The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft Table of Contents

Chapter I: A Result and a Prologue→

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft written in early 1927, set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island. It was first published (in abridged form) in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941 under the title The Madness Out of Time; the first complete publication was in Arkham House's Beyond the Wall of Sleep collection (1943). — Excerpted from The Case of Charles Dexter Ward on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved, that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his own Studie, and raise the fine Shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at his Pleasure; and by the lyke Method from the essential Saltes of humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy, call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his Bodie has been incinerated.

- Borellus

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• Chapter I: A Result and a Prologue
• Chapter II: An Antecedent and a Horror
• Chapter III: A Search and an Evocation
• Chapter IV: A Mutation and a Madness
• Chapter V: A Nightmare and a Cataclysm

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