The Dreams in the Witch House

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"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by H. P. Lovecraft that blends witchcraft, higher-dimensional mathematics, and cosmic terror through the experiences of a student living in a cursed New England house.

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instanceOf horror fiction
short story
weird fiction
author H. P. Lovecraft
centralTheme cosmic horror
dreams and reality
forbidden knowledge
higher-dimensional mathematics
pacts with supernatural entities
witchcraft
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresCharacter Brown Jenkin
Keziah Mason
The Black Man
Walter Gilman
featuresEntity Nyarlathotep
featuresMotif cursed dwelling
mathematics as gateway to other dimensions
witch’s familiar
fictionalHouse the Witch House in Arkham
firstPublicationType pulp magazine
firstPublicationYear 1933
firstPublishedIn Weird Tales magazine
surface form: Weird Tales
genre cosmic horror
horror
weird fiction
hasAdaptation H. P. Lovecraft’s Dreams in the Witch House (2013 film)
Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch-House
audio drama adaptations
hasTone dark
oppressive
surreal
influenced later cosmic horror works
involves interdimensional travel
non-Euclidean geometry
occult rituals
literaryMovement Cthulhu Mythos
narrativePerspective third-person narration
originalLanguage English
partOf Cthulhu Mythos
protagonist Walter Gilman
publisherOfFirstEdition Weird Tales magazine
surface form: Weird Tales
relatedWorkByAuthor At the Mountains of Madness
The Dunwich Horror
The Shadow over Innsmouth
settingLocation Arkham
settingRegion New England
timePeriodOfSetting early 20th century

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H. P. Lovecraft notableWork The Dreams in the Witch House