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Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in a house that is rumored to be cursed and haunted by the spirit of a witch, Keziah Mason, who lived there in the 17th century. He experiences nocturnal visions of Mason, her familiar (a rat-like creature called Brown Jenkin), and strange creatures in otherworldly dimensions, and if offered knowledge beyond the reach of human science, but at a terrible cost.
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* {{Cameo}}: Elder Things from ''Literature/AtTheMountainsOfMadness'' make a brief appearance during Gilman's unwilling interdimensional voyages, but don't otherwise influence the story.
* DealWithTheDevil: Nyarlathotep appears to the protagonist, offering him complete control over the ability to travel outside the angled space (effectively being able make a personal wormhole between any two locations) in exchange for signing the book of Azathoth with his blood. The protagonist refuses, but judging from what kind of beings we're dealing with, it's probably better not to know what would've happened had he accepted the deal.
* DealWithTheDevil: Nyarlathotep appears to the protagonist, offering him complete control over the ability to travel outside the angled space (effectively being able make a personal wormhole between any two locations) in exchange for signing the book of Azathoth with his blood. The protagonist refuses, but judging from what kind of beings we're dealing with, it's probably better not to know what would've happened had he accepted the deal.
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* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Gilman manages to stop a servant of an EldritchAbomination, but is unable to save the child from sacrifice. Though he manages to stay sane throughout the ordeal, he is later killed by an Eldritch Abomination drilling itself out of his body as punishment, and his friend, seeing this, ends up in a mental institution.
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* ProtectiveCharm: A cheap metal crucifix was used as a basic charm, and its eventual use only caused a small window of reflexive panic to loosen a tight grip. The crucifix's chain was more potent, in that it was used to physically strangle the witch.
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"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror story by Creator/HPLovecraft, first published in 1933 in ''Magazine/WeirdTales''. It is considered to be part of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in a house that is rumored to be cursed and haunted by the spirit of a witch, Keziah Mason, who lived there in the 17th century. He experiences nocturnal visions of Mason, her familiar (a rat-like creature called Brown Jenkin), and strange creatures in otherworldly dimensions, and if offered knowledge beyond the reach of human science, but at a terrible cost.
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!!This story contains examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: The dimension outside "angled space" (the 3-dimensional universe). It's a black space filled with portals, and living beings passing through it appear as strange shapes.
* AlienGeometries: Understanding these is the key to accessing interdimensional travel. The price paid for such passage, however...
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The witch house is built with AlienGeometries and has a door that somehow leans both to the left and right at the same time.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Gilman manages to stop a servant of an EldritchAbomination, but is unable to save the child from sacrifice. Though he manages to stay sane throughout the ordeal, he is later killed by an Eldritch Abomination drilling itself out of his body as punishment, and his friend, seeing this, ends up in a mental institution.
* DealWithTheDevil: Nyarlathotep appears to the protagonist, offering him complete control over the ability to travel outside the angled space (effectively being able make a personal wormhole between any two locations) in exchange for signing the book of Azathoth with his blood. The protagonist refuses, but judging from what kind of beings we're dealing with, it's probably better not to know what would've happened had he accepted the deal.
* DeathOfAChild: Gilman fails in his attempt to save a kidnapped child from the witch and her familiar.
* DoingInTheWizard: Gilman moves into the titular building because his curiosity is aroused by rumors that it is haunted by the ghost of the witch who once lived there. In a way it is, but it is heavily implied that the "haunting" is not actually supernatural but an extremely sophisticated science based around the manipulation of space and time.
* {{Familiar}}: The witch has a disturbing one, the human-faced, mean-spirited rat Brown Jenkin.
* FormulaicMagic: The protagonist is a mathematician who discovers an equation that would allow him to travel outside angled space (basically, to create wormholes).
* HauntedHeadquarters: The house where the protagonist lives has a reputation as a haunted house but is actually periodically visited by a living, immortal witch who used to live in the house, and still uses its sealed attic for her work.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Walter Gilman and Frank Elwood.
* HumanSacrifice: The witch practices child sacrifice.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: Nyarlathotep is characterized like this. He is a gatekeeper to secrets beyond human ken, and must be appeased with human sacrifices in order to relinquish some of this knowledge.
* LivingPolyhedron: In one of his visions, Gilman has to make a pilgrimage to the Cold Waste beyond the stars to where the Old Ones dwell. On the way he meets many bizarre and eldritch life-forms, polyhedra included.
* MadMathematician: A brilliant young mathematician moves into the witch house precisely ''because'' of hints that its most infamous former inhabitant of over two hundred years ago might have possessed certain mathematical knowledge -- notably about [[AlienGeometries the geometry of space and time]] -- not yet actually (re)discovered by modern science. [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot It does not end well]], partly because it turns out that said witch is actually still alive and still as nasty as ever.
