Incipit

The Dreams in the Witch House By H. P. LOVECRAFT A story of mathematics, witchcraft and Walpurgis Night, in which the horror creeps and grows—a new tale by the author of “The Rats in the Walls” WHETHER the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerab …

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Ce que ce texte contient

PersonnagesWalter Gilman (84), Keziah Mason (16), Abdul Alhazred (1)

DivinitésAzathoth (6), Nyarlathotep (2), Shub-Niggurath (1)

CréaturesBrown Jenkin (19)

LieuxArkham (10), Université Miskatonic (7), Innsmouth (1), Le Miskatonic (1), Salem (1)

ObjetsLe Necronomicon (6), Le Livre d’Eibon (1), Unaussprechlichen Kulten (1)

ThématiquesL’architecture non euclidienne

ÉpoquesLa Nouvelle-Angleterre coloniale