Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family"
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Title page of "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" as it appeared in Weird Tales, April 1924. Against Lovecraft's wishes it was retitled "The White Ape." Illustration by William Heitman.[1]
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Horror
Publication
Published inThe Wolverine
Publication date1921

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" (also known as "The White Ape" and simply "Arthur Jermyn") is a short story in the horror fiction genre, written by American author H. P. Lovecraft in 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a reality which human understanding finds intolerable.

  1. ^ "Publication: Weird Tales, April 1924". ISFDB. Retrieved 2020-01-15.