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Ronald M. Hahn, Horst Pukallus H. P. LOVECRAFT IM ALPTRAUMLAND

Ein Horror-Roman

Horror
German
55078 Words
Ages 16 and up
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Im April 1923 erreicht den amerikanischen Gentleman und Amateur-Schriftsteller H.P. Lovecraft der Hilferuf seines Freundes Roderick Ashton, der im fernen Schottland das Erbe seiner Ahnen angetreten hat. Sein Onkel, ein ehemaliger Abenteurer, hat ihm ein uraltes Kastell hinterlassen. Doch Ashton kann seines Erbes nicht froh werden: Die Bauern in der Umgebung meiden sein Anwesen wie die Pest; im Verlies stößt er auf das angekettete Skelett eines seit Jahrzehnten vermissten Mädchens; bizarre Alpträume quälen ihn und lassen ihn nicht zur Ruhe kommen. Allmählich verdichtet sich in ihm ein schrecklicher Verdacht: War sein Onkel mit den Mächten des Bösen im Bunde? Lovecrafts und Rodericks Expedition in die Tiefen der Grüfte des Kastells wird zu einer Reise ins absolute Grauen, die Unaussprechliches über die Vergangenheit der Familie Ashton offenbart... [more]

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H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu

Horror
English
11848 Words
Ages 8 and up
283
2

The Call of Cthulhu is a story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. The story deals with a manuscript found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston. In the text, Thurston recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died suddenly. The first chapter, The Horror in Clay, concerns a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: "My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings." The sculpture is the work of Henry Anthony Wilcox, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design who based the work on his delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror." [more]

Keywords: the call of cthulhu, h p lovecraft, gothic, horror, mystery, thriller, suspense, monsters, occult

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H. P. Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror

Horror
English
17476 Words
Ages 8 and up
220
2

The Dunwich Horror is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts and is considered one of the core stories of the Cthulhu Mythos. In the isolated, desolate and decrepit village of Dunwich, Wilbur Whateley is the hideous son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino mother, and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by mad Old Whateley, as "Yog-Sothoth"), and strange events surround his birth and precocious development. Wilbur matures at an abnormal rate, reaching manhood within a decade, locals shun him and his family, and animals fear and despise him (due to a smell he gives off). All the while, his sorcerer grandfather indoctrinates him into certain dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. Wilbur wants to acquire an unabridged Latin version of the Necronomicon so that he may open the way for the return of the mysterious "Old Ones", whose forerunner is the Outer God Yog-Sothoth. Thus, Wilbur and his grandfather have sequestered an unseen presence at their farmhouse; this being is connected somehow to Yog-Sothoth. Year by year, this unseen entity grows to monstrous proportions, requiring the two men to make frequent modifications to their residence. People begin to notice a trend of cattle mysteriously disappearing. Wilbur's grandfather dies. His mother disappears soon afterward. The colossal entity eventually occupies the whole interior of the farmhouse. [more]

Keywords: the dunwich horror, h p lovecraft, mystery, gothic, horror, thriller, suspense, supernatural, monster

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H. P. Lovecraft The Shunned House

Fantasy
English
10858 Words
Ages 8 and up
163
2

"The Shunned House" is a story by H. P. Lovecraft in the horror fiction genre. For many years the protagonist and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old, abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years. They are also puzzled by the strange weeds growing in the yard, as well as the unexplained foul smell and whitish, phosphorescent fungi growing in the cellar. After the protagonist discovers a strange, yellowish vapour in the basement, which seems to be coupled with a moldy outline of a huddled human form on the floor, he and his uncle decide to spend the night in the house, investigating the possibility of some supernatural force. They set up cots and chairs in the cellar, arm themselves with military flamethrowers, and outfit a modified Crookes tube in the hopes of destroying any supernatural presence they might find. The protagonist hatches a plan. He orders a military gas mask, digging tools, and six carboys of sulfuric acid to be delivered to the cellar door of the shunned house. He digs into the earthen floor of the cellar, turning up fungous yellow ooze, and arranges the barrels of acid around the hole in the belief that he will happen upon some kind of monstrous creature. Eventually, he uncovers a soft, blue-white, translucent tube, bent in half and two feet in diameter at its widest point. He frantically climbs out of the neck-deep hole and dumps in four barrels of acid, realizing that he had found the elbow of a gigantic monster. The protagonist faints after emptying the fourth barrel. [more]

Keywords: the shunned house, h p lovecraft, supernatural horror, gothic haunted house, ghost story, science fantasy

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H. P. Lovecraft The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

Horror
English
51176 Words
Ages 12 and up
102
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel by H. P. Lovecraft. The novel tells the story of young Charles Dexter Ward, who becomes embroiled in the past, due to his fascination with the history of his wizard ancestor, Joseph Curwen (who had left Salem for Providence in 1692, and acquired notoriety for his haunting of graveyards, his apparent lack of aging, and his chemical experiments). Ward physically resembles Curwen, and attempts to duplicate his ancestor's Qabalistic and alchemical feats, eventually locating Curwen's remains and by means of his "essential Saltes", resurrecting him. Ward's doctor, Marinus Bicknell Willett, becomes enmeshed in Ward's doings, investigating Curwen's old Pawtuxet bungalow which Ward has restored. The horrors of what Willett finds, and the crux of the identities of Ward and Curwen, form the hinge of horror on which the novel moves. [more]

Keywords: the case of, charles dexter ward, h p lovecraft, horror, gothic horror, supernatural thriller, mystery and suspense

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