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Voici les 5 nouvelles fantastiques les plus connues de HP Lovecraft : "L'Appel de Cthulhu", "La Quête onirique de Kadath l'inconnue", "L'Affaire Charles Dexter Ward", "Le Cauchemar d'Innsmouth", "Le Témoignage de Randolph Carter". Stephen King a dit de Lovecraft qu'il était "le plus grand artisan du récit classique d'horreur du vingtième siècle."

The Music of Erich Zann is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. Due to lack of funds, a university student is forced to take up lodging in an almost empty apartment building on a street named "Rue d'Auseil". One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich Zann. The old man is mute and plays the viol[a] with a local theater orchestra. He lives alone on the top floor and at night he plays strange melodies the student has never heard before.

"El extraño", o "El intruso" (título original: The Outsider), es un cuento de terror, escrito en 1921 y publicado en 1926, por el autor Howard Phillips Lovecraft. H. P. Lovecraft, es uno de los principales y más creativos escritores del género de terror; se dio a destacar, gracias a su horror que va más allá de lo terrestre y de lo natural, valiéndose de un gran ingenio, originalidad y un estilo barroco, con el que crea maravillas, que atrapan a quien lo lee, tanto por la trama, como por los adjetivos usados.

Step into the haunting streets of early 20th-century New York through H. P. Lovecraft’s chilling short story He. Blending urban decay with existential dread, this tale follows a sleepless wanderer who encounters a mysterious stranger promising hidden truths about the city’s past.

This collection of short stories contains several gothic tales of the macabre and chilling, by writers as diverse as Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, H. P. Lovecraft and A. M. Burrage. These tales are designed to unsettle you, just a little, as you sit back and take in their words as they lead you on a walk to places you’d perhaps rather not visit on your own. Our stories are: "The Body Snatcher", by Robert Louis Stevenson; "The Mortal Immortal", by Mary Shelley; "The Thing on the Doorstep", by HP Lovecraft; and "Waxworks", by AM Burrage.

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, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

First published in 1936, The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft appeared in the June issue of Astounding Stories. It weaves a tale of an extraterrestrial species called the Great Race of Yith that can travel through space and time and take over the bodies of other species. Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, an American living in the first decade of the 20th century fears he may have been possessed by the Yith. He sees strange vistas of other worlds and fears he is going insane. While on an expedition to prove the existence of this race, he makes an astounding discovery.

The Statement of Randolph Carter is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in the revocation of his membership in the Boston Art Club and he is shunned by his fellow artists. The narrator is a friend of Pickman, who, after the artist's mysterious disappearance, relates to another acquaintance how he was taken on a tour of Pickman's personal gallery, hidden away in a run-down backwater slum of the city.

Schauer, Spannung und Schwarze Romantik, Vol. 2: 10 weitere spannende Meisterwerke der klassischen Literatur. Von der schwarzen Romantik eines Edgar Allan Poe und Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mystery von Robert Louis Stevenson und Washington Irving, Grusel von Guy de Maupassant und Rudyard Kipling bis hin zur Spannung à la Jack London und H.P. Lovecraft! Mit dabei: 1. Der Untergang des Hauses Usher (Poe, Track 1), 2. Der junge Goodman Brown (Hawthorne, Track 2), 3. Das Flaschenteufelchen (Stevenson, Track 3–4), 4. Das Fräulein von Scuderi (Hoffmann, Track 5–7), 5. Blutrache (Maupassant, Track 8), 6.

In H. P. Lovecraft’s chilling tale, The Lurking Fear, a mysterious terror grips the secluded Catskill Mountains. Driven by curiosity, an investigator ventures into the heart of this eerie landscape, where a monstrous presence is rumored to haunt the region. As he uncovers a dark legacy entwined with the locals, he confronts unimaginable horrors lurking in the shadows.

Step into the dreamlike realms of H. P. Lovecraft’s The Silver Key, a haunting tale of nostalgia, longing, and transcendence. Follow Randolph Carter as he wrestles with the loss of his once-vivid dreams and embarks on a mystical journey to reclaim the forgotten wonders of his youth.

Misteriosa località all'apparenza abbandonata, centro di oscuri rituali esoterici, la cittadina portuale di Innsmouth, New England, sembra ormai scomparsa dalle mappe. Un giovane viaggiatore ci finisce per caso e mentre cerca informazioni sulla storia locale, gli capita di ascoltare il lungo e delirante racconto di un vecchio marinaio ubriaco, Zadok Allen, che gli narra di demoniache creature degli abissi arrivate da mari lontani. Uscito nel 1936, e Shadow Over Innsmouth è considerato uno dei migliori racconti del terrore di Lovecraft.

Five fantastical tales from the mind of H. P. Lovecraft that center around a theme of illicit substances: some used to transcend the veil of reality, some used to keep one's sanity in check. All of the stories are quite psychedelic and unreal, quite mystical, and quite frightening.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best-known short stories. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in Weird Tales, February 1928. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. It is written in a documentary style, with three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative.

H.P. Lovecraft (1890 - 1937) was an American horror fiction writer. Though he died in poverty and was only published in pulp magazines before his death, he is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in the genre. The following recording is a re-enactment of a purported interview with Lovecraft.

"The White Ship" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19), November 1919, and later appeared in the March 1927 issue of Weird Tales. Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full. Elton walks across the water on a bridge of moonbeams, joins the bearded man on the ship, and together they explore a mystical chain of islands unlike anything that can be found on Earth.

O texto narra a experiência de um veterano da Primeira Guerra Mundial, que, após ser capturado por forças inimigas, escapa, ficando à deriva, até que um dia acorda em uma vastidão lamacenta que emergiu do oceano — um cenário desolado e antinatural. Explorando essa terra recém-surgida, ele se depara com um monólito colossal coberto de hieróglifos estranhos e presencia o surgimento de uma criatura monstruosa, de aspecto anfíbio e ancestral.

Set on the sweltering, jungle-covered surface of Venus, In the Walls of Eryx follows a seasoned Earth explorer working for a commercial crystal-harvesting operation. While searching for energy-rich crystals, he becomes trapped inside an invisible, maze-like structure of unknown origin—constructed by the native lizard-like Venusians.

The Shunned House is a horror fiction novelette by American author H.P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental, sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years.