Lovecraft, H P - The Strange High House In The Mist

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The Strange High House in the Mist

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 9 Nov 1926

Published October 1931 in Weird Tales, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 394-400

In the morning, mist comes up from the sea by the cliffs beyond Kingsport. White and

feathery it comes from the deep to its brothers the clouds, full of dreams of dank pastures

and caves of leviathan. And later, in still summer rains on the steep roofs of poets, the

clouds scatter bits of those dreams, that men shall not live without rumor of old strange

secrets, and wonders that planets tell planets alone in the night. When tales fly thick in

the grottoes of tritons, and conchs in seaweed cities blow wild tunes learned from the

Elder Ones, then great eager mists flock to heaven laden with lore, and oceanward eyes

on tile rocks see only a mystic whiteness, as if the cliff's rim were the rim of all earth, and

the solemn bells of buoys tolled free in the aether of faery.

Now north of archaic Kingsport the crags climb lofty and curious, terrace on terrace, till

the northernmost hangs in the sky like a gray frozen wind-cloud. Alone it is, a bleak point

jutting in limitless space, for there the coast turns sharp where the great Miskatonic pours

out of the plains past Arkham, bringing woodland legends and little quaint memories of

New England's hills. The sea-folk of Kingsport look up at that cliff as other sea-folk look

up at the pole-star, and time the night's watches by the way it hides or shows the Great

Bear, Cassiopeia and the Dragon. Among them it is one with the firmament, and truly, it

is hidden from them when the mist hides the stars or the sun.

Some of the cliffs they love, as that whose grotesque profile they call Father Neptune, or

that whose pillared steps they term "The Causeway"; but this one they fear because it is

so near the sky. The Portuguese sailors coming in from a voyage cross themselves when

they first see it, and the old Yankees believe it would be a much graver matter than death

to climb it, if indeed that were possible. Neverthcless there is an ancient house on that

cliff, and at evening men see lights in the small-paned windows.

The ancient house has always been there, and people say One dwells within who talks

with the morning mists that come up from the deep, and perhaps sees singular things

oceanward at those times when the cliff's rim becomes the rim of all earth, and solemn

buoys toll free in the white aether of faery. This they tell from hearsay, for that forbidding

crag is always unvisited, and natives dislike to train telescopes on it. Summer boarders

have indeed scanned it with jaunty binoculars, but have never seen more than the gray

primeval roof, peaked and shingled, whose eaves come nearly to the gray foundations,

and the dim yellow light of the little windows peeping out from under those eaves in the

dusk. These summer people do not believe that the same One has lived in the ancient

house for hundreds of years, but can not prove their heresy to any real Kingsporter. Even

the Terrible Old Man who talks to leaden pendulums in bottles, buys groceries with

centuried Spanish gold, and keeps stone idols in the yard of his antediluvian cottage in

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