A collection of some of the most famous stories from the master of tomb-dark fear.

 A collection of some of the most famous stories from the master of tomb-dark fear.

The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales

From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity to a dark mania involving both a possibility of murderous tendencies and a profound and peculiar change in the apparent contents of his mind. Doctors confess themselves quite baffled by his case, since it presented oddities of a general physiological as well as psychological character.

The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he spent most of his life there, and his fiction was primarily set against a New England backdrop.

Lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of weird and horror fiction.

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft

"There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead."

The Horror at Red Hook, The Hound, Hypnos, In the Vault

Entre le fantastique et la science-fiction, Lovecraft occupe une position unique, si radicalement originale même que son oeuvre demeure sans postérité. Lovecraft est à la fois le fondateur et l'illustrateur d'une inquiétante archéologie de l'Amérique et le chantre d'un XVIII? siècle utopique. La cité sans nom et ses milliers de cercueils où gisent des créatures monstrueuses en habit de fête, l'appartement du docteur Munoz à -3°, la viole luciférienne d'Erich Zahn, la tour délabrée et le parc biseauté du solitaire sans mémoire - c'est toujours l'envers d'un décor ou d'un objet bien réel qui nous est montré, et non pas un paysage, un instrument de rêve. Et c'est précisément à partir de là que naît ce que Lovecraft - le seul expert, en littérature, des paroxysmes - appelle «l'indicible», qui n'est autre que le plus vieux nom, toujours vivant, de la terreur.

Je suis d'ailleurs

THREE times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it. All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains of prismatic spray in broad squares and perfumed gardens, and wide streets marching between delicate trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in gleaming rows; while on steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and old peaked gables harbouring little lanes of grassy cobbles. It was a fever of the gods, a fanfare of supernal trumpets and a clash of immortal cymbals. Mystery hung about it as clouds about a fabulous unvisited mountain; and as Carter stood breathless and expectant on that balustraded parapet there swept up to him the poignancy and suspense of almost-vanished memory, the pain of lost things and the maddening need to place again what once had been an awesome and momentous place.

The dream quest of unknown kadath

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 "I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more."

 This selection of works showcases the best-known, most chilling stories of H. P. Lovecraft, including Dagon, The Call of Cthulhu, The Thing on the Doorstep and Herbert West - Reanimator. They feature such deadly horrors as terrifying sea-creatures, menaces from outer space, evil-worshipping cults and unexpected murder by familiar hands. There is no place so frightful that Lovecraft did not venture there, and these tales will leave the imagination reeling, yet dare you to turn the page.

Selected Stories

In the morning mist comes up from the sea by the cliffs beyond Kingsport. White and feathery it comes from the deep to its brothers the clouds, full of dreams of dank pastures and caves of leviathan. And later, in still summer rains on the steep roofs of poets, the clouds scatter bits of those dreams, that men shall not live without rumour of old, strange secrets, and wonders that planets tell planets alone in the night. When tales fly thick in the grottoes of tritons, and conches in seaweed cities blow wild tunes learned from the Elder Ones, then great eager mists flock to heaven laden with lore, and oceanward eyes on the rocks see only a mystic whiteness, as if the cliff's rim were the rim of all earth, and the solemn bells of buoys tolled free in the aether of faery.

The Strange High House in the Mist, Sweet Ermengarde, The Temple, The Tomb

Supernatural Horror in Literature is an essay by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, surveying the development and achievements of horror fiction as the field stood in the 1920s and 30s. It first examines the beginnings of weird fiction in the early gothic novel. The survey then proceeds to outline the development of the supernatural and the weird in the work of major writers such as Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

The Haunter of the Dark and Other Tales

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