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Kills him in defence of his soul—walls body up in ancient cellar—BUT—the dead wizard (who has said strange things about soul lingering in body) changes bodies with him . . . leaving him a conscious corpse in cellar." [2] Plot[edit] The story ends with the arrival of a hunched figure on the protagonist's doorstep.
- H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi
- 1937
Not long afterward my wife heard a curious thing from a friend—one of the few who had not dropped the Derbys. She had been out to the end of High St. to call on the couple, and had seen a car shoot briskly out of the drive with Edward’s oddly confident and almost sneering face above the wheel.
The letter explains that Derby had in fact killed Asenath and buried her body in their cellar. Despite this, Asenath had managed to take control of his body while he was in the Sanitarium, meaning that "the thing on the doorstep" was actually Derby inhabiting Asenath's liquefying corpse.
Feb 22, 2016 · The whole experience caused Dan to pass out several times but by the time he gets to the end of it, he discovers that Edward had killed Asenath but the power of Ephraim was strong and survived death to eventually take over Edward's body.
The visitor, who stinks worse than the dumpster behind a fish market on a hot August day, hands Dan an almost illegible note. All is made clear, much too late, and Dan sets out to visit "Edward Derby" with revolver in his pocket, leaving behind the Thing on the Doorstep. Whew. And there's an ominous hint that the nightmare might not be ...
The Thing on the Doorstep. "The Thing on the Doorstep" is a story by H. P. Lovecraft, published in 1937. The story starts with our narrator, Daniel Upton, explaining to the police why he's just shot and killed his best friend, Edward Derby. Upton recounts his lifelong friendship with Derby, which took a turn for the sour when Derby married a ...
Two novels suggested as inspirations for "The Thing on the Doorstep" are Barry Pain's An Exchange of Souls (1911), about a scientist's invention that allows him to switch personalities with his wife, and H. B. Drake's The Remedy (1925; published in the U.S. as The Shadowy Thing), in which a character with the power of mind-transference comes back from the dead by possessing the body of an ...
