The White Ship by H.P.

Lovecraft

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Original Title: The White Ship

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Autor: H.P. Lovecraft
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Original Format: Paperback, is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was first published in
The United Amateur (Volume 19) #2, November 1919.

A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man
piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a bridge of moonlight. Elton joins the bearded
man on this ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be
found on Earth.
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Published: 10 pages
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy
and science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human
minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists,
gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of
loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the
Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply
pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and
Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and
mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the
decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th
Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.

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A dream cycle story featuring a curious lighthouse keeper Basil Elton who boards the white ship
with an unnamed bearded man. It takes him far away to the Dreamlands where nobody ages. His
curiosity makes him restless and he starts another journey against the bearded man's warnings.
The ship takes him back to where he boarded moments earlier only to find that his lighthouse
beacon failed the first time in history.
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