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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 "strange horrors" who is investigating the massacre of a community of some six dozen backwoods degenerates in an obscure region of the Catskills, a massacre which occurred during a particularly violent electrical storm and seems to have been perpetrated by an unidentified clawed beast.

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 Upton, the story's narrator, explains that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer.

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 his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, a genealogist seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a "loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man," speaking in "an extreme form of Yankee dialect... thought long extinct."

Dagon is a short story by American author H.P. Lovecraft. It was written in July 1917 and is one of the first stories that Lovecraft wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Dagon was later published in Weird Tales. It is considered by many to be one of Lovecraft's most forward-looking stories. The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who relates an incident that occurred during his service as an officer during World War I.

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 up lodging in an almost empty apartment building on a street named "Rue d'Auseil". One of the few other tenants is an old German man named Erich Zann. The old man is mute and plays the viol[a] with a local theater orchestra. He lives alone on the top floor and at night he plays strange melodies the student has never heard before.

The Tomb is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home. The Tomb tells of Jervas Dudley, a confessed daydreamer. While still a child, he discovers the padlocked entrance to a mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family, whose nearby mansion had burnt down many years previously. Jervas attempts to break the padlock, but is unable.

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 December 1922. Lovecraft later called that visit "the most powerful single emotional climax experienced during my nearly forty years of existence." In a flash all the past of New England—all the past of Old England—all the past of Anglo-Saxondom and the Western World--swept over me and identified me with the stupendous totality of all things in such a way as it never did before and never did again.

The Outsider is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light. "The Outsider" is one of Lovecraft's most commonly reprinted works and is also one of the most popular stories ever to be published in Weird Tales. The Outsider combines horror, fantasy, and gothic fiction to create a nightmarish story, containing themes of loneliness, the abhuman, and the afterlife.

The Temple is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1920, and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales #24 in September 1925. The story is narrated as a "found manuscript" penned by Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, a lieutenant-commander in the Imperial German Navy during the days of World War I. Altberg begins by declaring that he has decided to document the events leading up to his untimely end in order to "set certain facts" before the public, aware that he will not survive to do so himself.

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 of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and was followed by a sequel, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", co-written with E. Hoffmann Price. The story and its sequel both feature Lovecraft's recurring character of Randolph Carter as the protagonist. Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams."

Celebrated treasure hunter Count Byron Khun de Prorok leads an expedition into the Libyan Desert in an attempt to find the lost tomb of Alexander the Great at the Temple of Jupiter Ammon. Can the Count succeed where countless others have failed, and recover one of history's greatest archeological finds? Or are some secrets buried with good reason, and those who seek them doomed to be met with madness and disaster?

Uno scienziato specializzato in febbri infettive decide di vendicarsi di un collega che ha pubblicamente sminuito i meriti delle sue ricerche. Durante un viaggio in Sud Africa, scopre un genere di mosche che veicolano una letale febbre infettiva e decide di crearne degli ibridi letali da usare come emissari di morte. Le famose storie dell’orrore dello scrittore statunitense Howard Phillips Lovecraft continuano a far discutere gli appassionati, incerti se collocarle nella categoria del fantastico più originale o delle cronache di un possibile domani, di un oggi “laterale” in cui antichi misteri si aprono come crepe nel tessuto della realtà.

Durante un viaggio nel Missouri meridionale un uomo chiede ospitalità al solitario occupante di un’antica villa padronale caduta in completa rovina. Nel corso della notte il visitatore viene informato dall’ospitante delle sventure piombate sulla vecchia casa dopo lo sfortunato matrimonio del figlio Denis con una donna francese, Marceline, da tempo conosciuta nei circoli esoterici parigini per essersi proclamata sacerdotessa di un culto ancestrale tributato ai serpenti.

Arkham 1904: Zwei Studenten der medizinischen Fakultät der Miskatonic University wagen sich trotz eines ausdrücklichen Verbotes an höchst umstrittene Forschungsarbeiten: Sie wollen mit einer Injektion chemischer Flüssigkeiten kürzlich Verstorbene ins Leben zurückholen. Doch die Toten zeigen eine ganz unerwartete Reaktion auf ihre Wiedererweckung.

Providence, Rhode Island, November 1926: Francis Wayland Thurston wird zum Nachlassverwalter seines Großonkels bestimmt. Dieser war zu seinen Lebzeiten Professor für semitische Sprachen an der Brown-Universität. Aus den zu sichtenden Unterlagen erfährt der Großneffe Erschreckendes über den eigentlichen Forschungs-Schwerpunkt seines Verwandten...

Francis Wayland Thurston besucht einen befreundeten Wissenschaftler und stößt dabei eher zufällig auf weiteres erschütterndes Material den unheimlichen Cthulhu-Kult betreffend...

Es ist wahr, ich habe meinem besten Freund in jener regnerischen Nacht Anfang Februar des Jahres 1933 sechs Kugeln durch den Kopf gejagt und doch hoffe ich, beweisen zu können, dass ich nicht sein Mörder bin. Sicherlich werden manche denken, dass ich bloß ein Verrückter bin sogar noch verrückter als der Mann, den ich in seiner Zelle im Arkham Sanatorium erschossen habe. Andere hingegen werden, wenn sie meinen Bericht gehört haben, anerkennen, dass ich gar keine andere Wahl hatte, nachdem ich das grauenhafte Beweisstück gesehen hatte ...

Das Verhalten von Charles Dexter Ward lässt seine Eltern immer mehr an der geistigen Gesundheit ihres Sohnes zweifeln. Schließlich ist die Atmosphäre in dem stattlichen Herrenhaus derart vergiftet, dass man dort beinah froh über den Auszug von Charles ist. Als neue Bleibe hat er sich einen Bungalow gewählt, der sich in der Nähe der Besitzung seines Vorfahren Joseph Curwen befindet. Curwen stand im 18.

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 29 beinhaltet die Geschichten: " War es eine Illusion?", "Der Ruf des Cthulhu (komplett)", "Der schwarze Stein".

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 25 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Die Falle" von Henry S. Whitehead, "Der Schimmelreiter" von Theodor Storm", "Die Toten sind unersättlich" von Leopold von Sacher-Masosch und "Träume im Hexenhaus" von H.P Lovecraft.