THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH is a Dream Cycle story, first published in The Scot in June 1920. "A mighty and prosperous city that once annihilated an ancient lake-dwelling race rises to unparalleled splendour, only to confront the long-forgotten consequences of its sacrilege a thousand years later."

COOL AIR was first published in the March 1928 issue of TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY. The story tells of a doctor with a peculiar affliction.

THE UNNAMABLE was first published in the July 1925 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, the antiquarian Randolph Carter tells a close friend the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts a dilapidated house near an old cemetery.

BELLS OF HORROR is a story by American author, Henry Kuttner, first published in Strange Stories in April 1939, under the pseudonym, Keith Hammond. "The discovery of ancient, lost bells in the remote mountains of California, results in a disturbing, and potentially deadly revelation."

DEVILSKILL is a 2024 Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Aaron Vlek, first published as part of the HorrorBabble anthology, From the Library of R'lyeh. "Of that desolate coast and my ancestral village of Devilskill overlooking the sea, many troubling details emerged that hinted at vague warnings and allusions to unnamed horrors."Aaron Vlek: https://aaronvlek.wordpress.com

First published in Weird Tales in its August 1931 issue, THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS follows an exchange of letters between a sceptical writer and a reclusive scholar in rural Vermont, where reports of strange creatures have surfaced after devastating floods.

THE FIRE OF ASSHURBANIPAL is a short story by American author, Robert E. Howard. In a lost city in the deserts of the Middle East, two unlikely adventurers hunt for a rare gem.

THE GRINNING GHOUL is a short story by the American author, Robert Bloch. First appearing in Weird Tales back in June of 1936, the story was described as follows: “A story of stark horror in the subterranean depths beneath the tomb.”Artwork by David Last: davidlast.net

TENTACLES is presented as an episode of a fictional podcast called "Finders Creepers with Lana Thompson", in which the host investigates supposed evidence pertaining to mysterious and supernatural events. This particular show, focuses on the strange disappearance of a paranormal investigator.

THE AQUARIUM is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Carl Jacobi, first published in DARK MIND, DARK HEART in 1962. "When a painter and her friend move into a spacious London house, the strange aquarium left behind by its former owner begins to exude an influence both unnatural and terrifying."

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH⁠, first published by Visionary Press in 1936, tells the strange story of an unnamed student, whose visit to a decrepit Massachusetts seaport—the crumbling town of Innsmouth—leads to a number of shocking and personal revelations… It forms part of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

TWO BLACK BOTTLES is the result of a collaboration between H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfrid Branch Talman. It was first published in Weird Tales Magazine in August 1927. In the story, the narrator, Hoffman, recounts a trip into the Ramapo Mountains of New York, following the death of his uncle.

SPAWN OF THE GREEN ABYSS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by C. Hall Thompson, first published in the November 1946 edition of Weird Tales. "An accursed house, a soul that is no longer one's own, and a boundless doom that comes from the sea."

BELLS OF OCEANA is a short story by Arthur J. Burks, first published in the December 1927 edition of Weird Tales. It tells of an encounter with something deadly in the uncharted waters of the North Pacific. The story is imbued with a touch of 'outsideness', as noted by Lovecraft in a letter to the magazine in 1928.

THE CRAWLING CHAOS is a short story based on a dream once described to Lovecraft by fellow-author, Winifred V. Jackson, in which the consequences of dabbling with opium were experienced. It was first published in the 1943 collection, Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST was written on November 9, 1926, and first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which is perched on the top of cliff which seems inaccessible both by land and sea, yet is apparently inhabited.

THE RED BRAIN is a short story by Donald Wandrei, first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a strange, menacing cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

Forming part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, THE DUNWICH HORROR, first published in the April 1929 edition of Weird Tales, takes place in the decaying village of Dunwich, a Massachusetts backwater steeped in rural superstition and dark whispers. When a strange child named Wilbur Whateley is born under mysterious circumstances, a series of bizarre events begins to unfold, drawing the wary attention of both the locals and distant scholars.

