Lovecraft: 1093 books

The history of a New England street, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately followingWorld War I.

I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone, makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think...

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.

L'humanité est aux prises avec des êtres surnaturels qui ont été les maîtres de la Terre bien avant l'apparition de l'homme et qui tentent de recouvrer leur suprématie.

Walter Gilman, étudiant en mathématiques et physique quantique dans la célèbre université Miskatonic d'Arkham, habite une vieille maison du quartier pauvre de la ville où vivait autrefois Keziah Mason, une sorcière échappée des prisons de Salem dans des circonstances inconnues. Fiévreux,...

Extrait: Au cours de l’hiver 1927-1928, des fonctionnaires du gouvernement fédéral menèrent une enquête mystérieuse et confidentielle à propos de certains faits survenus dans l’ancien port de pêche d’Innsmouth, Massachusetts. Le public ne l’apprit qu’en février, à l’occasion d’une...

"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.

The story is recounted by the protagonist, Count Antoine de C-, in the first person. 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...

A dabbler in the forbidden arts has disappeared, and several years later four men gather to divide his estate. One guy is a swami who relates what really happened to the guy.

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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. (Goodreads)

The Shadow Out of Time begins, like many of his best tales, with a man experiencing or discovering something that irrevocably alters the fabric of his life, sending him scrambling to restore his sanity; but in this case this aspect is reduced to little more than a framing device for detailed descriptions...

In this tale the narrator encounters an ancient gentleman who becomes his guide through the oldest alleys of the city. This person—who turns out to be more ancient that anyone could have reasonably suspected—shows his companion a vision of New York City’s past and then a view of its future. (Goodreads)