The thing on the door-step by H. P. Lovecraft

"The Thing on the Doorstep" by H. P. Lovecraft is a horror short story written in August 1933 and published in January 1937. Daniel Upton confesses to killing his best friend Edward Derby, insisting he's not a murderer. Derby's marriage to the occult-obsessed Asenath Waite brings disturbing changes—he exhibits abilities he never learned, speaks of sinister body possession, and hints that Asenath's deceased father may still be alive. As Derby's behavior grows increasingly erratic, Upton confronts a terrifying truth about souls, bodies, and something waiting on his doorstep. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Illustrator Finlay, Virgil, 1914-1971
Title The thing on the door-step
Alternate Title The thing on the doorstep
Original Publication Indianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937.
Series Title Produced from Weird Tales January 1937.
Note Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep
Credits Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 67.9 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Horror tales
Subject Paranormal fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 73230
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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