by H. P. Lovecraft Written January through Febuary of 1932 Published July in 1933 in Weird Tales Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with flgures and formulae when he wa..