The festival by H. P. Lovecraft
"The Festival" by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in October 1923. An unnamed narrator travels to the ancient Massachusetts town of Kingsport to honor a family tradition—attending a forbidden festival held once every century. He finds a decrepit town frozen in time, where silent, masked figures lead him through colonial streets to a church hiding dark secrets. Beneath the crypt lies a nightmare realm where ancestral horrors gather for
rituals older than mankind itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 |
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| Illustrator | Brosnatch, Andrew, 1896-1965 |
| Title | The festival |
| Original Publication | United States: Popular Fiction Publishing Company,1924. |
| Series Title | Produced from the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Festival_(short_story) |
| Credits | Roger Frank |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 66.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Short stories |
| Subject | Horror tales |
| Subject | New England -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 68553 |
| Release Date | Jul 18, 2022 |
| Most Recently Updated | Oct 18, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 609 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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