THE DIARY OF ALONZO TYPER Literature 1938. Written by H.P. Lovecraft and William Lumley. | |||
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1872 - 152 years ago | |||||
1 | October 31, 1872 | 19th Century and earlier | Events | ||
October 31, 1872 Date of the crumbling newspaper wrapped around the key to the vault that Alonzo Typer finds in the little locked room in the cellar of the van der Heyl mansion. | |||||
1908 - 116 years ago | |||||
2 | April 17, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 17, 1908 Date that Alonzo Hasbrouck Typer of Kingston, N.Y., was last seen, around noon, at the Hotel Richmond in Batavia. After walking all the way from Attica, Alonzo Typer arrives at the van der Heyl mansion, becoming aware of an appallingly evil and non-human presence. | |||||
3 | April 18, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 18, 1908 Unable to sleep, Alonzo Typer begins to explore the van der Heyl mansion, starting with the great south parlor, home of the gallery of family portraits, then later, the labyrinthine wings and the attic. | |||||
4 | April 19, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 19, 1908 Alonzo Typer explores the cellar of the van Der Heyl mansion, where he finds a locked room and vault. | |||||
5 | April 20, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 20, 1908 Alonzo Typer attempts to go to the gate for his supplies, but finds the briers twisted tightly in his path. It is the same in every direction - behind and on all sides of the house. In places the brown, barbed vines had uncurled to astonishing heights - forming a steel-like hedge against his egress. Later, he reads a book called the Pnakotic Manuscripts or of the Eltdown Shards in the great shadowy library at the rear of the ground floor of the van der Heyl mansion. | |||||
6 | April 21, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 21, 1908 Alonzo Typer studies the family portraits in the van der Heyl mansion. | |||||
7 | April 22, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 22, 1908 Alonzo Typer explores the attic of the van der Heyl mansion, finding a carved, crumbling chest full of blasphemous books and papers, including a Greek Necronomicon, a Norman-French Livre d'Eibon, and a first edition of old Ludvig Prinn's De Vermis Mysteriis. | |||||
8 | April 23, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 23, 1908 Alonzo Typer continues reading about the lost and hidden city of Yian-Ho in the diaries of Claes van der Heyl. | |||||
9 | April 24, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 24, 1908 Alonzo Typer spends the day studying the picture and key in the attic of the van der Heyl mansion. | |||||
10 | April 25, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 25, 1908 Alonzo Typer explores a hill near the van der Heyl mansion. | |||||
11 | April 26, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 26, 1908 Alonzo Typer spends the evening on the hill near the van der Heyl mansion, listening to the windy whispering that sounds almost like angry humming, coming close to actual speech. | |||||
12 | April 27, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 27, 1908 Alonzo Typer makes progress in deciphering crucial hieroglyphs in the picture, hitting upon the final clue in the afternoon. By evening he knows their meaning. | |||||
13 | April 28, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 28, 1908 Alonzo Typer rehearses the Chant that will evoke the Nameless Thing, though provides no method of control of That Which is evoked. | |||||
14 | April 29, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 29, 1908 Alonzo Typer finds the key to the vault in the little locked room in the cellar of the van der Heyl mansion, wrapped in a crumbling newspaper and buried beneath rubbish in a drawer of the ancient desk. | |||||
15 | April 30, 1908 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
April 30, 1908 Walpurgis Eve. The storm breaks with pandaemoniac fury, and Alonzo Typer is dragged away toward the cellar. | |||||
1935 - 89 years ago | |||||
16 | November 12, 1935 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
November 12, 1935 A severe gale causes the collapse of the deserted and decrepit van der Heyl mansion. | |||||
17 | November 16, 1935 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | ||
November 16, 1935 Mr. Typer's diary - a book about 6 x 3 1/2 inches in size, with tough paper and an oddly durable binding of thin sheet metal - is discovered in the possession of one of the decadent Chorazin villagers by a state policeman sent to investigate the rumoured collapse of the deserted van der Heyl mansion. |
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