
A wounded sailor who escapes a torpedoed ship is stranded on a reeking expanse of mud newly risen from the ocean floor, where he finds a vast monolith carved with creatures that should not be. An early tale already sounding the themes his Cthulhu Mythos would grow from.

On lonely Tempest Mountain, where storm after storm wipes out whole settlements, a seeker hunts the source of the dread nested in the deserted mansion of an old family. A story of degeneration, of darkness underground and a legacy best left undisturbed.

The heir of an ancient English line restores his family's abbey and hears, night after night, unseen rats scurrying in the walls that no one else can hear. A descent into the cellars becomes a descent into the memory of the bloodline itself.

In the heart of Providence stands an unremarkable house where tenants have sickened and died for generations. Two investigators resolve to spend a night in its damp cellar to learn what presence has settled beneath the floor.

Sorting the papers of a dead relative, a man pieces together scattered evidence - notes, clippings, sailors' accounts - of a cult that worships a god asleep in the ocean deep. The definitive story that gave Lovecraft's whole mythology its name.

Randolph Carter dreams again and again of a sunset city of unearthly beauty and sets out across the whole world of dream in search of unknown Kadath, where the gods dwell. Lovecraft's longest and most fairy-tale work, a journey along the edge of sleep.

A young Providence antiquarian, consumed by his genealogy and an ancestor's old occult papers, changes beyond recognition and vanishes from an asylum. A doctor and an old family friend unravel a history rooted in the city's colonial past. Lovecraft's only novel.

A meteorite falls on a farm near Arkham and slowly evaporates, leaving behind an unearthly colour and a quiet blight that creeps through the soil, the water and every living thing around. Lovecraft himself thought it his finest tale.

In the backwater of Dunwich a strange, too-quickly-growing boy comes of age while his grandfather pores over forbidden books and keeps something locked on the farmhouse's upper floor. One of the most direct and grim of the Cthulhu Mythos stories.

After a flood, bodies of strange creatures are seen in Vermont's rivers, and a folklorist begins a correspondence with a recluse who insists that visitors from beyond the world have settled in the remote hills. A slow build where doubt is more frightening than any monster.

An Antarctic expedition finds, beyond an impassable mountain range, the ruins of a titanic city older than any known life. The tale is told as a warning to future explorers who would do better not to go further.

A traveller stops in the half-abandoned seaside town of Innsmouth, where the locals shun outsiders and a strange stamp lies on the townsfolk's faces. A single night in town turns into a flight for his life.

A student takes a room in an old house once home to a witch, and his dreams of non-Euclidean geometry grow harder and harder to tell from waking. A story where higher mathematics meets ancient sorcery.

A professor is struck for years by a gap in his memory, and afterwards by dreams of another body and of a library kept by a nonhuman race that holds the history of all ages. A late work poised between science fiction and cosmic horror.