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"The Colour out of Space." 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."

Richard Upton Pickman is a Bostonian painter, notorious for creating horrifying paintings. His ghoulish works are brilliant, but they're so graphic that his membership in the Boston Art Club is revoked and he finds himself shunned by his fellow artists. Then Pickman mysteriously disappears, and his friend finds himself on a mission of horror and evil to discover the truth.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Life is a hideous thing, and the story of the Jermyn family proves it. For generations they were a line of English baronets known for their brilliance, their strange looks, and their madness. It began in the eighteenth century, when Sir Wade Jermyn...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft is among the greatest American masters of fantasy and the supernatural. Since his early death in 1937 his stories have continued to attract attention and praise from an ever-growing audience. The Rats in the Walls is one of his finest stories. Its tones are dark and chilling and its revelations upsetting and numbing. It is pure Lovecraft.

The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in the revocation of his membership in the Boston Art Club and he is shunned by his fellow artists. The narrator is a friend of Pickman, who, after the artist's mysterious disappearance, relates to another acquaintance how he was taken on a tour of Pickman's personal gallery, hidden away in a run-down backwater slum of the city.

Août 1939. Le monde est au bord de la guerre. Depuis l'Antarctique, la mission de recherche scientifique du Pr Dyer envoie un signal de détresse. Embarquée à bord d'un Bristol Beaufort britannique une équipe de sauvetage, formée de soldats aguerris, vole à leur secours. Parmi eux, une pièce rapportée, une femme étrange : le capitaine nazi Ilsa Dunkel, spécialiste en sciences occultes, dont le Pr Dyer a exigé la venue. Les tensions dues à sa présence et à son uniforme mettent les nerfs des autres soldats à vifs.

"Dagon" ist eine Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft aus dem Jahr 1917 und damit eines seiner ersten Werke als Erwachsener. Veröffentlicht wurde die Geschichte erstmals 1919 in der Novemberausgabe von "The Vagrant", einer Amateurpresse-Zeitschrift der damaligen Zeit, die von W. Paul Cook herausgegeben wurde. Lovecraft wurde nach eigenen Worten durch einen Traum zu dieser Geschichte inspiriert.

"Dagon." 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."

"Hypnos." 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."

This volume features William F Harvey's original undead hand story "The Beast with Five Fingers" that sparked many movies including Sam Raimi's "The Evil Dead". Poe's classic "The Tell Tale Heart" is joined by Lovecraft's creepy tale of alienation "The Outsider", and a chilling Dickens ghost story "The Signalman".

Berge des Wahnsinns (Originaltitel At the Mountains of Madness) ist der Titel eines Romans von H. P. Lovecraft, der erstmals 1936 in Astounding Stories veröffentlicht und 1939 in die Sammlung The Outsider and Others aufgenommen wurde. Die Geschichte handelt von einer Expedition in die Antarktis. Die Forscher entdecken eine uralte Stadt, die von einer außerirdischen Rasse erbaut wurde und nun von albtraumhaften Kreaturen bewohnt wird. Die Expeditionsteilnehmer werden von den Wesen angegriffen und müssen um ihr Überleben kämpfen.

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror, including some of his most fantastic tales.

Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva decide to visit The Terrible Old Man and steal his vast fortune - but his nickname proves truer than the thieves could ever have imagined.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. August 1917. A German U-boat commander sinks a British freighter in the Atlantic and takes from a dead sailor’s pocket a small carved ivory head of extraordinary antiquity. From that moment the voyage begins to go wrong. The crew hear things against...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the little town of Ulthar, beyond the river Skai, there is an ancient law: no man may kill a cat. This is the story of how that law came to be. Long ago, a sour old cottager and his wife lived at the edge of the town, and they took a private pleasure...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia, beside the ruins of an ancient villa, stands a single olive tree of monstrous and disquieting shape. Its branches form something uncomfortably like a human figure, and the peasants will not go near it after dark...

A traveler seeking shelter from a storm enters an isolated New England farmhouse, where an ancient book and its unsettling owner reveal a horrifying obsession. H. P. Lovecraft’s The Picture in the House is a chilling tale of rural terror, forbidden curiosity, and gruesome secrets hidden behind...

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries—and their encounter with an untold menace in the ruins of a lost civilization—is a milestone of macabre literature.

"Nous allâmes repérer la nouvelle tombe. Nous décidâmes de nous mettre au travail peu après minuit. Ce fut une tâche assez répugnante même si, à cette époque, nous ne ressentions pas encore cette horreur particulière pour les cimetières que nos expériences allaient bientôt provoquer en nous."Jeune médecin, Herbert West a une idée fixe : redonner vie aux morts. Pour ses recherches, il commence par déterrer des corps. Puis, son besoin en cadavres de plus en plus frais va l'entraîner à commettre des actes monstrueux.

Ya su tatarabuelo comenzó a obsesionarse con la leyenda sobre una supuesta civilización prehistórica de individuos blancos que vivían en una zona recóndita del Congo. Arthur era hijo de Alfred, y de una cantante de cabaret, que se trasladó con su hijo a Jermyn House cuando murió su marido. Arthur siempre tuvo desde pequeño una apariencia simiesca, pero sin embargo era culto y talentoso.