мистика
The Haunter Of The Dark
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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.
Cool Air
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
A gentleman in New York begins renting an apartment one floor below an aged doctor, who insists on keeping his quarters very chilly. As the two become friends, the old doctor's health begins to deteriorate in a particularly Lovecraftian fashion.
Dagon
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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 Music of Erich Zann
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
The Nameless City
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"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.
Medusa's Coil
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Some of H. P. Lovecraft's most fascinating work came from a time in his life that he was forced, by economic survival, to ghostwrite, collaborate and revise the work of others in the field.
The Terrible Old Man
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly man "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name". He lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport.
The Strange High House in the Mist
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the...
The Other Gods
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Barzai the Wise, a high priest and prophet greatly learned in the lore of the "gods of earth", or Great Ones, attempts to scale the mountain of Hatheg-Kla in order to look upon their faces, accompanied by his young disciple Atal. Upon reaching...
The Outsider
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact.
The Street
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as a path in colonial times to a quasi-supernatural occurrence in the years immediately following World War I.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures resembling a cross between a fish and a frog, which lives in the seaside village of Innsmouth.
The Shunned House
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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.
The Dreams In The Witch-House
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Akham, Lovecraft's fictional New England town. The house once harbored Keziah Mason, an witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692....
The Temple
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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. It documents his untimely end at the bottom of the ocean.
The Picture in the House
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
A lone traveler 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."
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
Ex Oblivione
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"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...
From Beyond
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
The Silver Key
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Randolph Carter discovers, at the age of 30, that he has gradually "lost the key to the gate of dreams." As he ages, he finds that his daily waking exposure to the more "practical", scientific ideas of man, has eventually eroded his ability to...
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft which tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself.
The Thing on the Doorstep
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Daniel Upton, the story's narrator, begins by telling that he has killed his best friend, Edward Derby, and that he hopes his account will prove that he is not a murderer.
The Hound
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have...
The Lurking Fear
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
The Moon Bog
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional town in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog,...
The Quest of Iranon
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince. While Iranon enjoys singing and telling his tales of wonder, few appreciate it. When a disenfranchised...
He
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
The Transition of Juan Romero
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, Juan Romero, venture inside the mine, drawn against...
The Tree
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it.
Hypnos
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
The Unnamable
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Carter, a weird fiction writer, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an...
The Very Old Folk
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
It is a recording of a dream, where the main protagonist is a Roman military official in the Basque country near Pompelo. The countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible hill people who kidnap citizens and perform cruel rituals at a Sabbath....
The Whisperer in Darkness
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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 White Ship
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man piloting a mystical white ship is found sailing upon a bridge of moonlight. Elton joins the bearded man on this ship, and together they explore a...
Through the Gates of the Silver Key
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate...
What the Moon Brings
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story describes a surreal dreamscape. The narrator wanders through his garden one night and in the moonlight sees strange and bizarre things.
In the Vault
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.
Pickman's Model
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story revolves around a Bostonian painter named Richard Upton Pickman who creates horrifying images. His works are brilliantly executed, but so graphic that they result in his membership in the Boston Art Club being revoked and himself...
Polaris
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights from his window, in particular that of the Pole Star, Polaris, which he describes as "winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives...
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Six bone-chilling tales of bizarre beauty and awesome horror lurk in the dark of the soul, waiting to be called upon by the demons of nightmares, and let loose in the frightened mind.
The Alchemist
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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...
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
Incantations of black magic unearthed unspeakable horrors in Providence, Rhode Island. Evil spirits are being resurrected from beyond the grave, a supernatural force so twisted that it kills without offering the mercy of death.
At the Mountains of Madness
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
The Barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless – or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures and the carved stones tens of millions of years old.
Nyarlathotep
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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....
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт
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.
Ведьма
Вадим Панов
«– Привет! Я из Красноярска, и я странный.
Именно с этих слов начал знакомство со мной Валька Гостюхин.
С неожиданных, согласитесь, слов…»
Горевестница
Вадим Панов
«– Алло, добрый день.
– Здравствуйте.
– Будьте добры Анну Тимофеевну.
– Это я…»
Дикая стая
Вадим Панов
«На столе передо мной лежит овальный золотой медальон размером с детскую ладошку. Он тусклый и потертый, он истончается к краям, словно прошедшая через сотни рук и кошельков монета, что странно, ибо, несмотря на то что нет цепочки, – я оборвал...
Берег падающих звезд
Вадим Панов
«– Не может быть!!
– Что случилось?
– Дерьмо!
– Не ори! Люди смотрят!
– Люди в той же заднице, что и мы!..»
Бонсай
Вадим Панов
«– Знаешь, я все-таки возьму эту лилию.
– Непрактично, – заметила Галка. – Здесь одна луковица, а стоит она почти столько же, сколько три вот этих…»
