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  • 30 - The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.

    30 - The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.
    2026/10/13
    The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.
    The Weird Fiction of Fantasy Fan Magazin by Various Authors.
    The Fantasy Fan was a fanzine edited by Charles D. Hornig that featured exclusive works by many seminal figures from the golden period of weird fiction including H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, R. H. Barlow, Robert Bloch and many others. This collection seeks to compile together all the fiction published by The Fantasy Fan during its two-year run, excluding Clark Ashton Smith whose Fantasy Fan works have previously been published in Fantasy Fan.

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    12 分
  • 29 - The Disinterment by Duane W. Rimel and H. P. Lovecraft.

    29 - The Disinterment by Duane W. Rimel and H. P. Lovecraft.
    2026/10/13
    The Disinterment by Duane W. Rimel and H. P. Lovecraft.
    The story tells of a leprosy sufferer, who, instead of living with the debilitating condition, opts for death and resurrection at the hands of a witch doctor.
    The sufferer contracts the disease whilst nursing his brother, also a leper, in the Philippines. Since leprosy, if discovered, would condemn the man to a lifetime of exile in a leper colony in appalling conditions, he embarks on a wild plan to conceal his condition and find an exotic "cure" with the help of his longtime friend who is a doctor of medicine and also an occultist. The story becomes a kind of reversal of "Herbert West--Reanimator", told from the point of view of the victim, rather than the doctor...

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    8 分
  • 20 - The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.

    20 - The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.
    2026/10/13
    The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.
    "The Shunned House" is a horror novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in October 1924 and first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales magazine.
    The story centers on a long-abandoned colonial house on Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, whose unhealthy atmosphere and grim history of causing wasting illnesses, anemia-like conditions, mental deterioration, and premature deaths among occupants since the 1760s have earned it a local reputation as cursed or unlivable.
    The unnamed narrator, fascinated by the house since childhood due to its decaying exterior, foul-smelling cellar filled with grotesque phosphorescent fungi, and persistent rumors of unnatural misfortune, joins his uncle Dr. Elihu Whipple—a physician and antiquarian—in a thorough historical and scientific investigation of the property's past.
    Their research uncovers a pattern of tragedy beginning with the house's first inhabitants, the Harris family, and extending through successive tenants, with no healthy children ever born there and many residents succumbing to progressive physical and mental decline. The trail leads back to an earlier occupant, French Huguenot refugee Etienne Roulet, whose family was linked to disturbing occult associations and folklore reminiscent of vampirism or lycanthropy, including connections to historical figures accused of similar crimes. Rejecting purely superstitious interpretations, the protagonists develop a rational hypothesis positing an extradimensional entity or modified vital force that feeds on human life energy, manifesting through fungous growths and emanations that drain vitality from those nearby.
    This approach exemplifies Lovecraft's fusion of Gothic haunted-house conventions with emerging cosmic horror elements, treating the supernatural as a potentially explicable phenomenon rooted in unknown aspects of reality rather than traditional ghosts or demons. The tale draws direct inspiration from a real 18th-century house at 135 Benefit Street in Providence—where one of Lovecraft's aunts briefly lived—and from 19th-century New England vampire panics, in which communities exhumed bodies to combat tuberculosis attributed to the undead. As a transitional work in Lovecraft's career, "The Shunned House" bridges earlier influences from folklore and Edgar Allan Poe with his later Mythos framework of indifferent, otherworldly threats, and it is often noted for its vivid depictions of decay and its unusually hopeful resolution compared to much of his fiction.

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    1 時間 15 分
  • 19 - The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft.

    19 - The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft.
    2026/10/13
    The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft.
    "The Alchemist" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1908 when he was 17 years old and first published in the November 1916 issue of the amateur journal The United Amateur. Set in a decaying chateau in the mountains of France, the gothic horror tale follows the first-person narration of Antoine, the last descendant of the noble Comte de C—— family, whose lineage has been plagued by a curse causing all heirs to die before reaching the age of 32. The story centers on Antoine's discovery of the curse's origins, tied to a 13th-century ancestor's murder of the alchemist Michel Mauvais and the subsequent vengeance enacted by his son, Charles le Sorcier, who masters an elixir granting eternal life.
    As one of Lovecraft's earliest surviving works of fiction, "The Alchemist" exemplifies his youthful engagement with supernatural themes, drawing on gothic traditions of isolated aristocracy and forbidden knowledge. The narrative builds atmospheric dread through descriptions of the family's crumbling estate and the protagonist's growing awareness of his inescapable fate, culminating in a confrontation that reveals the persistence of ancestral sins. Key elements include the alchemical pursuit of immortality and the horror of eternal isolation, motifs that foreshadow Lovecraft's later explorations of cosmic insignificance and human frailty.
    The story's publication in The United Amateur marked Lovecraft's return to creative writing after a period of depression, encouraged by his correspondence with the amateur journalism community. Though not among his most famous works, "The Alchemist" is notable for its Poe-inspired structure and vivid evocation of revenge across centuries, influencing subsequent tales like "The Outsider." Critics have praised its economical prose and thematic depth despite the author's inexperience, highlighting it as a foundational piece in Lovecraft's oeuvre of weird fiction.

