The lurking fear by H. P. Lovecraft

"The Lurking Fear" by H. P. Lovecraft is a horror short story written in November 1922. After a devastating storm leaves an entire mountain community destroyed with no survivors, a monster-hunter travels to the remote Catskills to investigate reports of mysterious creatures. His search leads him to the abandoned Martense mansion, where a once-prominent Dutch family vanished generations ago under disturbing circumstances. As thunderstorms roll in and companions disappear, he uncovers a horrifying secret lurking beneath the mountain itself. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937
Illustrator Rankin, Hugh, 1878-1956
Title The lurking fear
Original Publication United States: Popular Fiction Publishing Company, 1928.
Series Title Produced from Weird Tales June 1928.
Note Wikipedia page on this work: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lurking_Fear
Credits Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 62.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject Short stories
Subject Horror tales
Subject Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 70486
Release Date
Last Update Apr 12, 2023
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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