Hypnos

short story by H. P. Lovecraft
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Hypnos

Summary

Hypnos is a literary work[1]. Hypnos ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Hypnos authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • Hypnos's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Hypnos's genre is horror literature[5].
  • Hypnos's part of the series is recorded as Dream Cycle[6].
  • Hypnos's Commons category is recorded as Hypnos (short story)[7].
  • Hypnos's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • Hypnos's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • Hypnos was published on 1923[10].
  • Hypnos's has edition or translation is recorded as Hypnos[11].
  • Hypnos's title is recorded as {'lang': 'grc', 'text': 'Hypnos'}[12].
  • Hypnos's different from is recorded as Hypnos[13].
  • Hypnos's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep.'}[14].
  • Hypnos's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'They say that that haunting memory-face is modelled from my own, as it was at twenty-five, but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica—’ΥΠΝΟΣ.'}[15].
  • Hypnos's public domain date is recorded as January 1, 2019[16].
  • Hypnos's copyright status is recorded as public domain[17].
  • Hypnos's copyright status is recorded as public domain[18].
  • Hypnos's form of creative work is recorded as short story[19].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

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  • Release type: Prose[20]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 91d059c7-3c07-44b3-a5fd-3543559c2ced[21]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Hypnos authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].

Publication

Hypnos was published on 1923[10]. Hypnos's language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Hypnos's genre is horror literature[5]. Hypnos's part of the series is recorded as Dream Cycle[6].

Subject and Themes

Hypnos's part of the series is recorded as Dream Cycle[6].

Why It Matters

Hypnos ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (122 views/month).[2] Hypnos has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [20] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [21] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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