A nobleman living in a decaying feudal castle is haunted by an old family curse casted by a mysterious alchemist centuries before. All the men in the family line don't live past...

In this witty early pastiche, Lovecraft adopts the voice of the eighteenth-century moralist Dr. Samuel Johnson, who claims to have survived far beyond his own century. Written in...

In "The Dunwich Horror" by H.P. Lovecraft, the rural town of Dunwich becomes the center of terror when the monstrous offspring of a strange family begins to wreak havoc. Wilbur...

A young writer fascinated by the occult discovers an abandoned church in Providence, whose ruins conceal terrible secrets. As he investigates the site's dark past, he awakens an...

In "The Silver Key", Randolph Carter, weary of adulthood's dull reality, discovers a mystical silver key that allows him to revisit the lost realms of his childhood dreams. As he...

"The Book" is an unfinished fragment in which the narrator obtains an ancient, mysterious volume filled with strange symbols. As he studies it, bizarre and terrifying events...

"Ibid" is a satirical short story in which Lovecraft mocks academic pomposity and the obsession with trivial historical scholarship. The tale follows the supposed travels of the...

When Edward Derby, a timid scholar of the occult, marries the mysterious Asenath Waite of Innsmouth, his friend Daniel Upton begins to notice disturbing changes in him. As Edward...

"The Descendant" is a fragmentary tale about an aging, haunted man named Lord Northam who lives in London and shuns the past. A young scholar befriends him and learns that...

"The Curse of Yig" tells the eerie story of a man named Walker Davis, who, in the early 20th century, becomes obsessed with Native American legends while living in Oklahoma....