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....

"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...

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...

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...

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 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...

"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...

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...