alone are the ones who know when the cult's insights are secret so none understand they will kill and spread chaos across distant lands they'll awaken great old ones with terrible prayers who will spill from below while our sanity tear the grass's tail closed not with answers but questions but the silence was someone's suggestion and in secret the men there could then correspond I convinced myself Angels still might have been conned I was studying rocks from all over the world when a sheet of old newsprint from Sydney unfurled on that faded old page a forgotten report told the tale of a schooner whose trip was cut short of 11 crew members 10 failed to return and the loss of the Emma had caused some concern after meeting a yacht which had ordered them back it appears that the Emma fell under attack when the Emma was sunk there was nothing to do but to seize the alert and abandon her crew the part of it all that most piqued my attention and is to this day beyond my comprehension the sailors were lost at exactly the time that young wilcox's nightmares invaded his mind so I sought out Johansson to hear what he'd say through New Zealand Australia and then through Norway but his grief-stricken widow had answered the door poor Johansson had died just a few months before then Johansson's Widow gave me his diary it described in English what he'd seen out at Sea he had thus spared his wife I now wished he'd spared me from the tail of his sighting strange geometry he had written in English to help spare his wife from the terrible knowledge which ruined his life in that book he described the strange place he had seen and I knew it was relia the Sailor had been when the crew went ashore they discovered a stare so they climbed to the top just to see what was there then Johansson described how a door opened wide and they heard something stir in the darkness inside he described how they froze and how nobody spoke so intense was Their Fear when Cthulhu awoke sir [Music] as thulu had paused but they knew not for what so Johansson and Bryden got back to the yacht that the boiler was boiling had pleased them indeed but with limited steam they would sail at half speed when the sailors then learned that Cthulhu could swim poor old Bryden went mad and the future looked Grim there was nothing to do but to steer with the wheel till cthulhu's great head was lined up with the keel when the yacht pierced thulu between his great eyes the alert had survived to Johansson's surprise at the end of the log book I fearfully read that the monster was sighted repairing his head by the time they were rescued poor Bryden had died and Johansson was sitting with eyes open wide they discovered the sender of wilcox's dreams and I'm certain there's more to the cult than it seems but the knowledge is more than just one man can take and in knowing I fear that my mind will soon break now I've told you these things so that you'll understand why I'm sealing them up just as angel had planned foreign [Music]

Channel: Tales matters

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Keywords: The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft, Dr. Seuss, animation, cartoon, parody

Id: PgcEH7Rf8tw

Length: 9min 50sec (590 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 28 2023