H. P. Lovecraft
In the Vault
Published: 1925
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~30 minutes hours
An undertaker trapped in a burial vault stacks coffins to reach a window. In the Vault by H. P. Lovecraft turns one bad step into graveyard horror.
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George Birch has a hammer, a chisel and a slit above the door that he might just widen enough to crawl through. To reach it, he stacks the coffins he made himself. His way out depends on work that was never his best.
In the Vault gets its tension from the ordinary details of the job: cheap wood, a tight fit and a few inches of brick. The free illustrated edition leaves the question of what happened to Birch where Lovecraft put it: in the gap between his explanation and the marks he carries away.