PICKMAN'S MODEL was first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, the narrator recalls his friendship with Richard Upton Pickman, an eccentric painter whose grotesque and disturbingly lifelike canvases of ghouls and nightmarish scenes earn him both fame and infamy.

THE ABYSS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert Lowndes. The story was described by Stirring Science Stories back in February 1941 as follows: “A tale of a ghastly journey down a little strip in the center of a rug!”

FROM BEYOND tells of Crawford Tillinghast, a man whose curiosity leads to a fate ‘horrible beyond conception’. First published in the June 1934 edition of The Fantasy Fan.

THE SALEM HORROR is a short story by American author, Henry Kuttner. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in May 1937, and tells of an author who rents a quiet house in Salem in order to finish his latest novel—a house that once belonged to a witch—a witch whose presence has far from faded.

HERBERT WEST–REANIMATOR was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story concerns the gruesome adventures of Herbert West, a young scientist consumed with the ambition of bringing the dead back to life.

THE SECRET IN THE TOMB is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published in the May 1935 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a man answers an inexplicable summons from beyond the grave.

THE CALL OF CTHULHU, first published in Weird Tales in 1928, is a foundational tale of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Told through a series of manuscripts and testimonies, the story traces a hidden pattern of strange dreams, cult activity, and archaeological discoveries that point toward the existence of an ancient cosmic entity: Cthulhu, a monstrous Great Old One.

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, where he encounters the primal one, Ubbo-Sathla. The story first appeared in the July 1933 edition of Weird Tales.

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 marble city called Olathoë in the land of Lomar.

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, while visiting Egypt, he is kidnapped and thrown into a deep shaft beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Struggling to escape, he encounters vast underground chambers filled with monstrous, half-human entities and glimpses a colossal, ancient presence tied to Egypt’s forgotten gods.

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."

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 from prideful rationality into madness and the embrace of the abyss.

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 ghastly thing was it that came clumping into the big house out of that wild night of storm?"

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 the Rue d’Auseil and becomes entranced by the strange nocturnal music of his neighbour: an aged, reclusive viol-player named Erich Zann.

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 horror that reached back from that other plane of space."

THE LURKING FEAR first appeared in Home Brew, January–April 1923 (serialized in four parts). In the storm-ravaged hills of the Catskills, an investigative narrator braves the ruins of the ancient Martense mansion in search of the source of a series of grisly killings.

THROUGH THE ALIEN ANGLE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Elwin G. Powers. Little is known about the author, nor the publication history of the story, though ISFDB suggests it was written in 1941.

THE OUTSIDER first appeared in Weird Tales in its April 1926 edition. Told in the first person, the story follows a solitary being who has lived his entire life in the shadowed depths of a forgotten castle. Yearning for light, freedom, and human contact, he finally escapes his prison, only to discover a dreadful truth waiting for him in the world above.

OUT OF THE JAR is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Charles R. Tanner. First appearing in the February 1941 edition of Stirring Science Stories, the tale was given the following synopsis: “Are you inquisitive too? Do you want to know things? Too many things?”

OUT OF THE AEONS is a classic tale of cosmic horror and forbidden knowledge from the collaborative pen of Lovecraft and Hazel Heald. The story is set in the Cabot Museum of Archaeology in Boston, where a mysterious mummy recovered from a lost Pacific island draws public fascination and fear. The ancient island—once called Yaddith-Gho—briefly rose from the ocean before sinking again, and with it came artifacts that hint at unspeakable truths.

THE HOUSE OF THE WORM is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Mearle Prout. It first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in October 1933. The story tells of two men, and their struggle against an otherworldly blight that originated in a bleak forest.

THE GUARDIAN OF THE BOOK is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Henry Hasse, first published in the March 1937 edition of Weird Tales. “A strange and curious tale of cosmic horror, of the Outer Ones from beyond the galaxy, and a soul-shattering experience of stark terror.”

