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"The Crawling Chaos" is a short story by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson (first published April 1921 in the United Cooperative. As in their other collaboration, "The Green Meadow", the tale was credited to "Elizabeth Berkeley" (Jackson) and "Lewis Theobald, Jun" (Lovecraft).The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrator then tells of his sole experience with opium in which he was accidentally administered an overdose by a doctor during the "year of the plague".

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I. In the unnamed narrators account, his cargo ship is captured by an Imperial German sea-raider in "one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific"

"The Quest of Iranon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921, and was first published in the July/August 1935 issue of the magazine Galleon.The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wonder, few appreciate it. When a disenfranchised boy named Romnod suggests leaving Teloth to go to the famed city of Oonai (which he thinks may be Aira, now under a different name), Iranon takes him up on his offer.

"The Silver Key" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft in 1926, considered part of his Dreamlands series. Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more "practical", scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to dream as he once did, and has made him regretfully subscribe more and more to the mundane beliefs of everyday, waking "real life". But still not certain which is truer, he sets out to determine whether the waking ideas of man are superior to his dreams.

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecrafts most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales."The Outsider" combines Horror, Fantasy, and Gothic Fiction to create a nightmarish story, containing themes of loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife.

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself. It is the first story in which Carter appears and is part of Lovecrafts Dream Cycle.

"Pickmans Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales.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 his membership in the Boston Art Club being revoked and himself shunned by his fellow artists.

"The Moon-Bog" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in or before March 1921. The story was first published in the June 1926 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales.In the story, the unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional village in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the superstitious local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.

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An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.

"Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimerasdire stories of Celno and the Harpiesmay reproduce themselves in the brain of superstitionbut they were there before. They are transcripts, typesthe archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to affect us at all? Is it that we naturally conceive terror from such objects, considered in their capacity of being able to inflict upon us bodily injury?

Normalmente chámaselle “contos do ciclo do soño” a aquela historias de H.P. Lovecraft comprendidas entre a súa etapa máis temperá, a dos “contos macabros”, inspirada por Poe e toda a tradición románt

Este ebook presenta "El Horror de Dunwich (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. El horror de Dunwich (The Dunwich Horror) es un relato corto escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en 1928 y publicada en 1929. Se la considera una de las historias integrantes de los Mitos de Cthulhu, una especie de panteon de divinidades extraterrestres. El relato narra la historia de Wilbur Whateley, hijo de Lavinia Watheley, una mujer albina y deformada, y padre desconocido, y de los acontecimientos que tienen lugar como consecuencia de su nacimiento. Todo lo que rodea a la familia Whateley esta marcado por el misterio y los rumores que afirman que el viejo Whateley, padre de Lavinia, practica la brujeria Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, Estados Unidos, 20 de agosto de 1890 ibidem, 15 de marzo de 1937) fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas y relatos de terror y ciencia ficcion. Se le considera un gran innovador del cuento de terror, al que aporto una mitologia propia (los mitos de Cthulhu), desarrollada en colaboracion con otros autores y aun vigente. Su obra constituye un clasico del horror cosmico, una corriente que se aparta de la tematica tradicional del terror sobrenatural (satanismo, fantasmas), incorporando elementos de ciencia ficcion (razas alienigenas, viajes en el tiempo, existencia de otras dimensiones). Lovecraft cultivo asimismo la poesia, el ensayo y la literatura epistolar.

Destacado autor de literatura fantástica, H. P. Lovecraft es considerado el creador del relato de terror contemporáneo, en el que al elemento sobrenatural se añaden las visiones oníricas, motivos de leyendas mitologicas remotas y la elaboracion de temas especificos de la ciencia ficcion. En sus cuentos, bajo la realidad cotidiana late un universo de horror cosmico poblado por seres abominables, fuerzas ocultas y terrores antiguos nunca superados por el hombre. Los once relatos recogidos en esta antologia dan cuenta de la originalidad y variedad de su obra.

Este ebook presenta "La Llamada de Cthulhu (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. La llamada de Cthulhu (The Call of Cthulhu) es un relato corto escrito por H. P. Lovecraft en el año 1926. La obra fue publicada por primera vez en 1928. Cthulhu hace su primera aparicion en este relato, convirtiendose en una figura central del ciclo literario de los Mitos de Cthulhu. Unos Dioses provenientes del cosmos que poblaron la tierra antes de cualquier especie de vida y que fueron desterrados en las profundidades del oceano; ritos blasfemos que subsisten hasta nuestros dias manteniendo vivo su recuerdo hasta el dia de su resurgimiento. Aqui los fantasmas y los lugares embrujados son olvidados para dar paso a un horror mas primigenio, un horror que puede ser la destruccion de la raza humana. Dentro de sus historias, el tema es el caos primordial, y Lovecraft introduce la nocion de que todo lo que conocemos tiene sentido unicamente dentro de nuestro espacio-tiempo; cuando ocurre un evento que rompe con el espacio-tiempo comienza la locura. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Providence, Estados Unidos, 20 de agosto de 1890 ibidem, 15 de marzo de 1937) fue un escritor estadounidense, autor de novelas y relatos de terror y ciencia ficcion. Se le considera un gran innovador del cuento de terror, al que aporto una mitologia propia (los mitos de Cthulhu), desarrollada en colaboracion con otros autores y aun vigente. Su obra constituye un clasico del horror cosmico, una corriente que se aparta de la tematica tradicional del terror sobrenatural (satanismo, fantasmas), incorporando elementos de ciencia ficcion (razas alienigenas, viajes en el tiempo, existencia de otras dimensiones). Lovecraft cultivo asimismo la poesia, el ensayo y la literatura epistolar.