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"The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ends in 1935 with his last original work "The Haunter of the Dark." The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.

An unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.

"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Dagon was later published in Weird Tales and is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward looking stories.

H.P. Lovecraft collaborated with Zealia Bishop to craft this short story of the curse of Yig, a cousin of Quetzalcoatl. The next time you are tempted to squash that garter snake or run over a rattler, you will think twice after listening to this chilling tale.

The two stories in this collection, The Shunned House and The Dunwich Horror, are notable demonstrations of Lovecraft’s ability to build and sustain narratives permeated with a unique flavor of foreboding and horror.

"L'Appel de Cthulhu" est une nouvelle fantastique de HP Lovecraft. L'intrigue non linéaire est présentée au travers d'un ensemble de documents retrouvés dans les papiers du défunt Francis Wayland Thurston, un anthropologue qui a enquêté sur un culte obscur.

La Quête onirique de Kadath l'inconnue est une longue nouvelle fantastique de l'écrivain américain Howard Phillips Lovecraft. L'histoire : Randolph Carter rêve par trois fois d'une majestueuse cité au coucher de soleil, mais chaque fois il est brutalement arraché du rêve avant d'en voir plus. Aussi prie-t-il les dieux du rêve de lui révéler des alentours de cette ville fantastique.

Three short stories of weird strange fiction. An hour of other-worldly escapism.

The author of the first short story - "The Haunted Dolls' House" - is Montague Rhodes James, "master of terror and monstrous visions". "Cool Air" and "Azathoth" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft complete the collection. The atmosphere of horror and mystery is underlined by excellent performances by all actors and music.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales. It was the last written of the author's known works, and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem "Nemesis".

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, the draft was completed on January 22, 1927 and it remained unrevised and unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cycle and the longest Lovecraft work to feature protagonist Randolph Carter. Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing.

El escritor Robert Blake (supuestamente Robert Bloch), se obsesiona con un chapitel de una iglesia maldita que ve desde su estudio. La gran iglesia fue escenario de ritos malévolos durante muchos años atrás. Ahora abandonada y medio en ruinas, es temida por la gente del pueblo. Atraido por el misterio de dicha iglesia, Robert Blake entra en ella y sube a la torre del chapitel. Lo que encontrará allí aclarará los temores de los vecinos y encontrara su propia muerte.

A shadow of degeneration, tainted ancestry and forbidden mystery hangs over the New England town of Innsmouth. The narrator of this novella by H. P. Lovecraft, a college student touring the detaining berg, discovers far more then he bargained for. Normal citizens tend to disappear, while the indigenous residents are taking on a fish-like appearance. Strangers are definitely not welcome in this rotting town where heathen ceremonies are said to take place. And could it be that the narrator is starting to resemble his grandmother and dead uncle Douglas?

H. P. Lovecraft was never appreciated in his lifetime, but achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Today he is now widely seen as one of the most significant 20th century authors in his genre. The Call of Cthulu was written in the summer of 1926 and was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. It concerns a terrifying cosmic entity that is described from several points of view.

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.

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent they sound like movies. Included here are 13 classic horror tales.

"Innerhalb der Mauern von Eryx" ("In The Walls Of Eryx") ist eine Kurzgeschichte von H.P. Lovecraft: Die Geschichte ergibt sich aus den Notizen von Kenton J. Stanfield welcher für ein Bergbauunternehmen auf der Venus Kristalle sammelt, welche die Menschheit als Energiequelle nutzt. Stanfield macht sich auf dem Weg vom Stützpunkt des Unternehmens zum Plateau von Eryx, wo diese Kristalle geortet wurden. Auf dem Weg dorthin beschreibt Stanfield die Flora und Fauna der Venus und den Konflikt der Menschen mit den humanoiden Echsenwesen, welche auf der Venus leben.

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the "Cthulhu Mythos cycle". It was written in January/February 1932 and first published in the July 1933 issue of "Weird Tales".