Exham Priory
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Exham Priory is a fictional, ancient English estate featured as the haunted ancestral mansion in H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story "The Rats in the Walls."
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
country house
ⓘ
fictional building ⓘ fictional location ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Rats in the Walls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithCharacter |
Delapore family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Walter Delapore NERFINISHED ⓘ de la Poer family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
atavism
ⓘ
forbidden archaeology ⓘ subterranean horrors ⓘ |
| associatedWithCreature | rats ⓘ |
| associatedWithMotif |
nocturnal noises
ⓘ
walls infested with rats ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| creator | H. P. Lovecraft NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| describedAs |
ancestral mansion
ⓘ
ancient English estate ⓘ |
| feature |
ancient altars
ⓘ
crypts ⓘ labyrinthine tunnels ⓘ ruined chapel ⓘ subterranean caverns ⓘ underground city ⓘ |
| fictionalStatus | nonexistent in real geography ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Cthulhu Mythos NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Weird Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearanceDate | 1924 ⓘ |
| genre | horror fiction ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | English country estates ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| literaryTradition | Gothic fiction ⓘ |
| locatedInFictional | Exham, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | short story ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
to embody buried historical atrocities
ⓘ
to reveal hereditary guilt ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | primary setting of The Rats in the Walls ⓘ |
| partOf | setting of Lovecraft Country (broad mythos sense) ⓘ |
| theme |
ancestral curse
ⓘ
cannibalism ⓘ degeneration ⓘ haunted house ⓘ |
| timeDepthInStory |
Roman occupation layers
ⓘ
medieval origin ⓘ pre-Roman cult site ⓘ |
| usedAs | ancestral seat of the de la Poer family ⓘ |
| workTitleContext | The Rats in the Walls (1923 writing, 1924 publication) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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