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    27 分
  • 17 - The White Ship by H. P. Lovecraft.

    17 - The White Ship by H. P. Lovecraft.
    2026/10/13
    The White Ship by H. P. Lovecraft.
    "The White Ship" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the November 1919 issue of The United Amateur. It belongs to Lovecraft's early "Dream Cycle" of tales, which explore visionary journeys to otherworldly realms inspired by the works of Lord Dunsany, and centers on a lighthouse keeper's ethereal voyage aboard a mysterious vessel to idyllic yet perilous dreamlands.
    The narrative follows Basil Elton, the solitary keeper of the North Point light, who one night encounters a gleaming white ship crewed by silent, robed figures that beckons him aboard under the light of a full moon. As the ship sails beyond the known world, Elton visits enchanting locales such as the jeweled city of Zar, the twilight-haunted Thalarion, the rose-tinted isle of Xura, the land of pleasures unattained from which a charnel odor of plague wafts, and the blissful valley of Sona-Nyl, where time stands still and sorrow is unknown. Driven by longing, Elton urges the crew to pursue the fabled land of Cathuria, but the ship is ultimately dashed against uncharted basalt pillars in the west, forcing his return to the waking world amid omens of loss, symbolized by a dead bird and a broken spar washing ashore.
    Written in 1919 when Lovecraft was 29, the story exemplifies his early poetic style, blending cosmic wonder with subtle horror and allegorical elements drawn from Platonic ideals of transcendent beauty and the perils of human aspiration. It reflects Lovecraft's fascination with dream mythology, predating more elaborate Dream Cycle works like The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927), and has been analyzed for its exploration of escapism, the boundaries between reality and illusion, and the inexorable pull of the unknown. Though not among Lovecraft's most famous tales, "The White Ship" influenced later weird fiction and adaptations, including musical interpretations and references in broader cosmic horror traditions.

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    18 分
  • 22 - Dagon by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

    22 - Dagon by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
    2026/10/13
    Dagon by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
    "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...

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    16 分
  • 21 - The Book by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (unfinished).

    21 - The Book by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (unfinished).
    2026/10/13
    The Book by Howard Phillips Lovecraft (unfinished).
    "The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.
    In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.
    In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter:
    I am at a sort of standstill in writing—disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.
    The H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that "The Book" was one of the undestroyed experiments—an attempt to translate Lovecraft's poem sequence Fungi from Yuggoth into prose. (The completed fragment corresponds to the first three sonnets, which form more of a coherent narrative than the rest of the sequence.)
    "The Black Tome of Alsophocus", first published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980), is an attempt by Martin S. Warnes to complete "The Book". Warnes turns the fragment into a tale of possession by Nyarlathotep.
    In 2019, the latter Warnes completion was adapted into a short film of the same name. The aforementioned film was featured in 2020 Edition of the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon and it its included in the Festival's Best of 2020 Short Film Collection bluray.

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    7 分
  • 15 - The Beast in the Cave by H. P. Lovecraft.

    15 - The Beast in the Cave by H. P. Lovecraft.
    2026/10/12
    The Beast in the Cave by H. P. Lovecraft.
    "The Beast in the Cave" is a short horror story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in the spring of 1905 when he was 14 years old and first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur journal The Vagrant. Set in the real-world Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the narrative follows an unnamed tourist who becomes separated from his guide during a tour, loses his torch in the pitch-black depths, and encounters an unseen, predatory creature through sounds alone, leading to a desperate struggle for survival.
    The story emphasizes psychological terror derived from sensory isolation and the power of imagination in darkness, as the protagonist's fear amplifies the unknown into monstrous proportions. This early work foreshadows Lovecraft's signature themes of cosmic insignificance and the dread of subterranean horrors, though it lacks the fully developed mythos of his later fiction. Its publication marked Lovecraft's debut as a published fiction writer in an amateur journal, and it remains a key example of his juvenile output, preserved in the autograph manuscript held by Brown University.

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    14 分