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O Chamado de Cthulhu é um conto do norte-americano H.P. Lovecraft que logo se tornou um clássico do terror. Foi escrito em 1926 e publicado pela primeira vez na revista estadunidense Weird Tales em fevereiro de 1928. Cthulhu é um deus que nos primeiros minutos do conto aparece como um ídolo de argila quase indescritível, possuindo um culto multimilenar dedicado a trazê-lo de volta, o seu retorno desencadearia o fim da humanidade. Neste audiolivro, encontramos esse clássico e mais sete contos consagrados do autor na literatura de terror.

"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 Call of Cthulhu" by Howard Phillips H. P. Lovecraft is one of the classic horror works, so called "Lovecraft horrors". American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror; the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity.

A meteorite from cosmic space falls to earth on a backwoods Massachusetts farm. The space rock possesses peculiar qualities and mystifies even the brightest university scientists. But it soon becomes clear that this is no ordinary meteor, as its otherworldly influence unleashes a creeping wave of despair, death, and decay into the land and its inhabitants.

A brilliant college student rents a room in an old house with a witch-haunted past. His obscure studies consume his mind as strange nighttime noises drive him to despair, and terrifying nightmares become waking visions. Is he going mad, or have his dreams somehow crossed over into reality?

An escaped madman. Unspeakable research into the blackest depths of the occult. Shadowy figures ruthlessly pursuing unholy secrets. Will a young man’s thirst for knowledge push him over the brink to madness, or will it lead him to a fate far, far worse?

Screams ring out in a madhouse as a man shoots his best friend in cold blood. What drives him to such a desperate act? Greed? Jealousy? Madness? Or a woman? A woman said to have mystical powers, in league with the darkest forces of the cosmos? Is the gunman’s testimony the invention of a calculating killer, or is he another victim of a supreme evil that lurks unseen among us?

On picturesque College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, an old colonial house has sat empty for decades. No one would consider renting the house with its long history of woes and unexplained deaths. Can a young man and his elderly great-uncle get to the bottom of the unspeakable causes of the house's affliction? Or will their investigation bring them face to face with an enduring evil?

In great cities of the world, humanity congregates, and commerce, culture, and cosmopolitan sophistication blossom in their gardens. But in the shadows that lie beyond the broad boulevards and glare of electric lights, great cities give birth to something else. In these shadows thrives a dim underworld, peopled by nefarious characters brought together from every godforsaken corner of the globe. Can a lone policeman make a stand for decency against the godless denizens of New York’s most loathsome slum, or will he find himself consumed by the filth and depravity of nameless cults?

A brilliant medical student dreams of bringing life to the dying - and to the dead. How far will he go to achieve his dream? Will his genius unlock the secrets of life and death, or will boundless ambition twist his noble purpose into something monstrous?

Um vilarejo a oeste de Arkham vê-se em perigo quando um meteoro cai na propriedade de um fazendeiro local e traz consigo uma estranha aberração cromática que afeta a flora e a fauna da região? e cria o cinzento e estéril descampado maldito, onde nada cresce. O apêndice do volume é composto por Notas sobre uma não entidade, o mais longo relato autobiográfico escrito por Lovecraft, A confissão de um cético, breve ensaio em que o autor traça a evolução dos próprios interesses religiosos, científicos e filosóficos ao longo da vida.

Em nova edição, O chamado de Cthulhu da Hedra apresenta a figura mais popular de Lovecraft em publicação bilíngue e com nova e detalhada introdução. Cthulhu é a mais famosa dentre as criaturas e ambientes de sonho — ou pesadelo — de H. P. Lovecraft, além de ser o centro da série sobre os Grandes Antigos, as gigantescas e incompreensíveis criaturas anteriores a esta Terra. É a cristalização, numa imagem, de um tipo específico de terror chamado "cósmico": mas um cósmico íntimo e literário.

Written before all of Antarctica was fully mapped and explored, At the Mountains of Madness tells of a terrifying journey into the unknown. Epic in scope, cinematic in its sweep, and breathtaking in its revelations about humanity, this—described by some as the first true science-fiction novel—may be Lovecraft’s greatest literary achievement!

Stadt ohne Namen (Originaltitel Die Nameless City) ist eine Horrorgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft, welche im Januar 1921 geschrieben und erstmals im November 1921 in The Wolverine erschienen ist. Es wird oft als die erste Geschichte des Cthulhu-Mythos bezeichnet.

Combinando a sensibilidade gótica do século XIX de Edgar Allan Poe com uma visão interna ousada, os contos de Lovecraft prenunciam um século psiquicamente conturbado. Situado em uma paisagem da Nova Inglaterra descrita de modo minucioso e historicamente fundamentada, suas histórias angustiantes exploram o colapso da sanidade sob o peso dos eventos caóticos. O universo de Lovecraft é um mundo de sombras onde a realidade e o pesadelo se entrelaçam e a redenção ninguém sabe de onde vem.

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his family maintained an underground city for centuries and that the inhabitants of the city fed on human flesh, even going so far as to raise generations of human cattle, who eventually began to de-evolve due to their sub-human living conditions.

There are secrets beneath the waves ... older than mankind, and hungry still. In this salt-soaked collection, H. P. Lovecraft conjures horrors from the deep: ancient beings that slumber beneath black seas, forgotten isles lost to time, and coastal towns whose bloodlines trace back to something not entirely human. Each tale explores the terror of isolation—geographical and existential—as characters find themselves adrift in waters not meant to be charted. Whether wrecked on a strange shore or pulled downward by unseen forces, the fate is the same: madness, revelation … or worse.

Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, first published in the June 1936 edition of Astounding Stories, follows Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who suffers a sudden mental collapse in 1908, losing his memory for five years. During this period, his body is controlled by an unknown intelligence while his own consciousness experiences life in a vast prehistoric era, housed within the body of a member of the Great Race of Yith—an ancient, time-traveling alien species that exchanges minds with beings across time to gather knowledge.

In this unnerving collection of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft casts his gaze far beyond our fragile Earth, revealing a universe vast, uncaring, and filled with incomprehensible forces. These seven stories confront the listener with the terrifying notion that mankind is not alone, not significant, and not safe. From ancient aliens buried in Antarctic ice to cryptic transmissions from the void, these tales chronicle the slow unravelling of minds exposed to truths no human was meant to grasp.

This macabre anthology gathers seven of H. P. Lovecraft’s most chilling tales of revenants, reanimation, and spectral horrors. From lonely crypts to decaying ancestral mansions, each story unearths a world where the dead do not rest—and where the curious may find themselves entombed alongside ancient secrets. With gothic elegance and mounting dread, Lovecraft explores the boundary between life and death, and the madness that lies in attempting to cross it.