The festivalH. P. Lovecraft
The festival
by OpenStories
Original author: H. P. Lovecraft
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"The Festival" by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in October 1923. An unnamed narrator travels to the ancient Massachusetts town of Kingsport to honor a family tradition—attending a forbidden festival held once every century. He finds a decrepit town frozen in time, where silent, masked figures lead him through colonial streets to a church hiding dark secrets. Beneath the crypt lies a nightmare realm where ancestral horrors gather for rituals older than mankind itself.
The festival, by H. P. Lovecraft. Republished by OpenStories from Project Gutenberg eBook #68553.
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