H.P. Lovecraft 4: The Tomb
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Tomb Do ghosts exist? Or are what we perceive to be spirits manifestations of our personal lurking insanity¸ waiting to swallow us whole into madness? Since childhood Jervas Dudley has visited a secluded and locked tomb on his family's Rhode Island estate. Dudley believes he can commune with the ancestral ghosts who inhabit the tomb¸ many of whom mysteriously perished during a wicked party over 200 years ago when a fire consumed the Dudley's first estate. Is Dudley mad? If he is¸ then how does Dudley know where to find lost ancestral artifacts buried in the remnants of his family's original estate? Overview Along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King¸ Howard Phillips Lovecraft is considered one of America's most innovative and popular American horror writers. The master of the weird tale during the first decades of the 20th Century until his premature death in 1937¸ Lovecraft's distinctive style and canon of work has influenced as many authors as the stories of Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett. Lovecraft's earliest published work¸ Herbert West: Re-Animator ¸ was turned into the 1985 cult classic film¸ Reanimator.