# The lurking fear

Author: Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips), 1890-1937; Rankin, Hugh, 1878-1956 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70486

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+lurking+fear+Lovecraft&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There was thunder in the air on the night I went to the deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain to find the lurking fear. I was not alone, for foolhardiness was not then mixed with that love of the grotesque and the terrible which has made my career a series of quests for strange horrors in literature and in life. With me were two faithful and muscular men for whom I had sent when the time came; men long associated with me in my ghastly explorations because of their peculiar fitness.

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lurking-fear-70486/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lurking-fear-70486/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-lurking-fear-70486/chapters/3/index.md)