La maschera di Innsmouth

”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those w Leggi tutto

After one false start, in the final months of 1931, Lovecraft completed it: the novella which embodies his two greatest fears. The most obvious of the two, the fear of immigration and miscegenation, was derived from his narrow cultural focus and his xenophobia, but the second—a microcosm of the firs Leggi tutto

One of the quintessential Lovecraft novellas! A first person narrator comes to visit a decayed fishing town named Innsmouth and is having an nightmarish time there. You'll hear about the cosmic horror, read about 'The Order of Dagon', meet Zadoc Allen and his gruesome tale what actually befell the t Leggi tutto

‘ Where does madness leave off and reality begin? ’ The eeriness of a small seaside town becomes a tale of cosmic horror in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth . The only book of Lovecraft’s distributed during his lifetime, Innsmouth figures into Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos and offers a frightenin Leggi tutto

❞   لسوف نرى ما يجعل الكلب ينبح في الظلام ، و ما الذي يجعل القطط تحك آذانها بعد منتصف الليل .. لسوف نبصر هذه الأشياء و أشياء أخرى لم يرها مخلوق يتنفس من قبل .. سنخترق الزمن و الأبعاد و نقترب من السر  ❝  .كان لافكرافت يعيش معنا بجسده ، أما عن وعيه و قلبه فقد كان في عالم آخر حيث الأساطير حقيقة مثبتة ، Leggi tutto

After At the Mountain of Madness , HPL is back in New England with this novelette. Once more, as in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward or The Colour Out of Space , the protagonist investigates the strange events that have been taking place in a deserted town, seemingly afflicted with a curse. In the end, Leggi tutto

This is the dark heart of Lovecraft fiction at its finest: secret cults, secret cities under the sea and strange mutated people- what’s not to love? The Shadow of Innsmouth depicts a fear, a fear of the unknown and a fear of the watering down of the human race. In the isolated town of Insmouth the p Leggi tutto

Not what I was expecting QUITE POPULAR BUT... This novella is one of the most popular between H.P. Lovecraft's fans, however sadly I must say that I wasn't able to enjoy the reading experience as I'd expected initially. This is part of the Cthulhu Mythos ,... ...set in the fictional town of Innsm

The Shadow Over Innsmouth is one H.P. Lovecraft's later works - written in 1936 and published in 1936, the only of his works of fiction to be published during his lifetime - he died in 1937. Lovecraft himself disliked the story, thinking it poorly written and not suitable for publication. The first