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The Statement of Randolph Carter. By H. P. Lovecraft. I repeat to you, gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless. Detain me here forever if you will; confine or execute me if you must have a victim to propitiate the illusion you call justice; but I can say no more than I have said already.
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. In his statement, Carter attempts to explain the disappearance of his companion, the occultist Harley Warren.
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. In his statement, Carter attempts to explain the disappearance of his companion, the occultist Harley Warren.
Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
His first appearance was in the short story "The Statement of Randolph Carter", in which he and his friend Harley Warren attempt to locate the door between the human world and a hellish dimension. Though Carter survives, Warren was killed by an unseen evil.
Brown University holds the typed manuscript of “The Statement of Randolph Carter” and has scans of the entire manuscript on the Brown Digital Repository.
25 de dez. de 2022 · First published in The Vagrant, May 1920. Listen to this text, read by Joseph Canna (7.1MB, help | file info or download) Versions of The Statement of Randolph Carter include: "The Statement of Randolph Carter" in Weird Tales, 5 (2) (February 1925)
