The Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips) 1890-1937 creator Brosnatch, Andrew 1896-1965 text utu 2022 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Festival" by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in October 1923. An unnamed narrator travels to the ancient Massachusetts town of Kingsport to honor a family tradition—attending a forbidden festival held once every century. He finds a decrepit town frozen in time, where silent, masked figures lead him through colonial streets to a church hiding dark secrets. Beneath the crypt lies a nightmare realm where ancestral horrors gather for rituals older than mankind itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Festival_(short_story) Release date is 2022-07-18 Roger Frank Originally published: United States: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1924 Short stories Horror tales New England -- Fiction PS United States: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1924 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV05N01192501 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68553 https://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV05N01192501 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68553 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134601.0 68553