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62: 266: 40: 234:" which has the property of being able to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space. The trapezohedron rests in a metal box with a hinged lid; the box is incised with designs representing living but distinctly alien creatures. The whole sits atop a column which is also incised with alien designs or characters. Blake's interference inadvertently summons the malign being of the title, and he flees the church. 2184: 529: 791:, the Swedish Lovecraft fan Martin Andersson elaborates that what happened to Blake was that the bat-like avatar was struck by the lightning, and because of the union that had been made with his and the creature's souls, Blake too was electrocuted to his death. The scorched smell felt by spectators immediately after the lightning bolt hit would indicate that this particular avatar of 292:, that the character Robert Blake was an intentionally thinly veiled gesture at killing off one of his friendly correspondents. In 1936, Bloch published a story that continued the professional fun, in which Blake did not actually die, but was possessed by Nyarlathotep, and kills off a character based on Lovecraft. 454:
In "The Haunter of the Dark", Nephren-Ka is said to have "built around it a temple with a windowless crypt, and did that which caused his name to be stricken from all monuments and records". The Shining Trapezohedron then remained in the ruins of the temple until it was re-discovered by Enoch Bowen
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Lovecraft's tale names five stories written by Robert Blake: "The Burrowers Beneath"; "Shaggai"; "The Stairs in the Crypt"; "In the Vale of Pnath" and "The Feaster from the Stars" which as Robert M. Price has pointed out are friendly spoofs of tales written by Robert Bloch (for more info see Price's
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suggests that this interpretation is the key to understanding the ending of "The Haunter of the Dark": "e are to believe that the entity in the church--the Haunter of the Dark, described as an avatar of Nyarlathotep--has possessed Blake's mind but, at the moment of doing so, is struck by lightning
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priests to lead prayers against the demon. Blake, aware of what he has let loose, also prays for the power to remain on. However, an outage occurs and the being flies towards Blake's quarters. He is subsequently found dead, staring out of his window at the church with a look of horror on his face.
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The being can only go abroad in darkness, and is hence constrained to the tower at night by the presence of the lights of the city. However, when the city's electrical power is weakened during a thunderstorm, the local people are terrified by the sounds coming from the church and call on their
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save me-- the three-lobed burning eye..." His death is put down to a lightning strike, and a superstitious local doctor later removes the box containing the Shining Trapezohedron from the church and throws it into the
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Blake enters the church and ascends the tower, where he discovers the skeleton of Edwin M. Lillibridge, a reporter who disappeared in 1893. He also discovers an ancient stone artifact known as the "Shining
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described the "Haunter of the Dark" as "one of his finer tales (and his last)". The horror historian R. S. Hadji included "The Haunter of the Dark" on his
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In "The Haunter of the Dark", he is referred to only as "superstitious Doctor Dexter", who threw the Shining Trapezohedron into "the deepest channel of
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Blake's death is the starting point for another sequel by Bloch, "The Shadow from the Steeple" (1950). Blake's fiction is referred to in
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also used the title "The Burrower Beneath" for a story which became "The Tunneler Below" and finally "The Terror from the Depths" (in
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which he can see from his lodgings on the city's east side. His research reveals that the church has a sinister history involving a
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His last words refer to his perception of the approaching being: "I see it-- coming here-- hell-wind-- titan-blur-- black wings--
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the power to possess Dr. Dexter (who is given the first name of Ambrose). The possessed Dr. Dexter takes a position on a
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The Robert Bloch Award is presented at the annual Necronomicon convention. Its recipient in 2013 was editor and scholar
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utilising all five titles. Shaggai is mentioned in "The Haunter of the Dark" as a planet more distant from Earth than
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In Lovecraft's "The Haunter of the Dark", Enoch Bowen is a renowned occultist and archaeologist who lived in
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Robert Harrison Blake is a fictional horror writer who first appears, unnamed, in Robert Bloch's 1935 story "
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Fritz Leiber "The Cthulhu Mythos: Wondrous and Terrible", in Benjamin Syumskyj and S. T. Joshi, (eds.)
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of the author's known stories (other than a few collaborations written after it) and is part of the
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of Valusia also held possession of the Shining Trapezohedron at one point, connecting it to the
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of Enoch Bowen. Lovecraft modeled Blake on Bloch, but also gave him characteristics that evoke
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The Shining Trapezohedron, along with several other aspects of "The Haunter of the Dark" and
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In "The Shadow From the Steeple", Bloch's sequel, the darkness of the bay's bottom gives
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has also used the title "The Burrower Beneath" for a story set in the Eibonic mythos of
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and is dreaded by the local migrant inhabitants as being haunted by a primordial evil.
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John Coulthart illustrated another version of the story in 1988 that was reprinted in
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Robert Cappelletto (co-producer, writer, director, cinematographer) (2009).
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Robert Cappelletto took elements of the story for his 2009 feature film
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In Blake's final notes, he refers to "Roderick Usher", an allusion to
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which he takes away to decipher and eventually deduces is written in
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Several of the surface details of the plot were taken directly from
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The Shining Trapezohedron is mentioned as having been fashioned on
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Title page spread of "The Haunter of the Dark" as it appeared in
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The "catacombs of Nephren-Ka" are mentioned as the haunt of
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Lovecraft indicated in his letters with then-young writer
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illustrated a ten-page comic-book adaptation in Marvel's
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wrote stories which are pastiches of either Lovecraft or
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things of Antarctica", suggesting a connection with the
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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
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In his summary of the story in the Swedish anthology
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The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions
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Index

Short story
H. P. Lovecraft

Weird Tales
Virgil Finlay
Text available
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Horror
Periodical
horror
short story
H. P. Lovecraft
1935
1936
Weird Tales
last written
Cthulhu Mythos
The Shambler from the Stars
Robert Bloch
The Shadow from the Steeple
Providence
occult
Federal Hill
cult
Church of Starry Wisdom
Trapezohedron
Catholic
Yog-Sothoth
Narragansett Bay

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