‘The Tomb’ is a story with dramatic, psychological and science-fiction elements of the American writer H.P. Lovecraft, published for the first time in 1922. The work tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum located near his home. During his childhood, he discovers the entrance (with closed lock) of an ancient mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family. Jervas, then, will try to break the lock …