page_title: The Music of Erich Zann
section_title: Setting
hierarchical_section_title: The Music of Erich Zann / Setting
caption_attribution_description: English: Artistic depiction of Zann's room in the short story "The Music of Erich Zann" by Lovecraft.
context_page_description: "The Music of Erich Zann" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922.
  The story is an account of the enigmatic Erich Zann, an elderly musician whose highly unique and unusual melodies draw the curiosity of a young university student.
context_section_description: The setting of the story is presumably France or another French-speaking country, sometime in the late-19th or early-20th century, though the exact location and date are never named. Auseil is not a true French word, but it has been suggested that Lovecraft derived it from the phrase au seuil, meaning at the threshold. Auseil is read like oseille, meaning sorrel or, colloquially, money. The identity of the student is never elaborated upon, only that he is a foreigner like Zann and studies metaphysics.
caption: An artist's depiction of Zann's room
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