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&quot;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.
Plot summary:
Set in 1923, «The Rats in the Walls» is narrated by the scion of the de la Poer family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, the ruined Exham Priory. To the dismay of nearby residents, he restores the Priory, plainly revealing his ignorance of the horrific history of the place. After moving in, the protagonist and his cats frequently hear rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further (and as revealed in recurring dreams), he learns that his family maintained an underground city for centuries where they raised generations of «human cattle» (some regressed to a quadrupedal state) to supply their taste for human flesh. Maddened by the revelations of his family&apos;s past and driven by a hereditary cruelty, the narrator attacks one of his friends in the dark of the cavernous city and begins eating him. He is subsequently subdued and placed in a mental institution. At least one other investigator, Thornton, has gone insane as well. Soon after, Exham Priory is destroyed. The narrator maintains his innocence, proclaiming that it was «the rats, the rats in the walls,» who ate the man. He continues to be plagued by the sound of rats in the walls of his cell.

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ужасы

мистика

загадочные события

мистические триллеры

страх

хоррор

The Rats in the Walls (Unabridged)

On the eve of the year 2001 a vast crowd of interested spectators were present amidst the romantic ruins of Cohen’s Garage, on the former site of New York, to witness a fistic encounter between two renowned champions of the strange-story firmament Two-Gun Bob, the Terror of the Plains, and Knockout Bernie, the Wild Wolf of West Shokan. [The Wolf was fresh from his correspondence course in physical training, sold to him by Mr. Arthur Leeds.] Before the battle the auguries were determined by the venerated Thibetan Lama Bill Lum Li, who evoked the primal serpent-god of Valusia and found unmistakable signs of victory for both sides. Cream-puffs were inattentively vended by Wladislaw Brenryk the partakers being treated by the official surgeons, Drs. D. H. Killer and M. Gin Brewery.

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The Battle That Ended the Century (Unabridged)

&quot;The Hound" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft&apos;s fictional text the Necronomicon.
&quot;The Hound" contains several references to the body of lore known as the Cthulhu Mythos that Lovecraft shared with other horror writers. Most notably, it marks the first appearance of one of Lovecraft&apos;s most famous literary creations-the forbidden book known as the Necronomicon. Lovecraft had mentioned its author a year earlier, in «The Nameless City», but here for the first time named the book. Referring to an amulet found on a grave-robbing expedition, the narrator relates…

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остросюжетные любовные романы

эротические романы

измена

жизненные вопросы

страстная любовь

роковая страсть

романтическая эротика

женский роман

властный герой

босс и подчиненная

The Hound (Unabridged)

&quot;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 1919 issue of The National Amateur which actually was published in the summer of 1921.
Synopsis:
The story is narrated by a lone traveller (a genealogist conducting research), riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, who 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», whose face is «abnormally ruddy and less wrinkled than one might expect». «His height could not have been less than six feet.»…

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космос

авантюрная фантастика

The Picture in the House (Unabridged)

&quot;The Terrible Old Man" is a very short short story (less than 1200 words) by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It is notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft&apos;s imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of Kingsport.
Plot:
A strange old man, «so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name,» lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport. Even among the locals, few know the details of the old man&apos;s life, but it is believed that he once captained East Indian clipper ships in his youth and accumulated great riches throughout his life. Those who had visited the property had seen bizarre collections of stones in the front yard and observed the old man carrying on conversations with mysterious bottles on his table, which make «certain definite vibrations as if in answer.» Most locals take care to avoid the man and his house.
The story focuses on Angelo Ricci, Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva, three robbers who learn about the old man&apos;s supposed hoard of treasure and resolve to take it. Both Ricci and Silva go inside to «interview» the old man about the treasure, while Czanek waits outside in the getaway car. After waiting impatiently for a long time, Czanek is startled by an outburst of horrific screaming from the house, but assumes that his colleagues have been too rough with the old man during their interrogation. However, the gate of the house opens, revealing the old man «smiling hideously» at him. For the first time, Czanek takes note of the man&apos;s unsettling yellow eyes.
The mutilated bodies of the three robbers are later found by the seaside, «horribly slashed as with many cutlasses, and horribly mangled as by the tread of many cruel boot-heels.» The people of Kingsport talk about the discovery, as well as about the abandoned car and the screams heard in the night, but the old man shows no interest in their gossip.

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женские истории

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легкая проза

The Terrible Old Man (Unabridged)

&quot;Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919.
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…

публицистическая литература

военное дело / спецслужбы

историческая литература

электрическая связь

спецслужбы

шифры

история СССР

криптология

электронная аппаратура

серьезное чтение

об истории серьезно

Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Unabridged)

&quot;Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story in the horror fiction genre, written by American author H. P. Lovecraft in 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a reality which human understanding finds intolerable.
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 ridiculed. He had been confined to an asylum in 1765. Lovecraft describes how the Jermyn family has a peculiar physical appearance that began to appear in the children of Wade Jermyn and his mysterious and reclusive wife, who Wade claimed was Portuguese.

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боевое фэнтези

другие расы

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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (Unabridged)

&quot;The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote «The Tree» early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. Such stories, he said, «if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else.» The assessment of Lovecraft authority S. T. Joshi was that although the story «may be a trifle obvious… it is an effective display of Lovecraft&apos;s skill in handling a historical setting.»
On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia is an olive grove that grows around a marble tomb and the ruin of an old villa. There, one gigantic tree resembles a frighteningly distorted man, and the roots of the tree have shifted the blocks of the tomb.

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ЛитРес: чтец

The Tree (Unabridged)

&quot;The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928.
The story&apos;s narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being «jostled by a nautical-looking negro».

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СМИ / Средства массовой информации

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журналистика

профессиональное образование

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The Call of Cthulhu (Unabridged)

&quot;The Beast in the Cave" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The first draft was written in the Spring of 1904, with the final draft finished in April 1905, when Lovecraft was fourteen. It was first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur press journal The Vagrant.
A man touring the Mammoth Cave becomes separated from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark, when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him.

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любовное фэнтези

драконы

магические миры

сильные женщины

сильная героиня

бытовое фэнтези

The Beast in the Cave (Unabridged)

&quot;From Beyond" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10).
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 person&apos;s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт