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Imagine being lost in Mammoth Cave, with no light, and your imagination begins to run wild. You hear footsteps, but they are not the footsteps of a biped. H.P. Lovecraft wrote this short story when he was 14 years old. A harbinger of future genius.

H.P. Lovecraft e il suo amico Loveman decidono di addentrarsi in un cimitero di notte. Durante l’esplorazione, Loveman scopre un misterioso passaggio sotterraneo che sembra condurre al centro della terra e decide di avventurarsi. Prima di partire, lascia a Lovecraft un telefono con un lunghissimo filo per tenerlo aggiornato su ciò che scoprirà nel viaggio. Le famose storie dell’orrore dello scrittore statunitense Howard Phillips Lovecraft continuano a far discutere gli appassionati, incerti se collocarle nella categoria del fantastico più originale o delle cronache di un possibile domani.

The Tomb is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home. The Tomb tells of Jervas Dudley, a confessed daydreamer. While still a child, he discovers the padlocked entrance to a mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family, whose nearby mansion had burnt down many years previously. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable.

"The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson first published April 1921 in the United Cooperative. As in their other collaboration, "The Green Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" and "Lewis Theobald, Jun". Lovecraft wrote the entire text, but Jackson is also credited since the story was based on a dream she experienced.

Il "Ciclo del sogno" è una delle colonne portanti dell'opera di Lovecraft e si erge come la più multiforme, inventiva e spesso spiazzante esplorazione mai concepita nei regni dell'immaginario e del fantastico. Nella visione di Lovecraft la dimensione onirica è l'esatto opposto di un luogo contradditorio, insensato o caotico e i "regni del sogno" formano un vero e proprio universo a se stante, connesso al nostro da arcani portali, dotato di una complessa struttura tridimensionale, pervaso da contrasti, conflitti, battaglie.

"L'orrido attende e sogna nella profondità, mentre la decadenza dilaga sulle brulicanti città dell'uomo." Profeta e precursore, iniziatore e ispiratore, Howard Phillips Lovecraft - HPL nell'acronimo ormai universale – è, nessun dubbio in merito, l'erede primario di Edgar Allan Poe nella letteratura del gotico e dell'horror, del grottesco e del soprannaturale. Ma HPL è anche molto, molto di più.

The tomb is the story of Jervas, a little boy whose whole life begins to revolve around the tomb of the Hyde family. A childhood spent sneaking out to sleep beside the tomb eventually turns into a young adulthood of sleeping in a tomb with his name on it. After a stormy night and after heading for the tomb, he turns back and sees the Hyde mansion, which had been burnt down in previous years, aglow with splendor. Once Jervas went inside, the spectral mansion sets ablaze, and his vision is broken by his father. Jervas comes to find out he had never been inside the tomb at all.

È vero ho sparato sei pallottole in testa al mio migliore amico, ma spero di dimostrare, attraverso la storia che sto per raccontare, che non sono il suo assasino Letto da Roberto Pedicini, la voce italiana di Javier Bardem, Kevin Spacey e Jim Carrey, sulle musiche di Ludwig van Beethoven e Hector Berlioz arrangiate in chiave elettronica.

Herbert West-Reanimator is an outstanding horror story by H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator and its sequels, in addition to numerous other adaptations in various media. You want zombies? Real zombies? Listen to this because Lovecraft was one of the very first and he got zombies right: Scary, evil, implacable and most definitely out to get you.

Die Gruselkabinett Box 46 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Sarahs Grabmal", "Die andere Seite", "Das Haar der Sklavin" und "Die Musik des Erich Zann".

"He" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926. The story's anonymous narrator has moved from New England to New York City, and greatly regrets it. One night, while wandering through a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man dressed in garments from the 18th century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town. The man brings the narrator into his home.

The Nameless City is a horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story. The Nameless City of the story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, and is older than any human civilization.

The Colour Out of Space is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed Boston surveyor.

The Lurking Fear is in all of us, only this time it's coming at you from the innermost regions of your mind. Find a fireplace and settle in as narrator Edgar Lloyd takes you on another trip through the underground recesses of your soul. Check out this haunting narration of H. P. Lovecraft's The Lurking Fear as you crawl into and out of the decrepit crypts of insanity. Experience the chills that only true tales of Victorian horror can conjure. Now...go ahead.... Press the button!

H.P. Lovecraft, best known for his science fiction work, turns out a very masterful horror story here and possibly a precursor to today's zombie. It was the basis of the 1985 horror film Re-Animator.

Leave it to H.P. Lovecraft to depict in this short poem narrated by Earphone Award winner Mike Vendetti, "Holloween in a Suburb" of tombstones.

"The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft contains all the original stories which Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It begins in 1917 with "The Tomb" and ends in 1935 with his last original work "The Haunter of the Dark." The book is ordered chronologically by the date the story was written.

"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July 1919 issue of The National Amateur - which was published in the summer of 1921. Plot: While riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man," speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect...thought long extinct."

Misteriosa località all'apparenza abbandonata, centro di oscuri rituali esoterici, la cittadina portuale di Innsmouth, New England, sembra ormai scomparsa dalle mappe. Un giovane viaggiatore ci finisce per caso e mentre cerca informazioni sulla storia locale, gli capita di ascoltare il lungo e delirante racconto di un vecchio marinaio ubriaco, Zadok Allen, che gli narra di demoniache creature degli abissi arrivate da mari lontani. Uscito nel 1936, e Shadow Over Innsmouth è considerato uno dei migliori racconti del terrore di Lovecraft.

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.