title: Fungi from Yuggoth and Other Poems
author:  H. P Lovecraft 
description: Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets by cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written between 27 December 1929  4 January 1930; thereafter individual sonnets appeared in Weird Tales and other genre magazines.
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  ## Fungi from Yuggoth
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Lovecraft Mythos )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Howard Philips Lovecraft
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Fungi from Yuggoth
  
  
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  _by Howard Philips Lovecraft_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## I. The Book
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The place was dark and dusty and half-lost
  
  
  In tangles of old alleys near the quays,
  
  
  Reeking of strange things brought in from the seas,
  
  
  And with queer curls of fog that west winds tossed.
  
  
  Small lozenge panes, obscured by smoke and frost,
  
  
  Just shewed the books, in piles like twisted trees,
  
  
  Rotting from floor to roof – congeries
  
  
  Of crumbling elder lore at little cost.
  
  
  I entered, charmed, and from a cobwebbed heap
  
  
  Took up the nearest tome and thumbed it through,
  
  
  Trembling at curious words that seemed to keep
  
  
  Some secret, monstrous if one only knew.
  
  
  Then, looking for some seller old in craft,
  
  
  I could find nothing but a voice that laughed.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## II. Pursuit
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I held the book beneath my coat, at pains
  
  
  To hid