The Lovecraft Vault

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP was written in 1919 and first published in Pine Cones in October of that same year. The story is narrated by an unnamed researcher at a mental hospital who becomes fascinated ...

16 Apr 202529min

THE BLACK STONE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by American author, Robert E. Howard, first published in the November 1931 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. Notably, it marks the first appearance of the fict...

12 Apr 202544min

THE TALE OF SATAMPRA ZEIROS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of his Hyperborean Cycle. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1931, tells...

11 Apr 202530min

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE was written in 1904 when Lovecraft was just a teenager and was first published in The Vagrant in June 1918. The story follows an unnamed protagonist who becomes lost while explor...

9 Apr 202516min

THE WHITE SHIP is a fantasy story that belongs to Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. It was written in October 1919 and first published in United Amateur in November 1919.The story follows Basil Elton, a lighth...

6 Apr 202517min

HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON was written in 1927 but remained unpublished until 1938, a year after Lovecraft’s death, when it appeared in Leaves, a publication by Rebel Press. Presented as a scholarly ...

5 Apr 20256min

THE THING ON THE ROOF is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert E. Howard, first published in the February 1932 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a man and his quest for a lost templ...

4 Apr 202524min

THE RETURN OF THE SORCERER is a Cthulhu Mythos horror story by American author, Clark Ashton Smith. The tale first appeared in "Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror" in 1931, and tells of a scholarly r...

2 Apr 202540min