Couverture de Weird Tales, janvier 1937 — Popular Fiction · Public domain · Commons
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TheThing on the Door-Step By H. P. Lovecraft A powerful tale by one of the supreme masters of weird fiction—a tale in which the horror creeps and grows, to spring at last upon the reader in all its hideous totality It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium. Later some of my readers will weigh each statement, correlate it with the known facts, and ask themselves how I could have believed ot …
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Version transcrite — Weird Tales, janvier 1937 (vol. 29, n° 1). (Le numéro dont Wikisource donne le texte ; ce n’est pas toujours la première parution.)
Ce que ce texte contient
Personnages — Asenath Waite (39), Edward Pickman Derby (39), Ephraim Waite (13), Richard Upton Pickman (2), Abdul Alhazred (1)
Divinités — Shub-Niggurath (2), Azathoth (1)
Créatures — Les Shoggoths (3)
Lieux — Arkham (12), Innsmouth (10), Université Miskatonic (6), Boston (3), Kingsport (1)
Objets — Le Necronomicon (2), Le Livre d’Eibon (1), Unaussprechlichen Kulten (1)
Thématiques — La conscience emprisonnée