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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to The Shadow Over Innsmouth and Dagon and experience the compelling world of Innsmouth and Dagon.

The unnamed narrator of the story goes into the middle of the Arabian Peninsula to seek out and enter a lost city. After hearing a clanging seemingly coming from deep inside the earth, the narrator inspects mysterious carvings and ruins until nightfall. The next day, the narrator discovers a cliff riddled with low-ceilinged buildings, unfit for human use. While he attends to his suddenly nervous camel, the narrator discovers a somewhat larger temple, with altars, painted murals, and a small staircase going down.

"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".

Nyarlathotep is the prose poem that marks the first appearance of "The Crawling Chaos", an Outer God in the Cthulu Mythos and one of Lovecraft’s most famous creations. Based on a vivid nightmare that Lovecraft experienced, the poem has been described as “a bleak view of human civilization in decline, and explores the mixed sensations of desperation and defiance in a dying society.”

A vengeful man strikes back from the dead against the undertaker that wronged him in death....

Bei einer Antarktis-Expedition stoßen Wissenschaftler auf die gefrorenen Leichen seltsamer Wesen...

Not your typical Lovecraft, but highly thought-provoking. Full of symbolism, this 16-minute audiobook is indeed a life lesson. A night of pleasant dreams followed by a nightmare and awakening to the reality that you can't go back.

Critic William Fulwiler writes that "Polaris" is one of Lovecraft's most autobiographical stories, reflecting his feelings of guilt, frustration, and uselessness during World War I. Like the narrator, HPL was "denied a warrior's part", for he "was feeble and given to strange faintings when subjected to stress and hardships".

A wonderful collection of classic thrillers, mystery stories, crime tales and weird accounts of uncanny events.1. Query by “Seamark” 2. The Furnished Room by O. Henry 3.The Dancing Partner by Jerome K. Jerome 4. The Squaw by Bram Stoker 5. The 19 Club by A. J. Alan 6. The Interruption by W. W. Jacobs7. Laura by Saki 8. A Descent into the Maelström by Edgar Allan Poe 9. The Diver by A. J. Alan10. The Man of the Night by Edgar Wallace11. The Burglary by Arnold Bennett

Two men, only able to find pleasure in the extreme, turn to defiling crypts and keeping the souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions, creating a morbid museum in the basement of their secluded home. When they steal a potent amulet mentioned in the dreaded and forbidden Necronomicon from a 500-years-dead grave robber in Holland, he comes back for it and more.

The Lurking Fear is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of "strange horrors" who is investigating the massacre of a community of some six dozen backwoods degenerates in an obscure region of the Catskills, a massacre which occurred during a particularly violent electrical storm and seems to have been perpetrated by an unidentified clawed beast.

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.

La historia comienza en el ático de una antigua casa. El compañero del narrador se refiere al antiguo dueño de la casa y al presunto final violento que le sucedió. Aconseja al narrador que no se quede en la oscuridad ni toque nada, especialmente el objeto pequeño sobre una mesa, que el compañero parece temer considerablemente. Observa a otros hombres dentro de la habitación, todos vestidos con traje de clérigos, incluyendo un obispo; Se enfrentan al primer hombre, que alcanza el objeto sobre la mesa con una sonrisa irónica.

This spine chilling tale by HP Lovecraft, depicts an unimaginable horror arising in the isolated village of Dunwich, which poses a threat to the whole world.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved posthumous acclaim for his outstanding and influential works of horror fiction. Dagon is the story of a shipwrecked sailor who comes face to face with an ancient and terrible sea-god, Dagon. So horrifying is his ordeal that he spends the rest of his life trying to escape the awful clutches of Dagon. In the end there is only one way out.

El grito del muerto de H. P. Lovecraft, narra los resultados de las investigaciones del Dr. Herbert West sobre la muerte y la reanimación de los cuerpos, desde sus tiempos de estudiante en la ficticia Universidad Miskatonic hasta poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Herbert, un estudiante de medicina está obsesionado con resucitar a los muertos. Ayudado por su mejor amigo, desentierra cadáveres y hace incontables experiencias macabras, consiguiendo su objetivo al cabo de varios años.

Uno de los cuentos de inspiración gótica de Howard Phillips Lovecraft con atmósfera más asfixiante y desenlace cruento. En él, el narrador nos cuenta la historia de un caserón siniestro y rodeado de una horrible leyenda que implica la muerte de todos sus inquilinos. Acompañado de un pariente, decide pasar la noche entre los muros del caserón, aunque ninguno de los dos puede imaginar lo que en ellos les espera. Howard Phillips Lovecraft es un escritor nacido en Providence, Estados Unidos, en 1890 y fallecido en 1937.

When an American man discovers that he's the last descendant of the De la Poer family, he travels to England to take over their crumbling estate. Accompanied only by his cat, the man follows the incessant sound of rats to a dark place beneath the estate, unearthing horrible, dark, gruesome secrets about his ancestors and the type of activities they partook in. Taken by madness, the man falls into a dark pit of despair and commits unthinkable crimes. This jarring story from a renowned writer of horror fiction utilizes fear-inducing themes to entice its audience.

A strange old man, "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name," lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport. Even among the locals, few know the details of the old man's life, but it is believed that he once captained East Indian clipper ships in his youth and accumulated great riches throughout his life.