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The Nameless Cityполная версия
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"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft. The story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and is older than any human civilization.
"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft. The story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and is older than any human civilization.
The Call of Cthulhuполная версия
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The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of ev…
The Call of Cthulhu, the tale of a horrifying underwater monster coming to life and threatening mankind, is H.P. Lovecraft's most famous and most widely popular tale, spawning an entire mythology, with the power to strike terror into the hearts of ev…
The Alchemistполная версия
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The story is recounted by the protagonist, Comte Antoine de C-, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge o…
The story is recounted by the protagonist, Comte Antoine de C-, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge o…
The Bookполная версия
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"The Book" is an unfinished short story H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange book…
"The Book" is an unfinished short story H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange book…
Beyond the Wall of Sleepполная версия
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An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
An intern in a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
Azathoth
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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 h…
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 h…
Золотая Чаша
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«Золотая Чаша», первая серьезная работа одного из самых известных американских писателей XX века, – это нетипичный для его творчества исторический роман, который покажет читателю новые грани таланта Джона Стейнбека. Написанное в жанре беллетризованно…
«Золотая Чаша», первая серьезная работа одного из самых известных американских писателей XX века, – это нетипичный для его творчества исторический роман, который покажет читателю новые грани таланта Джона Стейнбека. Написанное в жанре беллетризованно…
Завтрак для чемпионов
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«Ты – единственное существо со свободной волей! Как тебе это нравится?» – эти строки прочитал Дуэйн Гувер в романе писателя-фантаста Килгора Траута, сквозного героя произведений Воннегута, являющегося своего рода альтер эго писателя. Гувер решил, что…
«Ты – единственное существо со свободной волей! Как тебе это нравится?» – эти строки прочитал Дуэйн Гувер в романе писателя-фантаста Килгора Траута, сквозного героя произведений Воннегута, являющегося своего рода альтер эго писателя. Гувер решил, что…
Гризли
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Известный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда о трогательной дружбе осиротевшего медвежонка Мусквы и огромного медведя Тэра. Книга продолжает мини-серию подарочных изданий о природе с иллюстрациями петербургского художника Владимира …
Известный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда о трогательной дружбе осиротевшего медвежонка Мусквы и огромного медведя Тэра. Книга продолжает мини-серию подарочных изданий о природе с иллюстрациями петербургского художника Владимира …
Чёрный Охотник
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Остросюжетный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда, жившего и творившего на стыке столетий, как и многие из его произведений, посвящен Северной Канаде – краю необычайно красивому, но чрезвычайно опасному. Кервуд был весьма успешным пи…
Остросюжетный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда, жившего и творившего на стыке столетий, как и многие из его произведений, посвящен Северной Канаде – краю необычайно красивому, но чрезвычайно опасному. Кервуд был весьма успешным пи…
Сердце-обличитель
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«Правда! Я нервный – очень даже нервный, просто до ужаса, таким уж уродился; но как можно называть меня сумасшедшим? От болезни чувства мои только обострились – они вовсе не ослабели, не притупились. И в особенности – тонкость слуха. Я слышал все, чт…
«Правда! Я нервный – очень даже нервный, просто до ужаса, таким уж уродился; но как можно называть меня сумасшедшим? От болезни чувства мои только обострились – они вовсе не ослабели, не притупились. И в особенности – тонкость слуха. Я слышал все, чт…
The Doom That Came to Sarnathполная версия
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According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron (not to be confused with Kadath), which rose to great intelle…
According to the tale, more than 10,000 years ago, a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar, forming the cities of Thraa, Ilarnek, and Kadatheron (not to be confused with Kadath), which rose to great intelle…
The Haunter Of The Darkполная версия
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The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space.
The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space.
From Beyondполная версия
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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 per…
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 per…
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Familyполная версия
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The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been r…
The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-great-great-grandfather, Sir Wade Jermyn, had been an early explorer of the Congo region, whose books on a mysterious white civilization there had been r…
Ex Oblivioneполная версия
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"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem.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 …
"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem.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 …
The Evil Clergymanполная версия
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The short story is actually an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote. It begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator’s companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably violent end that befell him. He advises the narrator…
The short story is actually an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote. It begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator’s companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably violent end that befell him. He advises the narrator…
The Dunwich Horrorполная версия
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In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old O…
In the degenerate, unliked backwater of Dunwich, Wilbur Whately, a most unusual child, is born. Of unnatural parentage, he grows at an uncanny pace to an unsettling height, but the boy's arrival simply precedes that of a true horror: one of the Old O…
The Crawling Chaosполная версия
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The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrator then tells of his sole experience with opium in which he was accidentally administered an overdose by a doctor during the "year…
The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can inspire. The narrator then tells of his sole experience with opium in which he was accidentally administered an overdose by a doctor during the "year…
The Descendantполная версия
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"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrote that he was "making a very careful study of London…in order to get background for tales involving …
"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrote that he was "making a very careful study of London…in order to get background for tales involving …

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