The Thing in the Crypt

1967 short story by L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter
VisualArtwork literary_work Q7768739
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The Thing in the Crypt

Summary

The Thing in the Crypt is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Thing in the Crypt authored L. Sprague de Camp[3].
  • The Thing in the Crypt authored Lin Carter[4].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's instance of is recorded as literary work[5].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's genre is recorded as sword and sorcery[6].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's genre is recorded as fantasy[7].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's follows is recorded as The Hyborian Age[8].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's followed by is recorded as The Tower of the Elephant[9].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's part of is recorded as Conan non-canonical works[10].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's language of work or name is recorded as English[11].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's country of origin is recorded as United States[12].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's publication date is recorded as +1967-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02vxw55[14].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's characters is recorded as Conan the Barbarian[15].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's narrative location is recorded as Hyperborea[16].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's narrative location is recorded as Brythunia[17].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 68515[18].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's published in is recorded as Conan[19].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's title is recorded as The Thing in the Crypt[20].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's set in period is recorded as Hyborian Age[21].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[22].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's NooSFere story ID is recorded as 29502[23].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's FantLab work ID is recorded as 1657[24].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's form of creative work is recorded as short story[25].
  • The Thing in the Crypt's set in environment is recorded as fictional country[26].

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Works and Contributions

Authored works include L. Sprague de Camp[3], a writer[27], 1907–2000[28], of United States[29], awarded the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award[30] and Lin Carter[4], a writer[31], 1930–1988[32], of United States[33].

Why It Matters

The Thing in the Crypt ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (15 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . 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.
  18. [20] . Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [33] . 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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