Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Charles Dexter Ward is the heir of a wealthy family from Providence, Rhode Island, whose family wealth allows him to dedicate himself to scholarly pursuits. As a young man, he starts to research antiquarianism and architecture.During his genealogical research, he comes across the name of Joseph Curwen, a man who lived in the early 18th century and to whom Ward discovers he is related. After delving into Curwen's life and work, Ward realizes that the dead sorcerer is more powerful than he originally thought.Written in 1928 but never published during H. P. Lovecraft's life, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward was first serialized in Weird Tales in 1941, and published later, in an expanded edition, in 1943. This edition is based on the original Weird Tales publication.Perfect for readers who crave spine-chilling cosmic horror and occult mysteries that blur the line between madness and supernatural terror. Lovecraft's masterful tale of ancestral evil and forbidden knowledge will grip you from the first page and haunt your dreams long after the final revelation. A must-read for fans of classic horror fiction and anyone fascinated by the dark secrets that lurk beneath New England's colonial past.The source for this public-domain ebook is Standard Ebooks (standardebooks.org). Ebooks from other sources often have typos, inconsistent spelling, missing accent marks, and missing punctuation. Ebooks from Standard Ebooks are proofread line by line against a scan of the original printed pages, then proofread again from cover to cover. They are also formatted and typeset following a professional-grade style manual, resulting in new editions supporting state-of-the-art ereader technology: automatic hyphenation, popup footnotes, complete and consistent metadata, high-resolution and scalable vector graphics, and ereader-compatible tables of contents. All of this makes the finished ebooks accurate, functional, and beautiful, a pleasure to read. (Waking Lion Press is not affiliated with or endorsed by Standard Ebooks.)