Incipit
The Descendant Writing on what my doctor tells me is my deathbed, my most hideous fear is that the man is wrong. I suppose I shall seem to be buried next week, but … In London there is a man who screams when the church bells ring. He lives all alone with his streaked cat in Gray’s Inn, and people call him harmlessly mad. His room is filled with books of the tamest and most puerile kind, and hour after hour he tries to lose himself in their feeble pages. All he seeks from life is not to think. For some reason thought is very horrible to him, and anything which stirs the imagination he fle …
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Personnages — Abdul Alhazred (1)
Lieux — La Cité sans nom (1)
Objets — Le Necronomicon (2), Le Signe des Anciens (1)