Funny / The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

• Although The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is anything but funny, this line could be construed as darkly humorous:
  There was something hideous, blasphemous, and abnormal about it [a voice], and but for a cry from his recovering wife which cleared his mind by arousing his protective instincts it is not likely that Theodore Howland Ward could have maintained for nearly a year his old boast that he had never fainted.
• The fact that a Lovecraft antagonist was defeated because of something as mundane as being a bad liar.

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