The Lovecraft Vault

DIG ME NO GRAVE is a horror story by American author, Robert E. Howard. The tale was first published in Weird Tales in February 1937. It is sometimes known by the title, "John Grimlan's Debt".

THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME is a Cthulhu Mythos story, first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. The story follows Professor Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, who suffers a sudden mental collapse in 1908, losing his memory for five years. During this period, his body is controlled by an unknown intelligence while his own consciousness experiences life in a vast prehistoric era, housed with...

AZATHOTH was written in June of 1922, later published in Leaves in 1938. "A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth."

THE INVADERS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Henry Kuttner. Written under the pseudonym Keith Hammond, it was first published in the February 1939 edition of Strange Stories. The tale tells of a unique writer, who accidentally unleashes the hellspawn of a forgotten age upon the Earth.

THE ELECTRIC EXECUTIONER is a short story by Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro, first published in the August 1930 edition of Weird Tales. "An investigator for a mining colony finds himself at the mercy of a deranged inventor's bizarre killing machine."

THE QUEST OF IRANON , a Dream Cycle story first published in the July/August edition of Galleon in 1935, tells of a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince.

THE WARDER OF KNOWLEDGE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Richard F. Searight, unpublished during his lifetime. Lovecraft read the story, saying of it: "I like the story exceedingly." It was first published in the 1992 mythos collection, TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS. In pursuit of omniscience, Professor Gordon Whitney dares to summon the ageless Warder of Knowledge, and finds that some secrets are gua...

THE DIARY OF ALONZO TYPER tells of an occult researcher, who, following a journey to an abandoned, isolated house in upstate New York, disappears without a trace. The story was first published in the February 1938 edition of Weird Tales.

THE HORROR AT RED HOOK was first published in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. In the story, a detective recounts how a federal investigation into a mysterious recluse left him with a phobia of large buildings.

THE DARK DEMON is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Robert Bloch, first published in the November 1936 edition of Weird Tales. "The strange story of a man who communed too closely with things from beyond space."

WINGED DEATH is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald, first published in the March 1934 edition of Weird Tales. "A mysterious death, a maddened diary, and an unholy insect converge to expose a tale of obsession and revenge in the sweltering heart of Africa."

⁠THE GREEN DOOR ⁠ is a 2024 Cthulhu Mythos story by Ian Gordon, first published as part of HorrorBabble's From the Library of R'lyeh series. "There’s a green door, and I’m going to tell you all about it."

THE CURSE OF YIG is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced. The story was first published in the November 1929 edition of Weird Tales. Set in Oklahoma around 1889, a newly arrived couple become aware of a chilling local legend: a vengeful “Snake God” known as Yig, who punishes those who harm serpents—either by killin...

THE DUNSTABLE HORROR is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Arthur Pendragon, first published in the April 1964 issue of Fantastic Stories of Imagination. “A Gothic, Lovecraftian tale, of ancient evil and ghastly retribution."

In the latest episode of THE UNTOLD MYSTERIES PODCAST , the show's host, Dan Rogers, shares the strange story of a 1978 radio broadcast, concerning a series of calls the station received from a man who claimed to be under the watchful eye of a mysterious sea creature. Performers: Erik Peabody as "Dan Rogers" Ian Gordon as "John Price" Tony Walker as "Phillip Pritchard&...

THE MOUND was written by Lovecraft after he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story about an Indian mound haunted by a headless ghost. "An ethnologist investigating eerie legends surrounding a haunted Oklahoma mound uncovers a mysterious metallic relic that hints at an ancient and unsettling secret behind the region’s strange apparitions and madness." The story belongs to the Cthulh...

THE TREE was first published in the October 1921 edition of The Tryout. The story takes place in ancient Greece, where the legacy of two master sculptors takes root in a grotesque and supernatural form.

THE RED GOD LAUGHED is a short Cosmic Horror story by Thorp McClusky, first published in the April 1939 edition of Weird Tales. "A strange tale about the end of human life on Earth."

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.