The Hound

Howard Lovecraft is an American writer, who became famous for his works of horror fiction. His stories were not very popular when he was alive and they were only published in pulp magazines. Nowadays he is considered as one of the best 20th-century authors in his genre. Lovecraft started wrote fiction being a child ("The Beast in the Cave" (1905), "The Alchemist" (1908)), but later chose her poetry and essays. He returned to this "soft-touch" genre, he only in 1917 with the story "Dagon", then "Tomb". "Dagon" became his first published creation, appearing in 1923 in the journal "Mysterious stories» (Weird Tales).

The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects they collect from the various graves they have robbed, they organize the private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also included statues, frightful paintings and a locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin.