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The Colour Out of Space is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, 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.

The story is recounted by the protagonist, Count Antoine de C, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge on not only him but all his descendants, cursing them to die on reaching the age of 32. The protagonist recounts how his ancestors all died in some mysterious way around the age of 32. The line has dwindled and the castle has been left to fall into disrepair, tower by tower.

The Hound is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. The story opens with the unnamed narrator preparing to commit suicide. Lamenting his fate, he reflects upon the events which led him to this moment.The narrator and his friend, St. John, are a pair of loners who both have a deranged interest in robbing graves.

Em nova edição, O chamado de Cthulhu da Hedra apresenta a figura mais popular de Lovecraft em publicação bilíngue e com nova e detalhada introdução. Cthulhu é a mais famosa dentre as criaturas e ambientes de sonho — ou pesadelo — de H. P. Lovecraft, além de ser o centro da série sobre os Grandes Antigos, as gigantescas e incompreensíveis criaturas anteriores a esta Terra. É a cristalização, numa imagem, de um tipo específico de terror chamado "cósmico": mas um cósmico íntimo e literário.

Old Bugs ist eine parodistische Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft, die erstmals 1959 veröffentlicht worden ist. Sie handelt von einem mysteriösen Säufer namens Old Bugs. Im Mittelpunkt der Erzählung steht ein Säufer namens "Old Bugs" im Jahr 1950, der in einer Kneipe Chicagos als Putzkraft arbeitet. Wer er wirklich ist und was er in seinem früheren Leben gewesen war, weiß man nicht. Aus seinem alten Leben hat er nur noch das Foto einer edel aussehenden Frau, über die er jedoch nicht reden möchte.

"The Shadow Out of Time" is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. The story describes time and space travel by mind transfer. The premise is that a person in a given place and time can switch bodies with someone who is elsewhere or elsewhen. Other writers have re-used this concept in later works, such as drinking tea from Red Forest leaves in the television series 12 Monkeys and long-range communication stones in the Stargate SG-1 television series.

A man who's moved to New York City, taking nightly walks through its neighborhoods for inspiration, instead finds only despair, until one night another, "He", finds him and shows him other sides of New York by flashing back and forth through time from the alien pasts through alien futures in a terror-filled journey.

A vengeful man strikes back from the dead against the undertaker that wronged him in death....

"History of the Necronomicon" is a short text written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1927, and published in 1938. It describes the origins of the fictional book of the same name: the occult grimoire Necronomicon, a now-famous element of some of his stories. The short text purports to be non-fiction, adding to the appearance of 'pseudo-authenticity' which Lovecraft valued in building his Cthulhu Mythos oeuvre. Accordingly, it supposes the history of the Necronomicon as the inspiration for Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, which concerns a book that overthrows the minds of those who read it.

Kuranes, an English Nobleman ill-content with his real life, once dreamed of the city of Celephaïs. Many years later, at the height of his discontent, he manages to slip away permanently into his dreams. After a guided recollection of his childhood, he comes upon Celephaïs. While his psyche happily remains guard over the city, his body is found back in the real world, washed ashore on the banks of his family’s land.

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A museum should be a lonely place at night; scary and lonely if one has an active imagination, and finds himself locked inside at night. But what if the things in the museum began to move, and you are trapped inside? This short story of horror, ghostwritten for Hazel Heald by H. P. Lovecraft and narrated by Mike Vendetti, should not be listened to alone and in the dark.

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921. The story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. In the story, the unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.

In The Dunwich Horror, H.P. Lovecraft weaves a tale of cosmic terror and ancient forces unleashed. The story is set in the remote, decaying town of Dunwich, where strange occurrences and dark rumors abound. When the Whateley family begins delving into forbidden knowledge, they unleash a horrifying entity beyond human comprehension. As the terror escalates, the townsfolk are forced to confront an ancient evil that threatens to consume everything.

La nouvelle retrace près de 30 ans de la vie de Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, professeur d'économie politique à l'université de Miskatonic.

"The Complete Works (Volume 3) of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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.

Celephaïs ist sowohl eine Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft als auch der Name der darin erwähnten Stadt. Die Geschichte wurde im November 1920 geschrieben und 2 Jahre später in der Mai-Ausgabe 1922 von Rainbow veröffentlicht.

O ESTRANHO CASO DE CHARLES DEXTER WARD Quem era mesmo, quem poderia ser aquele interno no manicômio? Um caso atípico, esquisito: um jovem atemporal preso ao passado, aos poucos perdendo a sanidade atrás de bizarras manias. Seu tataravô, de infame reputação, parecia ser a causa das...

The Victorians were obsessed with Egyptology and mummies. It was during the second half of the 19th century that many of the most significant archeological finds were made in Egypt, and stories of the revenge of the mummies on anyone raiding their tombs, stealing their treasures or unwrapping their corpses abounded. This collection brings together the best and scariest short stories of the period, featuring vengeance-seeking mummies, bandaged zombies, pharaonic ghosts and ancient curses.