Lovecraft H: 931 books

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.

"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him....

The Thing on the Doorstep is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best...

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 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...

A beatyful non-horror story by Lovecraft and Anna Helen Crofts.

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....

People have been fascinated by cats for centuries. From the ancient Egyptians, all the way down to today's cat lovers throughout the world, cats have held a special place in people's lives. Cats are unique creatures. It shouldn't be surprising that they have captured the imaginations of many of the...

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...

First published in 1927 on Amazing Stories, "The Colour Out of Space" is one of Lovecraft's finest works; a science-horror story about a meteorite that strikes in a rural farm and begins to poison the land, meanwhile the memory of a strange and obscure past rises.

First published in 1921 Lovecraft and co-author W.V.Jackson's short popular horror story about a man addicted by opium but the drug's orrible hallucinations may be real.

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...