* MagicFromTechnology: Or, rather, Sufficiently Advanced Science. It's shown that the witches in fact use Sufficiently Advanced Mathematics to teleport immense distances and grant themselves near-immortality, but they still do it in the context of a religion, or possibly it just looks like a religion to outsiders -- the pathways beyond the three-dimensional space are guarded by Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, and he expects annual human sacrifices in return for their use (possibly simply as a sign of cutting themselves off from the rest of humanity rather than any practical purpose, though this isn't elaborated).
* TimeTravel: Employed by Keziah Mason.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Keziah Mason had learned how to travel to spaces beyond time, and remained unageing, save for the brief visits she made back to Earth once a year.
* WickedWitch: Keziah Mason is a rather typical example of this trope being old and reclusive, using something like black magic, and making a deal with a Satan-like deity.
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Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in a house that is rumored to be cursed and haunted by the spirit of a witch, Keziah Mason, who lived there in the 17th century. He experiences nocturnal visions of Mason, her familiar (a rat-like creature called Brown Jenkin), and strange creatures in otherworldly dimensions, and if offered knowledge beyond the reach of human science, but at a terrible cost.
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!!This story contains examples of:
* AcidTripDimension: The dimension outside "angled space" (the 3-dimensional universe). It's a black space filled with portals, and living beings passing through it appear as strange shapes.
* AlienGeometries: Understanding these is the key to accessing interdimensional travel. The price paid for such passage, however...
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The witch house is built with AlienGeometries and has a door that somehow leans both to the left and right at the same time.
* BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: Gilman manages to stop a servant of an EldritchAbomination, but is unable to save the child from sacrifice. Though he manages to stay sane throughout the ordeal, he is later killed by an Eldritch Abomination drilling itself out of his body as punishment, and his friend, seeing this, ends up in a mental institution.
* DealWithTheDevil: Nyarlathotep appears to the protagonist, offering him complete control over the ability to travel outside the angled space (effectively being able make a personal wormhole between any two locations) in exchange for signing the book of Azathoth with his blood. The protagonist refuses, but judging from what kind of beings we're dealing with, it's probably better not to know what would've happened had he accepted the deal.
* DeathOfAChild: Gilman fails in his attempt to save a kidnapped child from the witch and her familiar.
* DoingInTheWizard: Gilman moves into the titular building because his curiosity is aroused by rumors that it is haunted by the ghost of the witch who once lived there. In a way it is, but it is heavily implied that the "haunting" is not actually supernatural but an extremely sophisticated science based around the manipulation of space and time.
* {{Familiar}}: The witch has a disturbing one, the human-faced, mean-spirited rat Brown Jenkin.
* FormulaicMagic: The protagonist is a mathematician who discovers an equation that would allow him to travel outside angled space (basically, to create wormholes).
* HauntedHeadquarters: The house where the protagonist lives has a reputation as a haunted house but is actually periodically visited by a living, immortal witch who used to live in the house, and still uses its sealed attic for her work.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Walter Gilman and Frank Elwood.
* HumanSacrifice: The witch practices child sacrifice.
* KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge: Nyarlathotep is characterized like this. He is a gatekeeper to secrets beyond human ken, and must be appeased with human sacrifices in order to relinquish some of this knowledge.
* LivingPolyhedron: In one of his visions, Gilman has to make a pilgrimage to the Cold Waste beyond the stars to where the Old Ones dwell. On the way he meets many bizarre and eldritch life-forms, polyhedra included.
* MadMathematician: A brilliant young mathematician moves into the witch house precisely ''because'' of hints that its most infamous former inhabitant of over two hundred years ago might have possessed certain mathematical knowledge -- notably about [[AlienGeometries the geometry of space and time]] -- not yet actually (re)discovered by modern science. [[CuriosityIsACrapshoot It does not end well]], partly because it turns out that said witch is actually still alive and still as nasty as ever.
* MagicFromTechnology: Or, rather, Sufficiently Advanced Science. It's shown that the witches in fact use Sufficiently Advanced Mathematics to teleport immense distances and grant themselves near-immortality, but they still do it in the context of a religion, or possibly it just looks like a religion to outsiders -- the pathways beyond the three-dimensional space are guarded by Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, and he expects annual human sacrifices in return for their use (possibly simply as a sign of cutting themselves off from the rest of humanity rather than any practical purpose, though this isn't elaborated).
* TimeTravel: Employed by Keziah Mason.
* WeAreAsMayflies: Keziah Mason had learned how to travel to spaces beyond time, and remained unageing, save for the brief visits she made back to Earth once a year.
* WickedWitch: Keziah Mason is a rather typical example of this trope being old and reclusive, using something like black magic, and making a deal with a Satan-like deity.
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