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&quot;The Rats in the Walls" is a short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in August-September 1923, it was first published in Weird Tales, March 1924.
Plot summary:
Set in 1923, «The Rats in the Walls» is narrated by the scion of the de la Poer family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, the ruined Exham Priory. To the dismay of nearby residents, he restores the Priory, plainly revealing his ignorance of the horrific history of the place. After moving in, the protagonist and his cats frequently hear rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further (and as revealed in recurring dreams), he learns that his family maintained an underground city for centuries where they raised generations of «human cattle» (some regressed to a quadrupedal state) to supply their taste for human flesh. Maddened by the revelations of his family&apos;s past and driven by a hereditary cruelty, the narrator attacks one of his friends in the dark of the cavernous city and begins eating him. He is subsequently subdued and placed in a mental institution. At least one other investigator, Thornton, has gone insane as well. Soon after, Exham Priory is destroyed. The narrator maintains his innocence, proclaiming that it was «the rats, the rats in the walls,» who ate the man. He continues to be plagued by the sound of rats in the walls of his cell.

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The Rats in the Walls (Unabridged)

&quot;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 area known by the locals as the «blasted heath» in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.
Lovecraft began writing «The Colour Out of Space» immediately after finishing his previous short novel, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, and in the midst of final revision on his horror fiction essay «Supernatural Horror in Literature». Seeking to create a truly alien life form, he drew inspiration from numerous fiction and nonfiction sources. First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Hugo Gernsback&apos;s science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, «The Colour Out of Space» became one of Lovecraft&apos;s most popular works, and remained his personal favorite of his short stories. It was adapted into feature films in 1965, 1987, and 2010.

The Color out of Space (Unabridged)

&quot;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&apos;s fictional text the Necronomicon.
&quot;The Hound" contains several references to the body of lore known as the Cthulhu Mythos that Lovecraft shared with other horror writers. Most notably, it marks the first appearance of one of Lovecraft&apos;s most famous literary creations-the forbidden book known as the Necronomicon. Lovecraft had mentioned its author a year earlier, in «The Nameless City», but here for the first time named the book. Referring to an amulet found on a grave-robbing expedition, the narrator relates…

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The Hound (Unabridged)

&quot;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 was published in the summer of 1921.
Synopsis:
The story is narrated by a lone traveller (a genealogist conducting research), riding on his bicycle in the Miskatonic Valley of rural New England, who seeks shelter from an approaching storm in an apparently abandoned house, only to find that it is occupied by a «loathsome old, white-bearded, and ragged man,» speaking in «an extreme form of Yankee dialect…thought long extinct», whose face is «abnormally ruddy and less wrinkled than one might expect». «His height could not have been less than six feet.»…

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The Picture in the House (Unabridged)

&quot;The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote «The Tree» early in his career. He was dismissive of the story in a 1936 letter. Such stories, he said, «if typed on good stock make excellent shelf-paper, but little else.» The assessment of Lovecraft authority S. T. Joshi was that although the story «may be a trifle obvious… it is an effective display of Lovecraft&apos;s skill in handling a historical setting.»
On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia is an olive grove that grows around a marble tomb and the ruin of an old villa. There, one gigantic tree resembles a frighteningly distorted man, and the roots of the tree have shifted the blocks of the tomb.

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The Tree (Unabridged)

&quot;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&apos;s narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being «jostled by a nautical-looking negro».

The Call of Cthulhu (Unabridged)

&quot;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, when Lovecraft was fourteen. It was first published in the June 1918 issue of the amateur press journal The Vagrant.
A man touring the Mammoth Cave becomes separated from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark, when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him.

The Beast in the Cave (Unabridged)

&quot;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 from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person&apos;s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

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