The Thing on the Door-Step

by H.P. Lovecraft

In Arkham, a promising marriage curdles into a body-stealing nightmare. H. P. Lovecraft’s The Thing on the Door-Step fuses occult ritual, identity horror, and cosmic dread into a relentless descent toward doom. When shy prodigy Edward Derby weds the enigmatic Asenath Waite, whispers of Innsmouth blood and forbidden rites swell into a chilling struggle for the self—where the mind may be only a husk to be worn.

Perfect for listeners of weird fiction and dark fantasy, this tale probes possession, madness, and the price of power, culminating in a finale that lingers like a curse.

Genres: Horror, Short Stories

34 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2024

About the author

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

— Wikipedia

Reviews

[Tors]

I feel as if this book would very easily be read as a metaphor for domestic violence and how we may see friends being isolated and abused by so called partners and still be too weary of social norms to intervene in any meaningful way. Really this seems a lesson in apathy even if we might have all the best intentions.

[Justin Soares]

Similar concept to The Case of Charles Dexter Ward but more concise.

[Rose Prescott-Voorhees]

i wonder if this gave anyone back in the day a bodyswap fetish

[Sam]

The same beats as the majority of his stories in a very brief package, the outside perspective keeps the mystery going but the detail minimal