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When the World Screamed - Doyle Arthur Conan

When the World Screamed - Doyle Arthur Conan

The final, and certainly climactic, adventure of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor George Edward Challenger is 1928’s "When the World Screamed". It is another Professor Challenger story where a new craziness pressures him to make the earth feel the existence of human being on its surface. Professor says the earth is a giant creature and it doesn’t even care or know that we – the human being – exist on its surface.

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The Call of Cthulhu - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Call of Cthulhu - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

”The Call of Cthulhu” is the story of a man who uncovers evidence of otherworldly beings residing in a state of hibernation deep beneath the surface of the Earth’s oceans. Though the image of Cthulhu is by no means original, as it is heavily borrowed from Scandinavian lore among other sources, Lovecraft’s descriptions–in this case of a basrelief carved in its likeness–are still nothing short of chilling. It is the only story written by Lovecraft in which the extraterrestrial entity Cthulhu himself makes a major appearance.

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The Shadow Out of Time - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Shadow Out of Time - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

A novel told in first person by a human abducted mind,describing the world of the ancient alien strange civilization,a world of amazing colossal partial underground costructions that persisted buried for eons. "The Shadow Out of Time" is the story of Professor of Economics Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee who faints one day in the middle of a lecture and regains consciousness five years later only to find that he–or some entity inhabiting his body–has been pursuing eccentric researches in the obscure libraries and remote places of the world. The Nathaniel of those five years acted strange, knew foreign and dead languages, travelled to weirdest places, researched the strangest things and talked to various cult leaders.

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The Thing on the Doorstep - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Thing on the Doorstep - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

"The Thing on the Doorstep" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos universe of horror fiction.

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

Despite being a horror story about necromancers, mutated creatures and summoning rituals, The Case of Dexter Ward is at its heart a cautionary tale about knowledge. As the story progresses, the full extent of Charles Dexter Ward’s madness is slowly revealed until the evil of the past seems ready to burst into the present with horrific consequences. Charles Dexter Ward is the scion of a well established Providence family who begins investigating esoteric matters and discovers that an ancestor, Joseph Curwen, was killed by a terrified town when they discovered his unhallowed necromantic studies.

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The Dunwich Horror - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Dunwich Horror - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

Master of horror writes a story of true forces of evil. There are six short stories that comprise this edition of The Dunwich Horror. The story beats a lot of modern writers in prose, characters and plot.

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The Whisperer in Darkness - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Whisperer in Darkness - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

"The Whisperer in Darkness" brings together the original Cthulhu Mythos stories of the legendary horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.

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The Shadow over Innsmouth - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

The Shadow over Innsmouth - Lovecraft Howard Phillips

"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" follows a nameless narrator touring New England for information on his family, and studying the local architecture. The story describes a man who finds himself stranded in a half-deserted town with strange inhabitants. They look human – mostly, but there is something odd about their eyes and their behavior.

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In the Days of the Comet - Wells Herbert George

In the Days of the Comet - Wells Herbert George

„In the Days of the Comet” is set in early 20th century England and covers Willie, a socialist who is angry and frustrated with everything to do with the world he lives in. The only thing Willie finds beautiful and tranquil is the love of his life, Nettie. The story follows Willie and his lust for Nettie as he finds himself perplexed by what the love of his life decides to do.

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All Aboard for Ararat - Wells Herbert George

All Aboard for Ararat - Wells Herbert George

Short story told as an allegory set in the future, in form of narrative, with some trenchant remarks on the current situation, and a brilliant introduction to which the balance fails to measure up. Dialogs between God and Mr. Noah Lammock planning a new Ark in which the best of mankind may be rescued from the new flood of war and horror.

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The Chronic Argonauts - Wells Herbert George

The Chronic Argonauts - Wells Herbert George

This story was the first work of fiction in which an explorer traverses time through the use of a man-made device – a time machine – rather than through magic, divine intervention, or a natural phenomenon such as sleep. HG Wells’s „The Chronic Argonauts”, written seven years before his much more famous time travel work, „The Time Machine”. The mysterious Dr.

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Star Begotten - Wells Herbert George

Star Begotten - Wells Herbert George

The story centers on Joseph Davis, a popular writer of romanticized histories, who comes to believe that some people differ fundamentally from most of us. They are more rational, possibly more talented and intelligent. His wife has increasingly become a stranger, the imminent birth of his first child has left him in a panicked state, and his rosy-tinted histories have lately begun to strike him as so much bosh.

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