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The Festival Kindle Edition

by H. P. Lovecraft (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 out of 5 stars 70 ratings

Christmas with the family takes a dark turn in this chilling short story by the acclaimed author of “The Call of Cthulhu”.

Beckoned by his family, a man travels to a snowy, seaside Massachusetts town to observe an ancient festival. His family has long celebrated it since the days when it was forbidden. But when he arrives, he notices something is off about this community . . . little details that just don’t add up.

What the man witnesses at his family’s house does little to comfort him. Soon he is drawn into a world unlike any he has known, and its sights will haunt him for the rest of his life . . .
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  1. Print length
    102 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Open Road Media
  4. Publication date
    October 4, 2022
  5. File size
    6.8 MB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BBQQQNXW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (October 4, 2022)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2022
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 6.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 102 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 out of 5 stars 70 ratings

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H.P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales, to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small corpus of fiction--three short novels and about sixty short stories--has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction. H. P. Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937.

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  • sulley
    5.0 out of 5 stars I love Lovecraft!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2025
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    Good spooky story. He is able to bring the the craziest horror images to the written world. He was amazing!
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  • dave k
    4.0 out of 5 stars Typically florid and obtuse ...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2025
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    ... as only Lovecraft can be. An atmospheric, gloomy read, short and somehow unsatisfying. The story does flesh out the Necronomicon a bit, so that's something, but honestly there's not a lot here. The Festival is a story so completely Lovecraftian it stands as a paradigm of the man's style. Do I recommend? Yes!
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  • Kate R.
    2.0 out of 5 stars Like the rightfully forgotten PG-13 "horror" films of the 00s...
    Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024
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    So many words for so little story. Subtly racist, properly boring. Every time something good is about to happen, the cop out of "it cannot be described" is used. Two stars because it was free and I would also think poorly of the town and homes on my way in, only to help myself to their creepiest book. It's short, so I wouldn't say it's a waste of time— but there are far better "horror" stories you could be reading.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fantasy horror listening 🎶
    Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2022
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    Another will written fantasy Sci-Fi adventures thriller fantasy short story by H. P. Lovecraft about a man 🚹 returning to a town in the northeast where his family is from. It is not what he expected. I would recommend this novella to anyone looking for a quick fantasy read. Enjoy the adventure of reading 👓 or listening 🎶 as I do because of eye damage and issues 🏡😤👒😕 2022
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  • Raptor
    4.0 out of 5 stars 4✨ - recommend
    Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2023
    4✨ - recommend

    Their forefathers commanded their sons to take part in an ancient festival, connected to the Yuletide, to ensure the "memory of primal secrets are not forgotten". So, this man goes to his ancestorial town, a place that he had never visited, only dreamed of.

    A good H. P. Lovecraft short story, in my opinion. The description was very spot on and I could easily relate to some of the characters eerie and uncomfortable feelings/vibes.

    I would recommend if you are looking for a quick read, that is good - in my opinion.
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  • StrangePegs
    4.0 out of 5 stars the mundane and the fantastic
    Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2015
    So let's play pretend for a moment.

    It's Christmas. Now, I don't know who you are or how you celebrate Christmas or the yule season, but, yet, that's what it is. You're descended from an ancient, reclusive people who live in a small fishing town in the northeast. Not many of them ever leave. Yet, somehow, whether it was your grandfather or your mother or whoever, one of your more immediate ancestors left that village. All you know is that once a century, your people, your family, are commanded to keep the Festival. You are the only one of any of the scattered ones of your people who return to keep the tradition.

    And what you find there in that village of your people, that village that you have never before visited, is far from... normal.

    Would you go back? Knowing that your parents or your grandparents, whoever it was who "escaped," is ignoring the call. All of your immediate family is ignoring the call of upholding the tradition. Would you go back?

    "The Festival," by Lovecraft, is the story of a man who did go back. A man who finds stranger and stranger things the more he allows himself to be pulled along with the happenings of the Festival. A man who, in the end, is left to question... everything. Even his sanity.

    The real power in this one, apart from Lovecraft's imagery, is the blending of the mundane with the fantastic. Everything is just normal enough for the protagonist to think that he's imagining things or that he's the one who's crazy.

    All I know is if I ever get called to some out-of-the-way location for some ancient family tradition that I am going to do some major amounts of research before I go.
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