The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a novel by H. P. Lovecraft written in early 1927. It was one of the very few Cthulhu Mythos books written by Lovecraft to take place in Providence, RI, his hometown.

Photos of locations in the story

Two pictures of the Halsey House at 140 Prospect Street, built in 1801 by Colonel Thomas Lloyd Halsey. This served as the Ward house in the story.

Back cover

Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in a quiet town near Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits ? whose memory lived on in half-understood legends and vile superstitions ? lurked in underground caverns . . . waiting to be unleashed.

Driven by the spirit of his dead ancestor, a master of the black arts, Ward delved into his forbidden past and resurrected the darkest evil from beyond the grave . . . a supernatural force so gruesomely relentless that it twists genius to madness and kills without offering the mercy of death!