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The Festival (short story)

<p>"<b>The Festival</b>" is a <a href="/en/Short_story" title="Short story" class="wl">short story</a> by <a href="/en/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft" class="wl">H. P. Lovecraft</a> written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of <i><a href="/en/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales" class="wl">Weird Tales</a></i>.</p>

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</span><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066479718" typeof="mw:Extension/templatestyles">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-header,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-subheader,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-above,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-title,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-image,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data,body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox-below{text-align:center}</style><div class='mobile-collapse'><header class="mobile-collapse-header mobile-collapse-btn"><b>Quick facts: "The Festival", Country, Language, Published ...</b> <span class='arrow'>▼</span></header> <table class="infobox mobile-collapse-element"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary notheme" style="background: #ededed;">"The Festival"</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;">by <a href="/en/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft" class="wl">H. P. Lovecraft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Published in</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/en/Weird_Tales" title="Weird Tales" class="wl">Weird Tales</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publication type</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/en/Periodical" title="Periodical" class="mw-redirect wl">Periodical</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (<a href="/en/Magazine" title="Magazine" class="wl">Magazine</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publication date</th><td class="infobox-data">January <a href="/en/1925_in_literature" title="1925 in literature" class="wl">1925</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme" style="background: #ededed;"><b>Full text</b></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span><span><img loading="lazy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/16px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" data-file-type="drawing" height="17" width="16" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/32px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" alt="Wikisource-logo.svg"></span></span> <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The%20Festival%20(H.%20P.%20Lovecraft)" title="wikisource:The Festival (H. P. Lovecraft)" class="extiw" target="_blank">The Festival</a> at <a href="/en/Wikisource" title="Wikisource" class="wl">Wikisource</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <footer class='mobile-collapse-footer mobile-collapse-btn'><b>Close</b> <span class='arrow'>▲</span></footer></div>



"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. 