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Characters

Robert Blake

Robert Harrison Blake is the writer and painter whose curiosity about a deserted Providence church leads to the catastrophe in The Haunter of the Dark. His diary, art and surviving effects become evidence in a dispute over whether he died from an electrical event or through contact with the presence he awakened.

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Literature

The Diary of Alonzo Typer

The Diary of Alonzo Typer records an occult investigator’s confinement in a decaying New York mansion as he approaches a revelation about his own ancestry. Books, portraits, a locked cellar and a neighboring stone circle gradually disclose a task inherited from the van der Heyl family. Written by Lovecraft for William Lumley, the story joins a found-document frame to an investigation whose apparent observer becomes its intended participant.

11 min read · 2,288 words