First published in Amazing Stories in 1927, THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE is one of Lovecraft’s most celebrated works of cosmic horror. Set in the rural hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts, the story is told by a surveyor investigating the site of a planned reservoir. He learns of a strange and tragic event that befell a farm years earlier, after a meteorite crashed nearby.

FANE OF THE BLACK PHARAOH by Robert Bloch was first published in the December 1937 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. "Terrible was the fame of Nephren-Ka, and more terrible still was the destiny that Captain Cartaret read on the walls of the red-litten underground corridors."

SETTLER'S WALL by Robert Lowndes was first published in Startling Mystery Stories in its Fall 1968 issue. "This wall has never hurt anybody, but some folk have hurt themselves trying to pry into its secrets."

THE SEVEN GEASES is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by American author, Clark Ashton Smith. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in October 1934, tells of the adventures of a huntsman in the strange caverns of the Tsathoggua worshippers, the Voormis.

NOTEBOOK FOUND IN A DESERTED HOUSE is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the May 1951 issue of Weird Tales. The notebook in the story, is the account of a frightened 12-year-old boy, who is hiding from 'them ones'.

HE was first published in the September 1926 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of an unnamed narrator, who has moved from New England to New York City and greatly regretted it. One night, while wandering in a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man strangely dressed in garments from the eighteenth century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town.

THE HAUNTER OF THE RING is a Cthulhu Mythos story featuring the characters Conrad and Kirowan by Robert E. Howard. The story first emerged in Weird Tales in June 1934, and was described as follows: "A strange story of dark powers and occult evil."

THE GREEN MEADOW is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson. The tale, which first appeared in The Vagrant in its Spring 1927 edition, tells of a small notebook discovered within a meteorite in Maine.

THE TREADER OF THE DUST is a short story by American author Clark Ashton Smith, first published in Weird Tales in August 1935. The story introduces Quachil Uttaus and the Testament of Carnamagos to the Cthulhu Mythos, in relation to the tale of an unnamed character who obtains the forbidden tome from a sinister book-seller.

THE SEALED CASKET is a short story by Richard F. Searight, notable for introducing the Eltdown Shards, which would later be incorporated into the Cthulhu Mythos. The story was first published in the March 1935 edition of Weird Tales. "The icy fingers of a fetor that was old when the world was young reached for the life of the scheming Wesson Clark."

THE FESTIVAL is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in 1923 and first published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales.Set during the Yuletide season, the story follows an unnamed narrator who visits the ancient, coastal town of Kingsport, Massachusetts to partake in a mysterious family tradition known only as "the Festival."

THE TOMB FROM BEYOND is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Carl Jacobi, first appearing in the November 1933 edition of Wonder Stories.Long-lost civilizations may have possessed enigmatic abilities far beyond our understanding—forces that would render our science trivial by comparison. One day, through chance or intent, these powers might be uncovered once more. Whether they bring salvation or doom remains an open question.

IN THE WALLS OF ERYX was written in collaboration with Kenneth Sterling and first published in the January 1939 issue of Weird Tales.Set on Venus, the story is presented as the recovered account of an Earthman employed by a mining company to harvest valuable crystals sought after for their energy properties. While exploring the Venusian jungle, the narrator becomes trapped inside an invisible maze-like structure—an alien construct built by the planet’s native, reptilian inhabitants.

THE MOON-BOG was first published in the June 1926 issue of Weird Tales.The story is narrated by a friend of Denys Barry, an American who purchases an ancient estate near a bog in Ireland with the intent of draining the swamp and modernizing the land. Despite warnings from the superstitious locals about ancient legends tied to the bog, Barry proceeds with his project, disturbing the resting place of strange, long-forgotten beings.

AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in the San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, Dec 25, 1886. The story, which tells of the wanderings of a man through a strange desert, introduces several elements to the Cthulhu Mythos.

HAITA THE SHEPHERD is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in The Wave, Jan 24, 1891. The story, which tells of the naive worshipper of the god, Hastur, introduces several elements to the Cthulhu Mythos.

