The Doom That Came to Sarnath #929154

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American writer, poet, literary critic and essayist, recognized as one of the greatest writers of horror literature together with Edgar Allan Poe and considered by many to be one of the precursors of Anglo-American science fiction. His works, a contamination between horror, soft science fiction, dark fantasy and low fantasy, have often been described, even by himself, with the term weird fiction (where weird stands for "strange"), being recognized among the main origins of the modern literary genre of the new weird.
Lovecraft’s short story The Doom That Came to Sarnath, written in 1919 and published in 1920, is unique for its legendary, mythopoeic style, reminiscent of Lord Dunsany, and serves as a powerful allegory for cosmic justice and the folly of human hubris.
The story is set in the antediluvian Land of Mnar, in a time before recorded history. On the shore of a vast, desolate lake stand two very different cities: Ib and Sarnath.
The Doom That Came to Sarnath is thus a stark, mythic warning: a civilization built on arrogance and genocide cannot escape the ancient forces it has wronged.