"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a...
"Under the Pyramids" (in draft form, also published as "Entombed with the Pharaohs") is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in collaboration with Harry Houdini in February 1924....
"The Shunned House" is a horror fiction novelette by American author H.P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. For many years, the narrator and his uncle,...
"The Other Gods" is a fantasy short story written by American author H. P. Lovecraft, on August 14, 1921. It was first published in the November 1933 issue of The Fantasy Fan. Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly...
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu...
"The Lurking Fear" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in November 1922, it was first published in the January through April 1923 issues of Home Brew. The story is narrated by an unnamed seeker of...
"The Dunwich Horror" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1928, it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales (pp. 481–508). It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in...
"In the Vault' is a short story by American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, written on September 18, 1925 and first published in the November 1925 issue of the amateur press journal Tryout. George Birch, undertaker for the...
"Herbert West–Reanimator" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written between October 1921 and June 1922. It was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew....
The Whisperer in Darkness is a 26,000-word novella by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written February–September 1930, it was first published in Weird Tales, August 1931. Similar to The Colour Out of Space (1927), it is a blend of horror and...
"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe. It was written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales. Daniel...
"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. In 1923, an American named Delapore, the last descendant of the De...
"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5-9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales. It was the last-written of the author's...
"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H.P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called...
"The Transition of Juan Romero" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on September 16, 1919, and first published in the 1944 Arkham House volume Marginalia. The story involves a mine that...
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a...
The Shadow Out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. The Shadow Out of Time indirectly tells...
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922. Due to lack of funds, a university student is forced to take...
"The Horror at Red Hook" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on August 1–2, 1925. "Red Hook" is a transitional tale, situated between the author's earlier work and the later...
"The Doom that Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish...
"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the...
"Through the Gates of the Silver Key" is a short story co-written by American writers H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price between October 1932 and April 1933. A sequel to Lovecraft's "The Silver...
"The Strange High House in the Mist" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Written on November 9, 1926, it was first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which...
"The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story was inspired by Lovecraft's first trip to Marblehead, Massachusetts, in...
"The Call of Cthulhu" by Howard Phillips H. P. Lovecraft is one of the classic horror works, so called “Lovecraft horrors. American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and...
"The Silver Key" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in 1926, it is considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It is a continuation...
"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July issue of The National Amateur—which was published in the summer of 1921. While riding on...
"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Walter...
"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales. It was adapted for television in a 1971 episode of the Night Gallery...
"Viy", also translated as "The Viy", is a horror novella by Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, first published in the first volume of his collection of tales entitled Mirgorod (1835). The title is also the name of...
"The Nose" is a satirical short story by Nikolai Gogol written during his time living in St. Petersburg. During this time, Gogol's works were primarily focused on surrealism and the grotesque, with a romantic twist....
Memoirs of a Madman or Diary of a Madman is a farcical short story by Nikolai Gogol. Along with The Overcoat and The Nose, Diary of a Madman is considered to be one of Gogol’s greatest short stories. The tale centers on the life of a minor civil...
"May Night, or the Drowned Maiden", 1831 is the third tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol. It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian...
"The Willows" is a novella by English author Algernon Blackwood, originally published as part of his 1907 collection The Listener and Other Stories. It is one of Blackwood's best known works and has been influential on...
«Имрей выполнил невозможное… Без предупреждения, без какого-либо понятного повода, молодой, только что начинавший избранную им карьеру, он решился покинуть свет, т. е. исчезнуть с той маленькой индийской станции, где он жил. Днём он был жив,...
«Его звали Чарли Мирс; он был единственный сын у матери-вдовы, жил в северной части Лондона и ходил ежедневно в Сити, где он служил в банке. Ему было двадцать лет, и он был полон надежд на будущее. Я встретился с ним в бильярдной, где маркёр...
«…Раздался петуший крик. Это был уже второй крик; первый прослышали гномы. Испуганные духи бросились, кто как попало, в окна и двери, чтобы поскорее вылететь, но не тут-то было: так и остались они там, завязнувши в дверях и окнах. Вошедший...
Есть люди, что рождаются с тьмой. За Ваней Рыбниковым тьма ходит по пятам, словно ожившая тень с большими зубами. У Андрея тьма забрала друга и теперь пришла за ним, скребется когтистыми лапами под диваном. Другим тьма проникла в головы… Говорят,...
Закрой глаза и окунись в недра своего «Я». Ты слышишь голос? Он решает, что тебе помнить, а что забыть, от чего бежать и во что верить. Делай, как он велит. Он знает, как лучше. Слышишь? Ступай и выпусти её… ту, что столь долго таил внутри....
«– Да, – сказал антиквар, – наши барыши возрастают от разного рода обстоятельств. Одни покупатели бывают невежественны, не понимают толк в вещах, и тогда мы наживаемся на их невежестве, то есть взымаем с них известный дивидент за свое...
«Имрей выполнил невозможное… Без предупреждения, без какого-либо понятного повода, молодой, только что начинавший избранную им карьеру, он решился покинуть свет, т. е. исчезнуть с той маленькой индийской станции, где он жил. Днём он был жив,...
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«Несмотря на жаркое утро, на эспланаде островного города Корфу было людно: с почтовыми пароходами при шли новые газеты с обоих берегов – из Италии и из Греции, и корфиоты поспешили в кафе: узнавать на полударовщинку, что случилось за прошедшие...
[i]«Есть темы, полные захватывающего интереса, но слишком ужасные, чтобы служить законной темой для литературного произведения. Романист должен избегать их, если не хочет возбудить отвращение или оскорбить читателя. Мы можем затрагивать их лишь в...
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С тех пор как Гвенди Питерсон в последний раз видела таинственного незнакомца в аккуратной черной шляпе, минуло пятнадцать лет. Она давно стала взрослой женщиной, известной писательницей и конгрессменом — и вполне довольна своей жизнью. Впереди...
«На железнодорожном мосту, в северной части Алабамы, стоял человек и смотрел вниз, на быстрые воды в двадцати футах под ним. Руки у него были связаны за спиной. Шею стягивала веревка. Один конец ее был прикреплен к поперечной балке над его...
НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНОВЛЕННУЮ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВОМ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ СОДЕРЖИТ ИНФОРМАЦИЮ О НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ ИЛИ ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ...