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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The cat named Niggerman in Lovecraft's original version is usually given different names in later printings.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The cat named Niggerman in Lovecraft's original version is usually sometimes given different names in later printings.
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* InTheBlood: Implied, it seems that the De La Poers have a hereditary predilection towards madness and evil, even the single surviving branch had a few black sheep, despite its progenitor being a significantly nicer person than his ancestors.
* OlderThanTheyThink: In universe, the Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.
* OlderThanTheyThink: In universe, the Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.
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* InTheBlood: Implied, it seems that the De La de la Poers have a hereditary predilection towards madness and evil, even the single surviving branch had a few black sheep, despite its progenitor being a significantly nicer person than his ancestors.
* OlderThanTheyThink: In universe, the Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging fromgothic, roman, druidic Gothic, Roman, Druidic and possibly even native cymric) Cymric) but then they get down into the cavern caverns and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.fraction and never find out how far the caverns descend; the point where "typical creepy castle" turns into "High-Octane Lovecraft" is when Sir William notes as they're descending the stairs that from the marks in the stonework, the passage was chiseled from ''below'' - the passage wasn't cut to permit access to the caverns, whoever or ''what''ever lived in the caverns dug its way '''out.'''
--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's one of the few Lovecraft works that only hints at the supernatural - nothing concrete ever appears despite all the foreshadowing. It's not even stated whether exploring the caverns awakened the evil in the narrator's bloodline or he simply snapped like a twig upon discovering his ancestors were a cannibal cult.
* OlderThanTheyThink: In universe, the Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from
--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's one of the few Lovecraft works that only hints at the supernatural - nothing concrete ever appears despite all the foreshadowing. It's not even stated whether exploring the caverns awakened the evil in the narrator's bloodline or he simply snapped like a twig upon discovering his ancestors were a cannibal cult.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted in the description this story holds hints of supernatural but nothing concrete ever appears despite all the foreshadowing - Sir William notes as they're descending the stairs that the passage was chiseled from below and we never find out how far the cavern descends...
--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
* WouldHurtAChild: Goes for all the evil De La Poers, but one particular family member mentioned in passing was treated as a virtual boogeyman by the children of the town.
* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats aren't actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and monstrous, especially since its all but stated that they had devoured the human "cattle" kept in the underground city after the De La Poers were wiped out.
--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
* WouldHurtAChild: Goes for all the evil De La Poers, but one particular family member mentioned in passing was treated as a virtual boogeyman by the children of the town.
* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats aren't actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and monstrous, especially since its all but stated that they had devoured the human "cattle" kept in the underground city after the De La Poers were wiped out.
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--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats aren't actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and
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A rare Creator/HPLovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies from injuries sustained during [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI the Great War]] a man leaves New England, with his [[CrazyCatLady nine cats]], to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands.lands in England. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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A rare Creator/HPLovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies from injuries sustained during [[WorldWarI [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI the Great War]] a man leaves New England, with his [[CrazyCatLady nine cats]], to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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A rare Creator/HPLovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies from injuries sustained during [[WorldWarI the great war]] Great War]] a man leaves New England, with his [[CrazyCatLady nine cats]], to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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* InTheBlood: Implied, it seems that the De La Poers have a heraditary prediliction towards madness and evil, even the single surviving branch had a few black sheep, despite its progenitor being a signifigantly nicer person than his ancestors.
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* InTheBlood: Implied, it seems that the De La Poers have a heraditary prediliction hereditary predilection towards madness and evil, even the single surviving branch had a few black sheep, despite its progenitor being a signifigantly significantly nicer person than his ancestors.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The narrators ancestor, who killed his entire degenerate family when he discovered the truth of their evil, and fled to America. The people of the surrounding area considered him something of a hero and didnt even try to stop his escape.
** A nobleman who had married into the family ended up killing his wife when he discovered some gruesome secret about her. When he explained his motives to the local priest (we're never told exactly what they were), he immediatly absolved him of his crime and told him he had committed no sin.
** A nobleman who had married into the family ended up killing his wife when he discovered some gruesome secret about her. When he explained his motives to the local priest (we're never told exactly what they were), he immediatly absolved him of his crime and told him he had committed no sin.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The narrators ancestor, who killed his entire degenerate family when he discovered the truth of their evil, and fled to America. The people of the surrounding area considered him something of a hero and didnt didn't even try to stop his escape.
** A nobleman who had married into the family ended up killing his wife when he discovered some gruesome secret about her. When he explained his motives to the local priest (we're never told exactly what they were), heimmediatly immediately absolved him of his crime and told him he had committed no sin.
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* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats arent actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and monstrous, especially since its all but stated that they had devoured the human "cattle" kept in the underground city after the De La Poers were wiped out.
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* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats arent aren't actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and monstrous, especially since its all but stated that they had devoured the human "cattle" kept in the underground city after the De La Poers were wiped out.
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A rare HP Lovecraft Creator/HPLovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies from injuries sustained during [[WorldWarI the great war]] a man leaves New England, with his [[CrazyCatLady nine cats]], to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The In universe, the Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: The cat named Niggerman in Lovecraft's original version is usually given different names in later printings.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: The narrators ancestor, who killed his entire degenerate family when he discovered the truth of their evil, and fled to America. The people of the surrounding area considered him something of a hero and didnt even try to stop his escape.
** A nobleman who had married into the family ended up killing his wife when he discovered some gruesome secret about her. When he explained his motives to the local priest (we're never told exactly what they were), he immediatly absolved him of his crime and told him he had committed no sin.
** A nobleman who had married into the family ended up killing his wife when he discovered some gruesome secret about her. When he explained his motives to the local priest (we're never told exactly what they were), he immediatly absolved him of his crime and told him he had committed no sin.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become.
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* InTheBlood: Implied, it seems that the De La Poers have a heraditary prediliction towards madness and evil, even the single surviving branch had a few black sheep, despite its progenitor being a signifigantly nicer person than his ancestors.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.
* OlderThanTheyThink: The Exham Priory itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become. The exact age of the underground ruins are never totally established, since they only explore a small fraction.
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--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
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--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.mankind.
* WouldHurtAChild: Goes for all the evil De La Poers, but one particular family member mentioned in passing was treated as a virtual boogeyman by the children of the town.
* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats arent actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and monstrous, especially since its all but stated that they had devoured the human "cattle" kept in the underground city after the De La Poers were wiped out.
* WouldHurtAChild: Goes for all the evil De La Poers, but one particular family member mentioned in passing was treated as a virtual boogeyman by the children of the town.
* YouDirtyRat: Played with, the rats arent actually evil themselves, but the heralds of something much darker. They're still treated as dangerous and monstrous, especially since its all but stated that they had devoured the human "cattle" kept in the underground city after the De La Poers were wiped out.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted in the description this story holds hints of supernatural but nothing concrete ever appears. But there are definite hints - Sir William notes as they're descending the stairs that the passage was chiseled from below and we never find out how far the cavern descends...
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted in the description this story holds hints of supernatural but nothing concrete ever appears. But there are definite hints appears despite all the foreshadowing - Sir William notes as they're descending the stairs that the passage was chiseled from below and we never find out how far the cavern descends...
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Technically a family with a dark secret - It is implied that throughout its history any family member let in on the secret that didn't react well or any member who simply didn't 'fit in' was gotten rid of.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Technically a family with a dark secret - It is implied that throughout its history any family member let in on the secret that didn't react well or any member who simply didn't 'fit in' was gotten rid of.of.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted in the description this story holds hints of supernatural but nothing concrete ever appears. But there are definite hints - Sir William notes as they're descending the stairs that the passage was chiseled from below and we never find out how far the cavern descends...
--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: As noted in the description this story holds hints of supernatural but nothing concrete ever appears. But there are definite hints - Sir William notes as they're descending the stairs that the passage was chiseled from below and we never find out how far the cavern descends...
