The Very Old Folk (1927)by H. P. Lovecraft Story copied from the Wikisource. It was a flaming sunset or late afternoon in the tiny provincial town of Pompelo, at the foot of the Pyrenees in Hispania Citerior. The year must have been in the late republic, for the province was still ruled by a senatorial proconsul instead of a prætorian legate of Augustus, and the day was the first before the Kalends of November. Yrs for Gothick Supremacy - C . IVLIVS . VERVS . MAXIMINVS