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Calm yourself. There are 20 terrorizing short tales of mirth and murder awaiting your inspection, created by the master of horror, H.P. Lovecraft. Prepare for the fright of your life--it's within these pages....
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I dedicate this collection of his friend's stories, to AUGUST DERLETH without whose superb efforts as editor and publisher my library, and I, would be much poorer. -LIN CARTER
Premiers mots
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Atop the tallest of the earth's peaks dwell the gods of earth, and suffer no men to tell that he looked upon them. ['The Other Gods']
On a verdant slope of Mount Maenalus, in Arcadia, there stands an olive grove about the ruins of a villa. ['The Tree':]
There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and out of which no stream flows. ['The Doom That Came to Sarnath']
In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt as to the authenticity of my narrative. ['The Tomb']
Into the North Wind of my chamber glows the Pole Star with uncanny light. ['Polaris']
I have often wondered if the majority ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. ['Beyond the Wall of Sleep']
In the valley of Nis the accursed waning moon shines thinly, tearing a path for its light with feeble horns through the lethal foliage of a great upas-tree. ['Memory']
I hate the moon -- I am afraid of it -- for when it shines on certain scenes familiar and loved it sometimes makes them unfamiliar and hideous. ['What the Moon Brings']
Nyarlathotep ... the crawling chaos ... I am the last ... I will tell the audient void ... ['Nyarlathotep']
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. [Ex Oblivione]
It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. ['The Cats of Ulthar']
May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of men devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. ['Hypnos']
It was in the pale garden of Zais; The mist-shrouded gardens of Zais, Where blossoms the white nephalot, The redolent herald of midnight. ['Nathicana']
Horrible beyond conception was the change which had taken place in my best friend, Crawford Tillinghast. ['From Beyond']
I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. ['The Festival']
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And above the mists on Hageth-Kla, earth's gods sometimes dance reminiscently; for they know they are safe, and love to come from unknown Kadeth in ships of cloud and play in the olden way, as they did when earth was new and men not given to the climbing of inaccessible places. ['The Other Gods']
But the olive grove still stands, as does the tree growing out of the tomb of Kalos, and the old bee-keeper told me that sometimes the boughs to whisper to one another in the night wind, saying over and over again. (sic) 'Oida! Oida! -- I know! I know! ['The Tree':]
That idol, enshrined in the high temple at Ilarnek, was subsequently worshipped beneath the gibbous moon throughout the land of Mnar. ['The Doom That Came to Sarnath']
And as I writhe in my guilty agony, frantic to save the city whose peril every moment grows, and vainly striving to shake off this unnatural dream of a house of stone and brick south of a sinister swamp and a cemetery on a low hillock, the Pole Star, evil and monstrous , leers down from the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. ['Polaris']
['...] In a week or two it had visibly faded, and in the course of a few months it was hardly discernible with the naked eye. ['Beyond the Wall of Sleep']
So the Genie flew back to the thin horned moon, and the Daemon looked intently at a little ape in a tree that grew in a crumbling courtyard. ['Memory']
And to escape this relentless thing I plunged gladly and unhesitatly into the stinking shallows where amidst weedy walls and sunken streets fat sea-worms feast on the world's dead. ['What the Moon Brings']
And through this revolting graveyard of the universe the muffled, maddening beating of drums, and thin monotonous whine of blasphemous flutes from inconceivable, unlighted chambers beyond Time; the detestable pounding and piping whereunto dance slowly, awkwardly, and absurdly the gigantic tenebrous ultimate gods -- the blind, voiceless, mindless gargoyles whose soul is Nyarlathotep. ['Nyarlathotep']
So, happier than I ever dared hope to be, I dissolved again into that native infinity of crystal oblivion from which the daemon Life had called me for one brief and desolate hour. [Ex Oblivione]
And in the end the burgesses passed that remarkable law which is told of by traders in Hatheg, and discussed by travelers in Nir; namely, that in Ulthar, no man may kill a cat. [The Cats of Ulthar]
They say that that haunting memory-face is modeled from my own, as it was at twenty-five; but upon the marble base is carven a single name in the letters of Attica -- HYPNOS. ['Hypnos']
Once more shall the gardens of Zais Dawn white on my long-tortur'd vision, And there midst the vapours of Yabon Will stand the divine Nathicana; The deathless, restor'd Nathicana Whose like is not met with in living ['Nathicana']
What prevents me from believing the doctor is this one simple fact -- that the police never found the bodies of those servants whom they say Crawford Tillinghast murdered. [From Beyond]
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