# Dr. Seuss' The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 31, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345 "2011-10-31T02:44:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/1 "2011-10-31T02:44:25Z")
This is absolutely priceless Cover:[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ba34e) Artist’s site with all his pages: > **[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau)** > > Check out DrFaustusAU's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired. > [@](#): > > In the Month of March '25 it occurred > > (amongst other ills that you might have heard), > > Wilcox asked Professor Angell to explain > > the visions of R’lyeh assaulting his brain. ---
**Author:** ![Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/2 "2011-10-31T06:35:25Z")
This is priceless. I will get the book if it ever comes out. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/3 "2011-10-31T11:32:50Z")
Haven’t read it yet, but I love the cover and artwork. For easy browsing, here are all the pages in seperate links: [Cover](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Cover-260811086?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=17) [Page 1](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-01-261488736?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=16) [Page 2-3](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-02-03-261489141?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=15) [Page 4-5](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-04-05-261695102?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=14) [Page 6-7](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-06-07-261695674?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=13) [Page 8-9](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-08-09-262162808?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=12) [Page 10-11](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-10-11-262376769?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=11) [Page 12-13](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-12-13-262864888?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=10) [Page 14-15](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-14-15-263513576?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=9) [Page 16-17](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-16-17-263890443?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=4) [Page 18-19](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-18-19-264208369?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=3) [Page 20-21](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-20-21-264885298?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=2) [Page 22-23](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-22-23-265714033?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=1) [Page 24-25](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-24-25-266084884?q=gallery%3Adrfaustusau%2F30462549&qo=0) ---
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/4 "2011-10-31T13:57:51Z")
Yes, I have seen these, and favorited them from my own Deviant Art account ( [gytalf2000.deviantart.com](http://gytalf2000.deviantart.com) ). Wonderful story, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/5 "2011-10-31T15:26:20Z")
Awesome! I too want to buy the hardcover copy if it’s ever published! ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/6 "2011-10-31T15:35:01Z")
Thanks for reminding me to check it for updates. I’ve had it bookmarked for a while, waiting for him to do more pages. It’s beautifully done. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/7 "2011-10-31T15:41:42Z")
This is just brilliant. And extraordinarily well done, too; I really liked: _“None of the members who were there assembled Could think of a thing that the thing there resembled”_ Flows just perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2011, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/8 "2011-10-31T20:54:38Z")
Loved it, hope this comic doesn’t suffer from the curse and actually gets finished. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/9 "2011-11-01T02:17:19Z")
The art is decent and, at a blush, looks like Seuss (but the human characters are decidedly non-Seussian). But the rhymes just don’t flow and that killed it for me. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/10 "2011-11-01T17:57:07Z")
I’m going to try giving this a deserved bump, as it would be wholly inappropriate for Cthulhu to sink without a trace. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/11 "2011-11-02T12:39:57Z")
But… isn’t Cthulhu doomed to remain sunken without a trace until the stars are right? ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/12 "2011-11-02T13:08:11Z")
Whoosh. On a related note, [Tales of the Plush Cthulhu](http://www.logicalcreativity.com/jon/plush/01.html). > [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > But the rhymes just don’t flow and that killed it for me. I thought some lines were inspired, especially the one **Half Man Half Wit** quoted, but other didn’t quite scan. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/13 "2011-11-02T23:32:44Z")
> [@tanstaafl](#): > > But… isn’t Cthulhu doomed to remain sunken without a trace until the stars are right? That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/14 "2011-11-02T23:47:26Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > The art is decent and, at a blush, looks like Seuss (but the human characters are decidedly non-Seussian). But the rhymes just don’t flow and that killed it for me. There once was a poet named Seuss Whose word choice was often abstruse. This Faustus homage, While cool, quel dommage, Shows his adherence to proper scansion is a little bit loose. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/15 "2011-11-02T23:49:44Z")
[Pages 26-27](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/art/The-Call-of-Cthulhu-Page-26-27-266550141) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/16 "2012-02-09T02:13:04Z")
This isn’t exactly a zombie thread, but that would be appropriate. More pages from Dr. Seuss’ _Call of Cthulhu_ are up. 28-29 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d4mf91l](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d4mf91l) 30-31 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4mn1uf](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4mn1uf) 32-33 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n0dhp](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n0dhp) 34-35 (Now with Tufflua Trees!) [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n4ii5](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n4ii5) 36-37 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n8y21](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n8y21) 38-39 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n8yr0](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n8yr0) 40-41 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n91sd](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4n91sd) 42-43 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ngzvr](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ngzvr) 44-45 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nh0an](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nh0an) 46-47 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nk32c](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nk32c) 48-49 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nlr0n](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nlr0n) 50-51 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nrhy2](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nrhy2) 52-53 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nwhqz](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4nwhqz) 54-55 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o3xy1](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o3xy1) 56-57 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o5p0n](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o5p0n) 58-59 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o5ppf](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o5ppf) 60-61 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o7czw](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4o7czw) 62-63 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ojray](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ojray) 64-65 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4oniet](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4oniet) 66-67 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4oniym](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4oniym) 68-69 [http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4oprgt](http://drfaustusau.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4oprgt) Almost finished! ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2012, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/17 "2012-02-09T14:29:02Z")
The newer ones are even better! The author definitely hit a stride with his rhyming. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/18 "2012-02-14T13:58:42Z")
He’s fiished it up: pp. 70-71 > **[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau)** > > Check out DrFaustusAU's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired. pp. 72-73 > **[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau)** > > Check out DrFaustusAU's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired. pp. 74-75 > **[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau)** > > Check out DrFaustusAU's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired. …and started a new one, H.P. Lovecraft’s **The Tomb** Cover: > **[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau)** > > Check out DrFaustusAU's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired. pp. 00-01 > **[DrFaustusAU - Traditional Artist | DeviantArt](https://www.deviantart.com/drfaustusau)** > > Check out DrFaustusAU's art on DeviantArt. Browse the user profile and get inspired. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dr-seuss-the-call-of-cthulhu-for-beginning-readers/601345/19 "2012-02-14T21:32:51Z")
Things that go **BUMP** in the night