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In the Vault | Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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"In the Vault" was based on a suggestion made in August 1925 by Charles W. Smith, editor of the amateur journal Tryout, which Lovecraft recorded in a letter: "an undertaker imprisoned in a village vault where he was removing winter coffins for spring burial, & his escape by enlarging a transom reached by the piling up of the coffins". Lovecraft accordingly dedicated the story to Smith.

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In the Vault | H.P. Lovecraft

so-so

There are valid issues with Lovecraft's personal views which I will not reiterate because they are well documented. Speaking only of the short story, I found it a straightforward and somewhat predictable tale. It lacked the really great atmosphere of Lovecraft, but is so short that one might as well read it to polish off the HPL corpus. Could be told as a campfire ghost story without any controversy and would likely elicit indifference.