A local friend in the same line of work explains that a family rented out the property once, but they left after only a month, complaining of odd odors and an ever-pervasive dampness which could not be tamed. Charriere, the man who lent the house its name, in 1927. Intrigued for both historical and personal reasons, Atwood makes inquiries and learns the old Charriere house has sat empty, in need of a tenant, for three years now following the death of Dr. Such is the case with The Stranger, where protagonist Alijah Atwood, an antiquarian of ordinary means, makes a visit to Providence, Rhode Island on his way to New Orleans, only to be struck by the sight of a strange old house.
Lovecraftian stories often have a very gothic feel to them, with unknowing individuals coming into possession, via inheritance or coincidence, of books, homes, and/or land which were previously unfamiliar, but now command the attention of the protagonist. The literary style which bears his name uses many easily-identifiable tropes, but the most common among the Lovecraftian genre of horror and suspense revolves around otherwise ordinary men being exposed to extraordinary things man was not meant to know. Reviews for the other stories will appear as I complete them. This review is only for the first story in the collection, "The Survivor". Of the seven stories in the collection, five of them were new to market The Survivor appeared in the July 1954 issue of "Weird Tales" magazine, and The Gable Window saw print in the sci-fi/fantasy pulp mag "Saturn", but under the title of "The Murky Glass". This is the edition I'm currently reading, which is why I used it for the header of this review.
The cover image you see here comes from the 1971 Ballantine paperback reprint. After his death in 1937, August Derleth inherited Lovecraft's literary estate, where he discovered a trove of manuscripts for stories Lovecraft was in the process of writing and revising, and notes of ideas for tales Lovecraft had yet to pen.ĭerleth took it upon himself to complete and/or bring to life these tales, and in 1957 published the collection in hardcover under his Arkham House imprint. The Survivor & Others is a collection, reconstruction, and compilation of seven pieces of short fiction left incomplete by Lovecraft.
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