H. P. Lovecraft 2 hr 27 min read

When young antiquarian Charles Dexter Ward vanishes from a madhouse, a probe into his obsession with a sinister colonial ancestor uncovers necromancy and old horrors in Providence.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 novel, published 1941, is his longest and finest work of weird fiction. Dread-soaked, superbly plotted, unforgettable. Read it for a masterpiece of cosmic and gothic horror, a chilling tale of blasphemous resurrection, the Necronomicon, and an old New England evil, widely considered Lovecraft's crowning achievement in the novel form.

In its time

Published in 1941, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

2 hr 27 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).

Illustrated by

Harry Ferman