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Un thriller fantastique sous forme de descente aux enfers au cœur d'une ville portuaire pleine de mystère et de légendes effroyables portant le nom maudit d'Innsmouth. Un jeune homme passionné d'antiquités et de généalogie entame une visite de la Nouvelle-Angleterre lorsque son attention se porte sur une mystérieuse ville sinistrée et lugubre répondant au nom d'Innsmouth. Inexorablement attiré par elle, il ignore les nombreuses mises en garde, les glaçantes rumeurs et les effroyables légendes à son sujet et décide de s'y rendre.

H.P. Lovecraft never found fame during his lifetime and died in 1937 in relative obscurity. But in the decades that followed his death, his importance as a unique and original visionary in the genre of science fantasy and 'weird fiction' has grown monumentally, so that even talents such as author Stephen King and film-maker John Carpenter have described him as a prime influence upon their creative lives. Here, then, is a selection of his stories.

Kuranes, an English Nobleman ill-content with his real life, once dreamed of the city of Celephaïs. Many years later, at the height of his discontent, he manages to slip away permanently into his dreams. After a guided recollection of his childhood, he comes upon Celephaïs. While his psyche happily remains guard over the city, his body is found back in the real world, washed ashore on the banks of his family’s land.   

Unlike many of Lovecraft’s stories, this story takes place in Greece, and more importantly, on a mountain that was supposedly watched over by Pan. Kalos and Musides, two friends, live here, and when Kalos falls ill and dies, Musides decides to use his sculpting powers to use. He erects a great monument to Kalos over his tomb, but an oak tree decides to overtake it, shaping into what looks like a deformed and monstrous human figure. Musides’ fears about the tree sapping the vital force from his friend’s grave are finally struck down by lightning - and with it the whole monument.

Cthulhu lovers take note, this early story of the sea god Dagon is considered to be part of the Cthulhu mythos. In Dagon, the protagonist is lost at sea for days, wading through dead fish and other foulness, until he comes to an island with a monolith on a rocky hillside. After reading the pictographs, his eyes land on the terrible image of a monster rising from the sea. When he wakes up in a San Francisco hospital he thinks the ordeal is over - that is, until the sea god comes to haunt his waking and sleeping life.   

In this story by H.P. Lovecraft, the line between man and beast is blurred. The Beast in the Cave follows the story of a man who gets separated from his group of tourists. They’ve all come to see the mammoth cave, but the man fears that it might be the last wonder he sees as he continues to wander further from his group. Eventually, his torch runs out of fuel and he is left with no other choice but to fend off approaching inhuman footsteps with the toss of a rock. 

Much like Celephaïs, the unnamed narrator recalls his dreams of drifting on a dreamy ship toward the west and exploring the mystical and ethereal land of the west. The narrator recalls that he always ended at an ivy wall with a gate in it. After years of unrelenting depression in the real world, the narrator decides that he will try and go through the gate of his dreams, wherein he swallows “the drug”. After opening the door, he realizes quickly (and to his delight) that his expectations of what lay beyond were completely wrong.   

A lot happens in this very short story by H.P. Lovecraft, but it begins as the title might lend itself to imagine - with a terrible old man. As three thieves find out about this old man’s treasures, they decide to visit with the man with the intent to steal his riches. Their plan goes horribly wrong when one of the three hears screaming from the getaway car. When he enters the house, he finds the hideous, yellow-eyed man staring evilly at him, waiting to usher in his doom. 

Though The Street tries to remain in the realm of horror and the supernatural, what it really amounts to is one of the earliest written documents of Lovecraft’s political stance and stance on other races. In this story, the street is the protagonist. Lovecraft documents its growth from quaint and colonial New England town to downtrodden and dirty as immigrants move in after the first world war. When a “vast group of terrorists” living in the neighborhood plot to overthrow the federal government on July 4th, the street decides to take matters into its own (metaphorical) hands.

The "blasted heath" they called it. Five acres of grey desolation, like a sore eaten into the land. West of Arkham, the hills rise wild. There are dark little glens where the trees hang precariously and where thin brooklets trickle, never having been touched by sunlight. There was once a road over the hills and through the valley, but people ceased to use it. The old folk have died or gone away, and the farms and villages are slowly decaying back into dark woods and narrow clearings. A family died up there.

