Lovecraft H P : 911 books

Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the moldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he...

A man becomes lost in Mammoth Cave’s pitch darkness, when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him.

Hidden away, buried, in a dark underground city deep under the ocean, Cthulhu is older than the sun and the stars. Like nothing that has ever walked the earth, he is part man, part dragon and part octopus; he is a being of unimaginable cosmic proportions: beholding his form is enough to drive the...

The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artefact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space. (Goodreads)

Über viele Jahre haben der Erzähler und sein Onkel, Dr. Elihu Whipple, eine gewisse Faszination für ein altes, verlassenes Haus in der Benefit Street entwickelt. Dr. Whipple hat umfangreiche Aufzeichnungen über eine mysteriöse, aber scheinbar zufällige Krankheit und den Tod vieler Menschen gemacht,...

Sedici esploratori sono in viaggio per il Polo Sud. Lì, dopo varie scoperte interessanti di carattere geologico-scientifico, ne fanno un'incredibile di tutt'altra natura: una caverna che contiene diversi esseri mostruosi, congelati da milioni di anni, molti dei quali in uno stato di conservazione...

 The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as a merchant marine officer during World War I.

The narrator, hearing tales of a "lurking fear" upon Tempest Mountain, takes two men with him to investigate. They camp inside the deserted Martense Mansion as a lightning storm approaches, and feeling strangely drowsy, they all fall alseep. The narrator wakes up to find both his companions missing, and in a flash of lightning sees a demonic shadow cast upon the fireplace chimney.

This novella purports to be a report of the experience of Harry Houdini in Egypt. Although he constantly reminds us that most of what he remembers was probably a dream or hallucination, it’s really quite creepy, and certainly would give anyone with claustrophobia nightmares! Good read - fast-paced and atmospheric.

Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously...

A high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the gods of earth attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple. But the gods of the earth are not there alone.

A man discovers, at the age of 30, that his daily waking exposure to the more practical, scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking real life. Not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his dreams.

The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space. The Shining Trapezohedron was discovered in Egyptian ruins, in a box...

Hooked to a two-way telepathic communication device, a mental hospital intern speaks with a light being hosted by a criminally insane murderer.