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Fiction, Short Stories  \nSource: Wikisource  \nAbout Lovecraft:  \nHoward Phillips Lovecraft was an American author of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He is notable for blending elements of science fiction and horror; and for popularizing \"cosmic horror\" : the notion that some concepts, entities or experiences are barely comprehensible to human minds, and those who delve into such risk their sanity. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the horror genre and is noted as creator of the \"Cthulhu Mythos,\" a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a \"pantheon\" of nonhuman creatures, as well as the famed Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works typically had a tone of \"cosmic pessimism,\" regarding mankind as insignificant and powerless in the universe. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life , and his works, particularly early in his career, have been criticized as occasionally ponderous, and for their uneven quality. Nevertheless, Lovecraft’s reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting an influence that is widespread , though often indirect. Source: Wikipedia  \nAlso available on Feedbooks Lovecraft:  \n  The Call of Cthulhu (1926)  \n Atthe Mountains ofMadness (1931)  \n  The Dunwich Horror(1928)  \n  The ShadowOver Innsmouth (1931)  \n  The Colour Out ofSpace (1927)  \n  The Whispererin Darkness (1930)  \n  The Haunter of the Dark (1936)  \n Supernatural Horror in Literature (1938)  \n Dreams in the Witch-House (1932)  \n Dagon (1919)  \nCopyright: This work is available for countries where copyright is  Life+70  .  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use , do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \n1  \nChapter  \nAfter twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of 17-18 July 1935. There is reason to hope that my experience was wholly or partly an hallucination-for which, indeed , abundant causes existed. And yet, its realism was so hideous that I sometimes find hope impossible.  \nIf the thing did happen, then man must be prepared to accept notions of the cosmos, and of his own place in the seething vortex of time , whose merest mention is paralysing. He must, too , be placed on guard against a specific, lurking peril which, though it will never engulf the whole race , may impose monstrous and unguessable horrors upon certain venturesome members of it.  \nIt is for this latter reason that I urge , with all the force of my being , final abandonment of all the attempts at unearthing those fragments of unknown, primordial masonry which my expedition set out to investigate.  \nAssuming that I was sane and awake , my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before. It was, moreover, a frightful confirmation of all I had sought to dismiss as myth and dream. Mercifully there is no proof, for in my fright I lost the awesome object which would- if real and brought out of that noxious abyss-have formed irrefutable evidence.  \nWhen I came upon the horror I was alone-and I have up to now told no one about it. I could not stop the others from digging in its direction, but chance and the shifting sand have so far saved them from finding it. Now I must formulate some definite statement-not only for the sake of my own mental balance , but to warn such others as may read it seriously.  \nThese pages-much in whose earlier parts will be familiar to close readers of the general and scientific press-are written in the cabin of the ship that is bringing me home. Ishall give them to my son, Professor Wi","cbCaie1jiR6OfZlA","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie1jiR6OfZlA","pdf",377770,35,"English","# Chapter 1\n## Nathaniel’s ordeal and the Western Australia incident\n## Warning against the lurking peril and abandonment of investigation\n## The purpose of written testimony","[{\"question\":\"Who narrates the chapter and what is his role in the story?\",\"answer\":\"The chapter is narrated by Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who presents himself as the one with knowledge of the inner facts of his case and the incident he witnessed.\"},{\"question\":\"What does Nathaniel say happened on 17–18 July 1935 in Western Australia?\",\"answer\":\"He claims to have encountered a horror that he cannot fully prove and describes its realism as hideous, while admitting there were abundant causes for possible hallucination.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Nathaniel choose to write these pages instead of speaking to others?\",\"answer\":\"He says he did not enlighten his son orally before sailing because he believes the revelation is better received in written form, and that rereading at leisure would be more convincing than his confused speech.\"}]","The Shadow out of Time - Chapter 1 | PDF",1791313005,54]