The Lurking Fear by H. P. Lovecraft. Short summary

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A young adventurer, along with two friends, travels to a backwater village to investigate a string of brutal murders that have occurred there. The trio stays in an old mansion on a hill, and on the first night during a thunderstorm, the main character’s friends are dragged away into the darkness by something nightmarish.

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In the backwater town of Tempest Mountain, an old mansion stands atop a mountain, long abandoned. But people from the surrounding villages see lonely fires and torches there at night. In addition, people disappear there during thunderstorms.

A young monster hunter and his two friends come here to investigate a series of gruesome murders and disappearances. The hero wants to find a certain Lurking Fright that terrifies the locals. The heroes arrive at the mansion and occupy the room of Ian Martens, who is rumored to have been murdered by relatives. But on the very first night, two of the hero’s friends are killed by a monster. The hero manages to escape.

The hero returns to the mansion a month later. He discovers a network of tunnels that wraps around the entire hill and leads to the mansion. In the tunnels he encounters a monster, and inside the house he discovers many ugly cannibal dwarfs that appear during a thunderstorm. The hero manages to escape again, and in the morning he summons the Albany bombers, who destroy the network of tunnels.