The Tree

"The Tree" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1920 and first published in October 1921.It is told in past tense, in third person objective. The location of the story is Mount Maenalus, in Arcadia, Greece, a mountain which was a "chosen haunt" for the Greek God Pan. The story opens with a vivid description of the olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it.