{"product_id":"the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward","title":"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat if your family's forgotten past holds something the whole town tried to erase?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Dexter Ward vanishes from a private asylum near Providence. His physician, Dr. Marinus Willett, knows that something about his patient is deeply wrong. H. P. Lovecraft's short novel turns back to Charles's boyhood, tracing how a polite young scholar's love of old records becomes a dangerous pursuit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hidden portrait draws Charles toward Joseph Curwen, an ancestor whose name Providence tries to erase after his death. Letters, notes and old testimony reveal a merchant feared for his secret work and strange failure to age. As Charles follows his studies abroad, his father worries, and Willett tries to understand the young man's change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA city steeped in dread\u003c\/strong\u003e – Walk Providence's old streets, where records and crumbling houses draw Charles deeper into the past.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAn ancestor worth fearing\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet Joseph Curwen through the notes and suspicions that preserve his disturbing history.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA physician seeking answers\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow Willett's steady efforts to understand the change in someone he has known since birth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eClues gathered from documents\u003c\/strong\u003e – Piece together letters, testimony and records as Lovecraft builds terror slowly, like a case file.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe pull of inherited secrets\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore how a family line can carry more than a name, shaping Charles's dangerous curiosity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who love slow, atmospheric horror, old New England towns and mysteries built from documents and rumors, including those new to Lovecraft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and follow Charles into a past that refuses to stay buried.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534776336732,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/08630_en_ebook-front_c17.jpg?v=1792175207","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/products\/the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}