Lovecraft: 1093 books

At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate fate. He explains that the key took Carter to a type of...

This story is unique because it doesn’t look like other short stories. It seems more like a draft of a book that is going to be made. There are two versions of this story: the short one and the long one. The short is originally published in Royal Press in 1902 and the long version was edited by...

The mysteries of the white ape goddess may be too much for the Jermyn family.

A scientist creates a device that emits a resonance wave, which allows them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. But the effect works both ways, and allows the denizens of the alternate dimension to perceive humans.

The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the "Shining Trapezohedron" to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space.

Trish and Brad have decided to do something special for their sweet little boarder, Ashley. As a Christmas present, they have given her a ticket to go see her parents in Florida for her winter vacation. Ashley is thrilled, and vows she is going to come up with something very special to give them for...

Angus MacDoogle loves drinking mead with the fellas, plowing his fields, watching the maidens dance -- and stealing a kiss (or more) when he gets the chance.  Unfortunately, since he now lives alone, his household is a shambles and the mess is starting to affect his love life.  Luckily,...

"The Shadow Out of Time" indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination. The story implies that the effect when seen from the outside is similar to spiritual possession.

Great modern American supernaturalist brilliantly surveys history of genre to 1930s, summarizing, evaluating scores of books, including works by Poe, Bierce, M.R. James, "Monk" Lewis, many others. Praised by critics as diverse as Edmund Wilson and Vincent Starrett.

Excerpt: “Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvellous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it. All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains...

In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old Ones, that forces the people of the town to hole up by night. (Goodreads)

An Irish-American reclaims an ancestral estate in Ireland and ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.

"There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead."

Escrito en 1920 y publicado cinco años más tarde, El templo contiene un manuscrito arrastrado por la corriente del Golfo hasta las costas del Yucatán y arrojado dentro de una botella en medio del Atlántico, entre Cabo Verde y las Antillas, por el capitán de corbeta de un U-Boot alemán....