![]() ![]() The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes an attic room in "the Witch House", a house in Arkham thought to be cursed. Lovecraft Encyclopedia says that "The Dreams in the Witch House" was "heavily influenced by Nathaniel Hawthorne's unfinished novel Septimius Felton". ![]() These new ideas supported and developed a very similar conception of a fragmented mirror space that Lovecraft had previously developed in " The Trap" (written mid 1931).Īn H. ![]() Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World which Lovecraft alludes to having read ( HPL: Selected Letters of H. The idea of using higher dimensions of non-Euclidean space as short cuts through normal space can be traced to A. Several prominent motifs-including the geometry and curvature of space, and a deeper understanding of the nature of the universe through pure mathematics-are covered in de Sitter's lecture. De Sitter is even named in the story he is mentioned as a mathematical genius, and remarked among other intellectual masterminds, including Albert Einstein. "The Dreams in the Witch House" was probably inspired by the lecture The Size of the Universe given by Willem de Sitter which Lovecraft attended three months prior to writing the story. ![]()
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