![]() ![]() Several times, his dreaming-self encounters bizarre clusters of "iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles," as well as a rapidly changing polyhedral-figure, both of which appear sapient. Among the elements, both organic and inorganic, he perceives shapes that he innately recognizes as entities which appear and disappear instantaneously and at random. Shortly after moving into the attic, Gilman begins experiencing bizarre dreams in which he seems to float without physical form through an otherworldly space of unearthly geometry and indescribable colors and sounds. ![]() ![]() Gilman theorizes that the structure can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another. The dimensions of Gilman's attic room are unusual and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry. Gilman discovers that, for the better part of two centuries, many of the attic's occupants have died prematurely. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. The first part of the story is an account of the house's history. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House," a house in Arkham that is rumored to be cursed. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. ![]() Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle of horror fiction. Dreams in the Witch House is a short story by H. ![]()
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