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"The Dunwich Horror" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos.

Based in Oklahoma around 1889, a newly arrived couple learn about the local legends surrounding a "Snake God", Yig, who takes vengeance on anyone who kills a serpent by killing them or turning them into a half-snake monster. The husband has a snake phobia which isn't helped by the wife killing a nest of rattlesnakes.

Although best known for his short stories, H.P. Lovecraft considered himself a poet. These are five short poems by Lovecraft narrated by award-winning narrator and producer Mike Vendetti.

Nuestro protagonista es un adicto a las drogas que tiene algunas ideas suicidas por un incidente que le ocurrió durante la guerra mundial cuando era un oficial de la marina mercante Cuando su barco iba ser capturado por los alemanes consiguió escapar en una lancha salvavidas que navegó a la deriva durante varios días hasta que encalló en una especie de tierra, que era negra hasta dónde alcanzaba la vista.

Ya su tatarabuelo comenzó a obsesionarse con la leyenda sobre una supuesta civilización prehistórica de individuos blancos que vivían en una zona recóndita del Congo. Arthur era hijo de Alfred, y de una cantante de cabaret, que se trasladó con su hijo a Jermyn House cuando murió su marido. Arthur siempre tuvo desde pequeño una apariencia simiesca, pero sin embargo era culto y talentoso.

Cuando le encuentran deambulando erráticamente por la zona del pantano en estado de shock amnésico, Randolph Carter intenta explicar la desaparición de su compañero, el ocultista Harley Warren. Warren había prohibido a Carter ver un libro que tiene, escrito en un idioma desconocido y del que deduce que existen puertas o escaleras entre la superficie del mundo y el inframundo, a través de las cuales viajan los demonios.

H.P. Lovecraft’s short story Beyond the Wall of Sleep was first published in 1919 and reprinted in Weird Tales in 1938. The tale is about an intern in a mental hospital recounting his experiences with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility after being incarcerated as a criminally insane murderer. During his confinement, Slater had a series of violent seizures in which his rants and ravings revealed strange other-worldly visions.

This particularly chilling short story was inspired by a trip that Lovecraft made with Rheinhart Kleiner to the 18th-century Dutch Reformed Church on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn - and to its adjacent graveyard, full of grave markers dating from the mid-1700s. While there, Lovecraft pocketed a piece of one of the grave markers; and it set him to thinking about the possibilities of a story plot in which a vengeful tomb-denizen, resenting a similar act of souvenir-taking, claws its way out of the grave to track down the desecrator.

This is the same reading of The Whisperer in Darkness that you'll find in Pulp-Lit Productions' 82-hour flagship omnibus collection, The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft. We've packaged it as an individual file for listeners who just want this story. This deeply unsettling cosmic-horror story blurs the line between and among weird fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction, and arguably makes better use of its scholarly-but-a-little-thick professorial narrator to evoke subtextual horror than any previous work.

This is the same reading of The Shadow Over Innsmouth that you'll find in Pulp-Lit Productions' 82-hour flagship omnibus collection, The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H. P. Lovecraft. We've packaged it as an individual file for listeners who just want this story, to save them the expense of buying the whole collection and the trouble of sifting through hundreds of titles. This novella was inspired by a journey to Newburyport, Massachusetts, which in 1931 was much faded from its glory years as a shipbuilding, fishing, and trading center.

This is the same reading of The Call of Cthulhu that you'll find in Pulp-Lit Productions' 82-hour flagship omnibus collection, The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft. We've packaged it as an individual file for listeners who just want this story. This legendary 11,000-word novelette is the first piece of writing to come off H.P. Lovecraft’s pen after settling into his new home in his old home town of Providence, after his failed attempt to establish himself in New York the previous year.

In later years, this was H.P. Lovecraft's favorite among his own stories, and many of the most serious H.P. Lovecraft fans readily agree that it's his best work. It is one of his most truly cosmic horror stories, trading not at all on supernatural elements, relying for all its power on the idea of real forces and entities that humans are simply not equipped to fully perceive or understand.

In this atmospheric horror story, the city of the title is the ruin of a primordial site in the Arabian desert, thought to be more ancient than the first human civilization. In its heyday, the city flourished on the edge of the ocean. The inhabitants were a species of reptile looking like a hybrid of crocodile and seal, but with horns and protruding foreheads. They moved by crawling, so the remaining buildings have low ceilings.

"Herbert West -Reanimator" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperaments.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Dagon and experience the compelling world of Innsmouth and Dagon.

Se cuenta que en Ulthar vivía una anciana pareja de campesinos que se divertía capturando y matando los gatos de la gente del pueblo. Un día pasó por el lugar una caravana de peregrinos y el gato de Menes, un huérfano que viajaba con ellos, desapareció. Menes se enteró de las crueles costumbres de la pareja y, antes de partir, elevó una plegaria que provocó que todos los felinos de la zona fueran a la cabaña de los ancianos y los devoraran.

Una pequeña embarcación de turistas se ve afectada por un mal temporal, el yate en el que viajaban choca con unas rocas, provocando que los tripulantes tengan que pedir ayuda en una pequeña comunidad que esta a unos metros de ahí. Cuando llegan al pueblo en busca de auxilio se encuentran con una misteriosa sorpresa.

De acuerdo con el relato, hace más de 10.000 años una raza de pastores colonizó las orillas del río Ai en una tierra llamada Mnar, formando las ciudades de Thraa, Ilarnek y Kadatheron (no confundir con Kadath), las cuales se erigieron como grandes proezas intelectuales y mercantiles. Deseando más tierra, un grupo de estas personas emigró a las orillas de un vasto y solitario lago en el corazón de Mnar, fundando la metrópoli de Sarnath creada a la orilla de un vasto lago, atraídos por un yacimiento de metales preciosos. Pero los colonos no estaban solos.

La historia comienza en el ático de una antigua casa. El compañero del narrador se refiere al antiguo dueño de la casa y al presunto final violento que le sucedió. Aconseja al narrador que no se quede en la oscuridad ni toque nada, especialmente el objeto pequeño sobre una mesa, que el compañero parece temer considerablemente. Observa a otros hombres dentro de la habitación, todos vestidos con traje de clérigos, incluyendo un obispo; Se enfrentan al primer hombre, que alcanza el objeto sobre la mesa con una sonrisa irónica.

Mysteries come in all sorts, and this collection of seven short stories reflects that, from hidden temples beneath the sea, to worlds discovered through a microscope. Murderers, ghosts and demons can also be found in this collection. The stories included are: "The Temple", "To Prove an Alibi", "The Diamond Lens", "The Adventure of the Red Circle", "An Episode in a Lodging House", "How Siva Spoke", and "The Nail."