Author : Gary Sumpter
Publisher : Chaosium
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 9781568822877
TERRORS FROM BEYOND is a collection of 1920's and 30¿s adventures for Call of Cthulhu, designed for play with pre-generated characters. The book provides fine opportunities for an impromptu game or tournament play and ¿ because the characters are intimately connected with the plot ¿ roleplaying challenges not normally available in most published material. An excellent adventure collection for new and veteran Call of Cthulhu players alike.
Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 25,38 MB
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
"From Beyond" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934. The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person's pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality. Sharing the experience with Tillinghast, the narrator becomes cognizant of a translucent, alien environment that overlaps our own recognized reality. From this perspective, he witnesses hordes of strange and horrific creatures that defy description. Tillinghast reveals that he has used his machine to transport his house servants into the overlapping plane of reality. He also reveals that the effect works both ways, and allows the alien creature denizens of the alternate dimension to perceive humans. Tillinghast's servants were attacked and killed by one such alien entity, and Tillinghast informs the narrator that it is right behind him. Terrified beyond measure, the narrator picks up a gun and shoots it at the machine, destroying it. Tillinghast dies immediately thereafter as a result of apoplexy. The police investigate the scene and it is placed on record that Tillinghast murdered the servants in spite of their remains never being found. Famous works of the author Howard Phillips Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness, The Dreams in the Witch House, The Horror at Red Hook, The Shadow Out of Time, The Shadows over Innsmouth, The Alchemist, Reanimator, Ex Oblivione, Azathoth, The Call of Cthulhu, The Cats of Ulthar, The Dunwich Horror, The Doom that Came to Sarnath, The Festival, The Silver Key, The Other Gods, The Outsider, The Temple, The Picture in the House, The Shunned House, The Terrible Old Man, The Tomb, Dagon, What the Moon Brings.
Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 49,28 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1631492640
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Selection "The most exciting and definitive collection of Lovecraft's work out there." –Danielle Trussoni, New York Times Book Review No lover of gothic literature will want to be without this literary keepsake, the final volume of Leslie Klinger’s tour-de-force chronicle of Lovecraft’s canon. In 2014, The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft was published to widespread acclaim— vaunted as a “treasure trove” (Joyce Carol Oates) for Lovecraft aficionados and general readers, alike. Hailed by Harlan Ellison as an “Olympian landmark of modern gothic literature,” the volume included twenty-two of Lovecraft’s original stories. Now, in this final volume, best- selling author Leslie S. Klinger reanimates twenty-five additional stories, the balance of Lovecraft’s significant fiction, including “Rats in the Wall,” a post– World War I story about the terrors of the past, and the newly contextualized “The Horror at Red Hook,” which recently has been adapted by best- selling novelist Victor LaValle. In following Lovecraft’s own literary trajectory, readers can witness his evolution from Rhode Island critic to prescient literary genius whose titanic influence would only be appreciated decades after his death. Including hundreds of eye- opening annotations and dozens of rare images, Beyond Arkham finally provides the complete picture of Lovecraft’s unparalleled achievements in fiction.
Author : Rhiannon Graybill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 24,26 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190082313
"It is widely recognized that the Hebrew Bible is filled with rape and sexual violence. However, feminist approaches to the topic remain dominated by Phyllis Trible's 1984 Texts of Terror, which describes feminist criticism as a practice of "telling sad stories." Pushing beyond Trible, Texts after Terror offers a new framework for reading biblical sexual violence, one that draws on recent work in feminist, queer, and affect theory and activism against sexual violence and rape culture. In the Hebrew Bible as in the contemporary world, sexual violence is frequently fuzzy, messy, and icky. Fuzzy names the ambiguity and confusion that often surround experiences of sexual violence. Messy identifies the consequences of rape, while also describing messy sex and bodies. Icky points out the ways that sexual violence fails to fit into neat patterns of evil perpetrators and innocent victims. Building on these concepts, Texts after Terror offers a number of new feminist strategies and approaches to sexual violence: critiquing the framework of consent, offering new models of sexual harm, emphasizing the importance of relationships between women (even in the context of stories of heterosexual rape), reading biblical rape texts with and through contemporary texts written by survivors, advocating for "unhappy reading" that makes unhappiness and open-endedness into key feminist sites of possibility. Texts after Terror also discusses a wide range of biblical rape stories, including Dinah (Gen. 43), Tamar (2 Sam. 13), Lot's daughters (Gen. 19), Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11), Hagar (Gen. 16 and 21), Daughter Zion (Lam. 1 and 2), and the Levite's concubine (Judg. 19)"--
Author : Frank Forte
Publisher : Beyond Lovecraft
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 13,81 MB
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781617242144
