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The Festival

short story by H. P. Lovecraft
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The Festival
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The Festival

Summary

The Festival is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (256 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Festival authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • The Festival's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Festival's genre is Lovecraftian horror[5].
  • The Festival's genre is horror literature[6].
  • The Festival's genre is speculative fiction[7].
  • The Festival's Commons category is recorded as The Festival[8].
  • The Festival's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • The Festival's country of origin is recorded as United States[10].
  • October 1, 1923 marks the founding of The Festival[11].
  • The Festival was published on January 1925[12].
  • The Festival's narrative location is recorded as Kingsport[13].
  • The Festival's published in is recorded as Weird Tales[14].
  • The Festival's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Festival'}[15].
  • The Festival's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me.'}[16].
  • The Festival's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': '"Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.”'}[17].
  • The Festival's public domain date is recorded as January 1, 2021[18].
  • The Festival's copyright status is recorded as public domain[19].
  • The Festival's copyright status is recorded as public domain[20].
  • The Festival's epigraph is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'Efficiunt Daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamen quasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant.(Devils so work that things which are not appear to men as if they were real.)'}[21].
  • The Festival's form of creative work is recorded as short story[22].
  • The Festival's set during recurring event is recorded as Christmas and holiday season[23].

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.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[24]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 9b6ac7b5-b09b-42b0-9b81-571008488fc5[25]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Festival authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].

Publication

The Festival was published on January 1925[12]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Genres include Lovecraftian horror[5], horror literature[6], and speculative fiction[7].

Why It Matters

The Festival ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (256 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26]

Related Entities

H. P. Lovecraft literary work public domain United States

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] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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