In San Francisco before the great fire, the brilliant physician Alfred Clarendon is called in to fight a deadly fever, and his methods soon raise questions no newspaper ever answered. His devoted sister Georgina, his sinister servant Surama and the governor who wants her hand gradually uncover the elder-world horrors behind his science.
A Weird Tales novelette from 1928, extensively rewritten by H. P. Lovecraft and full of his cosmic dread. Download the free EPUB.