The Lurking Fear (Fantasy and Horror Classics) ; With a Dedication by George Henry Weiss

<p><strong>Beneath the cursed mountains a hunger has been waiting for generations.</strong></p><p>A lone journalist travels to the desolate fog-shrouded <strong>Catskill Mountains</strong> to investigate a series of gruesome inexplicable attacks that have terrorized the isolated community of Tempest Mountain. The local legends whisper of a monstrous creature--a ghastly subterranean entity that emerges from the earth during lightning storms to feast upon the living.</p><p>The journalist's skepticism is quickly eroded by the sheer brutality of the attacks which point not to a wild animal but to a vast intelligent and deeply degenerate force. He soon discovers the source of the dread: the ruined accursed manor house of the <strong>Martense family</strong>.</p><p>The Martenses a wealthy and reclusive Dutch line slowly succumbed to generations of inbreeding and debauchery within their isolated estate. The result was a grotesque primal and incredibly fertile lineage that retreated underground devolving into a horde of pale ape-like cannibals. The creature is not one monster but a ravenous subterranean colony of them--the horrifying mutated remnants of a once-noble family.</p><p><strong><em>The Lurking Fear</em></strong> is one of <strong>H. P. Lovecraft's</strong> most visceral and disturbing tales. It combines the slow-burn dread of the gothic novel with a harrowing look at biological horror suggesting that the most terrifying monsters are not aliens from space but the degenerate forms of humanity that have been breeding in the dark right beneath our feet.</p><p><strong>Listen closely for the scratching. The family is hungry.</strong></p>