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A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a robed, bearded man is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full.

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- Barque; a sailing ship of three or more masts with the aftmost mast fore-and-aft rigged and the others square-rigged.

- Argosies; a large merchant ship, originally one from Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) or Venice.

- Effulgent; shining brightly; radiant.

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At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate (which has been held in trust since his disappearance) the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate fate.

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Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams."

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- Prosiness; commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting.

- Dyspeptic; having indigestion or a consequent air of irritable bad temper.

- Chalcedony; is a cryptocrystalline form of silica, composed of very fine intergrowths of quartz and moganite.

- Malodorously; having a bad smell.

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A Brooklyn police detective learns the dark secrets of the city's most dangerous neighborhood, where mysterious immigrants conspire with a crazed old occultist to satisfy their ancient god in nightmare caverns below the urban squalor.

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- Amalgam; A mixture or blend.

- Physiognomies; a person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin.

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For many years the protagonist and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old, abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years.

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- Inchoate; just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary.

- Febrile; having or showing the symptoms of a fever.

- Extirpation; the act of removing or destroying something completely.

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The story follows Antoine, a count who is last in line to die at the age of 32 due to a curse put on his family hundreds of years prior. His ancestor, being responsible for the death, brought about the curse, and Antoine was left to watch all his family, including his manservant, die an early death.

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- Machicolated; (in medieval fortifications) an opening between the supporting corbels of a projecting parapet or the vault of a gate, through which stones or burning objects could be dropped on attackers.

- Plebeian; a commoner.

- Filial; relating to or due from a son or daughter.

- Seigneur; a feudal lord; the lord of a manor.

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The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of strange horrors who is investigating the massacre of a community of some six dozen backwoods degenerates in an obscure region of the Catskills, a massacre which occurred during a particularly violent electrical storm and seems to have been perpetrated by an unidentified clawed beast. The narrator soon discovers that the most sinister legends of the region center around the abandoned Martense mansion...

Words I had to look up in order to read this book;

- Acetylene; (systematic name: ethyne) is the chemical compound with the formula C 2H 2 and structure H−C≡C−H. It is a hydrocarbon and the simplest alkyne. This colorless gas is widely used as a fuel and a chemical building block. It is unstable in its pure form and thus is usually handled as a solution.

- Fulgurite; are natural tubes or crusts of glass formed by the fusion of silica (quartz) sand or rock from a lightning strike.

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The narrator, an unnamed surveyor from Boston, describes his attempts to uncover the secrets behind a shunned place referred to by the locals of the hills west of Arkham as the "blasted heath".

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- Chiaroscuro; is an Italian term which translates as light-dark, and refers to the balance and pattern of light and shade in a painting or drawing.

- Circuitously; in a way that is not straight or direct.

- Homogeneous; of the same kind; alike.

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The Call of Cthulhu chronicles Francis Wayland Thurston as he goes through notes of his dead uncle and other accounts of a mysterious cult. The cult worships Cthulhu, a monstrous human, octopus, dragon hybrid that lives in the sunken corpse city of R'lyeh, who's dreams influence reality.

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- Theosophists; Theosophy is a religion established in the United States during the late 19th century. It was founded primarily by the Russian Helena Blavatsky and draws its teachings predominantly from Blavatsky's writings. Categorized by scholars of religion as both a new religious movement and as part of the occultist stream of Western esotericism, it draws upon both older European philosophies such as Neoplatonism and Indian originated religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism.

- Esthetes; a person who is appreciative of and sensitive to art and beauty.

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As Dorian Gray sinks into a life of crime and gross sensuality, his body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recently painted portrait grows day by day into a hideous record of evil, which he must keep hidden from the world.

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- Ennui; a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

- Idolatrous; showing very great admiration or respect for someone or something, often too great.

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