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Although he's best known for his weird fiction writings, for much of his literary life, H.P. Lovecraft considered himself primarily a poet. Fungi from Yuggoth is his most well-known work of poetry; in it, he combines his taste for cosmic horror with his appreciation of the antiquarian and seasons it with his inimitable dry, dark wit.

El escritor Robert Blake (supuestamente Robert Bloch), se obsesiona con un chapitel de una iglesia maldita que ve desde su estudio. La gran iglesia fue escenario de ritos malévolos durante muchos años atrás. Ahora abandonada y medio en ruinas, es temida por la gente del pueblo. Atraido por el misterio de dicha iglesia, Robert Blake entra en ella y sube a la torre del chapitel. Lo que encontrará allí aclarará los temores de los vecinos y encontrara su propia muerte.

The Curse of Yig, a horror tale by H.P. Lovecraft, delves into the folklore and dark superstitions of the American Midwest. The story follows the narrator, an investigator intrigued by tales of a curse surrounding Yig, the snake god of Native American lore. As the narrator delves into the history of this malevolent deity, he encounters unsettling accounts of madness, transformation, and death. Central to the story is the tragic tale of settlers Walker and Audrey Davis, whose fear of snakes and belief in Yig’s curse leads them down a path of terror and doom.

"History of the Necronomicon" is a short text written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1927, and published in 1938. It describes the origins of the fictional book of the same name: the occult grimoire Necronomicon, a now-famous element of some of his stories. The short text purports to be non-fiction, adding to the appearance of 'pseudo-authenticity' which Lovecraft valued in building his Cthulhu Mythos oeuvre. Accordingly, it supposes the history of the Necronomicon as the inspiration for Robert W. Chambers' The King in Yellow, which concerns a book that overthrows the minds of those who read it.

In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purpose of destroying the world and delivering it to ancient gods to rule, and only an aged university librarian can stop them. The Dunwich Horror was first published in 1929 in Weird Tales.

The Shunned House is a horror fiction novelette by American author H.P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental, sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years.

Una de las novelas cortas más conocidas de Howard Phillips Lovecraft, en la que vuelve a entrecruzar su historia con tintes de ciencia ficción y horror. El narrador, un reputado profesor de universidad, vuelve en sí tras años de amnesia total en los que se ha comportado como un completo extraño ávido de conocimientos y ha terminado alejando a todos sus seres queridos. Pronto descubrirá qué es lo que ha poseído su cuerpo durante esos años, y a qué lugar terrorífico más allá del tiempo ha ido a parar su consciencia.

"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in "The Scot", a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920.

In this short story by H.P. Lovecraft, an atheist, I believe he is exploring the possibility of the soul, albeit the soul of a lesser human, he was also a racist. You be the judge, this is a very thought-provoking short story by one of the masters of science fiction.

The Hound is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. The story opens with the unnamed narrator preparing to commit suicide. Lamenting his fate, he reflects upon the events which led him to this moment.The narrator and his friend, St. John, are a pair of loners who both have a deranged interest in robbing graves.

The Colour Out of Space is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, 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.

H.P. Lovecraft blends horror with science fiction in this short story first published in Weird Tales. The isolated hills of Vermont were always suspected of being haunted in the 1920s, but we learn not by ghosts. For eons they have been visited by extraterrestrials. Left alone they were not a problem, but too close and trouble would erupt. This is a very dark tale.

Nyarlathotep is the prose poem that marks the first appearance of "The Crawling Chaos", an Outer God in the Cthulu Mythos and one of Lovecraft’s most famous creations. Based on a vivid nightmare that Lovecraft experienced, the poem has been described as “a bleak view of human civilization in decline, and explores the mixed sensations of desperation and defiance in a dying society.”

It has always been the prerogative of genius to batter on the portals of the Unknowable - and then thrust his soul into the crack, like the little Dutch boy, to keep the devil out. The satanic legends surrounding the unbelievable career of the great concertist Paganini leave little doubt that somewhere there is a window such as Erich Zann's, beyond which lies a world more terrible than imagination can grasp, where science dwindles to zero and incredible passions rage as winds in a vacuum.

Das verbotene Buch Necronomicon ist die älteste und erschreckendste Erfindung, die Lovecraft mit seinem Cthulhu-Mythos hervorgebracht hat. Es öffnet mit seiner dunklen Magie den Weg in eine fremde und unmenschliche Welt. Wieder einmal schaffen es die überwältigenden Geschichten vom Großmeister des Horrors Albträume zu entfachen. Folgen Sie dem Heulen der Dämonen und genießen Sie eine schaurige Gänsehaut nach der anderen.

Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, gives birth to her hideous son, Wilbur Whateley, in an isolated village called Dunwich. The Whateley's come in three varieties; Stable, semi stable, and decrepit. Lavinia, Wilbur and the grandfather are of the latter variety. The grandfather has a very unhealthy interest in dark rituals and witchcraft, which he passes on to Wilber.

In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the mind can scarcely fathom. When an intrepid expedition stumbles across the remains of an ancient race of creatures that predates humanity by millions of years, they believe they've discovered the scientific find of the century. Instead, they've unearthed a terror beyond all reckoning which may devour them both body and soul. Enter into the icy realms of one of H. P. Lovecraft's most seminal cornerstones of the Cthulhu mythos... If you dare.

Injustamente ignorado en vida, fue después de su muerte cuando el empuje de algunos amigos y colegas, empeñados en difundir su obra a cualquier precio, consiguió que se le prestara a su narrativa la atención que merecía. Hoy en día, Lovecraft ocupa un lugar preeminente en la literatura norteamericana, siendo uno de los escritores de horror y ciencia ficción más influyentes del siglo XX.

Comienza con la explicación de la muerte de un prominente profesor de la Universidad de Miskatonic y un estudio de sus documentos. Estos incluyen un informe sobre un ataque en un culto satánico. Una investigación sobre los cultistas saca a la luz pistas sobre la horrorosa criatura que veneran, Cthulhu. El relato propició el nacimiento de los llamados “mitos de Cthulhu”, relatos y novelas basados en la idea de las criaturas de otros mundos que desean rehabitar la Tierra.

The Dunwich Horror is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. It is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. In the isolated, desolate, decrepit village of Dunwich, Massachusetts, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as "Yog-Sothoth").