The Dreams in the Witch House

Details

Instance of

literary work

Inception

1932

Publication date

July 1933

Part of the series

Dream Cycle

Author

H. P. Lovecraft

Genre

horror fiction, science fiction, weird fiction

characters

Nyarlathotep

copyright status

public domain

country of origin

United States

first line

Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know.

form of creative work

short story

language of work or name

English

last line

The workmen crossed themselves in fright when they came upon this blasphemy, but later burned candles of gratitude in St. Stanislaus' Church because of the shrill, ghostly tittering they felt they would never hear again.

published in

Weird Tales, The Sleeping and the Dead, Horror Omnibus, Great Untold Stories of Fantasy and Horror, To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...Nightmare

title

The Dreams in the Witch House