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The shunned house of the title has long been an object of fascination for the narrator, a fascination he shares with his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple. The narrator summarises the strange lore the good doctor has collected about the house, lore filled with unexplained sicknesses and deaths, and follows this with his personal account of what happened when he and his uncle ventured inside the old house. (Goodreads)
2) Dagon
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"Dagon" is a 1917 short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. One of the first stories he wrote as an adult, it centres around the recollection of a tortured, morphine-addicted narrator who was captured by a German ship during World War I. After escaping his captors, he drifted for many miles before winding up stranded in a hellish place littered with rotting carcasses and home to an ancient horror. A chilling tale by a master story-teller, "Dagon"...
3) Ex Oblivione
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A man's dreams walk him through a valley to a vine-covered wall with a locked bronze gate therein. What lies beyond the gate?
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In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, which forces the people of the town to hole up by night.
5) The Outsider
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After spending more time than he can remember on his own inside a castle, an enigmatic man resolves to finally escape and seek human contact and daylight, both of which he has never experienced before. However, dissatisfied with what he finds on the outside, he hastens back to his old world inside his castle-to which he is now barred entry. First published in 1926, "The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft that explores...
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This early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1916. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. In 1913, Lovecraft joined the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association) but it was four years later, in 1917, that he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as 'Dagon' and 'A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson'. However,...
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Considered by many to be one of the greatest horror fiction writers of all time, H. P. Lovecraft was certainly a pioneer of the genre. Contained here are 24 of the author's classic stories. This collection includes the following tales: The Alchemist, The Beast in the Cave, Memory, The Picture in the House, Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Dagon, The White Ship, The Statement of Randolph Carter, The Doom That Came to Sarnath, Poetry and the Gods, Nyarlathotep,...
8) Winged Death
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This early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1934. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. In 1913, Lovecraft joined the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association) but it was four years later, in 1917, that he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as 'Dagon' and 'A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson'. However,...
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Weird and Horrific Stories (2021) collects some of H. P. Lovecraft's finest early work. Although his reputation as one of the world's greatest writers of horror and weird fiction remains undisputed, much of his writing was published in such pulp literary magazines as Argosy, the United Amateur, and Weird Tales, making it difficult to find proper collections. Weird and Horrific Stories attempts to bridge this gap for modern readers, bringing them face...
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Written in 1926 and first published in the magazine Weird Tales two years later, The Call of Cthulu is almost certainly H.P. Lovecraft's best-known short story. Drawing inspiration from Alfred Tennyson's sonnet 'The Kraken' as well as one of Lovecraft's own dreams, the story sees a police officer from New Orleans ask the American Archaeological society for help identifying an idol carved in a mysterious green-black stone that was seized in a raid...
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft está considerado como el gran innovador del cuento de terror y de la literatura fantástica del siglo XX, aportando una mitología propia (Los Mitos de Cthulhu) que aún está vigente hoy en día.
Su revolucionaria obra se aparta de la tradicional temática del terror sobrenatural -fantasmas, demonios, seres de ultratumba...- para incorporar nuevos elementos de la ciencia ficción -viajes en el tiempo, razas de otros mundos,...
16) The Trap
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This early work by H. P. Lovecraft was originally published in 1932. Born in 1890 in Rhode Island, USA, Lovecraft began writing at a very young age, quickly developing a deep and abiding interest in science. In 1913, Lovecraft joined the UAPA (United Amateur Press Association) but it was four years later, in 1917, that he began to focus on fiction, producing such well-known early stories as 'Dagon' and 'A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson'. However,...
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction. Though his works remained largely unknown and did not furnish him with a decent living, Lovecraft is today considered to be among the most significant writers of supernatural horror fiction of the twentieth century. This book contains a collection of Lovecraft's best and most chilling horror short stories, including the seminal "The Call of Cthulhu". A fantastic...
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Lovecraft's otherworldly visions of cosmic horrors, alien beings and a world not quite our own remain immensely powerful and able to terrify even the most resolute readers. The stories here span the breadth of Lovecraft's literary career, from his early forays into the Dreamlands to his mature writings in the Cthulhu mythos. This volume includes such cult classics as 'The Call of Cthulhu', 'The Whisperer in the Darkness' and 'The Shadow over Innsmouth'....
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H.P. Lovecraft es indudablemente, junto con Edgar Allan Poe, el gran maestro de la narrativa de terror. Su buen hacer ha dejado huella en innumerables escritores, cineastas y lectores de todo el mundo.
En esta recopilación exclusiva hemos querido rescatar las obras maestras de este genio norteamericano, incluyendo clásicos inolvidables de su universo cósmico como La llamada de Cthulhu, El color surgido del espacio o La sombra sobre Innsmouth,...
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