Ex Oblivione
"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem.It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking through a valley and encounters a vine-covered wall with a locked bronze gate therein. He longs to know what lies…
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The Evil Clergyman
The short story is actually an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote. It begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator’s companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably violent end that befell him. He advises the narrator not to stay…
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The Dunwich Horror
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, that…
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The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Six bone-chilling tales of bizarre beauty and awesome horror lurk in the dark of the soul, waiting to be called upon by the demons of nightmares, and let loose in the frightened mind.
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The Crawling Chaos
The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrator then tells of his sole experience with opium in which he was accidentally administered an overdose by a doctor during the "year of the plague."…
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The Descendant
"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrote that he was "making a very careful study of London…in order to get background for tales involving richer antiquities…
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The Doom That Came to Sarnath
According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron (not to be confused with Kadath), which rose to great intellectual and…
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Cool Air
A gentleman in New York begins renting an apartment one floor below an aged doctor, who insists on keeping his quarters very chilly. As the two become friends, the old doctor's health begins to deteriorate in a particularly Lovecraftian fashion.
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Herbert West – Reanimator
The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies, as corpses arising, through scientific means, as animalistic, and uncontrollably violent creatures.
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Celephais
"Celephais" was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly…
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The Cats of Ulthar
In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. "The Cats of Ulthar" was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's, who was an ardent cat lover.
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death.
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He
The story tells of an unnamed narrator, who has moved from New England to New York City and greatly regretted it. One night, while wandering an older part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man strangely dressed in garments from the eighteenth century. The…
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Dagon
The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer.
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The Dreams In The Witch-House
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, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that…
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The Alchemist
The story is recounted by the protagonist, Comte 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…
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The Call of Cthulhu
The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of even the Great…
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The Book
"The Book" is an unfinished short story H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and…
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At the Mountains of Madness
The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless – or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and the carved stones tens of millions of years old.
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep
An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
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Azathoth
The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity. One night the gulf between his world and the stars is bridged, and his mind ascends…
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Ведьмина охота
Иванну, беглянку из «психушки», подозревают в двойном убийстве. Путешествуя во времени, она становится свидетелем злодеяний «кровавой графини» Батори и Джека-потрошителя. Непрошеные гости из прошлого проникают в современный мир и вынуждают Иванну начать охоту…
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The Colour Out of Space
"The Colour Out of Space" is a 1st-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed Boston surveyor. In order to prepare for the construction of a new reservoir in Massachusetts, he surveys a rural area that is to be flooded near Lovecraft's fictional…
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The Nameless City
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft. The story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and is older than any human civilization.
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures resembling a cross between a fish and a frog, which lives in the seaside village of Innsmouth.
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Книга ужасов
Эта книга для тех, кто любит все загадочное и непостижимое. Кто желает стать бесстрашным и узнать, как можно защититься, правильно повести себя в непредсказуемой ситуации. Для тех, кто хочет пережить ужас, чтобы потом испытать эйфорическое чувство облегчения.
Книга Тьмы (сборник)
Что делать, когда убийца-психопат завещал тебе свое кровавое ремесло? Как не утратить человеческий облик, если ты вместе с другими несчастными заперт в гостинице без еды и воды и испытываешь зверский голод? Удастся ли последнему защитнику города удержать оборону…
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Знак ведьмы
В руках молодой журналистки Иванны оказывается анкх – древний крест, дарующий бессмертие. Однако темные силы стремятся отнять этот магический артефакт! И когда девушка решается вступить с ними в противоборство, ее любимый пропадает без вести. Чтобы найти его…
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Ведьмин подарок
В современном Киеве пропадают две девочки-школьницы. Ведя собственное расследование, журналистка Иванна попадает в начало прошлого века и становится немой свидетельницей похожих событий в бывшей Киевской губернии. Иванна раскрывает тайну секты вечной жизни, рискуя…
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Дар
Роман «Дар» – это не фантастика, не исторический роман и не роман о любви. Эта книга – исповедь незнакомки своему палачу. Родившаяся в начале ХХ века Маргарет сбегает из дома с бродячим цирком, не подозревая об истинных намерениях артистов. Волею случая героиня…
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