Resultado de búsqueda
Charles Dexter Ward is a young man from a prominent Rhode Island family who has disappeared from a mental asylum. He had been incarcerated during a prolonged period of insanity, during which he exhibited minor and inexplicable physiological changes.
El personaje principal, Charles Dexter Ward, es un joven de una familia inglesa y acaudalada que (al comienzo de la historia) se dice ha desaparecido después de un período de locura que se venía gestando desde hace un tiempo, acompañado por menores, aunque inquietantes, alteraciones fisiológicas.
Charles Dexter Ward is a young man from a prominent Rhode Island family who has disappeared from a mental asylum. He had been incarcerated during a prolonged period of insanity, during which he exhibited minor and inexplicable physiological changes.
Charles Dexter Ward es un joven de un distinguido hogar de Rhode Island que ha desaparecido de un manicomio intelectual. Había estado encarcelado durante todo un prolongado periodo de locura, en algún momento del cual mostró cambios fisiológicos menores e inexplicables.
El Caso de Charles Dexter Ward es una obra maestra del género de terror, que combina elementos de suspense, intriga y misticismo para crear una atmósfera inquietante y asfixiante. La prosa de Lovecraft es magistral, tejiendo una red de misterio alrededor de los personajes y sus acciones.
Early in July Willett ordered Mrs. Ward to Atlantic City for an indefinite recuperative sojourn, and cautioned both Mr. Ward and the haggard and elusive Charles to write her only cheering letters. It is probably to this enforced and reluctant escape that she owes her life and continued sanity.
Lovecraft's approach in Charles Dexter Ward, whereby the living man is not merely possessed by the dead, but bodily replaced by him, gives a more materialistic and proto-scientific air to the story. This is consistent with Lovecraft's own world-view and also foreshadows his move from supernatural horror to science-fictional horror in later ...
