Incipit
CHAPTER ONE A RESULT AND A PROLOGUE 1 From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity to a dark mania involving both a possibility of murderous tendencies and a peculiar change in the apparent contents of his mind. Doctors confess themselves quite baffled by his case, since it presented oddities of a general physiological as well as psycholo …
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Personnages — Docteur Marinus Bicknell Willett (168), Joseph Curwen (159), Charles Dexter Ward (53), Crawford Tillinghast (12), Abdul Alhazred (1), Harley Warren (1), Randolph Carter (1)
Divinités — Yog-Sothoth (7)
Créatures — Les Goules (5), Les Grands Anciens (1)
Lieux — Providence (42), Salem (22), Boston (13), Kingsport (1)
Objets — Les sels essentiels (3), Le Necronomicon (2)
Thématiques — Le document comme preuve, Le savoir interdit
Époques — La Nouvelle-Angleterre coloniale