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The Book (short story)

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I am at a sort of standstill in writing—disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the
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In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.
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suggests that "The Book" was one of the undestroyed experiments—an attempt to translate Lovecraft's poem sequence
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H. P. Lovecraft and Martin S. Warnes, "The Black Tome of Alsophocus",
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into prose. (The completed fragment corresponds to the first three
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In 2019, the latter Warnes completion was adapted into a
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
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Short story
H. P. Lovecraft
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Fantasy
horror
Literary journal
1938
horror fiction
H. P. Lovecraft
Fungi from Yuggoth
sonnets
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
Nyarlathotep
short film of the same name
H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon
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S. T. Joshi

The Book
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