The Crawling Chaos

1921 short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson
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The Crawling Chaos

Summary

The Crawling Chaos is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (81 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Crawling Chaos authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • The Crawling Chaos authored Winifred V. Jackson[4].
  • The Crawling Chaos's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • The Crawling Chaos's genre is fantasy[6].
  • The Crawling Chaos's genre is horror literature[7].
  • The Crawling Chaos's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Crawling Chaos's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • The Crawling Chaos was published on April 1921[10].
  • The Crawling Chaos's title is recorded as The Crawling Chaos[11].
  • The Crawling Chaos's first line is recorded as Of the pleasures and pains of opium much has been written.[12].
  • The Crawling Chaos's last line is recorded as And when the smoke cleared away, and I sought to look upon the earth, I beheld against the background of cold, humorous stars only the dying sun and the pale mournful planets searching for their sister.[13].
  • The Crawling Chaos's public domain date is recorded as January 1, 1997[14].
  • The Crawling Chaos's copyright status is recorded as public domain[15].
  • The Crawling Chaos's copyright status is recorded as public domain[16].
  • The Crawling Chaos's form of creative work is recorded as short story[17].

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[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: aeb61cf2-eadc-4473-af15-9aefbba06f8e[19]

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Authorship and Creation

Authored works include H. P. Lovecraft[3], a novelist[20], 1890–1937[21], of United States[22], awarded the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame[23], specialised in horror fiction[24] and Winifred V. Jackson[4], a writer[25], 1876–1959[26].

Publication

The Crawling Chaos was released on April 1921[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Genres include fantasy[6] and horror literature[7].

Why It Matters

The Crawling Chaos ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (81 views/month).[2]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . 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.

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

  1. [18] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [19] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [20] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [21] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [22] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [23] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [24] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [25] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [26] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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