Cool air by H. P. Lovecraft

"Cool Air" by H. P. Lovecraft is a short story written in March 1926. A narrator recounts why cool air has become detestable to him, beginning with his arrival in a New York City brownstone in 1923. After suffering a heart attack, he meets his upstairs neighbor, Dr. Muñoz, a brilliant but reclusive physician obsessed with defying death. The doctor's apartment is kept freezing cold through an elaborate refrigeration system. As their friendship deepens, the narrator witnesses increasingly strange behavior—until the night the cooling system fails catastrophically. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Illustrator Ferman, Harry, 1906-1973
Title Cool air
Original Publication New York, NY: Weird Tales, 1939.
Series Title Produced from Weird Tales September 1939.
Note Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Air
Credits Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 61.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Short stories
Subject New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Subject Horror tales
Subject Physicians -- Fiction
Subject Male friendship -- Fiction
Subject Boardinghouses -- Fiction
Subject Sick -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 73177
Release Date
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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