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Genial selección del escritor estadounidense H. P. Lovecraft, considerado como el innovador del cuento de terror. Excelente ambientación y efectos sonoros que lo sumergirán en relatos que lo estremecerán por completo. Incluye: Las Ratas en las paredes, La Nave Blanca, La Decisión de Randolph Carter y El Clérigo Malvado.

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of 13 of H. P. Lovecraft's most well-renowned stories, read by Audie-Award winner Jonathan Keeble. The stories included here are: 'The Colour Out of Space', 'The Dunwich Horror', 'The Whisperer in the Darkness', 'The Haunter of the Dark', 'Call of Cthulhu', 'The Rats in the Walls', 'From Beyond; Dagon', 'At the Mountains of Madness', 'In the Vault', 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth', 'The Dreams in the Witch House', 'The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath'.

Robert Blake—a young man with an interest in the occult—becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on a hill which he can see from his lodgings. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

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 extra terrestrial 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. The narrator pieces together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses

The dark and twisted story of Wilbur Whateley and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade—all the while becoming indoctrinated into dark rituals and witchcraft by his grandfather.

H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and M.R. James: The Ultimate Collection is a fully indexed collection containing over 75 stories and poems from the three most beloved horror and ghost writers in modern literature. Read by three Audie-winning narrators.

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.

In the Vault was based on a suggestion made in August 1925 by Charles W. Smith, editor of the amateur journal Tryout, which Lovecraft recorded in a letter: 'an undertaker imprisoned in a village vault where he was removing winter coffins for spring burial, and his escape by enlarging a transom reached by the piling up of the coffins'.

Before throwing himself from the window of his attic, the untitled protagonist writes some notes related to his mental state. Then, he begins to recall an old story that happened in the years of the First World War: suddenly, he finds himself a prisoner of a German ship in the Pacific Ocean. After only five days, the protagonist manages to escape with a raft. Wandering for days, adrift in the sea, one afternoon he finds himself stranded on a disquieting and apparently deserted island and, from there, things only get stranger.

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

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.

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.

Le style unique de Lovecraft au service de trois histoires effrayantes. "LE CAUCHEMAR D'INNSMOUTH" : Que se passe-t-il à Innsmouth ? Pourquoi les gens évitent ses habitants comme s'ils étaient maudits ? Quel secret cache cet ancien port à l'abandon ? Je m'y retrouvais par les hasards d'un voyage... Mais était-ce bien un hasard ?... Et j'y vécus la plus terrible nuit de mon existence ! Je croyais avoir survécu au pire...Mais le cauchemar ne faisait que commencer.

En el invierno de 1926, un ilustre profesor de lenguas semíticas en la universidad de Brown muere en extrañas circunstancias y deja tras de sí los documentos de una investigación en la que estaba trabajando. El sobrino nieto del profesor, heredero de su legado, se vuelca en la interpretación de estos documentos, los cuales revelan la existencia de una misteriosa secta.

Una de las novelas cortas más conocidas de Howard Phillips Lovecraft, en la que vuelve a entrecruzar su historia con tintes de ciencia ficción y horror. El narrador, un reputado profesor de universidad, vuelve en sí tras años de amnesia total en los que se ha comportado como un completo extraño ávido de conocimientos y ha terminado alejando a todos sus seres queridos. Pronto descubrirá qué es lo que ha poseído su cuerpo durante esos años, y a qué lugar terrorífico más allá del tiempo ha ido a parar su consciencia.

H. P. Lovecraft was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Lord Dunsany's fictional works, and eventually, his stories and books became as good as, perhaps even better than theirs.

Una de las obras capitales de Howard Phillips Lovecraft, inspiradora de numerosos relatos y películas como "La Cosa" de John Carpenter. Narra la historia de una expedición al antártico y del horrible secreto que en él descubren: una inimaginable cadena montañosa bajo la cual se extienden las ruinas de una complejísima y olvidada civilización no humana. Dos miembros de la expedición se internarán en las ruinas para desentrañar sus secretos, ignorantes de lo que les espera bajo el hielo antediluviano.

En el pueblo de Ulthar había un matrimonio al que no le gustaban absolutamente nada los gatos. Hasta tal punto llegaba su odio por los pequeños felinos, que no dudaban en matarlos de las formas más terribles. En una ocasión, visitó el pueblo un grupo de viajeros. En él venía un niño llamado Menes, al que la vida había dejado huérfano, y que tenía como único amigo para consolarse de su soledad un pequeño gato negro. Un día, su gatito desapareció...