The story consists of two main narratives linked by a third, the voice of "author." Only the author is able to interpret correctly what happened and is aware of the importance of information you have in your power, and is narrating the order in which he was discovering the truth. It begins with the death of an eminent …
H.P. Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow over Innsmouth", both canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Stories included in this volume: Dagon (1919) The Statement of Randolph Carter (1920) Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His …
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short epistolary novel by H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941; the first complete publication was in …