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    In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
    In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
    In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
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    In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

    By H. P. Lovecraft and George Henry Weiss

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    In the Lovecraftian universe there exists many terrible and horrifying things, from extraterrestrial gods and ancient secrets to zealous cults, supernatural beasts and beyond. Lovecraft's 1939 short story "In the Walls of Eryx" centres around the life and demise of a Venetian prospector who becomes lost in an invisible maze while mining on the planet Venus. Lovecraft's first and only science fiction story, this book is not to be missed by short story lovers and fans of Lovecraft's exceptional fiction. Other notable works by this author include: “At the Mountains of Madness”, “The Rats in the Walls”, and “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. Read & Co. is publishing this classic short story now as part of our “Fantasy and Horror Classics” imprint in a new edition with a dedication by George Henry Weiss.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateMar 31, 2016
    ISBN9781473369177
    In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics): With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss
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    H. P. Lovecraft

    Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).

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      In the Walls of Eryx (Fantasy and Horror Classics) - H. P. Lovecraft

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      IN THE

      WALLS OF ERYX

      Fantasy & Horror Classics

      By

      H. P. LOVECRAFT

      WITH A

      DEDICATION BY

      GEORGE HENRY WEISS

      First published in 1939

      Copyright © 2020 Fantasy and Horror Classics

      This edition is published by Fantasy and Horror Classics,

      an imprint of Read & Co.

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any

      way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

      For more information visit

      www.readandcobooks.co.uk

      To

      Howard Phillips Lovecraft

      Essayist, Poet &

      Master-writer of the Weird

      1890-1937

      He lived—and now is dead beyond all knowing

      Of life and death: the vast and formless scheme

      Behind the face of nature ever showing

      Has swallowed up the dreamer and the dream.

      But brief the hour he had upon the stream

      Of timeless time from past to future flowing

      To lift his sail and catch the luminous gleam

      Of stars that marked his coming and his going

      Before he vanished: yet the brilliant wake

      His passing left is vivid on the tide

      And for the countless centuries will abide:

      The genius that no death can ever take

      Crowns him immortal, though a man has died.

      Francis Flagg

      (George Henry Weiss)

      Contents

      H. P. Lovecraft

      IN THE WALLS OF ERYX

      H. P. Lovecraft

      Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA. Although a sickly boy, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. At just sixteen he was writing a monthly astronomy column for his local newspaper. However, in 1908, Lovecraft suffered a nervous breakdown and failed to get into university, sparking a period of five years in which he all but vanished.

      In 1913, Lovecraft was invited to join the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association)—a development which re-invigorated his writing. In 1917, he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as Dagon and A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson. In 1924, Lovecraft married and moved to New York, but he disliked life there intensely, and struggled to find work. A few years later, penniless and now divorced, he returned to Rhode Island. It was here, during the last decade of his life, that Lovecraft produced the vast majority of his best-known fiction, including The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow over Innsmouth, The Thing on the Doorstep and arguably his most famous story, The Call of Cthulhu. Having suffered from cancer of the small intestine for more than a year, Lovecraft died in March of 1937.

      IN THE WALLS OF ERYX

      Before I try to rest I will set down these notes in preparation for the report I must make. What I have found is so singular, and so contrary to all past experience and expectations, that it deserves a very careful description.

      I reached the main landing on Venus March 18, terrestrial time; VI, 9 of the planet’s calendar. Being put in the main group under Miller, I received my equipment—watch tuned to Venus’s slightly quicker rotation—and went through the usual mask drill. After two days I was pronounced fit for duty.

      Leaving the Crystal Company’s post at Terra Nova around dawn, VI, 12, I followed the southerly route which Anderson had mapped out from the air. The going was bad, for these jungles are always half impassable after a rain. It must be the moisture that

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