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The Nameless City is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story. The Nameless City of the story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and is older than any human civilization.
2) In the Vault
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An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.
3) The Tomb
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The Tomb tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the entrance to a mausoleum, belonging to the family Hyde, whose nearby family mansion had burnt down many years previously. The entrance to the mausoleum is padlocked and slightly ajar. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable. Dispirited, he takes to sleeping beside the tomb. Eventually, inspired by reading Plutarch's Lives, Dudley decides...
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The Music of Erich Zann is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he had never seen before, on a street named "Rue d'Auseil", he finds an apartment in an almost empty building. One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich...
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The Strange High House in the Mist is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that the story may have been inspired by Lord Dunsany's Chronicles of Rodriguez, in which strange sights can be seen from a wizard's house on a crag. One model for the setting was Mother Ann, a headland near Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness are counted amongst H.P. Lovecraft's most popular stories. In the first we are transported to the decrepit coastal town of Innsmouth, whose amphibian-like citizens betray a dark and sinister secret. The second takes us to Vermont, where a university professor becomes embroiled in a mind- bending, celestial mystery after strange things are seen floating in the rivers. Dark, brooding and suspenseful,...
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En las montañas de la locura es una escalofriante y atmosférica novela de H.P. Lovecraft que se adentra en los misterios del páramo antártico. La historia sigue a una expedición malograda dirigida por el Dr. William Dyer, geólogo de la Universidad de Miskatonic. A medida que el equipo explora el paisaje desolado y alienígena, sus miembros descubren ruinas antiguas de otro mundo y se topan con extrañas criaturas prehumanas. Impulsados por la...
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When an American man discovers that he's the last descendant of the De la Poer family, he travels to England to take over their crumbling estate. Accompanied only by his cat, the man follows the incessant sound of rats to a dark place beneath the estate, unearthing horrible, dark, gruesome secrets about his ancestors and the type of activities they partook in. Taken by madness, the man falls into a dark pit of despair and commits unthinkable crimes....
15) Pickman's Model
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From "the original master of horror," a 1927 short story about an artist banished for his ghoulish paintings and the supernatural secret behind his art (Publishers Weekly).
In this classic short story from H. P. Lovecraft, enter the gothic world of Pickman, a painter notoriously banned from the Boston Art Club for his grotesque images. But once inside the artist's studio in the slums of the North End, the mystery behind Pickman's artistic choices...
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La construcción de una presa, lleva a un ingeniero a descubrir una zona extrañamente árida que los lugareños prefieren evitar. Las indagaciones lo llevan a conocer la historia de la familia que habitaba ahí que poco a poco fue muriendo, ya sea por una enfermedad que les deshacía la piel o por la locura. Un habitante de la zona, le cuenta a regañadientes, que todo empezó cuando algo cayó del cielo.
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H.P. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror, science fiction, and the fantastic are among the most classic in all literature. His writing challenges readers, scares them senseless, and explodes the boundaries of the known. This stunning collection, illustrated in color, brings to life some of his greatest, most profound works-including "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Haunter of the Dark," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Color Out of Space," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth,"...
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"The Thing cannot be described-there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of all matter, force, and cosmic order."
When H. P. Lovecraft wrote this sentence in his horror masterpiece, "The Call of Cthulhu," he captured the essence of what all weird fiction strives to do: describe the indescribable and articulate the unspeakable. Lovecraft's own tales of cosmic horror challenge the reader to...
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Con el afán de satisfacer su curiosidad, Albert Wilmarth indaga sobre una serie de avistamientos y apariciones de seres deformes en una zona que fue afectada por terribles inundaciones. El encuentro con un habitante de la zona que tiene más pistas al respecto hace que ambos encuentren la horrorosa verdad: los avistamientos son reales y corresponden a una raza extraterrestre que tiene habilidades únicas con el cerebro humano.
20) La casa maldita
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Lovecraft, en su habitual forma de juntar el suspenso con lo inexplicable y terrorífico, escribe en esta pequeña novela, sobre la casa abandonada del barrio a la que siempre le tuvimos miedo. Han pasado varios años desde que la casa ha dejado de ser habitable por los rumores que la rondan; rumores que no han sido de a gratis, pues en esa casa han ocurrido múltiples muertes inexplicables, personas que se han rendido a la locura, embarazos interrumpidos,...
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