The Call of Cthulhu - Illustrated by François Baranger

Giant illustrated volume of HP Lovecraft in Italian.

Boston, 1926.
Following the mysterious death of his great-uncle, Francis Thurston discovers, within the documents he has inherited, the existence of a sect dedicated to the worship of an unnamed creature that has been dormant for millions of years.
Unspeakable sacrifices practiced in the swamps of Louisiana, mysterious deaths that occurred in different parts of the world, artists driven mad by terrifying nocturnal visions, the resurgence of ancestral cults and, above all, a cyclopean city that emerged from the ocean following a storm...
Thurston begins to understand that his great-uncle's research into the cult of Cthulhu has come too close to the truth, and that there are those in the shadows intent on awakening a pagan deity and unleashing madness and destruction upon the earth.
The stars are aligned. Is the end near?

" With this story, Lovecraft wrote in the 1920s one of the most famous stories of American fantasy literature.
Cthulhu, the Great Old One who sleeps and waits at the bottom of a black ocean abyss, thus becomes the symbol of the entire universe created by the writer from Providence.
Always fascinated by this universe made up of monsters hidden in the darkest recesses and titanic creatures whose mere sight is enough to send you into madness, François Baranger, an illustrator famous throughout the world for his talent as a conceptual artist for cinema and video games, took on the "cyclopean" task of depicting HP Lovecraft's main work. "
- Christophe Gans

" François Baranger's art has an elegant sobriety: they are dark, evocative and spectacular visions of a distorted and monstrous beauty. I have no doubt that Lovecraft would have been delighted by them. "
- John Howe