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The Festival by H. P. Lovecraft Considered to be one of the first of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos stories, this short story by was written in 1923 and first published in the popular magazine; Weird Tales. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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The narrator remembered an age-old tradition of his forefathers, a once-a-century Yule celebration and had decided to honour that family tradition. What followed was a night of increasingly strange and disturbing scenes.
The narrative is in his usual eerie prose. This one seems to be early Cthulhu, and probably one of his earlier mentions of the Necronomicon. I can't help thinking of the Nameless City, as they share certain similarities, but this one is better and more fleshed out, both in terms of the narrator as well as the imagery it's trying to convey.
The protagonist finds out something about his family he doesn't want to know, by attending an ancient ritual. Or does he?
I'm slightly offended by his choice of Yule as a Cthulhian festival :-D
Also, it didn't quite manage to horrify me, mainly because it felt a bit too silly.
It has potential, though. Someone could make a decent horror movie based on this. I like the ending though. Though Necronomicon as bedside reading in a hospital... er... what kind of hospital is that, say? Lovecraftian? :-D