"The Beast in the Cave" follows a man who becomes lost in the enormous underground passages of Mammoth Cave during a guided tour. As his torchlight fades and the darkness closes...

When a troubled, violent patient is brought to a psychiatric institution, a young intern becomes fascinated by the man's strange visions and inexplicable bursts of cosmic insight....

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...

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 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....

When Albert N. Wilmarth, a professor of folklore, begins exchanging letters with a Vermont farmer about mysterious occurrences, he uncovers terrifying evidence of alien creatures...

In "The Other Gods" by H.P. Lovecraft, the high priest Barzai the Wise embarks on a daring climb to the peak of Mount Hatheg-Kla, seeking to witness the elder gods in their...

"The Horror in the Museum" by H.P. Lovecraft follows Stephen Jones as he becomes involved with George Rogers, the eerie owner of a wax museum filled with unsettlingly lifelike...

"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...