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Dreams in the Witch House is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle of horror fiction.  Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House," a house in Arkham that is rumored to be cursed....

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock...

Venture at your own risk into a realm where the sun sinks into oblivion–and all that is unholy, unearthly, and unspeakable rises. These rare, hard-to-find collaborations of cosmic terror are back in print, including • Wentworth’s Day A fellow figures his debt to a dead man is null and...

The Castle of Otranto - Horace Walpole The History of Caliph Vathek - William Beckford The Mysteries of Udolpho - Ann Radcliffe Caleb Williams - William Godwin Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen Frankenstein - Mary Shelley Melmoth the Wanderer (Lock...

The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperament. The narrator is a doctor who went to medical school with the titular character....

Three independent narratives linked together by the device of a narrator discovering notes left by a deceased relative. Piecing together the whole truth and disturbing significance of the information he possesses, the narrator's final line is ''The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the...

En todo el mundo el nombre de Howard Philips Lovecraft es sinónimo de terror literarios y es considerado por muchos sectores sociales como un autor de culto. Y esto no es fortuito o una moda pasajera, sino el reflejo de su gran calidad literaria y su vasta imaginación. De hecho, los escritores de...

*En las montañas de la locura *narra la expedición desastrosa que realizan unos grupo de expertos a la Antártida, en el que descubren unos seres biológicamente extraordinarios que llegaron a la tierra desde otro astro mucho antes de la aparición de la humanidad, y que fueron casi extinguidos...

Como viene siendo habitual en Lovecraft, este relato va a reflejar la particular cosmogonía y elementos que caracterizan su obra. Escenarios lúgubres y misteriosos, leyendas terribles en las que se mezcla lo humano con lo sobrenatural, materializado en seres deformes o mutados, descubrimiento...

A principios de siglo, dos genios cambiaron la percepcion humana del tiempo. Uno, Albert Einstein, enuncio la teoria general de la relatividad. Otro, Lovecraft, rompio las barreras espacio-temporales en paginas como las de El abismo en el tiempo.

En la década de 1920, Howard Phillips Lovecraft escribió una serie de historias con el mismo tema: la Tierra una vez había sido habitada por seres extraterrestres con poderes extraordinarios. En otros tiempos, estos seres podían moverse a través del espacio y descartar o destruir planetas enteros,...

The strength of Lovecraft’s writing lies in his refusal to provide every gruesome detail. The reader is only permitted a quick peek behind the curtain and is then left to fill in his own details. Warning: do not read late at night in an empty house.

With incisive power, Lovecraft here formulates the aesthetics of supernatural horror & summarises the range of its literary expression from primitive folklore to the tales of his own 20th-century masters. (Goodreads)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft, nascido em Providence, Rhode Island (1890-1937), interessava-se pela ciência e suas conquistas modernas e pelo ocultismo. Tão cultuado como Edgar Allan Poe, é autor de admiráveis histórias de terror e sobrenatural que influenciaram decisivamente o desenvolvimento da...