--> We shall never know what sightless Stygian worlds yawn beyond the little distance we went, for it was decided that such secrets are not good for mankind.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The Exham Priory has been
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The Exham Priory has been itself - the visible parts are old enough (ranging from gothic, roman, druidic and possibly even native cymric) but then they get down into the cavern and the further they move the older the remains, both structural and skeletal, become.
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* AuthorAvatar: Like Lovecraft himself our narrator is a cat lover.
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* AuthorAvatar: Like Lovecraft himself our narrator is a cat lover.lover and, after his move to England, a budding historian - albeit mostly just of his own family line.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's more or less left up to the reader whether the narrator was driven mad by what he found or the madness was inherit in his blood and only needed some help to find an outlet.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's more or less left up to the reader whether the narrator was driven mad by what he found or the madness was inherit in his blood and only needed some help a slight push to find an outlet.go spiraling out of control.
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* CannibalLarder: Basically the entire hollowed out limestone cavern found underneath the Exham Priory but also specifically the ancient English building Capt Norrys inspects.
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* CannibalLarder: Basically the entire hollowed out limestone cavern found underneath the Exham Priory but also specifically the ancient English building Capt Norrys inspects.inspects and presumably many more.
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* PeopleFarms: One of the investigators the author brought with him states that, based on the skeletons they find, the poor unfortunates kept down below had been so interbred they had devolved to walking on all fours.
--> The skulls denoted nothing short of utter idiocy, cretinism, or primitive semi-apedom.
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* CannibalLarder: Basically the entire hollowed out limestone cavern found underneath the Exham Priory but also specifically the ancient English building Capt Norrys inspects.
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* ImAHumanitarian: The hideous truth behind all the horrible legends surrounding the Exham Priory and its inhabitants.
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in from injuries sustained during [[WorldWarI the war great war]] a man leaves New England, with his [[CrazyCatLady nine cats]], to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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The complete story can be read online [[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/rw.aspx here]].
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Technically a family with a dark secret - and any family members who don't like what they find are summarily gotten rid of.
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* TownWithADarkSecret: Technically a family with a dark secret - and It is implied that throughout its history any family members member let in on the secret that didn't react well or any member who don't like what they find are summarily simply didn't 'fit in' was gotten rid of.
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in the war a man leaves New England, with his nine cats, to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in the war a man leaves New England, with his [[CrazyCatLady nine cats, cats]], to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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* AuthorAvatar: Like Lovecraft himself our narrator is a cat lover.
--> My household consisted of seven servants and nine cats, of which latter species I am particularly fond.
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* PurpleProse: Not as bad as some of Lovecraft's works but still definitely there.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's more or less left up to the reader whether the narrator was driven mad by what he found or the madness was inherit in his blood and only needed some help to find an outlet.
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's more or less left up to the reader whether the narrator was driven mad by what he found or the madness was inherit in his blood and only needed some help to find an outlet.outlet.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Technically a family with a dark secret - and any family members who don't like what they find are summarily gotten rid of.
* TownWithADarkSecret: Technically a family with a dark secret - and any family members who don't like what they find are summarily gotten rid of.
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!! Tropes in this work include:
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in the war a man leaves New England, with his nine cats, to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in the war a man leaves New England, with his nine cats, to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...there...
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's more or less left up to the reader whether the narrator was driven mad by what he found or the madness was inherit in his blood and only needed some help to find an outlet.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: It's more or less left up to the reader whether the narrator was driven mad by what he found or the madness was inherit in his blood and only needed some help to find an outlet.
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in the war a man leaves New England England, with his nine cats, to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
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A rare HP Lovecraft story that does not contain any overt supernatural elements, other than the mention of ancient worship and the imaginings of an increasingly unreliable narrator. After his son dies in the war a man leaves New England to purchase and restore his ancestors' hereditary lands. Helped by a friend of his son's, who just happens to be the nephew of the man currently in possession of the land, he discovers generations of mistrust and suspicion aided by local traditions of horrible, nasty deeds attributed to the land and his ancestors specifically. Then the cats start acting weird, the narrator starts having troubling dreams and the newly renovated ancestral home may be overrun by an army of nocturnal rats. And things just go downhill from there...
