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 with respect to the ecliptic. It is frequently perturbed by Jupiter. The body's observation arc begins at Anderson Mesa Station the night prior to its official discovery observation at Palomar. As a near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid "Hypnos" has an Earth minimum orbital intersection distance of , which corresponds to 5.7 lunar distances. In 1958, "Hypnos" passed less than 0.03 AU from both Earth and Mars. Neither planet has been approached so closely by "Hypnos" since the 862 AD pass of Earth, or will be until the 2214 pass of Earth. It is also a Mars-crosser. "Hypnos" may be