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The Music of Erich Zann

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The Music of Erich Zann	comment	"The Music of Erich Zann" is a 1922 short story by H. P. Lovecraft, and considered by the man himself to be among his best work.The story is narrated by a nameless university student who is forced to take up residence in an apartment building on a peculiar street called "Rue d'Auseil". One of the only other tenants is a quiet old man by the name of Erich Zann. At night, the old man plays his viol, and the student becomes fascinated by the strange, almost indescribable melodies he produces. Convinced the man is some sort of musical genius, the student tries to get to know the old man. Eventually, he comes to realize that something more sinister is afoot, and all is not right with Rue d'Auseil.The story was adapted into video game format by Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw in 2019 as one of his Dev Diary projects.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_23a06c52	comment	The Un-Reveal: Zann begins writing down an explanation of what he's doing and why but is interrupted, and many of the pages are blown out the window by a storm. We never learn what we was writing.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_2ddddebf	type	Hostile Weather
The Music of Erich Zann / int_2ddddebf	comment	Hostile Weather: At the climax of the story, a massive storm blows open the window of Zann's apartment. However, when the narrator eventually flees the building, he realizes that it's a perfectly calm, clear night. Whatever bad weather there was only existed through Zann's window.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_30ef2781	type	The City Narrows
The Music of Erich Zann / int_30ef2781	comment	The City Narrows: The Rue d'Auseil seems to be a very dilapidated, low-income neighbourhood, populated almost exclusively by the elderly.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
The Music of Erich Zann / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: Zann's otherworldly music is able to keep terrifying eldritch monsters at bay for a time... but it may also be summoning them.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
The Music of Erich Zann / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: The houses that populate Rue d'Auseil fall under this category. "The houses were tall, peaked-roofed, incredibly old, and crazily leaning backward, forward, and sidewise. Occasionally an opposite pair, both leaning forward, almost met across the street like an arch; and certainly they kept most of the light from the ground below. There were a few overhead bridges from house to house across the street."
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Music of Erich Zann / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Rue d'Auseil" is likely derived from the French "au seuil", meaning "at the threshold", fitting its mysterious, otherworldly qualities.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_92a61707	type	The Speechless
The Music of Erich Zann / int_92a61707	comment	The Speechless: Erich Zann is mute. Even when he tries to express himself in written form, he has trouble, because the only language he and the narrator seem to have in common is French, but Zann's grasp of it is "execrable".
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_a698ad42	comment	City with No Name: The story is set in an unspecified, rather hilly, city, where French seems to be the most commonly-spoken language and there's a major university. Most readers assume it's Paris, although Paris is a relatively flat city. Lovecraft may also have been thinking of Quebec City, which does have the steep topography to match the story, and which would become a favourite travel destination of his years later. But ultimately, like so much else in this story, it's impossible to say for certain.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_bb03c099	type	Cool Gate
The Music of Erich Zann / int_bb03c099	comment	Cool Gate: The window to Eric Zann's apartment seems to lead to another world, represented by a black abyss. And Erich Zann is trying to ensure that anything living in that world stays there.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_c86392ee	type	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
The Music of Erich Zann / int_c86392ee	comment	The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Despite years of searching, the narrator is never able to find Rue d'Auseil again.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
The Music of Erich Zann / int_c928d01d	comment	Magic Music: It's very clear that Zann's viol-playing is the key to whatever supernatural events are going on in the story.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The narrator remains unnamed.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_cdfe12c3	type	Nothing Is Scarier
The Music of Erich Zann / int_cdfe12c3	comment	Nothing Is Scarier: The more the narrator (and, by extension, the reader) learns, the less he understands. Just what the hell is Rue d'Auseil? What is lurking in the abyss outside Zann's window? How did Zann die and how was he still able to play the viol? Hell, we don't even get much in the way of a description of what Zann's music sounds like, because, after all, it's hard to describe strange music in text.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_e542d80a	comment	Gonk: Zann is described as having a grotesque, satyr-like face.
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The Music of Erich Zann / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: The narrator hints that he has had a few mental health issues in the past, which makes him a bit more sympathetic to Zann's own eccentricities and compulsions.
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