Short Fiction

its strangeness fascinates me, and I shall find mixed with my relief a queer regret when it is torn down to make way for a tawdry shop or vulgar apartment building. The barren old trees in the yard have begun to bear small, sweet apples, and last year the birds nested in their gnarled boughs.

Endnotes

1. This is the title used when first published in the The Wolverine, March 1921, but the story was retitled as “The White Ape” when reprinted in Weird Tales, April 1924.

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2. Ghostwritten by Lovecraft for Harry Houdini.

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Short Fiction
was compiled from short stories and novellas written and published between 1905 and 1935 by
H. P. Lovecraft.

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