"The Silver Key" by H.P. Lovecraft

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This was written almost a hundred years ago, but the description of life there at the beginning of the story sounds like he could be describing 21st century society. The more things change, the more they stay the same...

The picture used is by Hugh Rankin for the title page of the story as it appeared in "Weird Tales", Jan 1929.

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