Hypnos (short story) Hypnos (short story) "Hypnos" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, penned in March 1922 and first published in the May 1923 issue of "National Amateur". "Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it. The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. The moment the man opened his "immense,
14827 Hypnos the nucleus of an extinct comet that is covered by a crust several centimeters thick that prevents any remaining volatiles from outgassing. "Hypnos" is an assumed carbonaceous C-type asteroid. As of 2018, no rotational lightcurve of "Hypnos" has been obtained from photometric observations. The asteroids rotation period and spin axis remains unknown. It has a low brightness amplitude of 0.05 magnitude which indicates that the body has a rather spheroidal shape. According to the NEOSurvey carried out by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "Hypnos" measures 520 meters in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.22 based on an absolute