H. P. Lovecraft
The Picture in the House
Published: 1919
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~1 hours
A free public-domain edition of H. P. Lovecraft's The Picture in the House, prepared by Unspeakable Tales.
A traveler seeking shelter in rural New England finds an old man, an old book, and a hunger that has lasted far too long.
A traveler seeking shelter in rural New England finds an old man, an old book, and a hunger that has lasted far too long.
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This Unspeakable Tales edition presents The Picture in the House as a free designed eBook for readers of backwoods horror and New England gothic fiction.
The story builds dread through conversation, dialect, isolation, and the increasingly disturbing meaning of a picture in an old volume.
Short and viciously effective, it shows Lovecraft working in a human-scale horror mode where the monster is not cosmic but horribly close.
The story builds dread through conversation, dialect, isolation, and the increasingly disturbing meaning of a picture in an old volume.
Short and viciously effective, it shows Lovecraft working in a human-scale horror mode where the monster is not cosmic but horribly close.