1. Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
2. Out of the Aeons
3. The Alchemist
4. The Allowable Rhyme
5. The Diary of Alonzo Typer
6. The Battle That Ended the Century
7. From Beyond
8. Two Black Bottles
9. The Horror in the Burying-Ground
10.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
by H. P. Lovecraft
Written 1920
Published March 1921 in The Wolverine, No. 9, p. 3-11.
I
Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it
peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold
more hideous. Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations,
will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if
separate species we be - for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never
be borne by mortal brains if loosed upon the world. If we knew what we
are, we should do as Sir Arthur Jermyn did; and Arthur Jermyn soaked
himself in oil and set fire to his clothing one night. No one placed the
charred fragments in an urn or set a memorial to him who had been; for
certain papers and a certain boxed object were found which made men wish
to forget. Some who knew him do not admit that he ever existed.
Arthur Jermyn went out on the moor and burned himself after seeing the
boxed object which had come from Africa. It was this object, and not his
peculiar personal appearance, which made him end his life. Many would have
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