Cool air by H. P. Lovecraft
"Cool Air" by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in March 1926. A narrator recounts why cool air has become detestable to him, beginning with his arrival in a New York City brownstone in 1923. After suffering a heart attack, he meets his upstairs neighbor, Dr. Muñoz, a brilliant but reclusive physician obsessed with defying death. The doctor's apartment is kept freezing cold through an elaborate refrigeration system. As their
friendship deepens, the narrator witnesses increasingly strange behavior—until the night the cooling system fails catastrophically. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 |
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| Illustrator | Ferman, Harry, 1906-1973 |
| Title | Cool air |
| Original Publication | New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1939. |
| Series Title | Produced from Weird Tales September 1939. |
| Note | Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Air |
| Credits | Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 61.1 (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 | New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction |
| Subject | Horror tales |
| Subject | Physicians -- Fiction |
| Subject | Male friendship -- Fiction |
| Subject | Boardinghouses -- Fiction |
| Subject | Sick -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 73177 |
| Release Date | Mar 16, 2024 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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