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    "The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue...
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    Lovecraft Country (category Massachusetts in fiction)
    include "The Festival", "The Colour out of Space", "The Strange High House in the Mist", "The Dreams in the Witch House", and "The Thing on the Doorstep"...
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  • Air" "The Shunned House" "The Silver Key" "The Dunwich Horror" "The Whisperer in Darkness" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Dreams in the Witch...
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  • The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and "The Strange High House in the Mist"). Joseph S. Pulver mentions in his Nightmare's Disciple (2006) a set of original...
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    reappears in the story "The Strange High House in the Mist" in a more benevolent role. He further elaborates on the origin of the Strange High House, mentioning...
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    Azathoth (category Literary characters introduced in 1943)
    nowhere stated in Lovecraft's published work, primordial Azathoth here is made ancestor, through his children Nyarlathotep, "The Nameless Mist," and "Darkness...
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  • "Hypnos" (1922) "What the Moon Brings" (1922) "The Outsider" (1926) "The Silver Key" (1926) "The Strange High House in the Mist" (1926) The Dream-Quest of Unknown...
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    Cthulhu (category Literary characters introduced in 1928)
    In addition, Cthulhu is referenced in Derleth's 1945 novel The Lurker at the Threshold published by Arkham House. The novel can also be found in The Watchers...
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    Nodens (an Elder God) is also described in "The Strange High House in the Mist". Fritz Leiber wrote that the gods in Lovecraft's fiction are typically depicted...
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    or proboscises to drain victims' body-fluids, and that they excrete a strange blue pus or ichor. They can materialize through any corner if it is fairly...
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  • "The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July issue of The...
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    the gods. In addition to Dream-Quest, the mysterious mountain is mentioned in several other Lovecraft stories, including "The Strange High House in the...
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  • Stories (ISBN 0-14-118234-2) The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories (ISBN 0-14-218003-3) The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories...
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    newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic flood in Vermont, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy regarding the reality and...
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    Hastur (category Literary characters introduced in 1891)
    needed] In the mythos, Hastur is presented as having "a strange effect on artists and playwrights". Hastur has appeared in other media. In the light novel...
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    Nyarlathotep (category Fiction about the Devil)
    demonstrations of strange and seemingly magical instruments. These followers lose awareness of the world around them, and through the narrator's increasingly...
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    Similarly unexplained exclamations occur in "The Dreams in the Witch House" (1932) and "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933). Lovecraft only provided specific...
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    death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years. They are also puzzled by the strange weeds growing in the yard, as well as an unexplained...
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    help in reading hieroglyphs on it which came through Wilcox's own fantastical dreams: It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities;...
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    inspired by Lovecraft's story "The Outsider". This period saw a few films using lovecraftian horror themes. 2007's The Mist, Frank Darabont's movie adaptation...
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    of the House of Usher", in which Roderick Usher comments that so abnormally sensitive is his hearing that he "can hear the rats in the walls". The Gaelic...
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  • "The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. It was written in January/February...
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    R'lyeh (category Fictional elements introduced in 1928)
    Identity, Perception, and the Fourth Dimension in H. P. Lovecraft's "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Dreams in the Witch House"". Extrapolation. 50 (3):...
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    to take a second sample from the meteorite, the scientists reveal a globule encased in the meteorite emitting a strange color. It was "only by analogy...
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    Shoggoth (category Literary characters introduced in 1930)
    appears in the original Arkham House printing for "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1937 or shuggoth), though the definitive manuscripts show that the proper...
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    From Beyond (short story) (category Rhode Island in fiction)
    of strange and horrific creatures that defy description. Tillinghast reveals that he has used his machine to transport his house servants into the overlapping...
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    Bloch, Robert (1978). Strange Eons. Whispers Press. ISBN 0918372291. Burleson, Donald R. (1979). "The Lovecraft Mythos". In Magill, Frank N. (ed.)....
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    strange god known as Bokrug, the Great Water Lizard, although it was more their physical form that caused the people of Sarnath to despise them. The citizens...
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  • (ed.). The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. ISBN 0-87054-040-8. Robin D. Laws (2010). "Devourers In The Mist". Stunning...
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    such as a god, in the universe, and that humans are particularly insignificant in the larger scheme of intergalactic existence." The most prominent theme...
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