THE TOMB was first published in the The Vagrant no. 14 (March 1922). It is one of Lovecraft’s earliest stories and showcases his fascination with ancestral memory, Gothic atmosphere, and psychological horror.The story is narrated by Jervas Dudley, a reclusive and imaginative young man with an obsession for a nearby, long-abandoned mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family. Drawn to the tomb by a strange sense of familiarity, Jervas becomes convinced he is connected to the Hydes by blood or spirit.

THE SHUNNED HOUSE was first published by The Recluse Press in 1928. Set in Lovecraft’s hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, the story follows the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, as they investigate a decaying old house on Benefit Street that has been plagued by generations of mysterious deaths, madness, and decay. Despite its long history of misfortune, the house’s true nature remains unknown—until the pair begin conducting a scientific investigation involving digging, observation, and direct confrontation with the supernatural.

MUSIC OF THE STARS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Duane W. Rimel. The tale, which first appeared in The Acolyte in its Spring 1943 edition, tells of a musician who claims to have discovered an ancient and terrible form of music.

HYPNOS first appeared in The National Amateur vol. 45, no. 5 (May 1923). It is one of Lovecraft’s key early entries in his Dream Cycle, exploring themes of altered consciousness, artistic obsession, and the boundaries of reality.The story is narrated by an unnamed sculptor who forms an intense intellectual and psychic bond with a mysterious, beautiful man he meets in a train station. Together, they embark on increasingly dangerous experiments in dream projection and mental exploration, using opiates and willpower to transcend the physical world and venture into strange cosmic realms.

IN THE VAULT was first published in the magazine The Tryout in November 1925. The story centres on George Birch, an unrefined and careless undertaker in a small New England town. One day, while locking up the vault that temporarily stores coffins during cold weather, Birch becomes accidentally trapped inside.

THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Frank Belknap Long. First published in Weird Tales in 1929, the story follows Halpin Chalmers, an author who, after taking the Chinese drug Liao, encounters extra-dimensional beings known as The Hounds of Tindalos.

THE SHADOW FROM THE STEEPLE is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published in 1950. It completes a series of tales started by Bloch in 1935 with The Shambler from the Stars, and continued by H. P. Lovecraft in 1936 with The Haunter of the Dark. The story concludes the mystery surrounding the "Shining Trapezohedron".

THE HAUNTER OF THE DARK is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in November 1935 and first published in the December 1936 issue of Weird Tales. It is notable for being Lovecraft’s final major work of fiction and serves as a sequel of sorts to Robert Bloch’s earlier story The Shambler from the Stars.The tale follows Robert Blake, a writer with an interest in the occult, who becomes fascinated by a sinister, abandoned church on Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island. Inside, he discovers relics of a forgotten cult known as the Church of Starry Wisdom, including a strange artifact called the Shining Trapezohedron—a window into other realms that can summon a terrifying entity known only as the Haunter of the Dark.

THE SHAMBLER FROM THE STARS is a horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales. A Cthulhu Mythos tale, it introduced the forbidden tome De Vermis Mysteriis (Mysteries of the Worm). Later on in 1935, Lovecraft wrote the short story "The Haunter of the Dark" as a sequel and dedicated it to Bloch. Eventually, in 1950, Bloch wrote his own sequel The Shadow from the Steeple.

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 that came to the twenty-first Baron Kralitz.”

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 lifelong friend, Edward Derby—but insists it was not truly Derby he killed. As Upton recounts the strange events leading up to the crime, he describes Derby’s marriage to the mysterious Asenath Waite, a woman from the coastal town of Innsmouth with disturbing ties to the occult and the Esoteric Order of Dagon.

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 curiosities and the occult. Seeking ever-greater thrills, they exhume a burial mound in Holland and steal a jade amulet from the centuries-old grave of a supposed ghoul. From that moment on, they are haunted by a terrifying, unseen entity—a monstrous hound-like being that brings death and madness in its wake.