Beyond Lovecraft: An Anthology of fiction inspired by H.P.Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos is written by Frank Forte (Lovecraft Country, Conjuring 3, Insidious: The Last Key, Heavy Metal Magazine). This collection of terrifying tales takes us to the edge of the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft and beyond. Lovecraft has inspired writers, artists, video game creators, board game creators, comic book artists and feature film directors. This collection features: "The Experiment" tells the tale of a Cold War military medical examiner who receives the task of doing an autopsy on a victim of a biogenetic weapon. "Asphinxiation" is the horrid story of an archaeologist who travels to Egypt and discovers something terrifying inside the mysterious Sphinx. "The House At The End of the Street" recalls the ghastly account of a man trying desperately to overcome his childhood fears. "Dead Thing" is a grim reminder to stay away from carcasses you may find in the deep dark woods. The Connection takes us inside the mind of a mad doctor who thinks he has just created man's next evolutionary phase. "Incident at the Haxford Inn" recounts a gruesome tale of a curious reporter who dares to investigate a haunted hotel. In "The Insidious Doom", ghost stories have been seeping out of Thurmond, West Virginia since the town had been abandoned. A paranormal investigator, Davian Cooper, trying to bring legitimacy to his profession goes to the town to investigate and look for proof of the truth. With the help of one of the only townsfolk remaining, Davian unlocks the eerie past of Thurmond to find the evidence he seeks. In "The Cursed Appeal of Knowledge" A curious man from the eighteen-hundreds finds himself in possession of the knowledge on how to reach a long forgotten city, and the knowledge hidden therein. "The Sleeping One" tells the tale of Adam Morgan, a curious explorer, sets out to find out about the truth of an ancient Cthulhu myth, but encounters something he did not see coming. In "That Which Lurks" Robert Doleman ponders the nature of the universe and humanity in regards to religion. He joins up with occult professor Jacob Reid to have their questions answered and desires granted through the Necronomicon.These twisted tales and more round out this anthology of horror and fear that will leave you shocked and terrified.H.P. Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, have influenced some of today's important writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are stories inspired by "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward," "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "At the Mountains of Madness," "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," "The Color Out of Space," "The Dunwich Horror," "Re-Animator", "From Beyond" and many more hair-raising tales.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1365199541
"Originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding stories"--Copyright page.
Author : H. P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1612195822
A classic tale of terror and grotesquerie by the original master of horror H. P. Lovecraft proclaimed his Dunwich Horror "so fiendish" that his editor at Weird Tales "may not dare to print it." The editor, fortunately, knew a good thing when he saw it. One of the core Cthulhu stories, The Dunwich Horror introduces us to the grim village of Dunwich, where each member of the Whateley family is more grotesque than the other. There's the grandfather, a mad old sorcerer; Lavinia, the deformed, albino woman; and Wilbur, a disgusting specimen who reaches full manhood in less than a decade. And above all, there's the mysterious presence in the farmhouse, unseen but horrifying, which seems to be growing . . . Wilbur tracks down an original edition of the Necronomicon and breaks into a library to steal it. But his reward eludes him: he gets caught, and the result is death by guard dog. Meanwhile, left unattended, the monster at the Whateley house keeps expanding, until the farmhouse explodes and the beast is unleashed to terrorize the poor, aggrieved village of Dunwich. As chilling today as it was upon its publication in 1929, The Dunwich Horror is a horrifying masterwork by the man Stephen King called "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."
Author : Vipin Narang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 36,44 MB
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 150176702X
In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world—a volatile mix of variables. The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger. The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again. Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegart
Author : James Rollins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062066471
Beneath the ice at the bottom of the Earth is a magnificent subterranean labyrinth, a place of breathtaking wonders—and terrors beyond imagining. A team of specialists led by archaeologist Ashley Carter has been hand-picked to explore this secret place and to uncover the riches it holds. But they are not the first to venture here—and those they follow did not return. There are mysteries here older than time, and revelations that could change the world. But there are also things that should not be disturbed—and a devastating truth that could doom Ashley and the expedition: they are not alone. With all the trademark elements that have made James Rollins a bestselling author around the world—pulse-pounding adventure, scientific intrigue, nail-biting suspense—Subterranean deserves a place in every thriller lover's collection. Even if you've read it before, you won't want to put this classic Rollins down.
Author : Chaosium
Publisher : Chaosium
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,10 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781568823874
1920s Campaign for the Call of Cthulhu RPG
