[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Weird Tales May, July 1941
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
Here is THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD--the last, and many think
the best, the most exciting--of all H. P. Lovecraft's superb weird
fantasies.
Discovered after years of difficult search--and pieced together with
as much careful patience as Charles Ward puts into his terrifying
researches in the story--August Derleth and Donald Wandrei at long last
had all the scattered pages of Lovecraft's novel complete.
The manuscript, gathered over the course of many years from attics,
forgotten strong boxes and old bureaus, is published now--in WEIRD
TALES.
In it you are going to read again of Cthulhu and the fearful
Necronomicon; in these pages you will also find a perfect wealth of new
thrills. In _Charles Ward_ you will read ... but why go on, when you're
just raring to get ahead with the story?
So just turn the page--and on with the show!
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The essential Saltes of Animals may be so prepared and preserved,
that an ingenious Man may have the whole Ark of Noah in his owne
Studie and raise the fine shape of an Animal out of its Ashes at
his Pleasure; and by the lyke method from the essential Saltes of
humane Dust, a Philosopher may, without any criminal Necromancy,
call up the Shape of any dead Ancestour from the Dust whereinto his
Bodie has been incinerated.