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Название: Lovecraft Edition

Автор: H. P. Lovecraft

Издательство: Bookwire

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       The Descendant

       The Very Old Folk

       Ibid

       The Whisperer in Darkness

       The Shadow Over Innsmouth

       The Dreams in the Witch House

       The Thing on the Doorstep

       The Book

       The Evil Clergyman

       The Shadow out of Time

       The Haunter of the Dark

      The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

       Table of Contents

       I. A Result and a Prologue

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       II. An Antecedent and a Horror

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       III. A Search and an Evocation

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       IV. A Mutation and a Madness

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       V. A Nightmare and a Cataclysm

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      “The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.”

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      I. A Result and a Prologue

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      From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity to a dark mania involving both a possibility of murderous tendencies and a profound and peculiar change in the apparent contents of his mind. Doctors confess themselves quite baffled by his case, since it presented oddities of a general physiological as well as psychological character.

      In the first place, the patient seemed oddly older than his twenty-six years would warrant. Mental disturbance, it is true, will age one rapidly; but the face of this young man had СКАЧАТЬ