Includes bibliographical references.

"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 Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House", a house in Arkham, Massachusetts that is rumored to be cursed. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that, for the better part of two centuries, many of the attic's occupants have died prematurely. The dimensions of Gilman's attic room are unusual and seem to conform to a kind of unearthly geometry. Gilman theorizes that the structure can enable travel from one plane or dimension to another. Gilman begins experiencing bizarre dreams in which he seems to float without physical form through an otherworldly space of unearthly geometry and indescribable colors and sounds. Among the elements, both organic and inorganic, he perceives shapes that he innately recognizes as entities which appear and disappear instantaneously and at random. Several times, his dreaming-self encounters bizarre clusters of "iridescent, prolately spheroidal bubbles", as well as a rapidly changing polyhedral-figure, both of which appear sapient. Gilman also has nightly experiences involving Keziah and her rat-bodied, human-faced familiar, Brown Jenkin, which he believes are not dreams at all. In other dreams, Gilman is taken to a city of the "Elder Things" and even brings back evidence that he has actually been there—a miniature statue of an "Elder Thing" which he breaks off from a balustrade within the city. The statue is made of unknown materials and a strange kind of alloy... Famous works of the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Horror at Red Hook, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shadows over Innsmouth, The Alchemist, Reanimator, Ex Oblivione, Azathoth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Cats of Ulthar, The Dunwich Horror, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Festival, The Silver Key, The Other Gods, The Outsider, The Temple, The Picture in the House, The Shunned House, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, Dagon, From Beyond, What the Moon Brings.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) fue un ave nocturna y un cazador de sueños. Nació en Providence (Nueva Inglaterra), donde vivió la mayor parte de su corta vida, que dedicó a contemplar las estrellas, leer con avidez cuanto caía en sus manos y, sobre todo, escribir (poesía, ensayo, relatos y una ingente correspondencia). Al refugiarse en su hermético mundo onírico, Lovecraft se embarcó en un viaje sin retorno hacia una nueva dimensión: el miedo cósmico, el «terror de los espacios infinitos», que estremecía a Pascal. Lo que caracteriza la ficción lovecraftiana es la utilización de elementos de la tradición gótica reinterpretados en términos científicos. Sus relatos expresan la soledad y la pequeñez de la condición humana en un universo infinito y amoral, azaroso y hostil, carente de significado y angustiosamente ajeno a nuestras preocupaciones y cavilaciones. «Lovecraft fue –como dijo el escritor Fritz Leiber– el Copérnico del relato de horror. Desplazó el foco del temor sobrenatural del hombre y su pequeño mundo y sus dioses, a las estrellas y a los negros e insondables abismos del espacio intergaláctico». En el universo lovecraftiano siempre hay una presencia amenazadora, pero no se sabe bien qué es.
En esta segunda y última entrega de la Narrativa completa de Lovecraft, el lector encontrará los relatos escritos entre 1927 y 1937, década fecunda en la que HPL, además de enriquecer sus espantosos Mitos de Cthulhu con cuentos como La sombra sobre Innsmouth, El horror de Dunwich, El ser del umbral o El Asiduo de las tinieblas, alumbra sus dos únicas novelas: El caso de Charles Dexter Ward y En las montañas de la locura. Este volumen completa el periplo interior que Lovecraft emprendió a lo más profundo de sí mismo, a las regiones más subterráneas y sombrías de la psique.

Edición de Juan Antonio Molina Foix. Traducción de Juan Antonio Molina Foix, Francisco Torres Oliver y José María Nebreda

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) fue un ave nocturna y un cazador de sueños. Nació en Providence (Nueva Inglaterra), donde vivió la mayor parte de su corta vida, que dedicó a contemplar las estrellas, leer con avidez cuanto caía en sus manos y, sobre todo, escribir (poesía, ensayo, relatos y una ingente correspondencia). Al refugiarse en su hermético mundo onírico, Lovecraft se embarcó en un viaje sin retorno hacia una nueva dimensión: el miedo cósmico, el «terror de los espacios infinitos», que estremecía a Pascal. Como Poe, Lovecraft abandona definitivamente las invenciones mágicas o legendarias de los góticos: el castillo encantado, los fantasmas, vampiros y brujas, y las sustituye por una nueva mitología fantástica en la que ya no hay Dios ni Diablo, ni seres sobrenaturales, tan sólo híbridos semihumanos y seres extraterrestres o extradimensionales. Y el miedo se convirtió en horror cósmico. A través del sueño y el vuelo de la fantasía H.P.L. compensó su escasa movilidad física y viajó más lejos que nadie. Este primer volumen de su narrativa completa abarca la producción literaria de H.P. Lovecraft entre 1905 y 1926. Influido desde sus comienzos por Edgar Allan Poe, en relatos como “La tumba”, “El extraño” o “Aire frío”, entre 1917 y 1921 escribió casi una veintena de relatos oníricos inspirados en otro de sus grandes maestros: Lord Dunsany. Cuentos de este periodo son “Dagon”, “Polaris”, “La ciudad sin nombre” o “La búsqueda en sueños de la ignota Kadath”. Así mismo, en esta primera etapa de su carrera vio la luz “La llamada de Cthulhu” (1926), pieza básica y fundacional de los Mitos de Cthulhu, subgénero lovecraftiano que cuenta con ilustres precursores, como Arthur Machen o Algernon Blackwood, así como numerosos continuadores, especialmente los escritores que integran el llamado «Círculo de Lovecraft».

