H.P Lovecraft is a well-known American writer that created the very genre that intrigues the human sub-concussion for a chilling thrill of suspense in cosmic horror, that’s intertwine within his two short stories, Dagon, and The Thing on the Doorstep, and his popular novella, The Call of Cthulhu. In these works, Lovecraft demonstrates dreadful foreshadowing, picturesque flashbacks, and the unnerving supernatural element. First a little background on the author; H.P. Lovecraft was born as Howard Phillips Lovecraft in 1890, raised by his mother and maternal grandfather in Providence, Rhode Island. Being an intelligent child that he was, his grandfather encouraged him to continue reading by gifting him with the child’s version of “The Iliad” …show more content…
He recalls the accounts when his cargo ship was captured by a German sea-raiders. He escapes on a lifeboat and is aimlessly drifting the ocean until he awakes upon a mysterious island. After waiting for three days for the beach’s sand to dry out to walk on, he set out to the highest point on the island to find a possible rescue. Walking for two days, he reaches his goal, that turned out to be a mound on the edge of a cliff. Going down the slop, he finds a monolith at the bottom of the chasm near a water channel, with strange hieroglyphs craved upon it. While analyzing the stone, a creature emerged from the chasm’s water. Scare out of his mind, he runs back to the safety of the lifeboat to have a short-term memory loss of a storm. He remembers waking in San Francisco hospital, where he was taking to after being rescued by a U.S. ship. He fears the future of humanity, with no reports of any pacific upheavals, he knows that no one will believe any of his accounts. With drugs in his system to stable his mind, he declared he is ready to do himself in; the narrative is disclosed as a suicide note. The tale ends when the speaker leaps out the window believing that the creature he saw had found …show more content…
The first part of the story is way Daniel Upton, the teller of the story, begins to tell the reader(s) that he has just killed his best friend, Edward Derby, but claims that he wasn’t the killer. Daniel Upton starts describing his now dead friend’s life and career. Part two is about Asenath Waite and the wedding between Derby and her. Part three is about a few years later, the townsfolk start noticing a change in Derby’s behavior. Derby confesses to Upton about the strange stories of his wife and how he believes that his father-in-law, Ephraim Waite, not actually dead. Part four Upton goes to pick up Derby who was found in Maine. On the trip back Derby explains that Asenath is using his body and suggests that it is his father-in-law who’s possessing Asenath; but Derby suddenly mini seizure and a changes personality, that asks Upton to ignore what he said. Part five many months later, Derby shows up at Upton’s door, claiming that he found a way to keep his wife or father-in-law from taking control of his body. Derby continued to reside in Asenath’s old place after his family is done with renovations. Part six, while visiting Upton, Derby starts having an episode again,Upton ends up committing Derby to the Arkham Sanitarium. Upton gets a call saying that Derby has regain sanity, though upon visiting, Upton can see that it’s not the true personality of Edward Derby. Part Seven, at home Upton is greeted by a