The Lovecraft Vault

THE SECRET OF KRALITZ is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Henry Kuttner. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1936, was described as follows: “A story of the shocking revelation tha...

18 Mai 202521min

THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in 1933 and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales.The story is narrated by Daniel Upton, who confesses to murdering his ...

14 Mai 20251h 11min

THE HOUND is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in 1922 and first published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales.The story is narrated by one of two decadent grave-robbers obsessed with morbid curio...

11 Mai 202523min

THE NAMELESS OFFSPRING is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery in Terror back in June 1932, tells of a man's troubling stay at a remote prope...

7 Mai 202550min

THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER is a work of horror by Arthur Machen—a key story in his 1895 novel, "The Three Impostors". In the story, a young man begins taking a prescribed medicine for a minor ailme...

4 Mai 202547min

THE NAMELESS CITY is one of Lovecraft’s earliest explorations of cosmic horror and pre-human civilizations, introducing themes that would become central to the Cthulhu Mythos—particularly the insignif...

30 Apr 202537min

A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON is a satirical short story, written in the style of an exaggerated 18th-century memoir. The narrator, an absurdly aged gentleman named James Boswell (a clear parod...

27 Apr 202513min

THE SPACE-EATERS is a short story by American writer, Frank Belknap Long. It first appeared in the July 1928 edition of Weird Tales. The story explores the concept of the 'ultimate horror', as viewed ...

23 Apr 20251h 14min