Summary
Howard Phillip Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is the only novel by the master of mysticism and horror (with an afterword: supernatural horror in literature by the same writer). It is a novel about a young antiquarian Ward who is attracted - through one of his ancestors, supposedly a sorcerer - to dark forces, evil spirits, as well as forgotten gods from somewhat misunderstood legends. Under the influence of that ancestor of his, Ward also wanted to gain knowledge from the darkest art of magic, but he had to pay for that knowledge with human blood. How? Read it!
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