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I had never intended to speak or write again of the Shariya House.

Once I had fled Providence on that shocking night of discovery,

there are memories which every man would seek to suppress to

disbelief to wipe out of existence. But I'm forced to set down now the narrative of my brief acquaintance with the house on Benefit Street

and my precipitate flight therefrom lest some innocent person be subjected to

indignity by the police in an effort to explain the horrible discovery the police have made at last.

That same ghastly horror it was my lot to look upon before any other human eye.

And what I saw was surely far more terrible than what remained to be seen after all these years the house having reverted to the city as I had known it would.

That was the first paragraph of The Survivor by August

Leth and it may be difficult for our listeners to tell because of that excellent

reading by John Hancock returning to the show doing a great job. That paragraph was also the first

sentence of the story.

Yes it was.

Gerleth was doing his best to write like H.P. Lovecraft and that means rolling right through the stop signs.

He wasn't just doing his best to write like Lovecraft.

This story is based on a lengthy plot sketch that Lovecraft actually wrote in 1934.

And that's why we're talking about it here

on the HB Lovecraft literary podcast.

We are here at H.Podcraft.com.

My name is Chad Fyfer.

And I'm Chris Laki.

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