Missing More Than Pages

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.

In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.

The Book by H.P. Lovecraft should be approached as a flash fiction piece. The narrator describes losing himself within something he read, soul and all. Even though the book is missing pages, what remains is enough to twist his perception of space and time. This story could very well serve as the precursor to the original Evil Dead movie: a guy saying and doing things he shouldn't have, incomplete as it were.

As always,
AstraDaemon