Providence, Etats-Unis, 1918. Dès son enfance, Charles Dexter Ward s'est passionné d'histoire et de généalogie. Au hasard de ses recherches, il se découvre un ancêtre effrayant nommé Joseph Curwen, qui avait fui la ville de Salem lors des chasses aux sorciers du XVIIIe siècle, pour s'établir à Providence, où il décéda mystérieusement en 1771. Cette découverte est le début d'une obsession qui va virer à la folie. Obstinément, le jeune Ward s'évertue à retrouver les traces de cet énigmatique Joseph Curwen et commence à montrer un inquiétant mimétisme avec son aïeul...

The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness are counted among H. P. Lovecraft's most popular stories. In the first we are transported to the decrepit coastal town of Innsmouth, whose amphibianlike citizens betray a dark and sinister secret. The second takes us to Vermont, where a university professor becomes embroiled in a mind-bending celestial mystery after strange things are seen floating in the rivers.

At the Mountains of Madness first appeared in 1936, in the February, March and April editions of the American magazine Astounding Stories. One of H.P. Lovecraft’s most chilling works, it draws on Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, as well as Lovecraft’s deep fascination with the Antarctic. The sinister discoveries made by a group of explorers in At the Mountains of Madness are testament to the author’s enormous powers of imagination.

El que susurra en la oscuridad supone un desvío en las obras de Howard Phillips Lovecraft hacia la ciencia ficción, sin por ello descuidar su faceta literaria más famosa: el terror. Narra en su mayor parte la entrevista de su protagonista con el enigmático Henry Wentworth Akeley, un anciano postrado en una silla de ruedas y en un lamentable estado físico. Akeley le revelará durante la entrevista mucha información sobre una supuesta raza extraterrestre y su habilidad para extirpar cerebros que luego mantienen con vida...

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.

Los cuentos de terror deben provocar en el lector el temor a lo desconocido. Sin duda, H.P Lovecraft lo genera en cada una de sus historias. Reconocido como uno de los autores más influyentes de la literatura fantástica, cada uno de sus cuentos son una puerta abierta al estremecimiento. Creador del estilo horror cósmico, su obra mezcla elementos de la ciencia ficción, tales como extraterrestres, viajes en el tiempo y dimensiones paralelas, con las historias de terror sobrenatural.

Nuestro protagonista es un adicto a las drogas, dominado por ideas suicidas desde un incidente que le ocurrió durante la guerra, cuando era oficial de la Marina mercante. Cuando su barco iba ser capturado por los alemanes, consiguió escapar en una lancha salvavidas. Navegó a la deriva durante varios días, hasta que encalló en una especie de tierra, que era negra hasta donde alcanzaba la vista. Había allí toda clase de seres indescriptibles.

L'Affaire Charles Dexter Ward est une longue nouvelle fantastique de Howard Phillips Lovecraft. La nouvelle s'inscrit dans l'univers du mythe de Cthulhu. L'histoire : Selon la croyance populaire, Joseph Curwen aurait fui Salem en 1692 lorsque les persécutions contre les sorciers et sorcières débutèrent de peur d'être lui-même accusé de sorcellerie à cause des expériences de chimie et d'alchimie qu'il pratiquait.

Rencontrant des difficultés financières, un jeune étudiant d'université se voit contraint de se loger au seul endroit où ses maigres moyens le lui permettent. Dans une partie étrange de la ville où il n'avait encore jamais été auparavant, il trouve un appartement dans un immeuble presque vide. L'un des rares locataires du lieu est Erich Zann, un vieil homme d'origine allemande, qui est muet et joue de la viole dans un orchestre local. Il vit à l'étage supérieur, et lorsqu'il est seul, la nuit, il joue d'étranges mélodies jamais entendues auparavant.

La nouvelle retranscrit le testament d'un officier de la marine marchande rongé par le souvenir d'une étrange aventure vécue sur une île inconnue des cartes, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale... Témoin de l'apparition d'une gigantesque créature ichtyoïde s'agrippant à un monolithe, vestige mystérieux d'une antique civilisation sous-marine, le protagoniste raconte cette rencontre impensable... Stephen King a dit de Lovecraft qu'il était "le plus grand artisan du récit classique d'horreur du vingtième siècle".