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If The Dunwitch Horror engendered any doubts about the trend of Lovecraft's horror fiction into a less-supernatural, more-science-fictionish direction, The Whisperer in Darkness put them definitively to rest. This deeply unsettling narrative 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 sub-textual horror than any previous...
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The Call of Cthulhu is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. In it, the narrator recounts a sequence of portentous discoveries which indicate that a vast, ancient cosmic pantheon of supernatural deities with the power to erase humankind is awakening after a long slumber. Credited with inspiring the "Cthulhu Mythos", a kind of literary genre unto itself that expands upon the universe set forth in "The Call of Chtulhu", this...
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While on an antiquarian tour of New England, young historian Robert Olmstead happens upon the run-down seaside town of Innsmouth where strangers are entirely unwelcome. The town is inhabited by queer people who seem to adhere to a religious cult and who, Olmstead's investigation threatens to uncover, seem to be hiding a terrible secret from the deep. First published in 1936, “The Shadow over Innsmouth” is a horror novella by American author H....
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The Great Race of Yith are an extra-terrestrial species who travel through space and time by swapping their bodies with those of distant hosts. Though their motives are mostly academic, they were eventually forced to use their abilities to escape annihilation by swapping bodies with an ancient race that once resided on planet earth, 250 million years ago. When American citizen Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee has his body swapped with an earth-dwelling Yithian...
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A large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is because William Dyer has been to Antarctica on an expedition before, and knows of the unspeakable horrors that lie in its frigid terrain. Dyer goes into explaining that during his last trip, he and another small group...
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Collected in this volume are spine-tingling tales showing us that below the ground and at the top of mountain peaks lurk nameless gods and ghouls, powerful and horrific. In cemeteries and desert wastes and swampy bogs, the evidence of past civilizations remains waiting to be uncovered, ominously portending mankind's own inglorious future conclusion. Even more disconcerting...
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El escritor estadounidense Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), más conocido como H.P. Lovecraft, es una figura icónica en la literatura de terror y ciencia ficción, ampliamente considerado como uno de los maestros del género. Sus obras a menudo exploran temas como el miedo a lo desconocido y la insignificancia de la humanidad frente al cosmos. Su estilo de escritura se caracteriza por una prosa densa, erudita y atmosférica, que contribuye...
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Discover the true meaning of fear with these classic horror stories. The Essential Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft collects one of the author's most popular novellas, "At the Mountain of Madness," and six of his most famous short stories, including "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Shadow Out of Time," "The Dunwich Horror," "The Colour of Space," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Whisperer in the Darkness." These hair-raising tales have inspired generations...
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), más conocido como H. P. Lovecraft, fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas y relatos de terror y ciencia ficción. Se le considera un gran innovador del cuento de terror, al que aportó una mitología propia -los Mitos de Cthulhu-, desarrollada en colaboración con otros autores, actualmente en vigencia. Su obra constituye un clásico del horror cósmico, una línea narrativa que se aparta de las tradicionales...
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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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