Download or read book The Very Old Folk written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Very Old Folk written by Говард Лавкрафт and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-01-29 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 narrator wishes to lead a military expedition to crush these hill folk, as a feeling of approaching evil has enveloped the countryside, due to a riot between the citizens and the hill people. These hill folk came to trade, yet some of these are killed and later, no disappearances occur before the time of the Sabbath. The incursion is guided by a local-born son of Roman parents.

Download or read book The Terrible Old Man written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first story set in the fishing village of Kingsport, which is featured in the later works of the one of the greatest horror writers of all time. It is rumored that the mysterious old man who lives alone in the small New England town was once a sea captain. It is also rumored that he is hoarding a treasure. When three robbers decide to steal it, they will encounter a bloodthirsty evil unlike any they ever imagined . . . “The Terrible Old Man is the story of three career criminals looking to rob the eponymous character, an eccentric retired mariner so ancient that no one alive remembers his youth. . . . This is also the first story set in the fictional New England geography that Lovecraft will detail over the course of future writing. . . . So, what we see in these stories is Lovecraft beginning to construct the alternate world which will be the home to his most famous works, at least as much a unifying element of the author’s oeuvre as those details subsequent writers and critics have defined as the ‘Cthulhu Mythos.’ As such, The Terrible Old Man is not only an effective piece of eerie storytelling, it is also an important stepping stone in the development of a bigger Lovecraftian world.” —The Blood-Shed “A piece of minimalist brushwork, with most of the narrative suggested by negative space . . . In sharp contrast to the central Mythos tales, the horror is allusive and oblique, the violence kept off-stage.” —Tor.com

Download or read book We Don t Go Back written by Howard David Ingham and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-08 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret, strange, dark, impure and dissonant...Enter the haunted landscapes of folk horror, a world of ­pagan ­village conspiracies, witch finders, and teenagers awakening to evil; of dark fairy tales, backwoods cults and obsolete technologies. Beginning with the classics Night of the Demon, Witchfinder General, The Wicker Man and Blood on Satan's Claw, We Don't Go Back surveys the genre of screen folk horror from across the world. Travelling from Watership Down to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, with every stop inbetween, We Don't Go Back is a thoughtful, funny and essential overview of folk horror in TV and cinema."A beautiful rumination on the dark films and television that shaped me and a generation of odd children, for good or ill, worth a year of your time, because you won't just read the book, you'll feel a burning desire to watch everything mentioned within." - Robin Ince"A comprehensive, accessible and often riotously funny tome weaving together folk horror in all its forms, from British television to the American backwoods, from Eastern European fairytales to the vengeful ghosts of East Asia. Ingham explores uncanny landscapes haunted by things buried, old cultures converging with the reluctance of contemporary reason, that very tension that gives his book its name. He attempts to both define folk horror and free it from definition, creating the ultimate guide to the genre's manifestations on film and offering a convincing argument as to why the genre resonates so compellingly with people today." - Kier-La Janisse, author of House of Psychotic Women

Download or read book The Festival written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the time to celebrate Yuletide – a festival that ancient Germanic people celebrated during the darkest times of the year. A man returns to his home town to share this special day of celebration with his relatives. But there is no regular festival waiting for him – instead he is about to meet something terrifying... Yuletide is not, after all, that similar to Christmas – it was believed that supernatural forces were particularly strong during that time of the year. H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American horror writer. His best known works include ‘The Call of Cthulhu’ and ‘the Mountains of Madness’. Most of his work was originally published in pulp magazines, and Lovecraft rose into fame only after his death at the age of 46. He has had a great influence in both horror and science fiction genres.

Download or read book The Shadow over Innsmouth written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by Edicions Perelló. This book was released on 2024-05-22 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrible tales are told of Innsmouth, a once prosperous fishing village, but now poverty-stricken. The cause of the degradation is blamed on an epidemic that came from a ship and mercilessly struck the town. However, evil tongues speak of pacts with the devil. Few people venture to travel to the village, as many foreigners have not returned after traveling to Innsmouth. Nevertheless, the protagonist of this story, a traveler in search of his family origins, is attracted to the town and decides to visit it on his way to his final destination. But, to his misfortune, he is forced to spend the night in the town. Will he be prepared to learn the town's macabre secrets?

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror written by Stephen Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a landscape of ancient evil . . . with stories by masters of horror Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, M. R. James​, Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver​, Michael Marshall Smith, Karl Edward Wagner, and more! The darkness that endures beneath the earth . . . the disquiet that lingers in the woodland surrounding a forgotten path . . . those ancient traditions and practices that still cling to standing stone circles, earthworks, and abandoned buildings; elaborate rituals that invoke elder gods or nature deities; the restless spirits and legendary creatures that remain connected to a place or object, or exist in deep wells and lonely pools of water, waiting to ensnare the unwary traveler . . . These concepts have been the archetypes of horror fiction for decades, but in recent years they have been given a name: Folk Horror. This type of storytelling has existed for more than a century. Authors Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, H. P. Lovecraft, and M. R. James all published fiction that had it roots in the notion of the supernatural being linked to objects or places “left behind.” All four writers are represented in this volume with powerful, and hopefully unfamiliar, examples of their work, along with newer exponents of the craft such as Ramsey Campbell, Storm Constantine, Christopher Fowler, Alison Littlewood, Kim Newman, Reggie Oliver, and many others. Illustrated with the atmospheric photography of Michael Marshall Smith, the stories in The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror tap into an aspect of folkloric tradition that has long been dormant, but never quite forgotten, while the depiction of these forces as being in some way “natural” in no way detracts from the sense of nameless dread and escalating horror that they inspire . . .

