H. P. Lovecraft
What the Moon Brings
Published: 1923
Language: English
Estimated Reading Time: ~30 minutes hours
A moonlit stream leads to a drowned city in What the Moon Brings by H. P. Lovecraft. The nightmare deepens as the tide goes out.
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A garden has no walls in the moonlight. Lotus blossoms take on the faces of the dead and float down a stream that widens into a nameless sea. In What the Moon Brings, the tide draws back on the towers and roofs of a drowned city.
The narrator wants to find out what happened to the dead, right up to the moment the water gets shallow enough to answer. One full-page illustration accompanies the prose poem.