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The Temple (Lovecraft short story) The Terrible Old Man; The Thing on the Doorstep; Through the Gates of the Silver Key; Till A' the Seas; The Tomb (short story) The Transition of Juan Romero; The Tree on the Hill; The Tree (short story)
"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story of fewer than 1200 words by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It is notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of ...
The three stories in Necronomicon are based on two H. P. Lovecraft short stories and one Lovecraft novella: "The Drowned" is based on "The Rats in the Walls", "The Cold" is based on "Cool Air", and "Whispers" is based on The Whisperer in Darkness. 1994's The Lurking Fear is an adaptation of Lovecraft's story "The Lurking Fear". It has some ...
Lovecraft's stories use their connections with New England to imbue themselves with the ability to instill fear. [198] Lovecraft was primarily inspired by the cities and towns in Massachusetts . However, the specific location of Lovecraft Country is variable, as it moved according to Lovecraft's literary needs.
Comparing it to Lovecraft's earlier story in Home Brew, Lin Carter wrote that while "The Lurking Fear" is "a more serious study in traditional horror, it lacks the light, almost joyous touch of 'Herbert West.'" [5] E. F. Bleiler's and Richard Bleiler's book Science-Fiction: The Early Years describes the story as "digressive and clumsily written ...
The story has been included in at least four collections of Lovecraft's works: Something About Cats and Other Pieces, Arkham House, 1949. Facsimile reprint by Books for Libraries Press, 1971. The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1970 as "The Invisible Monster" by Sonia Greene
Carter: Carter is usually identified with Randolph Carter, a recurring, autobiographical character in Lovecraft's fiction.The incident in "The Unnamable" is alluded to in "The Silver Key" (1926), which records that Carter "went back to Arkham...and had experiences in the dark, amidst the hoary willows, and tottering gambrel roofs, which made him seal forever certain pages in the diary of a ...
Pages in category "Short story collections by H. P. Lovecraft" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.