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H.P. Lovecraft

Creation Oneiros Books, 2008

Lovecraft at his best
Charles Dexter Ward is a young man in Providence, RI who is fascinated by antiquities --- too fascinated, perhaps. He becomes obsessed with an ancestor, an alleged warlock named Joseph Curwen who escaped persecution in Salem over 200 years before and fled to Providence. A unusually long-lived ancestor, I might add. If you aren't used to reading Lovecraft, or other writers of the same time ...