Книги автора Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of th…

A lone traveler seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome o…

This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbli…

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injure…

The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. …

The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secr…

An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined a…

The story describes a surreal dreamscape. The narrator wanders through his garden one night and in the moonlight sees strange and bizarre th…

It is a recording of a dream, where the main protagonist is a Roman military official in the Basque country near Pompelo. The countryside is…

Carter, a weird fiction writer, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the…

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…

The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderr…

The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies,…

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. Th…

A gentleman in New York begins renting an apartment one floor below an aged doctor, who insists on keeping his quarters very chilly. As the …

According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, form…

"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story wh…

"Celephais" was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gent…

The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrator then tells of his…