# The haunter of the dark Author: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937 Genre: Category: Short Stories Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73233 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+haunter+of+the+dark+Lovecraft&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary 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 on Federal Hill--the shrewd analyst is not slow in attributing... ## Chapters - [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunter-of-the-dark-73233/chapters/2/index.md) - [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunter-of-the-dark-73233/chapters/1/index.md) - [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-haunter-of-the-dark-73233/chapters/3/index.md)