Американская литература

Остросюжетный роман американского писателя Джеймса Оливера Кервуда, жившего и творившего на стыке ст…

Молодой талантливый врач Мартин Эроусмит всегда мечтал посвятить свою жизнь научным исследованиям на…

«Город» – вторая книга трилогии Уильяма Фолкнера «Деревушка», «Город», «Особняк», посвященной трагед…

A lighthouse keeper named Basil Elton engages upon a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man pilotin…

The story begins with the narrator describing the night sky as observed over long sleepless nights f…

The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the g…

The story traces the history of the eponymous street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from …

The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly man "so old that no one can remember when he was young, an…

The story describes a surreal dreamscape. The narrator wanders through his garden one night and in t…

It is a recording of a dream, where the main protagonist is a Roman military official in the Basque …

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human…

Some of H. P. Lovecraft's most fascinating work came from a time in his life that he was forced, by …

The story describe the appearance of Nyarlathotep as a "man" of the race of the Pharaohs, who claims…

The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who…

The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true exp…

Hypnos is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Ke…

Sailors kill a 50 foot creature at sea after a lengthy battle. The creature bears strange anatomical…

The story tells of an unnamed narrator, who has moved from New England to New York City and greatly …

"Celephais" was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not give…

"The Descendant" is a story fragment, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been…

The story begins with the narrator describing the effects of opium and the fantastical vistas it can…

The short story is actually an excerpt from a letter Lovecraft wrote. It begins in the attic of an a…

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem.It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably…

The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman. His great-gre…