The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft

Upon arriving, Warren locates a particular tomb, and opens it to reveal a staircase that descends into the earth. He encourages Carter to travel with him to the location of one such portal, an ancient graveyard near Big Cypress Swamp. Carter mentions that Warren has other 'strange, rare books on forbidden subjects', several of which are in Arabic.įrom his mysterious book, Warren apparently deduces that doors or stairways exist between the surface world, and the underworld. Warren has come into the possession of a book, written in an unknown language, the exact contents of which he never revealed to Carter. 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. Its adaptations include the film The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter. It is the first story in which Carter appears. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself.

Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920.

' The Statement of Randolph Carter' is a short story by American writer H. Title page of 'The Statement of Randolph Carter' as it appeared in Weird Tales, February 1925, the second time the story was published.

The Statement of Randolph Carter by H.P. Lovecraft