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The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, a Mexican called Juan Romero, venture together inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground. Romero reaches the abyss first and is swallowed by it. The narrator peers over the edge, sees something – "but God, I dare not tell you what I saw!" and loses consciousness. The next morning, the narrator and the deceased Romero are both found in their bunks.

The dark and twisted story of Wilbur Whateley and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade—all the while becoming indoctrinated into dark rituals and witchcraft by his grandfather.

Two men, only able to find pleasure in the extreme, turn to defiling crypts and keeping the souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions, creating a morbid museum in the basement of their secluded home. When they steal a potent amulet mentioned in the dreaded and forbidden Necronomicon from a 500-years-dead grave robber in Holland, he comes back for it and more.

"The Silver Key" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It is a continuation of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and was followed by a sequel, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", co-written with E. Hoffmann Price. The story and its sequel both feature Lovecraft's recurring character of Randolph Carter as the protagonist.

In Beyond the Wall of Sleep, an intern in a mental hospital relates his experiences with Joe Slater, a backward Catskills mountain man and now inmate at a hospital for the criminally insane. The inmate was having very strange and vivid dreams which he described in a way seemingly impossible for a man of his limited intellect. The intern decides to use a device he built but never tested, a device that could be used for two-way telepathic communication to monitor the man's dreams. What he discovers is both astonishing and frightening.

The two stories in this collection, The Shunned House and The Dunwich Horror, are notable demonstrations of Lovecraft’s ability to build and sustain narratives permeated with a unique flavor of foreboding and horror.

Esplora l'ignoto con questa oscura raccolta, che riunisce i racconti più terrificanti dei maestri del genere. Ogni storia, raccontata con musiche, suoni e una narrazione da brivido, ti condurrà in un mondo dove l'ordinario si scontra con l'inspiegabile, tra oscuri regni infestati da creature malefiche e mostri assetati di sangue.

This is the same reading of The Whisperer in Darkness that you'll find in Pulp-Lit Productions' 82-hour flagship omnibus collection, The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft. We've packaged it as an individual file for listeners who just want this story. This deeply unsettling cosmic-horror story blurs the line between and among weird fiction, dark fantasy, and science fiction, and arguably makes better use of its scholarly-but-a-little-thick professorial narrator to evoke subtextual horror than any previous work.

A man ridicules Nyarlathotep, a prophet of doom, and to his horror learns why Nyarlathotep knows so much. Nyarlathotep is one of Lovecraft's most well known characters, second to Cthulhu, and appears in six of Lovecraft's stories: "Nyarlathotep", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", "The Dreams in the Witch House", "The Haunter of the Dark", and "The Shadow Out of Time" and his sonnet "The Fungi from Yuggoth".

Pickman's Model is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales. It was adapted for television in a 1971 episode of the Night Gallery anthology series, starring Bradford Dillman. The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in the revocation of his membership in the Boston Art Club and he is shunned by his fellow artists.

A vengeful man strikes back from the dead against the undertaker that wronged him in death....

Bei einer Antarktis-Expedition stoßen Wissenschaftler auf die gefrorenen Leichen seltsamer Wesen...

Richard Upton Pickman is a Bostonian painter, notorious for creating horrifying paintings. His ghoulish works are considered so brilliant that "they were enough to get him ostracised in nine-tenths of the homes and clubs of Boston". That is, until his mysterious disappearance takes place...

Nyarlathotep heißt eine Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft, die im Jahr 1920 erstmals veröffentlicht worden ist. Sie handelt von Nyarlathoteps Ankunft, seinen Vorführungen und deren Auswirkungen auf die Zuschauer. Zum Zeitpunkt der Handlung herrschen politische und soziale Unruhen, eine Hitzewelle überdauert den Herbst und allgemein liegt eine nicht greifbare Bedrohung in der Luft.

Die Farbe aus dem All (auch: Das Ungeheuer aus dem Weltraum, englischer Originaltitel: The Colour Out of Space) ist eine Kurzgeschichte des amerikanischen Schriftstellers H. P. Lovecraft, die im März 1927 geschrieben und im September desselben Jahres im Pulp-Magazin Amazing Stories veröffentlicht wurde. 1939 erschien sie im Sammelband The Outsider and Others, mit dem die Geschichte des Verlages Arkham House begann. In seiner Erzählung verknüpfte Lovecraft Science-Fiction- mit Horrorelementen und schuf auf diese Weise ein Amalgam, das sein späteres Werk charakterisieren sollte.

La historia comienza en el ático de una antigua casa. El compañero del narrador se refiere al antiguo dueño de la casa y al presunto final violento que le sucedió. Aconseja al narrador que no se quede en la oscuridad ni toque nada, especialmente el objeto pequeño sobre una mesa, que el compañero parece temer considerablemente. Observa a otros hombres dentro de la habitación, todos vestidos con traje de clérigos, incluyendo un obispo; Se enfrentan al primer hombre, que alcanza el objeto sobre la mesa con una sonrisa irónica.

A Gloucester fishing crew lands a monster after a 40-hour battle at sea. Turns out that this behemoth is only a baby, and what ensues later should keep you well on shore.

This spine chilling tale by HP Lovecraft, depicts an unimaginable horror arising in the isolated village of Dunwich, which poses a threat to the whole world.

Thirteen terrifying horror stories from the master of the macabre....1. 'Pickman’s Model' 2. 'The Terrible Old Man' 3. 'Dagon' 4. 'From Beyond' 5. 'The Cats of Ulthar' 6. 'Nyarlathotep' 7. 'Imprisoned with the Pharaohs' 8. 'The Book' 9. 'Memory' 10. 'The Beast in the Cave' 11. 'The Evil Clergyman' 12. 'In the Vault' 13. 'Cool Air'

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved posthumous acclaim for his outstanding and influential works of horror fiction. Dagon is the story of a shipwrecked sailor who comes face to face with an ancient and terrible sea-god, Dagon. So horrifying is his ordeal that he spends the rest of his life trying to escape the awful clutches of Dagon. In the end there is only one way out.