The Hound: H.P. Lovecraft a la Carte No. 5

by H. P. Lovecraft

Overview

This particularly chilling short story was inspired by a trip that Lovecraft made with Rheinhart Kleiner to the 18th-century Dutch Reformed Church on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn — and to its adjascent graveyard, full of grave markers dating from the mid-1700s. While there, Lovecraft pocketed a piece of one of the grave markers; and it set him to thinking about the possibilities of a story plot in which a vengeful tomb-denizen, resenting a similar act of souvenir-taking, claws its way out of the grave to track down the desecrator.

That story idea led him directly to “The Hound.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635910728
Publisher:	Pulp-Lit Productions
Publication date:	09/05/2019
Series:	H.P. Lovecraft a la Carte , #5
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	20
File size:	239 KB

About the Author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), commonly known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author known for his works of horror fiction (many of which have been adapted into movies). Having died in obscure poverty, he achieved posthumous fame for his books and stories. Today, he is best known for his take on The Call of Cthulhu. Because of his influence on contemporary writers and the development of his unique style known as "Lovecraftian," he is often compared to Edgar Allan Poe.