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“I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?”

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“I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?”

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Published on December 24, 2011

I, Cthulhu, or, What's A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W) by Neil Gaiman
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I, Cthulhu, or, What's A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W) by Neil Gaiman

Please enjoy what has fast become a quiet Christmas tradition in the Tor.com offices: the reading of Neil Gaiman’s original story: “I, Cthulhu, or, What’s A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9′ S, Longitude 126° 43′ W)?”

Merry Christmas!

I.

Cthulhu, they call me. Great Cthulhu.

Nobody can pronounce it right.

Are you writing this down? Every word? Good. Where shall I start—mm?

Very well, then. The beginning. Write this down, Whateley.

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Neil Gaiman

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Neil Gaiman is the bestselling author of DC's comic series Sandman; two books of short fiction, Smoke and Mirrors and Fragile Things; and several novels, including Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, the Mythopoeic Award-winning Stardust, and the awards-list punctuation minefield that is the Hugo, Nebula, Bram Stoker, SFW, and Locus Award-winning and World Fantasy and Minnesota Book Award-nominated American Gods.

For younger readers, he's written Coraline and the Newbury Award-winning The Graveyard Book, and for parents who like reading to their future readers, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The Wolves in the Walls, and Blueberry Girl.

Born and raised in England, Neil now lives in Minnesota.

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