The Lovecraft Vault

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-Eucli...

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 hist...

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.