The Statement of Randolph Carter

"The Statement of Randolph Carter"
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Title page of "The Statement of Randolph Carter" as it appeared in Weird Tales, February 1925, the second time the story was published. Illustration by Andrew Brosnatch.[1]
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Horror
Publication
PublisherThe Vagrant
Media typeMagazine
Publication dateMay, 1920
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"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920.[2] It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears. Its adaptations include the film The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter.

  1. ^ "Publication: Weird Tales, February 1925". ISFDB. Retrieved 2020-01-16.
  2. ^ Straub, Peter (2005). Lovecraft: Tales. The Library of America. p. 823. ISBN 1-931082-72-3.