The Beast in the Cave
"The Beast in the Cave" | |
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Short story by H. P. Lovecraft | |
Text available at Wikisource | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Horror short story |
Publication | |
Published in | The Vagrant |
Publication date | June 1918 |
"The Beast in the Cave" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The first draft was written in the Spring of 1904, with the final draft finished in April 1905, when Lovecraft was age fourteen.[1] It was first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur journalism publication The Vagrant,[1][2][3] this being the equivalent of a well-edited fanzine today. The tale is to be regarded as an example of Lovecraft's juvenilia, and is classed as such in collections of his works.
In the 1930s Lovecraft sometimes sent a copy of the typescript to his promising young correspondents, as an example of what he had produced at their age, and also as a first exercise in re-writing. In this way, he could best judge how much imagination and promise they really had.
Plot
A man touring the vast
References
- ^ ISBN 0-3133-1578-7.
- ^ Loucks, Donovan K. "The Beast in the Cave". The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
- ^ Lovecraft, H.P. (June 1918). "The Beast in the Cave". The Vagrant (7): 113–120.
External links
- Works related to The Beast in the Cave at Wikisource
- The Beast in the Cave title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Beast In Cave public domain audiobook at LibriVox