The picture in the house

H. P. Lovecraft

• Fantasy
• Book language: English
• 9 pages

A short horror story about a traveler who takes shelter from a storm in a remote old farmhouse in New England. There he finds an unusual book and an even stranger inhabitant, and the atmosphere of solitude and decay slowly turns into dread. It is worth listening for its characteristic Lovecraftian mood and skillful building of suspense.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.