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"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story.

The Evil Clergyman is a brief but chilling work by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1933 and published posthumously in 1939. Unlike many of Lovecraft's stories that delve into cosmic horror and elaborate mythologies, this tale presents a deeply personal and mysterious vision, drawing readers into an unsettling encounter with the unknown. Originally conceived as a vivid nightmare that Lovecraft recounted in a letter to fellow writer Bernard Austin Dwyer, this story unfolds with an eerie immediacy that reflects its dreamlike origins.

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounder. The story begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator's companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably violent end that befell him.

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounders. The letter, to his friend Bernard Austin Dwyer, recounted a dream that Lovecraft had had. Although Lovecraft frequently based stories on his dreams, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia notes that " is difficult to say how HPL would have developed this conventional supernatural scenario.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who was acclaimed posthumously for his brilliant and influential works of horror fiction. "The Evil Clergyman" is a strange tale of a long-dead, malevolent cleric who still has the power to reach into the present time and cause untold dreadful harm to people of today.

La historia comienza en el ático de una antigua casa. El compañero del narrador se refiere al antiguo dueño de la casa y al presunto final violento que le sucedió. Aconseja al narrador que no se quede en la oscuridad ni toque nada, especialmente el objeto pequeño sobre una mesa, que el compañero parece temer considerablemente. Observa a otros hombres dentro de la habitación, todos vestidos con traje de clérigos, incluyendo un obispo; Se enfrentan al primer hombre, que alcanza el objeto sobre la mesa con una sonrisa irónica.