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Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт

     Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт (Howard Phillips Lovecraft, 20.8.1890 - 15.3.1937) родился в Провиденсе, Род-Айленд; в Провиденсе, не считая двух лет, проведенных в Нью-Йорке, прожил всю свою недолгую жизнь. Из-за слабого здоровья не смог поступить в университет.      Впервые за перо взялся в семилетнем возрасте, когда стал сочинять рассказы на основе своих необыкновенно ярких сновидений (от подобной практики Лавкрафт не отказывался и в зрелые годы). В школе увлекся наукой, издавал рукописные журналы по астрономии, математике, химии. Занятий журналистикой не оставлял до самой смерти не в последнюю очередь потому, что они поддерживали материально и помогали сводить концы с концами. Первая художественная публикация - рассказ "Алхимик" в журнале "United Amateur" (1916).      Несмотря на известное влияние лорда Дансени и Эдгара По, творческая манера Лавкрафта в значительной степени самобытна. Его романы и повести, как правило, представляют собой "мифы о Ктулху" - первобытной расе, населявше…
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The Color out of Space (Unabridged)
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"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an …
The Hound (Unabridged)
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"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's fictional…
The Battle That Ended the Century (Unabridged)
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The Picture in the House (Unabridged)
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"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…
The Call of Cthulhu (Unabridged)
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"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…
The Terrible Old Man (Unabridged)
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"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…
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Unabridged)
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"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 …
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (Unabridged)
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"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…
The Beast in the Cave (Unabridged)
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"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, wh…
From Beyond (Unabridged)
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"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 f…