Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

Мистическая история на грани безумия, в которой сны переплетаются с явью, – о великом божестве Ктулху и его почитателях, таинственных культах и обрядах, древних книгах и городах – из сборника рассказов «Цвет из иных миров» мастера сверхъестественного…

После страшного землетрясения пробуждаются от вековечного сна приближенные великого Ктулху. Да и сам Властитель древности поднимается на поверхность вод вместе со своим обиталищем – мрачным городом Р’лайх. Тонко чувствующие перестают спать, художники…

В этот томе собрания избранных произведений одного из величайших мастеров фантастики и «литературы ужасов» вошли прославленный роман «История Чарльза Декстера Варда», а также подборка редко издаваемых на русском языке рассказов и поэтических произвед…

Ктулху, Дагон, Йог-Сотот и многие другие темные божества, придуманные Говардом Лавкрафтом в 1920-е годы, приобрели впоследствии такую популярность, что сотни творцов фантастики, включая Нила Геймана и Стивена Кинга, до сих пор продолжают расширять ег…

Таинственные существа, населяющие подземный мир, демоны, пожирающие трупы, монстры, живущие в неопределенных сферах и измерениях за пределами нашей материальной вселенной – все они населяют мир Лавкрафта, столь же загадочный, сколь и ужасающе захваты…

The story is the testament of a tortured, morphine-addicted man who plans to commit suicide over an incident that occurred early on in World War I when he was a merchant marine officer.

"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 …

The story describe the appearance of Nyarlathotep as a "man" of the race of the Pharaohs, who claims to have been dormant for the past twenty-seven centuries, and his subsequent travels from city to city demonstrating his supernatural powers. Whereve…

Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor brings the ancient stone city of R'lyeh to the surface once more, the Old Ones awaken at last.

"The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August–September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924. In 1923, an American named Delapore, the last descendant of the De la Poer family, moves…

Hypnos is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people…

The narrator, hearing tales of a "lurking fear" upon Tempest Mountain in the Catskills, takes two men with him to investigate. They camp inside the deserted Martense mansion as a lightning storm approaches, and feeling strangely drowsy, they all fall…

Crawling, clawing, sliming horror, seeping from the night-tipped pen of that Grand Master of heart-stopping supernatural terror – H.P. Lovecraft.Crawling, clawing, sliming horror, seeping from the night-tipped pen of that Grand Master of heart-stoppi…

"Dagon" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant (issue #11). Dagon was later published in Weird …

In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. "The Cats of Ulthar" was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's, who was an ardent cat lover.

Sailors kill a 50 foot creature at sea after a lengthy battle. The creature bears strange anatomical irregularities such as a single large eye and rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral fins. After inspection by marine biologists…

The story tells of an unnamed narrator, who has moved from New England to New York City and greatly regretted it. One night, while wandering an older part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man strangely dressed in garments from the eighteenth c…

A university student is forced, by his lack of funds, to take the only lodging he can afford. In a strange part of the city he had never seen before, on a street named "Rue d'Auseil", he finds an apartment in an almost empty building. One of the few …

Circles and pentagrams loomed on every hand, and told indubitably of the strange beliefs and aspirations of those who dwelt so squalidly here. In the cellar, however, the strangest thing was found-a pile of genuine gold ingots covered carelessly with…

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story begins in the attic of an an…