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Revenge, death, and destruction abound in this early short story by H.P. Lovecraft. The story follows Antoine, a count who is last in line to die at the age of 32 due to a curse put on his family hundreds of years prior. His ancestor, being responsible for the death, brought about the curse, and Antoine was left to watch all his family, including his manservant, die an early death. But when his time comes and he is exploring the castle in wait, he manages to successfully end the curse by deflecting the fatal blow of Charles - the son of the man who was killed so many years ago.

Since its inception in the 19th Century photography has been a trusted source capturing both truth and reality. It cannot lie. Our eyes may deceive us, but the camera cannot. In this volume whilst our classic authors are at the early edge of photography’s development, they use it in ways that are both innovative and atmospheric as very often the camera and the photographer become a central part in many fascinating stories.

Cool Air is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him.

El miedo que acecha, El modelo de Pickman, Arthur Jermyn, Celephais, La tumba, La Musica de Erich Zann, Del mas allá, La ciudad sin nombre, El horror oculto, La llave de plata, El alquimista

Relata la historia de un arqueólogo que, tras oír los mitos y leyendas que rodean la "ciudad sin nombre", ubicada en algún sitio recóndito del desierto de Arabia, decide ir a buscarla. Al llegar descubre que está desierta (o eso creyó en un principio ) y que su extraña arquitectura no corresponde a las necesidades humanas. Tras explorar descubre que sus constructores fueron, en realidad, seres ancestrales, grotescos, de aspecto reptiliano, acaso llegados desde las profundidades del universo. Seres que todavía la habitan.

FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of Lovecraft’s classic horrific tale. Delapore recovered his ancient ancestral home and had it rebuilt; he had planned to retire there and spend his dotage in comfort. When he arrived at the estate he found the locals offish and reluctant to speak to him. There was a well understood abhorrence of the Delapore family and had been for centuries. That first night the real trouble began. An inexplicable scurrying and padding of tiny feet within the solid stone brickwork....

Doug Bradley's Spinechillers takes you into the world of classic short horror stories read by Hollywood horror icons. We get underway with H. P. Lovecraft, who explores dark deception in "The Terrible Old Man". An unearthed, long-forgotten artifact, is protected by powers intent on punishing those who would remove it, in M. R. James' "A Warning to the Curious".

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.

En los anales de la historia olvidada, oculto entre los pliegues del tiempo y el misterio, yace un libro que ha sido buscado por generaciones de inquisitivos y temerarios. El "Necronomicón" de Abdul Alhazred, una obra legendaria de la magia y el horror, ha sido una fuente inagotable de fascinación y terror desde hace siglos. A lo largo de los años, se ha convertido en el santo grial literario de aquellos que buscan los secretos más oscuros del conocimiento oculto.

Evil always seems to lurk in the world of H.P. Lovecraft. Lovecraft’s character stumbles into an area inhabited by evil spirits from another place disguised as a large strange tree. Even images of the tree can bring about madness.

Herbert West–Reanimator is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew.

This Anthology of Cthulhu Mythos brings together 25 stories from two of the most influential authors in the horror genre, H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard. This anthology is a must-read for fans of horror and speculative fiction, offering a deep dive into the nightmarish worlds that have influenced generations of readers and writers. The combination of Lovecraft's cosmic horror and Howard's vivid imagination creates a compelling and terrifying journey into the unknown.

FNH Audio presents a complete and unabridged reading of H.P. Lovecraft's famous story "At the Mountains of Madness". The story is related by one of the two survivors from a polar expedition. Unlike other polar explorers who may have died from cold, starvation or simply getting lost, in this story things are somewhat different.The survivor is desperate to prevent a new polar expedition because there are "beings" there, strange murderous beings.

Los cuentos de terror deben provocar en el lector el temor a lo desconocido. Sin duda, H.P Lovecraft lo genera en cada una de sus historias. Reconocido como uno de los autores más influyentes de la literatura fantástica, cada uno de sus cuentos son una puerta abierta al estremecimiento. Creador del estilo horror cósmico, su obra mezcla elementos de la ciencia ficción, tales como extraterrestres, viajes en el tiempo y dimensiones paralelas, con las historias de terror sobrenatural.

In this atmospheric horror story, the city of the title is the ruin of a primordial site in the Arabian desert, thought to be more ancient than the first human civilization. In its heyday, the city flourished on the edge of the ocean. The inhabitants were a species of reptile looking like a hybrid of crocodile and seal, but with horns and protruding foreheads. They moved by crawling, so the remaining buildings have low ceilings.

A new volume of exciting stories from 19th- and 20th-century American and British masters and mistresses of the art of story-telling, read by award-winning narrators.

-En español neutro, narración humana-Es un relato corto en estructura de novelette escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en el año 1926. La obra fue publicada por primera vez en febrero de 1928 por la editorial de pulp Weird Tales.1Cthulhu hace su primera aparición en este relato, convirtiéndose en una figura central del ciclo literario de los Mitos de Cthulhu. Para la mayor parte de los críticos es el inicio del horror cósmico de dicho ciclo.

The inevitable is understood by each and every one of us who faces the final calling. So too are the effects on those left behind. The memories are there but the empty space, the void can never be refilled. It remains a dark, unreliable pit of loneliness. The sadness and often depression, the lack of will to continue may swamp us all. Unquenchable, undeniable. But loss can, after mourning, give the opportunity to reappraise the lost and how we can each move forward. In the literary world an accessible balance can be given.

"The Dunwich Horror" takes place in a fictional town in Massachusetts, its main hero being the distinctly not ordinarily human Wilbur, a product of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father. Strange events surround his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade. Locals shun him and his family, and animals fear and despise him (due to his odor). All the while, his sorcerer grandfather indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft.

Con esta novela, Lovecraft escribe en los años 20 del pasado siglo una de las historias más famosas de la literatura fantástica americana. Cthulhu, el Gran Antiguo que sueña y espera en el fondo de los negros abismos oceánicos, se convertirá por sí solo en el símbolo de todo el universo que crea el autor de Providence.