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"Deaf, Dumb and Blind" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and C.M. Eddy, Jr.
Synopsis[]
Richard Blake, a deaf, mute, and blind World War I veteran who was once a vivacious and imaginative poet, lives alone in a rural home and faces malevolent forces. A growing smell of smoke that becomes a sulfurous hell-like stench, and a freezing cold so powerful it burns strike him. He is typing a manuscript, and when his corpse is found the next morning, it is this typed message that the delegation sent to discover what has transpired reads:
| “ | Not for mortal mind is any resisting of force beyond human imagination. Not for immortal spirit is any conquering of that which hath probed the depths and made of immortality a transient moment. The end? Nay! It is but the blissful beginning. . . | „ |
Publication History[]
"Deaf, Dumb, and Blind" was first published in the April 1925 edition of pulp magazine Weird Tales. It has since been reprinted many times, and has been translated into both French and German.