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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
16
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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
313
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
238
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
177
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
108
2

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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H. P. Lovecraft At the Mountains of Madness

Horror
English
41283 Words
Ages 8 and up
182
2

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. The story has inadvertently popularized the concept of ancient astronauts, as well as Antarctica's place in the "ancient astronaut mythology". The story is told in first-person perspective by the geologist William Dyer, a professor at Miskatonic University. He writes to disclose hitherto unknown and closely kept secrets in the hope that he can deter a planned and much publicized scientific expedition to Antarctica. On a previous expedition there, scholars from Miskatonic University led by Dyer discovered fantastic and horrific ruins and a dangerous secret beyond a range of mountains higher than the Himalayas. A smaller advance group, led by Professor Lake, discovered and crossed the mountains and found the remains of fourteen ancient life forms, completely unknown to science and unidentifiable as either plants or animals. Six of the specimens are badly damaged and the others uncannily pristine. Their highly evolved features are problematic: their stratum location puts them at a point on the geologic time scale much too early for such features to have naturally evolved. When the main expedition loses contact with Lake's party, Dyer and the rest of his colleagues travel to their last known location to investigate. Lake's camp is devastated, and both the men and the dogs slaughtered, while a man named Gedney and another dog are unaccounted for. Near the camp they find six star-shaped snow mounds, and one specimen buried under each. They discover that the better preserved life forms have vanished, and that some form of dissection experiment has been done on an unnamed man and a dog. Dyer elects to close off the area from which they took their samples. Dyer and a graduate student named Danforth fly an airplane over the mountains, which they soon realize are the outer walls of a huge, abandoned stone city of cubes and cones, utterly alien compared with any human architecture. Because of their resemblance to creatures of myth mentioned in the Necronomicon, the builders of this lost civilization are dubbed the "Elder Things". By exploring these fantastic structures, the men are able to learn the history of the Elder Things through interpreting their magnificent hieroglyphic murals: The Elder Things first came to Earth shortly after the Moon was pulled loose from the planet and were the creators of life. They built their cities with the help of "Shoggoths", biological entities created to perform any task, assume any form, and reflect any thought. As more buildings are explored, a fantastic vista opens of the history of races beyond the scope of man's understanding, including the Elder Things' conflicts with the Star-spawn of Cthulhu and the Mi-go, who arrived on Earth some time after the Elder Things themselves. [more]

Keywords: at the mountains of madness, h p lovecraft, gothic horror, mystery, thriller and suspense, ancient astronauts theory

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H. P. Lovecraft The Other Gods

Short Story
English
2027 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
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"The Other Gods" is a short story written by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft on August 14, [more]

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H. P. Lovecraft The Shunned House

Fiction
English
10884 Words
Ages 18 and up
3
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H. P. Lovecraft Author Howard Phillips Lovecraft — known as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Wikipedia Born: August 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Died: March 15, 1937, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Spouse: Sonia Greene (m. 1924–1926) Books: At the Mountains of Madness, more Plays: A Shoggoth on the Roof Movies View 45+ Re-Animator (1985) Re‑Animator 1985 Dagon (2001) Dagon 2001 The Call of Cthulhu (2005) The Call of Cthulhu 2005 [more]

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H. P. Lovecraft The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath

Science Fiction
English
42610 Words
Ages 8 and up
230
2

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft. Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal city, they do not answer, and his dreams of the city stop altogether. Undaunted, Carter resolves to go to Kadath, where the gods live, to beseech them in person. However, no one has ever been to Kadath and none even knows how to get there. In dream, Randolph Carter descends "the seventy steps to the cavern of flame" and speaks of his plan to the priests Nasht and Kaman-Thah, whose temple borders the Dreamlands. The priests warn Carter of the great danger of his quest and suggest that the gods withdrew his vision of the city on purpose. [more]

Keywords: the dram quest, of unkown kadath, lovecraft, horror, science fiction, gothic fantasy, supernatural mystery, thriller and suspense

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H. P. Lovecraft The Rats in the Walls

Horror
English
7952 Words
Ages 8 and up
150
2

"The Rats in the Walls" is a story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Narrated by the scion of the de la Poer family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory, which had fallen into ruins. Much to the dismay of nearby residents, he restores the Priory while plainly showing ignorance of the horrific history of the place. After moving in, on several occasions, the protagonist and his cats, specifically his favorite cat, hear the eponymous rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further (and as revealed in repetitive dreams), he finds that his family had maintained an underground city for centuries; and that previous generations of his family fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of "human cattle," including some which had regressed to a quadrupedal state. In the end, the protagonist, unknowingly maddened by the revelations of his family's past and driven by the stronger force of his own heritage, attacks one of his friends in the dark of the cavernous city and begins eating him. He is subsequently subdued and locked in a mental institution. At least one other investigator, Thornton, has gone insane as well. Soon after, Exham Priory is destroyed. The protagonist of the story maintains his innocence, proclaiming that it was "the rats, the rats in the walls," who ate the man. The rats still persist, however, as he continues to be plagued by the sounds and sights of rats in the walls of his cell. [more]

Keywords: the rats in the walls, lovecraft, gothic horror, thriller, psychological horror, insanity and madness, suspense

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