The Picture in the House cover art

The Picture in the House

Preview
Prime Member Exclusive

3 Months Free

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.
Get this deal
Offer ends on 15 July 2026 at 11:59 BST.
More purchase options

The Picture in the House

By: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Howard King
Get this deal

£5.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £4.04

Buy Now for £4.04

"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July 1919 issue of The National Amateur - which was published in the summer of 1921.

Plot: While riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man," speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect...thought long extinct." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and furniture predating the American Revolution...

©2020 Digital Literature International (P)2020 Digital Literature International
Horror Scary
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet