Selected Stories

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Говард Филлипс Лавкрафт. Selected Stories

SELECTED STORIES. H. P. Lovecraft

Copyright

History of William Collins

Life & Times

Insatiable Curiosity

Weird Tales

Success and Rejection

I Am Providence

DAGON

THE STATEMENT OF RANDOLPH CARTER

HERBERT WEST–REANIMATOR. I. FROM THE DARK

II. THE PLAGUE-DEMON

III. SIX SHOTS BY MOONLIGHT

IV. THE SCREAM OF THE DEAD

V. THE HORROR FROM THE SHADOWS

VI. THE TOMB-LEGIONS

THE OUTSIDER

THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE

THE CALL OF CTHULHU

I. THE HORROR IN CLAY

II. THE TALE OF INSPECTOR LEGRASSE

III. THE MADNESS FROM THE SEA

THE SILVER KEY

THE DUNWICH HORROR

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK (Dedicated To Robert Bloch)

THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP. I

II

III

IV

V

CLASSIC LITERATURE: WORDS AND PHRASES adapted from the Collins English Dictionary

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‘We’d better both go,’ he whispered. ‘It wouldn’t do not to answer it anyway, and it may be a patient – it would be like one of those fools to try the back door.’

So we both went down the stairs on tiptoe, with a fear partly justified and partly that which comes only from the soul of the weird small hours. The rattling continued, growing somewhat louder. When we reached the door I cautiously unbolted it and threw it open, and as the moon streamed revealingly down on the form silhouetted there, West did a peculiar thing. Despite the obvious danger of attracting notice and bringing down on our heads the dreaded police investigation – a thing which after all was mercifully averted by the relative isolation of our cottage – my friend suddenly, excitedly, and unnecessarily emptied all six chambers of his revolver into the nocturnal visitor.

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