P Lovecraft: 913 books

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...

Excellently evokes the sense of superstitious horror connected to the mysteries of Ancient Egypt and the pharaohs in popular imagination. Atmospheric and maintains a horrid claustrophobic feeling of terror and suspense which Lovecraft is renowned for. (Goodreads)

Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." Randolph once believed life is made up of nothing but pictures in memory, whether they be from real life or dreams, and he highly prefers his romantic nightly dreams of fantastic places...

This is a masterful tale of horror. 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.

It tells the story of the esteemed sculptors Kalos and Musides, very close friends who live together, who have become rivals in the creation of a monumental statue of Tyche the Goddess of Fortune commissioned by the Tyrant of Syracuse. It is an old fashioned kind of story—a little Damon and Pythias,...

In the most common Lovecraft's way of retelling something, this story starts from the end, from Arthur Jermyn's suicide, emphasises the importance of something he found out, then goes back a couple of generations to tell the story of his family. The past explains his peculiar appearance and the way and reason he died. (Goodreads)

Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937) was an American writer world-famous for his horror fiction works. In London lives a man described as “harmlessly mad”, for the weirdest thing he does is screaming when the bells ring. He wishes to get isolated from the people to the required minimum, answer...

The Shadow Over Innsmouth   Chapter 1         During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public...

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author, writer who achieved fame after passing away. He is known for influential works of horror fiction. The Other Gods is a short story that was written on August 14, 1921, published in November 1933 and it tells about Barzai the Wise, a high priest and...

A young student finds that his understanding of mathematics and residence in a strange boarding house combine to give him unwilling access to a strange and evil realm. As typical for Lovecraft, he does a great job of providing horrifying hints, your imagination is required to complete the picture.

Like many of Lovecraft's classic horror stories this one shows just how alone we really are. When the inexplicable occurs there is nobody to turn to and madness steals over the world unchecked. A powerful tale of black magic.