"The Secret Cave or John Lees Adventure" by H.P. Lovecraft

This story was written by Lovecraft when he was only 8 years old! Adjust your expectations accordingly...

While I was pretty terrible at punctuation at that age myself, still the entire lack of it in many places made this surprisingly difficult to read.

And no, Lovecraft did not have a sister, younger or otherwise. He was an only child.

The pictures used: The Puerto Princesa Subterranean River Cave in Palawan, Philippines is about 24 km long. The cave includes major formations of stalactites and stalagmites, and several large chambers.

By Vyacheslav Argenberg / http://www.vascoplanet.com and used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en).

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