![]() He starts to go on long visits to remote and desolate places, but does not recall what he did there. He becomes a cause célèbre for the psychologists who come to the conclusion that he has a second personality, but that personality is very strange. ![]() ![]() He seems to have to relearn how to speak fluently and to use his arms and legs properly. Brown, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsĪfter suddenly lapsing into a five-year coma, in the middle of giving a lecture, our narrator, Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, regains consciousness with a changed personality. The cover of Astounding Stories, June 1936.Ĭover art by Howard V. In the Lovecraft collection I read it in, however, The Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales, there were no pictures, so I was able to work out the appearance of the creatures myself the author describes them well and it’s good to see an artist taking the time to follow that description. The story was originally published in the comic Astounding Stories in June 1936. ![]() ![]() This is a story/novella about a library, but not like any library I have ever visited. “After 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 July 17-18, 1935.” ![]()
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