CoC :o

vrv · Post by **vrv** » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:54 pm

Francis Wayland Thurston

Who is he? I wiki'd and googled it, couldnt find anything on him, it says the Call of Cthulhu was found amongst his scattered papers, after he died.

Sp00ky · Post by **Sp00ky** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 2:55 am

Hmmm. Who knows, some guy who was driven to insanity after obsessing over good old Cthulhu?

miz redavni · Post by **miz redavni** » Fri May 30, 2008 5:55 pm

probably... didnt a bunch of people end up killing themselves due to some of HPL's work?

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:49 am

yah apparently they're a bunch of tool that think Cthulhu is real and that H.P Lovecraft was his herald...pretty stupid.

Sunflyer · Post by **Sunflyer** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 5:14 pm

I found this
http://www.questia.com/library/encyclop ... ayland.jsp

Torikton · Post by **Torikton** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 6:31 pm

?
That's the name of the narrator of CoC.

Eternities End · Post by **Eternities End** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:07 pm

yah why are we looking into this?

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:13 pm

i searched and found no mention of francis or wayland or thurston in "the call of cthulhu" (the story by lovecraft). if you're talking about the computer game or rpg or something, there's no telling who made what up.

Torikton · Post by **Torikton** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:14 am

No, The Call of Cthulhu opens with this sentence (well, not-quite-sentence, that is):

(Found Among the Papers of the Late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston)

So Francis Wayland Thurston is the narrator, and the implication is, of course, that he's been killed by the cultists that killed his uncle and Johansen.

JJ Burke · Post by **JJ Burke** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:40 am

oohhh, that's familiar now that i see it again. i must have searched a bum copy where the editor omitted that line.

i don't know who he is, other than a nephew of the professor who had all the evidence. he doesn't much figure into the story at all, really... i don't remember as he interacted with any of the principal characters/situations.