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21) The Hound
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Told in the first person by an unnamed narrator, it is a story of the last days of the two friends who were trying to beat the boredom. After a very long search, they turned to macabre and eventually the quest to end their 'devastating ennui' led them to grave robbing.
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The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground.
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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 Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.
26) The Temple
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The Temple is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1925. It was the first story Lovecraft published in Weird Tales, and indeed was his first publication in any professional outlet. The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. It documents...
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. Inspiration Lovecraft said the story was inspired by an April 27, 1919 article in the New York Tribune. Reporting on the New York state police, the article cited a family named Slater or Slahter as representative of the backwards Catskills population. The nova mentioned at the end...
29) Polaris
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Polaris is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomes. The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of the Pole Star, Polaris, which he describes as...
30) The Tree
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It tells the story of the esteemed sculptors Kalos and Musides, very close friends who live together, who have become rivals in the creation of a monumental statue of Tyche the Goddess of Fortune commissioned by the Tyrant of Syracuse. It is an old fashioned kind of story-a little Damon and Pythias, a little Cain and Abel-which Lovecraft brings to a satisfying, if somewhat elliptical conclusion.
32) The Unnamable
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This little piece is unusual for Lovecraft. It is not so much a weird tale as a discussion about weird tales. in which two men sitting on a dilapidated tomb in an old graveyard-writer Randolph Carter (H.P. surrogate) and his friend high school principal Joel Manton-debate whether a writer owes his readers an explicit description of horrors, or whether it is better to leave the greatest horrors "unnamable."
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Written as a spoof of his own antiquarian style, "A Reminiscence" was Lovecraft's second published work (following The Alchemist), and was published under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq. It is a simple recollection of Littlewit's relation to an old friend, and the effect that friend had on the circle of company with which he associated.
34) Medusa's Coil
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The story of what happens when a Medusa-like priestess marries into a wealthy Southern family.
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The shunned house of the title has long been an object of fascination for the narrator, a fascination he shares with his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple. The narrator summarises the strange lore the good doctor has collected about the house, lore filled with unexplained sicknesses and deaths, and follows this with his personal account of what happened when he and his uncle ventured inside the old house. (Goodreads)
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"El Morador de las Tinieblas" es un escalofriante cuento de H.P. Lovecraft. Sigue a Robert Blake, un escritor fascinado por lo oculto, que se obsesiona con una antigua iglesia en Providence, Rhode Island. Blake descubre un culto siniestro y un artefacto prohibido conocido como el Trapezoedro Brillante dentro de la iglesia. Mientras investiga más a fondo, Blake atrae la atención de una entidad malévola conocida como el Acechador de la Oscuridad....
38) Del Mas Allá
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El personaje principal de 'Del Mas Allá' detallas sus experiencias con el científico Crawford Tillinghast y que lo llevan a percibir planos de existencia mas allá de la realidad aceptada
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Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge on not only him but all his descendants, cursing them to die on reaching the age of 32.
The protagonist recounts how his ancestors all died in some mysterious way around the age of 32. The line has dwindled and the castle has been left to fall into disrepair, tower by tower. Finally, Antoine...
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Idealista, de talante romántico y sensible, inquieto intelectual y espiritualmente cansado de las prisas y de la pérdida de valores de una sociedad cada vez más caótica y vacía de moralidad, el joven protagonista buscará a la desesperada nuevos conocimientos, corrientes filosóficas, movimientos intelectuales, que le llenen el vacío existencial que cada vez, le hace la vida más insoportable. Cansado de buscar, se refugia en libros extraños...
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