Lovecraft, H P - The Statement Of Randolph Carter

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The Statement of Randolph Carter

by H. P. Lovecraft

Written 1919

Published May 1920 in The Vagrant, No. 13, p. 41-48.

Again I say, I do not know what has become of Harley Warren, though I think--almost

hope--that he is in peaceful oblivion, if there be anywhere so blessed a thing. It is true

that I have for five years been his closest friend, and a partial sharer of his terrible

researches into the unknown. I will not deny, though my memory is uncertain and

indistinct, that this witness of yours may have seen us together as he says, on the

Gainsville pike, walking toward Big Cypress Swamp, at half past 11 on that awful night.

That we bore electric lanterns, spades, and a curious coil of wire with attached

instruments, I will even affirm; for these things all played a part in the single hideous

scene which remains burned into my shaken recollection. But of what followed, and of

the reason I was found alone and dazed on the edge of the swamp next morning, I must

insist that I know nothing save what I have told you over and over again. You say to me

that there is nothing in the swamp or near it which could form the setting of that frightful

episode. I reply that I knew nothing beyond what I saw. Vision or nightmare it may have

been--vision or nightmare I fervently hope it was--yet it is all that my mind retains of

what took place in those shocking hours after we left the sight of men. And why Harley

Warren did not return, he or his shade--or some nameless thing I cannot describe-- alone

can tell.

As I have said before, the weird studies of Harley Warren were well known to me, and to

some extent shared by me. Of his vast collection of strange, rare books on forbidden

subjects I have read all that are written in the languages of which I am master; but these

are few as compared with those in languages I cannot understand. Most, I believe, are in

Arabic; and the fiend-inspired book which brought on the end--the book which he carried

in his pocket out of the world--was written in characters whose like I never saw

elsewhere. Warren would never tell me just what was in that book. As to the nature of our

studies--must I say again that I no longer retain full comprehension? It seems to me rather

merciful that I do not, for they were terrible studies, which I pursued more through

reluctant fascination than through actual inclination. Warren always dominated me, and

sometimes I feared him. I remember how I shuddered at his facial expression on the night

before the awful happening, when he talked so incessantly of his theory, why certain

corpses never decay, but rest firm and fat in their tombs for a thousand years. But I do not

fear him now, for I suspect that he has known horrors beyond my ken. Now I fear for

him.

Once more I say that I have no clear idea of our object on that night. Certainly, it had

much to do with something in the book which Warren carried with him--that ancient

book in undecipherable characters which had come to him from India a month before--

but I swear I do not know what it was that we expected to find. Your witness says he saw

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