http://www.cthulhupedia.org/ 2010-09-05T23:56:10-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/ http://www.cthulhupedia.org/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-09-07T00:43:23-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/at_the_mountains_of_madness?rev=1220762603&do=diff I I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic--with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain. text/html 2008-09-07T00:42:40-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/shadow_over_innsmouth?rev=1220762560&do=diff THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH I During the winter of 1927-28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids and arrests occurred, followed by the deliberate burning and dynamiting--under suitable precautions--of an enormous number of crumbling, worm-eaten, and supposedly empty houses along the abandoned waterfront. Uninquiring… text/html 2008-09-10T11:39:34-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/start?rev=1221061174&do=diff Welcome. Nothing to see here yet. Move along. The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft At The Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Shadow Over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft The Doom that Came to Sarnath by H.P. Lovecraft text/html 2008-09-07T00:00:55-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_call_of_cthulhu?rev=1220760055&do=diff ............ -- I. The Horror In Clay The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful posi… text/html 2008-09-07T00:49:53-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_case_of_charles_dexter_ward?rev=1220762993&do=diff -- CONTENTS I. A Result and a Prologue II. An Antecedent and a Horror III. A Search and an Evocation IV. A Mutation and a Madness V. A Nightmare and a Cataclysm I. A Result and a Prologue 1 From a private hospital for the insane near Providence, Rhode Island, there recently disappeared an exceedingly singular person. He bore the name of Charles Dexter Ward, and was placed under restraint most reluctantly by the grieving father who had watched his aberration grow from a mere eccentricity t… text/html 2008-09-11T00:00:42-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_doom_that_came_to_sarnath?rev=1221105642&do=diff Written on December 3, 1919. Published June 1920 in The Scot There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and out of which no stream flows. Ten thousand years ago there stood by its shore the mighty city of Sarnath, but Sarnath stands there no more. text/html 2008-09-11T00:37:31-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_dreams_in_the_witch-house?rev=1221107851&do=diff Whether the dreams brought on the fever or the fever brought on the dreams Walter Gilman did not know. Behind everything crouched the brooding, festering horror of the ancient town, and of the mouldy, unhallowed garret gable where he wrote and studied and wrestled with figures and formulae when he was not tossing on the meagre iron bed. His ears were growing sensitive to a preternatural and intolerable degree, and he had long ago stopped the cheap mantel clock whose ticking had come to seem like… text/html 2008-09-11T00:31:26-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_dunwich_horror?rev=1221107486&do=diff ----------...---- -- I. When a traveller in north central Massachusetts takes the wrong fork at the junction of Aylesbury pike just beyond Dean's Corners he comes upon a lonely and curious country. The ground gets higher, and the brier-bordered stone walls press closer and closer against the ruts of the dusty, curving road. The trees of the frequent forest belts seem too large, and the wild weeds, brambles and grasses attain a luxuriance not often found in settled regions. At the same time… text/html 2008-09-11T00:24:33-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_festival?rev=1221107073&do=diff Efficiut Daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamen quasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant. -- (Devils so work that things which are not appear to men as if they were real.) I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In the twilight I heard it pounding on the rocks, and I knew it lay just over the hill where the twisting willows writhed against the clearing sky and the first stars of evening. And because my fathers had called me to the old town beyond, I pushed on t… text/html 2008-09-11T00:22:18-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_hound?rev=1221106938&do=diff In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and a faint distant baying as of some gigantic hound. It is not dream--it is not, I fear, even madness--for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts. text/html 2008-09-11T00:20:33-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_nameless_city?rev=1221106833&do=diff When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was traveling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones of this hoary survivor of the deluge, this great-grandfather of the eldest pyramid; and a viewless aura repelled me and bade me retreat from antique and sinister secrets that no man should see, and no man else had dared to see.… text/html 2008-09-11T09:02:54-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_shadow_out_of_time?rev=1221138174&do=diff I After twenty-two years of nightmare and terror, saved only by a desperate conviction of the mythical source of certain impressions, I am unwilling to vouch for the truth of that which I think I found in Western Australia on the night of 17-18 July 1935. There is reason to hope that my experience was wholly or partly an hallucination--for which, indeed, abundant causes existed. And yet, its realism was so hideous that I sometimes find hope impossible. text/html 2008-09-11T00:35:35-04:00 http://www.cthulhupedia.org/the_whisperer_in_darkness?rev=1221107735&do=diff I Bear in mind closely that I did not see any actual visual horror at the end. To say that a mental shock was the cause of what I inferred--that last straw which sent me racing out of the lonely Akeley farmhouse and through the wild domed hills of Vermont in a commandeered motor at night--is to ignore the plainest facts of my final experience. Notwithstanding the deep things I saw and heard, and the admitted vividness the impression produced on me by these things, I cannot prove even now whethe…