title: The Horror in the Museum: A Novel
author:  H.P. Lovecraft 
description: Almost completely ignored by the mainstream press during his lifetime, <b>H. P. Lovecraft</b>has since come to be recognized as one of the greatest writers of classic horror, on a par with Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft's mentor. H. P. Lovecraft's work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, his tales adapted for film, television, and comic books, and he has been the subject of more scholarly study than any other writer of horror fiction save Poe.
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  H. P. LOVECRAFT
  
  
  COLLECTION
  
  
  
  
  
  THE PICTURE IN THE HOUSE
  
  
  Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs
  of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb
  to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed
  steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia. The haunted
  wood and the desolate mountain are their shrines, and they linger around the
  sinister monoliths on uninhabited islands. But the true epicure in the
  terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and
  justification of existence, esteems most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses
  of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude,
  grotesqueness and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous.
  
  
  
  
  
  Most horrible of all sights are the little unpainted wooden houses remote from
  travelled ways, usually squatted upon some damp grassy slope or leaning
  against some 