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The picture in the house

H. P. Lovecraft · 1921

A 1921 short horror story by H. P. Lovecraft in which a traveler caught in a rainstorm takes shelter in an old, isolated farmhouse in the Miskatonic Valley and discovers its strange elderly inhabitant and a disturbing antique book.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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