Anticipada por notables precedentes, como Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, R. W. Chambers, A. Machen o Algernon Blackwood, y enriquecida posteriormente por otros escritores, corresponde sin embargo a Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) el papel más importante en la invención de LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en mundos primigenios de caos y espanto. El presente volumen, prologado y seleccionado por Rafael Llopis, ofrece una completa panorámica del desarrollo de los mitos y reúne las piezas fundamentales en la configuración de ese singular e inquietante universo que remueve en el interior del lector profundos terrores atávicos.

In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. government agents—its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps.

Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the horror uncovered by a young antiquarian who traveled to Innsmouth in search of rumors from the town's dead past, only to find them still very much alive...and find truths lying under water deeper and colder than any earthly grave!

The Lurking Fear author: H.P. Lovecraft The stormy vigil reminded me shudderingly of my ghastly night on Tempest Mountain. My mind turned to that odd question which had kept recurring ever since the nightmare thing had happened; and again I wondered why the demon, approaching the three watchers either from the window or the interior, had begun with the men on each side and left the middle man till the last, when the titan fireball had scared it away. Why had it not taken its victims in natural order, with myself second, from whichever direction it had approached? With what manner of far-reaching tentacles did it prey? Or did it know that I was the leader, and saved me for a fate worse than that of my companions?

قدرتمندترین حس بشر، هراس است و بزرگ‌ترین هراس بشر، ناشناخته‌ها است
این کتاب منتخبی از برگزیده‌ترین و مشهورترین داستان‌های لاوکرفت است که به سعی پیمان اسماعیلیان جمع‌آوری و ترجمه شده است و بی‌شک، او نیز مانند شما خواننده عزیز که در حین خواندن این کتاب، چیزهایی خواهید دید و شنید، شاهد چیزهای بسیاری بوده و البته چون خود در بطن ماجرا بوده - در غیر اینصورت کتاب را تمام نمی‌کرد و الان به جرگه خوانندگان خنیای شکارچیان پیوسته بود - قطعا رویاهای صادق و جالبی دیده....که امیدوارم نصیب تمامی علاقمندان شود.
این داستان‌ها به عنوان اسرارآمیزترین و مخوف‌ترین داستان‌های جهان شناخته می‌شوند!

The Silver Key, H.P. Lovecraft
عنوان: کلید سیمین؛ نویسنده: هوارد فیلیپس لاوکرافت؛ مترجم: کاترینا ورزی؛ ویراستار: بنفشه محمودی؛ دبیر مجموعه: فرزاد فربد؛ مشخصات نشر: تهران، انتشارات پریان، 1393، در 228 ص، شابک: 9786007058121؛ موضوع: داستانهای نویسندگان امریکایی قرن 20 م

Anticipada por notables precedentes (Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, R. W. Chambers, A. Machen, Algernon Blackwood) y enriquecida posteriormente por otros escritores, corresponde sin embargo a HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) el papel más importante en la invención de LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en mundos primigenios de caos y espanto. El presente volumen, prologado y seleccionado por Rafael Llopis, ofrece una completa panorámica del desarrollo de los mitos y reúne las piezas fundamentales en la configuración de ese singular e inquietante universo que remueve en el interior del lector profundos terrores atávicos.

