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"The Doom That Came to Sarnath"
Short story by H. P. Lovecraft
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CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Fantasy
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Published inThe Scot
Publication date1920

"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920.[1]

  1. ^ Joshi, S.T.; Schultz, David E. (2004). An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Hippocampus Press. pp. 69–70. ISBN 978-0974878911.

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