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	* "Miskatonic Museum" Blog post about the real-life version of the picture: ([http://miskatonicmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/09/regnum-congo-and-horror-of-theodor-de.html link])		* "Miskatonic Museum" Blog post about the real-life version of the picture: ([http://miskatonicmuseum.blogspot.com/2010/09/regnum-congo-and-horror-of-theodor-de.html link])

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	[[Category:Fiction:Stories by H. P. Lovecraft]]		[[Category:Fiction:Stories by H. P. Lovecraft]]

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 As Lovecraft critic Peter Cannon writes, "Here Lovecraft serves notice that he will rely less on stock Gothic trappings and more on his native region as a source for horror." (Peter Cannon, "Introduction", More Annotated Lovecraft, p. 2)
-Lovecraft's analysis of the psychological roots of New England horror is echoed in his discussion of Nathaniel Hawthorne in the essay "[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]".
+Lovecraft's analysis of the psychological roots of New England horror is echoed in his discussion of [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] in the essay "[[Supernatural Horror in Literature]]".
 ==Legacy==

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 In the story, Lovecraft refers to a real-world book about African tribes, complete with the actual illustrations (executed as woodcuts by the brothers De Bry in the 1500s) described in the story, and included in this article (click the illustrations for details).
-"The Picture in the House" begins with something of a manifesto for the series of horror stories Lovecraft would write set in an imaginary New England countryside that would come to be known as [[Lovecraft Country]], and (though neither location is explored in detail) the story introduces two of [[Lovecraft Country]]'s most famous elements, [[Arkham]] and the [[Miskatonic Valley]]:
+"The Picture in the House" begins with something of a manifesto for the series of horror stories Lovecraft would write set in an imaginary New England countryside that would come to be known as [[Lovecraft Country]], and (though neither location is explored in detail) the story introduces two of [[Lovecraft Country]]'s most famous elements, [[Arkham]] and the [[Miskatonic River|Miskatonic Valley]]:
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 In the story, Lovecraft refers to a real-world book about African tribes, complete with the actual illustrations (executed as woodcuts by the brothers De Bry in the 1500s) described in the story, and included in this article (click the illustrations for details).
-"The Picture in the House" begins with something of a manifesto for the series of horror stories Lovecraft would write set in an imaginary New England countryside that would come to be known as Lovecraft Country, and (though neither location is explored in detail) the story introduces two of Lovecraft Country's most famous elements, [[Arkham]] and the [[Miskatonic Valley]]:
+"The Picture in the House" begins with something of a manifesto for the series of horror stories Lovecraft would write set in an imaginary New England countryside that would come to be known as [[Lovecraft Country]], and (though neither location is explored in detail) the story introduces two of [[Lovecraft Country]]'s most famous elements, [[Arkham]] and the [[Miskatonic Valley]]:
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	"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft on December 12, 1920, and first published in the "July 1919" issue of ''The National Amateur'' (though dated before Lovecraft wrote the story, this edition was actually was published in the summer of 1921 after the story was written.)		"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft on December 12, 1920, and first published in the "July 1919" issue of ''The National Amateur'' (though dated before Lovecraft wrote the story, this edition was actually was published in the summer of 1921 after the story was written.)
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		+	The story is set in 1890s [[Lovecraft Country]].

	==Synopsis==		==Synopsis==

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 ==Synopsis==
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+The story is narrated by a lone traveler (a genealogist conducting research), riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, who seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man," speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect...thought long extinct", whose face is "abnormally ruddy and less wrinkled than one might expect". "His height could not have been less than six feet." The narrator notices that the house is full of antique books, exotic artifacts, and Victorian furniture. The old man is apparently harmless and ignorant, but shows a disquieting fascination for an engraving in a rare old book, ''A Report of the Kingdom of Congo'', and admits to the narrator (who becomes increasingly nervous and frightened during the man's story) that it made him hunger "fer victuals I couldn't raise nor buy"- presumably human flesh. It is suggested that the old man in the house was murdering men who stumbled upon the shack to satisfy his "craving", and that the old man has extended his life preternaturally through cannibalism. The narrator realizes the old man has been alive from at least the early eighteenth century to the year 1896 when the story takes place. The old man denies that he ever acted on his desire, but then a red drop of blood falls from the ceiling, clearly coming from the floor above, and splashes a page in the book. The narrator then looks up to see a spreading red stain on the ceiling; this belies the old man's statement. At that moment, a bolt of lightning destroys the house, although it is ambiguous whether the narrator manages to survive, or whether he is telling his tale from the "oblivion" of the grave.
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 ==Associated Mythos Elements==
 * ''[[A Report of the Kingdom of Congo]]''
-* [[Ghoul]] - at least, an early version in the form of a disturingly youthful but very ancient man kept young by a diet of human flesh (fan interpretation)
+* [[Ghoul]] - at least, an early version in the form of a disturbingly youthful but very ancient man kept young by a diet of human flesh (fan interpretation)
 ==Heresies and Controversies==

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 ==Background==
 [[Image:Pictureinthehouse.jpg|thumb|right|Plate XII: The Picture in the House]]
-[[Image:Debry africa l914.jpg|thumb|right|Africa: Injuns, I guess... half monkeys an' half men... a sort of dragon with the head of an alligator]]
+[[Image:Debry africa l914.jpg|thumb|right|Africa: 'Injuns, I guess... trees with big leaves a-floppin' over, half monkeys an' half men... a sort of dragon with the head of an alligator']]
 In the story, Lovecraft refers to a real-world book about African tribes, complete with the actual illustrations (executed as woodcuts by the brothers De Bry in the 1500s) described in the story, and included in this article (click the illustrations for details).