Like this page? Click here:

I am not one who would rail at the public if one of my pictures failed to 'get across.' The public knows art. I have never yet been connected with a failure, but, if I were, I would blame myself, not my audience.

—Cecil B. DeMille

Back to Book List

Edit Title

Cool Air

(1928)

	Author:	No Authors Set
	Illustrator:	No Illustrators Set
	Editor:	No Editors Set
	Publisher:	Penguin Books
	Pages:	0

	Personal Rating:	0/10
	Amazon:	5/5
	Goodreads:	3.5/5

Bindings:	Compilation
Found in:	The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories [1999]

Classifications:

Horror
Thriller

Synopsis:

The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him. His tale begins in the spring of 1923, when he was looking for housing in New York City. He finally settles in a converted brownstone on West Fourteenth Street. Investigating a chemical leak from the floor above, he discovers that the inhabitant directly overhead is a strange, old, and reclusive physician. One day the narrator suffers a heart attack, and remembering that a doctor lives overhead, he climbs the stairs and meets Dr. Muñoz for the first time.