H. P Lovecraft

The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I. As the city grows up around the street, it is planted with many trees and built along with "simple, beautiful houses of brick and wood", each with a rose garden. As the Industrial Revolution runs its course, the area...

"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia. Plot: The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, a Mexican called Juan Romero, venture inside the mine, drawn...

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....

The Shadow over Innsmouth is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in NovemberDecember 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. The Shadow over Innsmouth is the only Lovecraft story that was published in book form during his lifetime. The narrator is a student...

"Hypnos" is a first-person narrative, written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent and later London, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it. The narrator, a sculptor, recounts meeting a mysterious man in a railway station. The moment the man opened his "immense, sunken, and widely luminous eyes",...

Cool Air by H. P. Lovecraft - A tale of dark science, and the ghastly mystery that enveloped the Spanish doctors attempts at artificial refrigeration. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was known for pioneering cosmic horrora genre emphasizing the insignificance of humanity in an indifferent universe. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft was a sickly and reclusive child, heavily influenced by classical literature, science, and the works of Edgar Allan...

This is the recollection of a man facing the end of his life and the sweet refuge that sleep offers. The man desired to find the way into his dream land permanently -- the latch that would allow him through the gate. He finds a yellowed papyrus that tells of conflicting experiences on the other side of the gate, some of wonderful things and others horrifying and terrible. Although not sure which to believe, his desire to cross through intensified....

Silas Czerny, Maler und Ex-Junkie in Frankfurt am Main, kommt in Kontakt mit der neuen Droge OpenMind. Noch in derselben Nacht vollendet er ein Gemälde, das seinen verblassten Ruhm wieder neu aufleben lässt. Wenig später kommt es zu mysteriösen Unfällen und Amokläufen, Vorboten für ein großes, zerstörerisches Ereignis.

This way lies monsters and madness. Because you're about to enter the imagination of H.P. Lovecraft. A master of the short story form, Lovecraft made the unknowable scarily real. Parallel universes, alien worlds, vengeful spirits-all realised in the space of a few pages. And all brought to life with sparse, simple language, making Lovecraft's fiction an easy read for modern audiences. This volume contains five of his short stories: "From Beyond",...

Randolph Carter, è avido di conoscere le meravigliose città dalle cupole d'oro che tante volte ha intravisto tra la veglia e il sonno. Il suo animo cede quando, turbato dalle acque troppo profonde, si trova a dover affrontare dei mostri terribili che all'uomo non è dato di poter combattere con successo.