The Terrible Old Man

short story by H. P. Lovecraft
VisualArtwork literary_work Q2468655
The Terrible Old Man
H. P. Lovecraft · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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The Terrible Old Man

Summary

The Terrible Old Man is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Terrible Old Man authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • The Terrible Old Man's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Terrible Old Man's genre is horror literature[5].
  • The Terrible Old Man's genre is weird fiction[6].
  • The Terrible Old Man's Commons category is recorded as The Terrible Old Man[7].
  • The Terrible Old Man's language of work or name is recorded as English[8].
  • The Terrible Old Man's country of origin is recorded as United States[9].
  • 1921 marks the founding of The Terrible Old Man[10].
  • The Terrible Old Man was published on 1921[11].
  • The Terrible Old Man's has edition or translation is recorded as The Terrible Old Man[12].
  • The Terrible Old Man's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'It was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man.'}[13].
  • The Terrible Old Man's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Besides, so ancient a sea-captain must have witnessed scores of things much more stirring in the far-off days of his unremembered youth.'}[14].
  • The Terrible Old Man's copyright status is recorded as public domain[15].
  • The Terrible Old Man's copyright status is recorded as public domain[16].
  • The Terrible Old Man'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.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[18]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 755c1ad1-4393-4cbc-8478-1f900dbc81fa[19]

Body

Authorship and Creation

The Terrible Old Man authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].

Publication

The Terrible Old Man was released on 1921[11]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[8]. Genres include horror literature[5] and weird fiction[6].

Why It Matters

The Terrible Old Man ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (125 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20]

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.

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

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

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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