The Alchemist

By H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
• Release date: Feb 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781609772673

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).

Reviews for The Alchemist

[aneris-3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3.5
A classic horror story with a centuries old curse at its centre. In the course of the story, which is told by a cursed nobleman, we find out how the curse started. The atmosphere of the castle where the narrator lives is perfectly creepy, the walls and furniture are dumb, there are whole levels of the castle that haven't been used in ages.
The only thing that ruins the story are the last words (capital letters and exclamations were not necessary because the story itself carries enough dread to be great).