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_aKuttner, Henry, _d1915-1958 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe Salem horror |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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| 490 | 1 | _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937. | |
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-05-17 | ||
| 508 | _aAlex White, Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the online Distributed Proofreaders Canada team at https://www.pgdpcanada.net | ||
| 520 | _aThe Salem horror by Henry Kuttner is a weird-fiction horror short story written in the early 20th century. It centers on the lingering curse of a Salem witch and the awakening of an eldritch force beneath an old house, blending occult lore, haunted history, and cosmic terror. A popular novelist named Carson rents a decrepit Salem house once owned by the witch Abigail Prinn and discovers a hidden “Witch Room” whose mosaic floor acts as a psychic focus. Drawn to work there, he becomes subtly controlled, suffers lost memories and night terrors, and is likely compelled to un-stake Prinn’s grave. An occultist, Michael Leigh, warns that the room bridges thought and matter and that Prinn serves Nyogtha, a shapeless Dweller in Darkness sealed beneath an iron disk in the chamber. One night the withered witch emerges and begins to raise the black, gelatinous horror; Leigh bursts in, wielding a crux ansata, a forbidden incantation, and a rare elixir to drive the entity back and seal the pit. The aftermath leaves Carson alive but changed—his light romances abandoned for grim, rejected tales—and the final image is a withered claw protruding from the sealed disk, a chilling token that the evil is not entirely gone. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cIndianapolis, IN: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1937 |
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| 653 | _aShort stories | ||
| 653 | _aHorror tales | ||
| 653 | _aSalem (Mass.) -- Fiction | ||
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_aBrundage, Margaret, _d1900-1976 |
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_aMooney, Jim _q(James Noel), _d1919-2008 |
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| 830 | 0 | _aProduced from Weird Tales May 1937. | |
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/WeirdTalesV29N05193705/mode/2up | |
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