"The Descendant" is a horror story fragment by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927.

He tells of a quiet and slightly mad older man who lives in the Gray's Inn with his pet cat.

Generations later, Lord Northam still felt the haunting power of the place which let him to pursue the tales of the supernatural and even to witness it himself.

This led him eventually to the Nameless City of Arabia and to believe that there are points in the world where one can transcend to some other place not of this universe.

Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrote that he was "making a very careful study of London...in order to get background for tales involving richer antiquities than America can furnish.