The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
by H. P. Lovecraft
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1943, written 1927) is Lovecraft's only novel-length work. A young antiquarian in Providence becomes obsessed with his ancestor Joseph Curwen, an 18th-century wizard who conducted unspeakable experiments in raising the dead. As Ward's research deepens, his personality begins to change in disturbing ways. "The essential salts of animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious man may have the whole ark of Noah in his own study."
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