The Transition of Juan Romero

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"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volumn Marginalia.

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The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture inside, and Juan ends up falling into the chasm, leading to great horror and hallucinations of subterranean pulsations for the narrator.

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