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- A tomb robber steals artifacts from an unmarked tomb in Egypt and sells them to different archeologists in America. This displeases the immortal woman whose tomb has been desecrated, so she follows the artifacts to America, where she busies herself extracting revenge for the theft.
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Plot. "The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a confessed daydreamer. While still a child, he discovers the padlocked entrance to a mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family, whose nearby mansion had burnt down many years previously. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable to.
- H. P. Lovecraft
- 1922
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"The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the entrance to a mausoleum, belonging to the family Hyde, whose nearby family mansion had burnt down many years previously. The entrance to the mausoleum is padlocked and slightly ajar. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable. Dispirited,...
Several comic book versions exist, including The Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft: The Tomb(1992, 1997).A 2007 film was released to DVD with no ties whatsoever to the short story, despite being promoted as HP Lovecraft's The Tomb. The movie's plot was similar to the Sawseries of horror films.The band The Darkest of the Hillside Thicketstake their name from a phrase in this story.The podcast Stuff You Should Knowpresented a reading of "The Tomb" for their Halloween podcast in 2010.S. T. Joshi (ed.) ed. (1986) [1922]. "The Tomb". In S. T. Joshi (ed.) ed., Dagon and Other Macabre Tales (9th corrected printing ed.). Sauk City, WI: Arkham House. Definitive version.
It was in mid-summer, when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the senses are well-nigh intoxicated with the surging seas of moist verdure and the subtly indefinable odours of the soil and the vegetation.
Overview. "The Tomb" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. Plot summary. "The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer.
The Tomb is an English Cosmic Horror, Horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in 1909.
Feb 29, 2016 · Summary: The narrator, Jervas begins by explaining that he knows the reader is not likely to believe him since he has been confined to a room in what appears to be an asylum, but he goes forward with his tale regardless.
A tomb robber steals artifacts from an unmarked tomb in Egypt and sells them to different archeologists in America. This displeases the immortal woman whose tomb has been desecrated, so she follows the artifacts to America, where she busies herself extracting revenge for the theft.