Download or read book The Mound written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mound" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Zealia Bishop. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Download or read book The Collected Works written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited H. P. Lovecraft collection: Contents: Short Stories and Novellas: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Dunwich Horror At The Mountains of Madness The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Polaris Memory The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath Statement of Randolph Carter The Street Terrible Old Man Cats of Ulthar The Tree Celephaïs From Beyond The Horror at Red Hook The Temple Nyarlathotep Picture in the House Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon Bog Ex Oblivione The Other Gods The Outsider The Music of Erich Zann Hypnos What the Moon Brings Herbert West–Reanimator The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House He In the Vault Cool Air Pickman's Model The Strange High House in the Mist The Silver Key The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Colour out of Space The Descendant The Very Old Folk Ibid The Whisperer in Darkness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Book The Evil Clergyman The Shadow out of Time The Haunter of the Dark Juvenilia: The Alchemist The Beast in the Cave Poetry: Poemata Minora, Volume II On Receiving a Picture of Swans Unda; or, The Bride of the Sea An American to Mother England Lines on Gen. Robert Edward Lee The Rose of England The Poe-et's Nightmare Fact and Fancy Pacifist War Song - 1917 A Garden The Peace Advocate Ode for July Fourth, 1917 Nemesis Astrophobos Sunset Laeta; a Lament Psychopompos: A Tale in Rhyme The Conscript Despair Revelation The House The City To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany The Nightmare Lake On Reading Lord Dunsany's Book of Wonder Christmas Sir Thomas Tryout Essays: At the Root The Allowable Rhyme The Despised Pastoral Metrical Regularity Literary Composition Collaborations: Poetry and the Gods The Crawling Chaos Four O'Clock

Download or read book Out There written by Kate Folk and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself on them while reading.”—Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble With a focus on the weird and eerie forces that lurk beneath the surface of ordinary experience, Kate Folk’s debut collection is perfectly pitched to the madness of our current moment. A medical ward for a mysterious bone-melting disorder is the setting of a perilous love triangle. A curtain of void obliterates the globe at a steady pace, forcing Earth’s remaining inhabitants to decide with whom they want to spend eternity. A man fleeing personal scandal enters a codependent relationship with a house that requires a particularly demanding level of care. And in the title story, originally published in The New Yorker, a woman in San Francisco uses dating apps to find a partner despite the threat posed by “blots,” preternaturally handsome artificial men dispatched by Russian hackers to steal data. Meanwhile, in a poignant companion piece, a woman and a blot forge a genuine, albeit doomed, connection. Prescient and wildly imaginative, Out There depicts an uncanny landscape that holds a mirror to our subconscious fears and desires. Each story beats with its own fierce heart, and together they herald an exciting new arrival in the tradition of speculative literary fiction.

Download or read book The Greatest Works written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 1483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition includes: Novel: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Short Stories and Novellas: The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Polaris Beyond the Wall of Sleep Memory Old Bugs The Transition of Juan Romero The White Ship The Doom that Came to Sarnath The Statement of Randolph Carter The Street The Terrible Old Man The Cats of Ulthar The Tree Celephaïs From Beyond The Temple Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon-Bog Ex Oblivione The Other Gods The Outsider The Music of Erich Zann Sweet Ermengarde Hypnos What the Moon Brings Azathoth Herbert West-Reanimator The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House The Horror at Red Hook He In the Vault Cool Air The Call of Cthulhu Pickman's Model The Strange High House in the Mist The Silver Key The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Colour Out of Space The Descendant The Very Old Folk History of the Necronomicon The Dunwich Horror Ibid The Whisperer in Darkness At The Mountains Of Madness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing On The Doorstep The Book The Evil Clergyman The Shadow Out of Time The Haunter of The Dark Juvenilia: The Alchemist The Beast in the Cave The Little Glass Bottle The Mysterious Ship The Mystery of the Grave-yard The Secret Cave ... 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

Download or read book Plain Folk of the Old South written by Frank Lawrence Owsley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes—planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials—firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports—to accurately reconstruct the prewar South’s large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as “snuffing the candle,” “driving the nail,” and the “gander pull.” A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.

