Lord Northam is a "harmlessly mad" Londoner who "who screams when the church bells ring." Once a "scholar and aesthete" who studied at Harrow and Oxford, he has become "thin and grey and wrinkled" before his time and "seeks...not to think" through "books of the tamest and most puerile kind". He only begins to explain the fear he lives under when confronted with a copy of the Necronomicon. "The Descendant" is a story fragment by H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927
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from HP Lovecraft's Short Tales Of Terror,
released November 8, 2010
Written by HP Lovecraft
Read by Rupert Degas
Music by Jon Nicholls
Produced/Directed by Neil Gardner