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Books & artifacts

De Marigny’s clock

De Marigny’s clock is a tall, coffin-shaped object in the New Orleans room where Carter’s estate is discussed. Its unfamiliar timekeeping first supplies a background rhythm. By the end of Through the Gates of the Silver Key, it has become the apparent route of an unexplained disappearance.

3 min read · 498 words

Characters

Etienne-Laurent de Marigny

Etienne-Laurent de Marigny is Carter’s friend and literary and financial executor in Through the Gates of the Silver Key. His New Orleans house hosts the dispute over the missing man’s estate. Learned and receptive to the extraordinary, he nevertheless asks how the visitor’s account can be tested.

3 min read · 491 words

Literature

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

Through the Gates of the Silver Key continues Carter’s disappearance into a journey beyond ordinary space, time and individual identity. Written by Lovecraft with E. Hoffmann Price, it frames the account as testimony at a meeting about Carter’s estate. The apparent freedom to inhabit other forms becomes a struggle to recover the human body and legal identity the traveler once took for granted.

9 min read · 1,780 words