🎧The ambiance for this reading includes the gentle tick of a clock, the whisper of a pen upon paper, and the steady warmth of a crackling fire.
Tonight we unseal the twenty-third vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Horror in the Museum — a tale of wax and worship, where art and atrocity blur beneath the dim lights of an underground exhibit.
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First published in Weird Tales in July 1933, The Horror in the Museum was ghostwritten by Lovecraft for Hazel Heald, combining her grisly imagination with his cosmic unease. Together, they created one of his most disturbingly tactile stories — a descent into waxen artistry so lifelike it feels alive.
When a curious art enthusiast visits Rogers’ Museum in Southwark Street, he discovers more than mere effigies behind glass — there are shapes that breathe, eyes that glisten too naturally, and whispers of a grotesque god from older worlds.
In the still air of that subterranean gallery, creation itself becomes worship… and the sculptor’s devotion demands sacrifice.
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