The Descendant

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 10, 2014
• ISBN: 9781609773021

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 Descendant

[aneris-3 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3.5

There is an old man living at Gray’s Inn for the past ten years. He doesn't allow anyone to get near him and he starts screaming when the church bells ring.
Nobody knows what happened to him. Nobody knows how he ended up like that. Only one person, Williams, a 'dreamer' like him, got close enough to find out his story.
That would have never happened happen if Williams' thirst for forbidden knowledge hadn't taken him to a place where he found something he searched for a long time. 'Necronomicon', an ancient grimoire dreaded by everyone who know about it, turned out to be the thing which brought Lord Northam and Williams together.

The rest of the story of Lord Northam's ancestors, wandering through deserts (even searching for a Nameless City), the search for an escape from 'the close vistas of science and the dully unvarying laws of Nature' is the old man's to tell.