Author: Lisa Shea
Publisher: Lisa Shea
ISBN: 0463857755
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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It was cosmic fate that I was a thought-after grand-niece, for it meant when Tobias passed away from his delirium that his run-down apartment in Providence, Rhode Island became available to me. Fate, too, that the abhorrent discovery of my girlfriend cheating on me with a nautical blonde drove me back to a city I swore I would never live in again. But the fates had an even more horrific plan in store for me. For in the dusty back room of my grand-uncle's third floor awaited three musty, long-abandoned boxes. And when curiosity drove me to open the lid ... * * * The Monstrous Vision of the Cthulhu Call is book one in my series: A Lovecraft Romp Through Every Genre There Is – And Some That Are Not. As the title might indicate, I was informed by a fellow author that every series absolutely must stay within a well-defined genre. Being a contrarian, I promptly set out to write a series in which each subsequent story is set with the same characters in a wildly different genre. I would love to hear your thoughts as I write this series as to which genres I should tackle next. Space Opera? Cozy Mystery? Amish Romance? The fun of me posting series as I write them is that it provides you, the reader, with an opportunity to shape and guide the results! Book 1 is the Horror Genre book. I will post a boxed set when I finish, for those who prefer to read series all at once. A portion of all proceeds benefit battered women's shelters. I lived in Providence for two years and the series is based on where I lived.
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN: 3985940134
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft - "The Call of Cthulhu" is one of H. P. Lovecraft's most popular brief tales. Written in the late spring of 1926, it was first distributed in Quite a while, February 1928. It is the main story composed by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial element Cthulhu himself shows up.It is written in a narrative style, with three autonomous stories connected together by the gadget of a storyteller finding notes left by a perished relative. The storyteller sorts out every bit of relevant information and upsetting meaning of the data he has, representing the story's first line: "The most kind thing on the planet, I believe, is the powerlessness of the human psyche to correspond every one of its substance. We live on a tranquil island of obliviousness amidst dark oceans of boundlessness; and it was not implied that we should journey far."
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 39
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This horror story has a man unable to distinguish between what is real and not real in a museum and finding out in a very horrific way. Stephen King said "H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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This carefully crafted ebook: "THE CALL OF CTHULHU (Horror Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Call of Cthulhu is one of Lovecraft's best-known works. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance. Narrator Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of the strange notes left behind by his granduncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University. At first the story revolves around a small bas-relief sculpture found among the papers, which the narrator describes: "My somewhat extravagant imagination yielded simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings". The sculpture is the work of Henry Anthony Wilcox, a student at the Rhode Island School of Design who based the work on delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths, all dripping with green ooze and sinister with latent horror". Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in papers authored by Wilcox. Angell also discovers reports of "outre mental illnesses and outbreaks of group folly or mania" around the world (in New York City, "hysterical Levantines" mob police; in California, a Theosophist colony dons white robes to await a "glorious fulfillment")... Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. He is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre. Some of Lovecraft's work was inspired by his own nightmares. His interest started from his childhood days when his grandfather would tell him Gothic horror stories.
Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: SAMPI Books
ISBN: 6561332423
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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In "The Rats in the Walls" by H.P. Lovecraft, a man restores his ancestral estate in England, only to be haunted by mysterious noises within the walls. As he investigates, he uncovers horrifying secrets about his family's dark past and the ancient horrors lurking beneath the mansion.
Author: H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1667682172
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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A powerful and compelling tale of brooding horror that deepens and broadens to the final catastrophe—an unusual and engrossing novelette by the author of "The Curse of Yig."
Author: Erik Davis
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1583949305
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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TechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture; it appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare and fantasy.
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher: Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 689
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One of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, "The Shadow Out of Time" is the tale of a professor of political economics that is thrown into a mind-shattering journey through time and space, while his body is held hostage by an alien mind. Horrified and panic-stricken by the implications of his experiences, he hopes against all reason and evidence that he has merely lost his mind.
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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The danger of pursuing knowledge, mankind's insignificance in the universe, race and "civilization"While organizing the papers belonging to his late great-uncle Professor George Angell, Francis Wayland Thurston discovers that the old man had been investigating a worldwide religious conspiracy that he called the CTHULHU CULT. Thurston reconstructs his great-uncle's investigation and confirms the existence of a worldwide cult, dating back to ancient prehistory. The cult's beliefs reach even further back in time, referring to vast deathless beings that arrived on Earth from the stars eons before the advent of mankind. These beings-led by a tentacle-headed monster named Cthulhu-wait in a sunken city, neither dead nor alive, for their worshippers to release them. However, Thurston is unable to continue his investigation until quite by chance he comes across a newspaper clipping reporting mysterious events off the coast of New Zealand. The clipping leads Thurston to a first-person account, written by a sailor named Gustaf Johansen, of an encounter with the Cthulhu cult and the monstrous figure of Cthulhu itself.Although Lovecraft considered the story "rather middling," it is one of his most reprinted works and the most often adapted of his stories, having been the basis for a silent film, a radio play, and several comic books. The story has also been enormously influential. It stands at the center of the "Cthulhu Mythos," a fictional mythology concerning the "Great Old Ones" who inhabited Earth long before the dawn of humanity, which recurs in much of Lovecraft's writing and has also been taken up by other horror writers, notably August Derleth. As well as those authors who have drawn directly on the Cthulhu Mythos, there are many others who have been inspired by Lovecraft's vision of a universe terrifyingly indifferent to humans. Horror writers like Stephen King, fantasy authors including Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore, and film directors from Guillermo del Toro to John Carpenter have all drawn on Lovecraft's fiction in their own work.
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Library of Esse
ISBN: 9781435116436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Frequently imitated and widely influential, Howard Phillips Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the twentieth century, discarding ghosts and witches and envisioning instead mankind as a tiny outpost of dwindling sanity in a chaotic and malevolent universe.
