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El grito del muerto de H. P. Lovecraft, narra los resultados de las investigaciones del Dr. Herbert West sobre la muerte y la reanimación de los cuerpos, desde sus tiempos de estudiante en la ficticia Universidad Miskatonic hasta poco después de la Primera Guerra Mundial.

Se ofrece aquí una selección de artículos y ensayos de H. P. Lovecraft sobre filosofía, ciencia, política y literatura.

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.

Robert Blake—a young man with an interest in the occult—becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on a hill which he can see from his lodgings. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.

The narrator travels through the nearby decrepit seaport of Innsmouth which is suggested as a cheaper and potentially interesting next leg of his journey. There he interacts with strange people and observes disturbing events that ultimately lead to horrifying and personal revelations. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization. It references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures and invocations.

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.

H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and M.R. James: The Ultimate Collection is a fully indexed collection containing over 75 stories and poems from the three most beloved horror and ghost writers in modern literature. Read by three Audie-winning narrators.

In the Vault was based on a suggestion made in August 1925 by Charles W. Smith, editor of the amateur journal Tryout, which Lovecraft recorded in a letter: 'an undertaker imprisoned in a village vault where he was removing winter coffins for spring burial, and his escape by enlarging a transom reached by the piling up of the coffins'.

Before throwing himself from the window of his attic, the untitled protagonist writes some notes related to his mental state. Then, he begins to recall an old story that happened in the years of the First World War: suddenly, he finds himself a prisoner of a German ship in the Pacific Ocean. After only five days, the protagonist manages to escape with a raft. Wandering for days, adrift in the sea, one afternoon he finds himself stranded on a disquieting and apparently deserted island and, from there, things only get stranger.

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

An unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.

Le style unique de Lovecraft au service de trois histoires effrayantes. "LE CAUCHEMAR D'INNSMOUTH" : Que se passe-t-il à Innsmouth ? Pourquoi les gens évitent ses habitants comme s'ils étaient maudits ? Quel secret cache cet ancien port à l'abandon ? Je m'y retrouvais par les hasards d'un voyage... Mais était-ce bien un hasard ?... Et j'y vécus la plus terrible nuit de mon existence ! Je croyais avoir survécu au pire...Mais le cauchemar ne faisait que commencer.

Le famose storie dell’orrore dello scrittore statunitense Howard Phillips Lovecraft continuano a far discutere gli appassionati, incerti se collocarle nella categoria del fantastico più originale o delle cronache di un possibile domani, di un oggi "laterale" in cui antichi misteri si aprono come crepe nel tessuto della realtà.

Le famose storie dell'orrore dello scrittore statunitense Howard Phillips Lovecraft continuano a far discutere gli appassionati, incerti se collocarle nella categoria del fantastico più originale o delle cronache di un possibile domani, di un oggi "laterale" in cui antichi misteri si aprono come crepe nel tessuto della realtà. "L'orrore di Salem" raccontato e interpretato con dialoghi, atmosfere, effetti sonori e musiche.

Misteriosa località all'apparenza abbandonata, centro di oscuri rituali esoterici, la cittadina portuale di Innsmouth, New England, sembra ormai scomparsa dalle mappe. Un giovane viaggiatore ci finisce per caso e mentre cerca informazioni sulla storia locale, gli capita di ascoltare il lungo e delirante racconto di un vecchio marinaio ubriaco, Zadok Allen, che gli narra di demoniache creature degli abissi arrivate da mari lontani. Uscito nel 1936, e Shadow Over Innsmouth è considerato uno dei migliori racconti del terrore di Lovecraft.

Celaphais tells the story of a man who is the sole survivor of his family and just a nameless face among the other inhabitants of London. Depressed and fed up with life, he begins to favor the alternate reality he discovers while dreaming and even creates a new identity for himself, Kuranes. While "living" as Kuranes, he discovers his dream utopia of Celaphais in the Valley of Ooth-Nargai. Much to his disappointment, Kuranes is continually pulled away from Celaphais and begins to try harder and harder to find it again and live there forever.

This is the tale of a 228 year old man, born in 1690, telling about his interactions with Dr. Samuel Johnson. A large part focuses on their belonging to a literary club and the other men who also participated in the club. It is a simple observance of social interactions, as put forth by a very old man and his dated voice.

Lo scienziato e filosofo Crawford Tillinghast ha inventato una macchina che, potenziando fino all'estremo le capacità percettive della ghiandola pineale, lo catapulta in una dimensione parallela popolata da entità indefinibili e spaventose. Ma l'esperimento sfugge al suo controllo e... Considerato uno dei padri della fantascienza americana e, in particolare, del genere New Weird, Lovecraft riesce a far sprofondare l'ascoltatore in un mondo fatto di visioni inquietanti. Scritto nel 1920, questo racconto ha ispirato nel 1986 un film di successo: "From Beyond - Terrore dall'ignoto".

This is the recollection of a man facing the end of his life and the sweet refuge that sleep offers. The man desired to find the way into his dream land permanently - the latch that would allow him through the gate. He finds a yellowed papyrus that tells of conflicting experiences on the other side of the gate, some of wonderful things and other horrifying and terrible. Although not sure which to believe, his desire to cross through intensified. He then finds that the answer to his dilemma may lie with a certain drug.