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| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Walter Gilman |
H.P. Lovecraft
Paperback | Pages: 43 pages Rating: 3.78 | 1986 Users | 188 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Dreams in the Witch House |
| Author | : | H.P. Lovecraft |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 43 pages |
| Published | : | (first published 1933) |
| Categories | : | Horror. Short Stories. Fiction. Lovecraftian. Fantasy. Classics. Science Fiction |
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This Halcyon Classics ebook is H.P. Lovecraft's classic occult tale of horror THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH-HOUSE.The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.
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Wow, what a spooky story! Walter Gilman, a student, lodges together with 3 other persons in a haunted house. It was Keziah Mason's home who vanished from her cell in the shape of a rat before her witch trial in Salem. Gilman is starting to have strange dreams about bizarre towns, the witch and a mysterious rat with human features (Brown Jenkin). He starts to sleep-walk and the situation gets more threatening day by day. When a little boy is kidnapped by a mysterious Black Man and the witch theObjectively considered, this should have been a Lovecraft masterpiece. Unfortunately (as is often true of predictive analysis), the story itself didnt turn out that way.Here are the facts so you can decide for yourself. H.P. wrote Dreams in 1932, a few months after The Shadow over Innsmouth and more than halfway through his final decade of mature work, a period triggered by his failed marriage and fearful sojourn in New York and nourished by a return to his native Providence. Lovecrafts artistic
Not my favorite Lovecraft story, it took a while to 'get going' and I lost concentration a few times because of this. However, Lovecraft revels in the reveal-after-the-fact in his stories, and this one has a few of those in the finale. There were a number of images and events in this story that have been used in modern horror, one of which I was pleasantly surprised to find was leaving flour spread on the floor to see if any footprints appeared overnight. Narrated beautifully by Ian Gordon on
I listened to this on the SFF Audio Podcast http://www.sffaudio.com/?p=48997. The actual book reading was 1hr 42min followed by discussion of the book.I remember seeing the Masters of Horror TV show adaptation which came off pretty creepy. The book itself not so much. I mean the witch coming for the protagonist through his dreams with the little rat creature Brown Jenkins, with the human face and 4 hands, were pretty creepy, and there is a lot of weird and grotesque elements in the book, but a
I'm growing to appreciate HP Lovecraft's shorter works. In The Dreams of the Witch House, Lovecraft evokes both a nameless horror and moves the story at a decent pace. A general sense of foreboding dominates this story and it works here because there is a plot moving the story forward. Unfortunately, while Lovecraft's ideas behind interdimensional horror which he introduces in the story are interesting, he isn't able to successfully pull that part off. His description seems forced and doesn't
We had to read this for class, along with At The Mountains of Madness (also by Lovecraft), and I have to say that I enjoyed this one much more than ATMM.
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