The Evil Clergyman #929105

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.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft's The Evil Clergymen, published posthumously in 1939, can be considered a genuine fragment of terror rather than a complete story. It's important to note that this work wasn't intended by Lovecraft as a finished story. It's actually the transcription of a vivid dream he had in 1933, written in a letter to a friend. Despite its brevity, it captures the essence of Lovecraft's psychological terror and forbidden lore.
The narrative begins as our unnamed narrator is led into the dusty, antique attic of an ancient house by a nervous companion. The attic is the former dwelling of an Anglican priest—the titular “Evil Clergyman”—who met a presumably violent and self-inflicted end there.