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Life is a hideous thing, and the story of the Jermyn family proves it. For generations they were a line of English baronets known for their brilliance, their strange looks, and their madness.
It began in the eighteenth century, when Sir Wade Jermyn returned from an expedition into the Congo with wild theories about a lost white civilisation deep in the jungle, and with a wife he never allowed anyone to see. Every Jermyn after him was marked in some way. The last of them, a gentle and scholarly man, devoted his life to proving his ancestor right. Then a crate arrived from Africa containing a mummified object, and he finally learned what his great-great-great-grandmother had been.
Written in 1920, this is one of H.P. Lovecraft’s earliest and most shocking tales of weird fiction, a compact masterpiece of ancestral horror that ends with one of the most famous final revelations in the genre.
Listen to the complete, unabridged audiobook of this classic story by the creator of the Cthulhu Mythos.
