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Его творчество уникально настолько, что произведения Лавкрафта выделяются в отдельный поджанр - так называемые лавкрафтовские ужасы. Творчество Лавкрафта, повлиявшее на массовую культуру Запада, оставило неизгладимый след на творчестве бесчисленного числа писателей, работавших и работающих в жанре мистики и ужасов.

Randolph Carter begins the story telling the harrowing tale to those who found him stumbling through the swamp. Carter and his friend, the occultist Harley Warren, went to investigate the location of a supposed portal to the underworld - near Big Cypress Swamp in Florida. Upon discovery of a tomb with stairs going deep into the earth, Warren decides to descend them. Only after waiting for what seems an eternity does Carter call down into the tomb, only to be returned with a voice that does not belong to Warren telling him that his friend was dead.

"The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ends in 1935 with his last original work "The Haunter of the Dark." The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.

Beyond the Wall of Sleep is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer...

El que susurra en la oscuridad supone un desvío en las obras de Howard Phillips Lovecraft hacia la ciencia ficción, sin por ello descuidar su faceta literaria más famosa: el terror. Narra en su mayor parte la entrevista de su protagonista con el enigmático Henry Wentworth Akeley, un anciano postrado en una silla de ruedas y en un lamentable estado físico. Akeley le revelará durante la entrevista mucha información sobre una supuesta raza extraterrestre y su habilidad para extirpar cerebros que luego mantienen con vida...

Ein junger englischer Bildhauer freundet sich mit einem mysteriösen Mann an und nimmt ihn bei sich auf. Gemeinsam versuchen sie mittels Drogenexperimenten, mehr über die immaterielle Welt des Traumes, der Visionen und des Unbewussten zu erfahren. Doch die Angelegenheit gerät außer Kontrolle – und selbst der Schlaf an sich wird zu einem unkontrollierbaren und gefährlichen Zustand. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937); meist nur H. P. Lovecraft, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

Few horror stories are as chilling as the ones written by Victorian writers. This collection of eight enduring stories, some well-known, others less familiar, carry you to all corners of the world where terrors lurk. Featuring work by H.P. Lovecraft, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Allan Poe and Vernon Lee, experience the skin-crawling undead, a pestilence that leaves no one unaffected, imagined horrors that emerge from disturbed minds and others that require no imagination at all....

The main character lost three basic senses and the ability to use their legs during the war. Subconsciously, they feel a malevolent presence in their home and document their experiences on a typewriter.

Développez votre culture générale et profitez du plaisir de la narration, avec une sélection de nouvelles par les plus grands écrivains, choisies pour leur qualité et aussi pour leur caractère inhabituel. Cette collection vous emmènera du fantastique au désespoir de l'artiste ou de l'écrivain jusqu'à l'humour surréel, avec une narration vivante et talentueuse.

A man ridicules Nyarlathotep, a prophet of doom, and to his horror learns why Nyarlathotep knows so much. Nyarlathotep is one of Lovecraft's most well known characters, second to Cthulhu, and appears in six of Lovecraft's stories: "Nyarlathotep", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Haunter of the Dark", and "The Shadow Out of Time" and his sonnet "The Fungi from Yuggoth".

HP Lovecraft’s reluctant anti-hero has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. As he begins to recollect events, we are given the reason behind the disappearance of his traveling companion, a prominent occultist who just didn’t know when to leave well enough alone.

Dagon is a short story by American author H.P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories. The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I.

H. P. Lovecraft was never appreciated in his lifetime, but achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Today he is now widely seen as one of the most significant 20th century authors in his genre. The Call of Cthulu was written in the summer of 1926 and was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. It concerns a terrifying cosmic entity that is described from several points of view.

"Reanimator" follows Herbert West on his mission to fulfill his theory - that the human body can be restarted after death. The series follows through many close misses, zombies, and demon summonings as West tries unsuccessfully to reanimate bodies.

Award winning-narrator Mike Vendetti takes us to an old church in Providence, Rhode Island, where H. P. Lovecraft dedicates this horror story to Robert Bloch, who has killed Lovecraft's character in "The Shambler to the Stars". Lovecraft repays the favor by killing off Robert Harrison Blake (aka Robert Bloch).

One of H. P. Lovecraft’s earliest works, published in 1917, as we get a picture of his later science fiction. Dagon the fish God inspires the creature that drives the protagonist to madness.

Pickman was an artist, one of the best, but even his imagination couldn't conjure his last model. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.

In this collection of short stories some of our most popular and well-known authors are grouped together with an unfortunate tag: dead at 46. These authors are not run-of-the-mill or ten a penny; many are literary leviathans who left enduring works of literature and sadly may have left us many more had they lived. We will never know.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror fiction who achieved posthumous fame as one of the most influential writers of his day. "The Terrible Old Man" is the gruesome story of three robbers who set out to steal from a mysterious and reclusive retired sea captain who has a circle of strange stones in his garden and conducts even stranger rituals in his house.

A Gloucester fishing crew lands a monster after a 40-hour battle at sea. Turns out that this behemoth is only a baby, and what ensues later should keep you well on shore.