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Sweet Ermengarde

Sweet Ermengarde is a melodramatic parody in which romance, threatened foreclosure, kidnapping, hidden wealth and a lost-child revelation repeatedly expose financial calculation beneath sentimental language. Its heroine ultimately chooses the supposed villain, while the expected hero returns with a different bride.

4 min read · 649 words

Willett descends among the concealed laboratories beneath Pawtuxet.
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

A young Providence antiquarian reconstructs the history of an ancestor who learned to interrogate the dead. When Charles Dexter Ward succeeds in reviving Joseph Curwen, historical research becomes a struggle over identity, bodily survival and knowledge that its original possessors never agreed to surrender.

13 min read · 2,599 words

Carter’s feline allies rescue him beside a black galley on the moon.
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Randolph Carter searches the Dreamlands for the gods who can explain a city he has seen only at sunset. His journey crosses trading ports, the moon, subterranean kingdoms and the frozen north, gathering allies whose frightening appearances conceal loyalties more dependable than the assurances of a god.

17 min read · 3,432 words

An imagined chamber of old volumes and forbidden learning, lit in amber.
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The Evil Clergyman

The Evil Clergyman follows a visitor whose experiment with a small object in an attic makes a disturbing clerical episode visible and leaves him with another man’s appearance. The narrator’s mind survives the encounter, making the conclusion a transformation of outward identity rather than a demonstrated replacement of consciousness.

4 min read · 787 words

Remote dream architecture rises above a vast, mist-filled landscape.
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The Very Old Folk

The Very Old Folk recounts a Roman expedition against feared mountain rites near Pompelo. Preserved as an account of a vivid dream, it moves from a debate about provincial government to an encounter that overwhelms military confidence. Its monsters remain unnamed, while its letter frame makes the distinction between imagined antiquity and historical evidence essential.

6 min read · 1,103 words