The festival

The Festival

By H. P. Lovecraft

Author of “Dagon,” “The Rats in the Walls,” etc.

“Efficiunt daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamen quasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant.”--Lactantius.

I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In the twilight I heard it pounding on the rocks, and I knew it lay just over the hill where the twisting willows...