The Very Old Folk

1940 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
VisualArtwork literary_work Q7772463
Press Enter · cited answer in seconds

The Very Old Folk

Summary

The Very Old Folk is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • The Very Old Folk authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].
  • The Very Old Folk's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • The Very Old Folk's genre is recorded as horror literature[5].
  • The Very Old Folk's language of work or name is recorded as English[6].
  • The Very Old Folk's country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • The Very Old Folk's publication date is recorded as +1940-00-00T00:00:00Z[8].
  • The Very Old Folk's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0gjmzr[9].
  • The Very Old Folk's ISFDB title ID is recorded as 69027[10].
  • The Very Old Folk's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'The Very Old Folk'}[11].
  • The Very Old Folk's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'It was a flaming sunset or late afternoon in the tiny provincial town of Pompelo, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Hispania Citerior.'}[12].
  • The Very Old Folk's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Of the fate of that cohort no record exists, but the town at least was saved—for encyclopædias tell of the survival of Pompelo to this day, under the modern Spanish name of Pompelona …'}[13].
  • The Very Old Folk's NooSFere story ID is recorded as 21847[14].
  • The Very Old Folk's FantLab work ID is recorded as 31716[15].
  • The Very Old Folk's form of creative work is recorded as short story[16].
  • The Very Old Folk's Colon Classification is recorded as O111,6M90,252[17].

Body

Works and Contributions

The Very Old Folk authored H. P. Lovecraft[3].

Why It Matters

The Very Old Folk ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

References

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

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] . 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.

Class ancestry

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

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

📑 Cite this page

Use these citations when quoting this entity in research, articles, AI prompts, or wherever provenance matters. We aggregate Wikidata + Wikipedia + authoritative open-data sources; the stitched, scored, cross-referenced view is what 4ort.xyz contributes.

APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). The Very Old Folk. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-very-old-folk
MLA “The Very Old Folk.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-very-old-folk.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_the-very-old-folk_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{The Very Old Folk}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-very-old-folk}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
LLM prompt According to 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph (aggregator of Wikidata, Wikipedia, and authoritative open-data sources): The Very Old Folk — https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-very-old-folk (retrieved 2026-05-03)

Canonical URL: https://4ort.xyz/entity/the-very-old-folk · Last refreshed: