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An Antarctic expedition runs up against a mountain range the rivals the Himalayas, and a cave concealing an ancient evil. Inside this nightmarish cavern the intrepid band of explorers make a horrifying and tragic discovery - a discovery that is best buried deep in the barren, frozen wastes of ancient Antarctica.

Harry Houdini's greatest escape ever. While visiting Cairo as a tourist, Houdini and his wife are shown around the pyramids by a mysterious and slightly sinister guide who has a strange hollow voice and looks like an old pharaoh. What starts as a strange traveller's adventure to witness a duel at midnight on the summit of one of the pyramids, turns into a nightmare as Houdini is seized, tied up and lowered on a rope far into the bowels of the earth to an unknown tomb where the oldest and most sinister of the Egyptian Pharaohs dwell....

E se quello che più ci spaventa, il mostro sotto il letto, non fosse così irreale come crediamo? Paura, occulto e fantascienza. Storie di mostri e creature, provenienti dalle profondità del mare e della terra, agiscono in una realtà parallela alla nostra, così vicina da sfiorarsi e fondersi. In questa raccolta sono presenti tutti i simboli, le ambientazioni, le tematiche e i personaggi che hanno reso H.P. Lovecraft uno degli autori dell'orrore più amati della letteratura mondiale. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) è considerato uno degli autori più importanti e apprezzati della letteratura mondiale.

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.

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 Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft is a captivating collection that immerses readers in the dark, mysterious universe created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror. This anthology brings together Lovecraft's most influential and terrifying tales, centered around the ancient, godlike entity Cthulhu and the other malevolent beings that lurk in the shadows of his universe.

Lors d'une expédition en Antarctique, une équipe de scientifiques de l'Université de Miskatonic découvre avec stupéfaction l'existence d'une chaîne de montagnes aux dimensions défiant l'imagination. Au-delà de ces murailles apparemment infranchissables, c'est toute une Cité qui se découvre à leurs yeux : cubes, blocs mégalithiques à l'équilibre impossible, les ruines, par leur seule architecture, terrifient l'équipe envoyée en reconnaissance.

"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920. The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories is also the title for a collection of short stories by Lovecraft, first published in February 1971.

"The Music of Erich Zann." Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is a novelist famous for his horror stories, fantasy and science fiction. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, his work is now considered a classic of literature. Lovecraft's work has influenced many authors, including Stephen King, who considers him "the greatest craftsman of the classic horror story of the 20th century."

The story begins with Detective Malone describing an on-duty incident in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that gave him a phobia of large buildings. Back-tracking to where it all began, the Brooklyn waterfront slum Red Hook is described in detail, with its gangs and crime, and hinting at an occult underbelly. The "case of Robert Suydam" is then told to be the driving force behind Malone's federally ordered involvement at Red Hook. Suydam's demeanor changes suddenly. Known as a shabby recluse, he is seen around town looking younger and more radiant.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being "jostled by a nautical-looking negro".

"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.

"Nyarlathotep" was written in the year 1920 by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This book is one of the most popular novels of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and has been translated into several other languages around the world.

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.orgThis is a Librivox Recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.

Développez votre culture générale et profitez du plaisir de la narration, avec une sélection de nouvelles par les plus grands écrivains, choisies pour leur qualité et aussi pour leur caractère inhabituel. Cette collection vous emmènera du fantastique au désespoir de l'artiste ou de l'écrivain jusqu'à l'humour surréel, avec une narration vivante et talentueuse.

This short story first appeared in science fiction magazine Amazing Stories and tells of a meteorite crash in rural Massachusetts...and of the horrific results. It was one of HP Lovecraft's most popular works for its combination of science fiction and horror, and it was the author's personal favorite short story.

Poetry is often cited as our greatest use of words. The English language has well over a million of them and poets down the ages seem, at times, to make use of every single one. But often they use them in simple ways to describe anything and everything from landscapes to all aspects of the human condition.

"The Whisperer in Darkness." Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is a novelist famous for his horror stories, fantasy and science fiction. Although he was not famous during his lifetime, his work is now considered a classic of literature. Lovecraft's work has influenced many authors, including Stephen King, who considers him "the greatest craftsman of the classic horror story of the 20th century."

In this collection of short stories some of our most popular and well-known authors are grouped together with an unfortunate tag: dead at 46. These authors are not run-of-the-mill or ten a penny; many are literary leviathans who left enduring works of literature and sadly may have left us many more had they lived. We will never know.