The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941; the first complete publication was in Arkham House's Beyond the Wall of Sleep collection . It is included in the Library of America volume of Lovecraft's work.
“One of those creatures wrote you once, ‘do not call up any that you can not put down’.”
H.P. Lovecraft book The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
often phrased as "Do not call up that which you cannot put down."
Fiction
Source: "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", written 1927, first published in Weird Tales, July 1941
