The Lovecraft Vault

THE OUTSIDER first appeared in Weird Tales in its April 1926 edition. Told in the first person, the story follows a solitary being who has lived his entire life in the shadowed depths of a forgotten c...

20 Aug 202519min

OUT OF THE JAR is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Charles R. Tanner. First appearing in the February 1941 edition of Stirring Science Stories, the tale was given the following synopsis:...

13 Aug 202529min

OUT OF THE AEONS is a classic tale of cosmic horror and forbidden knowledge from the collaborative pen of Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. The story is set in the Cabot Museum of Archaeology in Boston, wher...

8 Aug 20251h 10min

THE HOUSE OF THE WORM is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Mearle Prout. It first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in October 1933. The story tells of two men, and their struggle against ...

6 Aug 202558min

THE GUARDIAN OF THE BOOK is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Henry Hasse, first published in the March 1937 edition of Weird Tales. “A strange and curious tale of cosmic horror, of the Outer Ones from beyond...

1 Aug 20251h 19min

First published in Amazing Stories in 1927, THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE is one of Lovecraft’s most celebrated works of cosmic horror. Set in the rural hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts, the story is tol...

30 Jul 20251h 20min

FANE OF THE BLACK PHARAOH by Robert Bloch was first published in the December 1937 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. "Terrible was the fame of Nephren-Ka, and more terrible still was the destiny that C...

27 Jul 202550min

SETTLER'S WALL by Robert Lowndes was first published in Startling Mystery Stories in its Fall 1968 issue. "This wall has never hurt anybody, but some folk have hurt themselves trying to pry into its s...

25 Jul 20251h 6min