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Horror Stories by Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of weird fiction and horror, best known for originating the subgenre of cosmic horror, which emphasizes humanity's cosmic insignificance amid indifferent, ancient entities beyond human comprehension.
Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, spending most of his life there, Lovecraft published most of his stories in pulp magazines like Weird Tales during the 1920s and 1930s, achieving little financial success or widespread recognition before his death from intestinal cancer.
Lovecraft's foundational contributions include the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared fictional universe featuring eldritch beings like Cthulhu, whose 1928 novella The Call of Cthulhu introduced themes of forbidden knowledge and inevitable doom that profoundly shaped modern horror literature and media.4 His narratives often blend pseudoscience, ancient lore, and New England settings to evoke dread, influencing authors from Stephen King to contemporary speculative fiction while pioneering the idea of horror rooted in rationalist despair rather than supernatural morality.
Despite his literary legacy, Lovecraft's personal correspondence reveals overt racial prejudices, including Anglo-Saxon supremacist views and derogatory statements about immigrants and non-whites, which permeated some of his stories' depictions of degenerate societies and alien "others"—attitudes that, while reflective of early 20th-century nativism, exceeded contemporary norms in intensity and persistence into adulthood.
These elements have fueled ongoing debates about separating his art from his ideology, with critics noting their basis in primary sources like his extensive letters rather than retrospective projections.
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01 - Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft.
11 - The Beast in the Cave by H. P. Lovecraft.
12 - The White Ship by H. P. Lovecraft.
13 - Nyarlathotep by H. P. Lovecraft.
14 - The Alchemist by H. P. Lovecraft.
15 - The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.
16 - The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.
17 - The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft.
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  • 17 - The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft.

    17 - The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft.
    13 Oct 2026
    The Temple by H. P. Lovecraft.
    "The Temple" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1920 and first published in the September 1925 issue of the pulp magazine Weird Tales. The narrative is framed as the recovered logbook entries of Lieutenant-Commander Karl Heinrich, Graf von Altberg-Ehrenstein, captain of the Imperial German Navy submarine U-29 during World War I, detailing his commander's experiences after sinking an enemy vessel and discovering a peculiar ivory artifact from a deceased sailor. As the submarine becomes disabled and drifts uncontrollably southward into the North Atlantic, the crew grapples with escalating psychological disturbances, mutiny, and eerie marine phenomena, culminating in the commander's solitary confrontation with an ancient underwater ruin.
    The story unfolds through dated log entries spanning from June 18 to August 20, 1917, beginning at coordinates 45° 16' N, 28° 34' W and progressing to uncharted depths near 20° N latitude. Lovecraft employs a first-person perspective to immerse readers in the narrator's rational yet increasingly fractured mindset, highlighting the isolation of submarine warfare amid wartime nationalism and the intrusion of the inexplicable. Key events include the artifact's hypnotic influence, unnatural oceanic currents, and visions of submerged architecture suggestive of a lost civilization, all contributing to the crew's progressive demoralization and demise.
    Central to The Temple are Lovecraft's recurring motifs of cosmic horror, where human arrogance and scientific hubris yield to the indifferent vastness of the universe and the sea's hidden terrors. The narrative explores themes of obsession and madness, as the commander's initial disdain for superstition evolves into an irresistible compulsion toward the unknown, amplified by wartime trauma and sensory deprivation. Imagery of the ocean's depths and ancient monoliths evokes a sense of sublime dread, underscoring humanity's insignificance against primordial forces. Written shortly after World War I, the tale reflects Lovecraft's fascination with naval history and German militarism, though it transcends contemporary events to embody broader existential unease.
    As one of Lovecraft's early published works in Weird Tales, The Temple marks a pivotal entry in his oeuvre, bridging his pre-war tales of psychological unease with later mythos explorations of submerged horrors. Its epistolary structure, drawing from maritime logs, enhances verisimilitude and has influenced subsequent sea-based weird fiction. The story's emphasis on atmospheric tension over graphic violence exemplifies Lovecraft's style, prioritizing intellectual horror and the erosion of rationality.

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  • 16 - The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.

    16 - The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.
    13 Oct 2026
    The Other Gods by H. P. Lovecraft.
    The Weird Fiction of Fantasy Fan Magazin by Various Authors.
    The Fantasy Fan was a fanzine edited by Charles D. Hornig that featured exclusive works by many seminal figures from the golden period of weird fiction including H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, R. H. Barlow, Robert Bloch and many others. This collection seeks to compile together all the fiction published by The Fantasy Fan during its two-year run, excluding Clark Ashton Smith whose Fantasy Fan works have previously been published in Fantasy Fan.

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  • 15 - The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.

    15 - The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.
    13 Oct 2026
    The Shunned House by H. P. Lovecraft.
    "The Shunned House" is a horror novelette by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in October 1924 and first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales magazine.
    The story centers on a long-abandoned colonial house on Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, whose unhealthy atmosphere and grim history of causing wasting illnesses, anemia-like conditions, mental deterioration, and premature deaths among occupants since the 1760s have earned it a local reputation as cursed or unlivable.
    The unnamed narrator, fascinated by the house since childhood due to its decaying exterior, foul-smelling cellar filled with grotesque phosphorescent fungi, and persistent rumors of unnatural misfortune, joins his uncle Dr. Elihu Whipple—a physician and antiquarian—in a thorough historical and scientific investigation of the property's past.
    Their research uncovers a pattern of tragedy beginning with the house's first inhabitants, the Harris family, and extending through successive tenants, with no healthy children ever born there and many residents succumbing to progressive physical and mental decline. The trail leads back to an earlier occupant, French Huguenot refugee Etienne Roulet, whose family was linked to disturbing occult associations and folklore reminiscent of vampirism or lycanthropy, including connections to historical figures accused of similar crimes. Rejecting purely superstitious interpretations, the protagonists develop a rational hypothesis positing an extradimensional entity or modified vital force that feeds on human life energy, manifesting through fungous growths and emanations that drain vitality from those nearby.
    This approach exemplifies Lovecraft's fusion of Gothic haunted-house conventions with emerging cosmic horror elements, treating the supernatural as a potentially explicable phenomenon rooted in unknown aspects of reality rather than traditional ghosts or demons. The tale draws direct inspiration from a real 18th-century house at 135 Benefit Street in Providence—where one of Lovecraft's aunts briefly lived—and from 19th-century New England vampire panics, in which communities exhumed bodies to combat tuberculosis attributed to the undead. As a transitional work in Lovecraft's career, "The Shunned House" bridges earlier influences from folklore and Edgar Allan Poe with his later Mythos framework of indifferent, otherworldly threats, and it is often noted for its vivid depictions of decay and its unusually hopeful resolution compared to much of his fiction.

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