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...

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...

"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...

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 Case of Charles Dexter Ward", H.P. Lovecraft tells the eerie tale of a young scholar in Providence obsessed with his ancestor, Joseph Curwen, a necromancer who dabbled in...

"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...

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...