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By H.P. LOVECRAFT
THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK
I have seen the dark universe yawning
Where the black planets roll without aim,
Where they roll in their horror unheeded,
Without knowledge or luster or name.

Cautious investigators will hesitate to challenge the common belief that Robert Blake was
killed by lightning, or by some profound nervous shock derived from an electrical discharge.
It is true that the window he faced was unbroken, but nature has shown herself capable of
many freakish performances. The expression on his face may easily have arisen from some
obscure muscular source unrelated to anything he saw, while the entries in his diary are
clearly the result of a fantastic imagination aroused by certain local superstitions and by
certain old matters he had uncovered. As for the anomalous conditions at the deserted church
of Federal Hill—the shrewd analyst is not slow in attributing them to some charlatanry,
conscious or unconscious, with at least some of which Blake was secretly connected.

For after all, the victim was a writer and painter wholly devoted to the field of myth, dream,
terror, and superstition, and avid in his quest for scenes and effects of a bizarre, spectral sort.
His earlier stay in the city —a visit to a strange old man as

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