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 property in the English countryside.

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 ailment, but his condition soon takes a strange and unsettling turn.

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 insignificance of humanity in the face of ancient, alien forces. It was first published in the November 1921 issue of The Wolverine.

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 parody of the real-life biographer of Dr. Johnson), claims to have been born in 1690 and reminisces about his interactions with the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

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 from the perspective of a short story writer, and his closest friend.

THE NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL is a work of horror by Arthur Machen—a key story in his 1895 novel, "The Three Impostors". The story follows Professor Gregg, an antiquarian whose studies uncover disturbing evidence of a lost and terrible people, whose relics and language persist in the remote corners of Britain.

MEMORY was written in 1919 and first published in The United Co-operative, June 1919. This ultra-short story takes place in a ruined, ancient world where a spirit and a demon discuss the fate of humanity.

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP was written in 1919 and first published in Pine Cones in October of that same year. The story is narrated by an unnamed researcher at a mental hospital who becomes fascinated by a violent, backwoods patient named Joe Slater. Slater, a degenerate from the Catskill Mountains, suffers from strange, vivid dreams in which he experiences celestial visions and claims to transform into a luminous, cosmic being.

THE BLACK STONE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by American author, Robert E. Howard, first published in the November 1931 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. Notably, it marks the first appearance of the fictional work, the Unaussprechlichen Kulten, by Friedrich von Junzt. The story tells of an occult researcher's pursuit of a curious, sinister monolith in the mountains of Hungary.

THE TALE OF SATAMPRA ZEIROS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of his Hyperborean Cycle. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1931, tells of a thief and his companion in search of treasure in the former capital of Hyperborea.

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE was written in 1904 when Lovecraft was just a teenager and was first published in The Vagrant in June 1918. The story follows an unnamed protagonist who becomes lost while exploring Mammoth Cave, a vast underground labyrinth.

THE WHITE SHIP is a fantasy story that belongs to Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. It was written in October 1919 and first published in United Amateur in November 1919.The story follows Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper who longs for something beyond his mundane existence. One night, a mysterious white ship, piloted by a silent, robed figure, appears and carries him across fantastical seas to wondrous lands—places of peace, wisdom, and strange beauty. However, his curiosity leads him to seek the forbidden land of Sona-Nyl, a fabled paradise beyond all knowledge.

HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON was written in 1927 but remained unpublished until 1938, a year after Lovecraft’s death, when it appeared in Leaves, a publication by Rebel Press. Presented as a scholarly account, this short pseudo-historical essay outlines the origins and fate of the infamous Necronomicon, the fictional grimoire frequently referenced in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

THE THING ON THE ROOF is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert E. Howard, first published in the February 1932 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a man and his quest for a lost temple known as the 'Temple of the Toad'.

THE RETURN OF THE SORCERER is a Cthulhu Mythos horror story by American author, Clark Ashton Smith. The tale first appeared in "Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror" in 1931, and tells of a scholarly recluse, who hires an individual to translate passages from his copy of the Necronomicon.

THE DREAMS IN THE WITCH HOUSE is a Cthulhu Mythos story, written in 1932 and first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales.The story follows Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, who rents a room in the infamous Witch House of Arkham. The house was once home to Keziah Mason, a 17th-century witch rumoured to have escaped from Salem through non-Euclidean geometry.

THE ALCHEMIST is a gothic horror short story first written in 1908 when Lovecraft was just 17 years old. It was later published in the United Amateur in November 1916.The story follows Antoine, the last in a noble lineage plagued by a sinister curse. For centuries, the men of his family have all mysteriously died at the age of 32. Antoine, approaching this doomed age himself, delves into the history of his ancestors and discovers a vengeful alchemist who centuries ago placed a powerful curse upon his bloodline.

DAGON is a foundational tale in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, first written in July 1917 and published in The Vagrant in November 1919. The story is narrated by a morphine-addicted former sailor who recounts a terrifying experience during World War I.