Complex sentence: "The Terrible Old Man" is a very short short story (less than 1200 words) by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28,1920, and first published in the "Tryout", an amateur press publication, in July 1921.
Split into simpler sentences: The Terrible Old Man is a short story of less than 1200 words by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on January 28,1920, and first published in the "Tryout", an amateur press publication, in July 1921.