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Who knows what unspeakable horrors lie in the deep places of the world, beneath fathoms of cold, dark water and eons of cold, dark time? One man knows, though he wishes he did not.

Jervas Dudley is a young man of means who is prone to flights of fancy. This predilection leads to an obsession with an abandoned crypt that will last for the rest of his life....

Robert Blake—a young man with an interest in the occult—becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on a hill which he can see from his lodgings. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.

The narrator travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey. There he interacts with strange people and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying and personal revelations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations.

Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extra terrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

In the Vault was based on a suggestion made in August 1925 by Charles W. Smith, editor of the amateur journal Tryout, which Lovecraft recorded in a letter: 'an undertaker imprisoned in a village vault where he was removing winter coffins for spring burial, and his escape by enlarging a transom reached by the piling up of the coffins'.

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

Before throwing himself from the window of his attic, the untitled protagonist writes some notes related to his mental state. Then, he begins to recall an old story that happened in the years of the First World War: suddenly, he finds himself a prisoner of a German ship in the Pacific Ocean. After only five days, the protagonist manages to escape with a raft. Wandering for days, adrift in the sea, one afternoon he finds himself stranded on a disquieting and apparently deserted island and, from there, things only get stranger.

-En español neutro, narración humana-Es un relato corto en estructura de novelette escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en el año 1926. La obra fue publicada por primera vez en febrero de 1928 por la editorial de pulp Weird Tales.1Cthulhu hace su primera aparición en este relato, convirtiéndose en una figura central del ciclo literario de los Mitos de Cthulhu. Para la mayor parte de los críticos es el inicio del horror cósmico de dicho ciclo.

¿Puede la Luna ser alcanzada por el hombre? ¿Es Marte un mundo habitado? ¿Hay aún planetas por descubrir? ¿Existen extraños cuerpos en el espacio interestelar? En su intento por educar al público en los fundamentos de la astronomía, H. P. Lovecraft planteaba e intentaba abordar estas cuestiones tan provocativas y sugerentes hace ya más de un siglo.

"Crazy Dan" finds a recipe in the Book of Eibon for a potion that can turn living beings into stone. He wants to use it against his enemies, but he forgets that he too could become a victim.

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An unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.

Polaris var det eneste værk H.P. Lovecraft skrev dette år (1918) og novellen blev udgivet første gang i 1920 i december-nummeret af The Philosopher.

En enfoldig og indavlet bjergboer fra Catskillbjergene myrder i en dæmonisk blodrus to af sine fæller. Han fanges og føres til et hjem for psykopater, idet man mener, at han lider af en alvorlig psykisk lidelse. Mens alle læger og psykologer leder efter en foklaring i han sind, er der en enkelt ansat, som overvejer muligheden for, om ikke årsagen snarere skal findes i mandens natlige drømme. Dette er hans dagbog.

Le famose storie dell’orrore dello scrittore statunitense Howard Phillips Lovecraft continuano a far discutere gli appassionati, incerti se collocarle nella categoria del fantastico più originale o delle cronache di un possibile domani, di un oggi “laterale” in cui antichi misteri si aprono come crepe nel tessuto della realtà.

Five fantastical tales from the mind of H. P. Lovecraft that center around a theme of illicit substances: some used to transcend the veil of reality, some used to keep one's sanity in check. All of the stories are quite psychedelic and unreal, quite mystical, and quite frightening.