The Lovecraft Vault

UBBO-SATHLA is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of Smith's Hyperborean Cycle. It tells of a man, who, in a state of trance, ventures back to the very beginning of time,...

24 Sep 202522min

First appearing in The Philosopher in 1920, POLARIS is an early entry in Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle. The story’s narrator, haunted by the cold, pulsing light of the North Star, dreams of a majestic marbl...

19 Sep 202511min

First published in Weird Tales in 1924, IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS is a first-person tale ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for the escapologist Harry Houdini. In the story, Houdini recounts how, whil...

17 Sep 20251h 15min

THE HAUNTER OF THE GRAVEYARD first appeared in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, 1969. "The story of a TV presenter who encounters a malign spirit in a cemetery."

12 Sep 202537min

THE TEMPLE first appeared in the September 1925 edition of Weird Tales. Told through the final log entries of a doomed German U-boat commander during the First World War, the story charts a descent fr...

10 Sep 202537min

THE DEATH WATCH is a short story by the British born, American author, Hugh B. Cave. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in its 1939 June-July edition, was described as follows: "What ghast...

5 Sep 202534min

THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN was first published in the March 1922 edition of The National Amateur. In a shadowed quarter of a mysterious Old World city, a poor student takes lodgings in a crooked house on...

3 Sep 202523min

HYDRA is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Henry Kuttner, first published in the April 1939 edition of Weird Tales. "A unique tale of the fourth dimension, a dangerous experiment in occultism, and the ghastly...

29 Aug 202543min