👉 Urge Macabre is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, where the narrator becomes intensely fixated on death and the macabre after accidentally setting a clock to strike midnight during one of his nightly visits to a haunted house; this obsession grows into an unnatural compulsion that threatens to consume him entirely. The story is notable for its exploration of psychological horror and Lovecraft’s signature eerie, unsettling atmosphere.
