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Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in a quiet town near Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death!

H.P. Lovecraft's classic and chilling novella about a man's quest to rediscover the abilities of his ancestor, a necromancer. In the process, the dead rise and enemies are unleashed.

When Charles Dexter Ward escapes from a mental asylum Wards' family doctor, Marinus Bicknell Willett, endeavours to unearth the reason for the madness and physiological changes that afflicted his patient. Willett learns that Ward had spent the last few years looking for the grave... Read Full Overview

From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward...

A nameless terror surges through centuries to engulf the soul of Charles Dexter Ward, a brilliant New England antiquarian. Ward is driven to unleash these loathsome horrors upon a defenceless world, possessed by the demonic shade of his ancestor Joseph Curwen, a warlock steeped... Read Full Overview

From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow... Read Full Overview

El caso de Charles Dexter Ward es una apasionante novela escrita por H.P. Lovecraft, un maestro del terror y lo sobrenatural. Publicada en 1941, est considerada como una de las obras m s influyentes e inquietantes de Lovecraft. Este relato g tico se adentra en los oscuros... Read Full Overview