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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story in the horror fiction genre written by H. P. Lovecraft 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a reality which human understanding finds intolerable.
==Inspiration==
Both of Lovecraft's parents died in a mental hospital, and some writers have seen a concern with having inherited a propensity for physical and mental degeneration reflected in the plot of his stories, especially his 1931 novella, ''The Shadow Over Innsmouth'', which shares some themes with ''Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family''.〔Ronan (née Sylvester), Margaret, Forward to ''The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Other Stories of Horror'', Scholastic Book Services, 1971〕 As in many of his stories, the mind of a narrator deteriorates as his investigations uncover an intolerable reality, a central tenet of Cosmicism which Lovecraft outlines in the opening sentence of ''The Call of Cthulhu'': "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."〔HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu" (1928).〕 In a letter, Lovecraft described the impetus behind ''Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family:
While Lovecraft claimed that he intended to describe the most horrible family shadow, E. F. Bleiler declares that "actually, the story is a metaphor for his extreme bigotry and social snobbery; the motifs of expiating ancestral evil ands committing suicide on discovering 'racial pollution' occur in other of his works." 〔E.F. Bleiler, "H.P. Lovecraft" in ''Supernatural Fiction Writers'', Vol 2, NY: Scribners, 1985, p. 482.〕
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