"Días de ocio en el país del Yann" (Iddle Days on the Yann, 1910), de Lord Dunsany
"Un habitante de Carcosa" (An Inhabitant of Carcosa, 1886), de Ambrose Bierce
"El signo amarillo" (The Yellow Sign 1895), de Robert W. Chambers
"Vinum Sabbati" (The White Powder, 1895), de Arthur Machen
"El Wendigo" (The Wendigo, 1910), de Algernon Blackwood
"La maldición que cayó sobre Sarnath" (The Doom that Came to Sarnath, 1920), de H.P. Lovecraft
"El ceremonial" (The Festival, 1925), de H.P. Lovecraft
"Los Perros de Tíndalos" (The Hounds of Tindalos, 1929), de Frank Belknap Long
"La Sombra sobre Innsmouth" (The Shadow over Innsmouth, 1936), de H.P. Lovecraft
"La piedra negra" (The Black Stone, 1931), de Robert E. Howard
"Estirpe de la cripta" (The Nameless Offspring, 1932), de Clark Asthon Smith
"En la noche de los tiempos" (The Shadow out of Time, 1936), de H.P. Lovecraft
"Reliquia de un mundo olvidado" (Out of the Eons, 1933), de Hazel Heald
"Las ratas del cementerio" (The Graveyard Rats, 1936), de Henry Kuttner
"El vampiro estelar" (The Shambler from the Stars, 1935), de Robert Bloch
"El Morador de las Tinieblas" (The Haunter of the Dark, 1936), de H.P. Lovecraft
"La Hoya de las Brujas" (Witches" Hollow, 1962), de H.P. Lovecraft y August Derleth
"El Sello de R"lyeh" (The Seal of R"lyeh, 1957), de August Derleth
"La sombra que huyó del chapitel" (The Shadow from the Steeple, 1950), de Robert Bloch
"La iglesia de High Street" (The Church of High Street, 1962), de J. Ramsey Campbell
"Con la técnica de Lovecraft" (Amb la tècnica de Lovecraft, 1956), de Juan Perucho

Ambrose Dewart was the last lineal descendant of the Billington family. So it was natural that he should come to the legend-shrouded town of Arkham, Massachusetts, to take up residence in the old family mansion in Billington's Wood—even though the house had stood empty and shunned for over a hundred years.

Dewart found a rich legacy of disturbing features awaiting him: an ancient tower surrounded by a ring of stones in the forest, a strangely disquieting window of coloured glass which offered glimpses into some weird dimension of horror, a library of dark and secret lore—and family legends involving mysterious rites, ghastly deaths and disappearances, and the conjuration of vile, age-old Powers from beyond space and time.

Most frightening of all, Dewart found his arrival had brought these horrors to life again.

And the Lurker was once more preparing to cross the Threshold...

H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, two of this century's foremost masters of the macabre, have created a chilling novel of ultimate evil that is sure to grip the reader's soul in a grip of ice.

This ebook compiles H. P. Lovecraft's greatest writings, including novellas and short stories such as "The Color Out of Space", "The Rats in the Walls", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror", "At the Mountains of Madness" and "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward".

This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

The modern world has been stripped of imagination and belief in magic when a man gazing from his window upon the stars comes to observe secret vistas unsuspected by normal humanity. One night the gulf between his world and the stars is bridged, and his mind ascends from his body out into the boundless cosmos.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was the master of American weird fiction.

First published in 1917, “A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson” is one of his best-known stories.

This ebook also contains:
- “Memory” (1919), a Lovecraft’s extra-story;
- the essay “Supernatural Horror Fiction” (1927), in which Lovecraft depicts the history of horror fiction.

H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.

A man, newly arrived in New York, learns that a reclusive doctor lives in the apartment above his own. While suffering a heart attack, he is taken to the doctor’s door, and soon becomes friends with the bizarre and isolated man who claims he must live in a refrigerated environment for his health. But as the man spends more time with the doctor, he begins to understand the horrifying truth about his friend’s strange medical condition.

"Dagon" is the second story of the writer H.P.Lovecraft, written in 1917 and published ,for the first time, in 1919. The work takes its title from the mythological God Dagon, and tells a disturbing story, happened years before to a man with the obsession of suicide. Before throwing himself from the window of his attic, this man writes some notes related to his mental state. Then, he began to recall an old story that happened in the years of the First World War: suddenly, he finds himself a prisoner of a German ship in the Pacific Ocean. After only five days, the protagonist manages to escape with a raft. Wandering for days, adrift in the sea, one afternoon he finds himself stranded on a disquieting and apparently deserted island. Immediately he notices that in the mud, a lot of rotting fish are stranded...

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.

It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking through a valley and encounters a vine-covered wall with a locked bronze gate therein. He longs to know what lies beyond the gate.

In the most common Lovecraft's way of retelling something, this story starts from the end, from Arthur Jermyn's suicide, emphasises the importance of something he found out, then goes back a couple of generations to tell the story of his family. The past explains his peculiar appearance and the way and reason he died.

"From Beyond" is a short story by science fiction and horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10).

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.