Download or read book Madstones written by Donald Huffman Graff and published by BookLocker.com, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-07-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Madstones" is a new collection including six works of fantasy and science fiction, representing several different constructs — short stories, a stage play, a screenplay, and a prose poem. "Rama with the Ax," a short story, opens the collection, pitting a sinister stage magician, his undead assistant, and an alien god-beast from beyond time against a black man with a horn and his blues brothers. Who will win this bizarre battle of the bands? "Doom of the Autochthon" is a fantastic short story, set in another world, another time. If you've ever been inclined to be angry at the sun, this one is for you. Corruption and Empire were never like this before! "Retro Beach Party" is a screenplay. Check out what happens to these otherwise perfectly normal college students when a bale of contraband washes ashore during spring break. And when extraterrestrials crash this shindig, things get really wild. Remember, it all comes from the sixties, kids. This one is a trip in time back to those halcyon days of yore, and a reminder of how hard it is to laugh in these times. "Hurdy-Gurdy Rondo" is a play in one act for the theater of the absurd. What do we really know about the past? We may know more as science marches onward. But not everybody sees these things the same way. Can't we all just...get along? "The Eidolon of Clay" is a prose poem with a historical setting, passing fleetingly into the realm of fantasy upon the finding of a forgotten piece of statuary. Times change, cherished ideas change, but the human heart? "The Hilbert Hotel," a short story, closes the collection. In it we learn along with our heroine that there are many infinities and that some are bigger than others, and what it actually takes to change the world. The answer may surprise you! "Madstones" will appeal to readers from eighteen to eighty who like imaginative fiction with wit as well as a sense of wonder. "Madstones" is six zircons in the rough, hair of the dog that bit you for the psyche.

Download or read book The Concept of Time in The Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls written by Gershon Brin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is concerned with the concept of time in the Bible and in later literature, primarily that of the Judaean Desert sect. By the term “concept of time” the author refers to the entire complex of issues relating to time, as follows from our involvement in the writings of the corpus. The work discusses issues of terminology, substance and ideology that arise from the totality of texts dealing with the subject of time. The conjoining of the eight groups of chapters of the book provides a comprehensive picture of the approach to time in ancient Hebrew literature, beginning with the Bible and concluding with the first century CE, the latest possible time frame for the Scrolls.

Download or read book Western Europe written by Hugh Clout and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western Europe provides a balanced appraisal of common characteristics and shared problems of the eighteen states lying to the west of the former Iron Curtain.

Download or read book The Lovecraft Essential written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow present to you this meticulously edited and formatted Lovecraft collection:_x000D_ The Case of Charles Dexter Ward _x000D_ The Call of Cthulhu_x000D_ The Dunwich Horror_x000D_ At The Mountains of Madness_x000D_ The Tomb_x000D_ Dagon_x000D_ A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson_x000D_ Polaris_x000D_ Memory_x000D_ The White Ship_x000D_ The Doom That Came to Sarnath_x000D_ Statement of Randolph Carter_x000D_ The Street_x000D_ Terrible Old Man_x000D_ Cats of Ulthar_x000D_ The Tree_x000D_ Celephaïs_x000D_ From Beyond_x000D_ The Horror at Red Hook_x000D_ The Temple_x000D_ Nyarlathotep_x000D_ Picture in the House_x000D_ Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family_x000D_ The Nameless City_x000D_ The Quest of Iranon_x000D_ The Moon Bog_x000D_ Ex Oblivione_x000D_ The Other Gods_x000D_ The Outsider_x000D_ The Music of Erich Zann_x000D_ Hypnos_x000D_ What the Moon Brings_x000D_ Herbert West–Reanimator_x000D_ The Hound_x000D_ The Lurking Fear_x000D_ The Rats in the Walls_x000D_ The Unnamable_x000D_ The Festival_x000D_ The Shunned House_x000D_ He_x000D_ In the Vault_x000D_ Cool Air_x000D_ Pickman's Model_x000D_ The Strange High House in the Mist_x000D_ The Silver Key_x000D_ The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath_x000D_ The Colour out of Space_x000D_ The Descendant_x000D_ The Very Old Folk_x000D_ Ibid_x000D_ The Whisperer in Darkness_x000D_ The Shadow Over Innsmouth_x000D_ The Dreams in the Witch House_x000D_ The Thing on the Doorstep_x000D_ The Book_x000D_ The Evil Clergyman_x000D_ The Shadow out of Time_x000D_ The Haunter of the Dark

Download or read book Lovecraft Complete Fiction written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 1079 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited Lovecraft collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Call of Cthulhu The Dunwich Horror At The Mountains of Madness The Tomb Dagon A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson Polaris Memory The White Ship The Doom That Came to Sarnath Statement of Randolph Carter The Street Terrible Old Man Cats of Ulthar The Tree Celephaïs From Beyond The Horror at Red Hook The Temple Nyarlathotep Picture in the House Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family The Nameless City The Quest of Iranon The Moon Bog Ex Oblivione The Other Gods The Outsider The Music of Erich Zann Hypnos What the Moon Brings Herbert West–Reanimator The Hound The Lurking Fear The Rats in the Walls The Unnamable The Festival The Shunned House He In the Vault Cool Air Pickman's Model The Strange High House in the Mist The Silver Key The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Colour out of Space The Descendant The Very Old Folk Ibid The Whisperer in Darkness The Shadow Over Innsmouth The Dreams in the Witch House The Thing on the Doorstep The Book The Evil Clergyman The Shadow out of Time The Haunter of the Dark