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Chapter V
By H.P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 4 A Nightmare and a Cataclysm 1 And now swiftly followed that hideous experience which has left its indelible mark of fear on the soul of Marinus Bicknell Willett, and has added a decade to the visible age of one whose youth was even then far behind. Dr. Willett had [...]
12Feb2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 12
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 11 Danforth and I have recollections of emerging into the great sculptured hemisphere and of threading our back trail through the Cyclopean rooms and corridors of the dead city; yet these are purely dream fragments involving no memory of volition, details, or physical exertion. It was as if we [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 11
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 10 Chapter 12 Still another time have I come to a place where it is very difficult to proceed. I ought to be hardened by this stage; but there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and leave only such an added sensitiveness [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 9
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 8 Chapter 10 I have said that our study of the decadent sculptures brought about a change in our immediate objective. This, of course, had to do with the chiseled avenues to the black inner world, of whose existence we had not known before, but which we were now [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 8
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 7 Chapter 9 Naturally, Danforth and I studied with especial interest and a peculiarly personal sense of awe everything pertaining to the immediate district in which we were. Of this local material there was naturally a vast abundance; and on the tangled ground level of the city we were [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 4
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 3 Chapter 5 It is only with vast hesitancy and repugnance that I let my mind go back to Lake’s camp and what we really found there—and to that other thing beyond the mountains of madness. I am constantly tempted to shirk the details, and to let hints stand [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 3
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 2 Chapter 4 None of us, I imagine, slept very heavily or continuously that morning. Both the excitement of Lake’s discovery and the mounting fury of the wind were against such a thing. So savage was the blast, even where we were, that we could not help wondering how [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedChapter 2
by H. P. Lovecraft Contents Chapter 1 Chapter 3 Popular imagination, I judge, responded actively to our wireless bulletins of Lake’s start northwestward into regions never trodden by human foot or penetrated by human imagination, though we did not mention his wild hopes of revolutionizing the entire sciences of biology and geology. His preliminary sledging [...]
30Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Horror at Lake Harmony
By Walt Trizna It was a quiet, lovely June night. The light of a crescent moon walked across the tranquil surface of the lake as waves lapped its shore. The air was filled with the smoke of campfires reaching skyward, as the smoke of many ancient fires did so many years ago. I sat quietly [...]
21Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThrough the Gates of the Silver Key
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft Chapter One In a vast room hung with strangely figured arras and carpeted with Bonkhata rugs of impressive age and workmanship, four men were sitting around a document-strewn table. From the far corners, where odd tripods of wrought iron were now and then replenished by an incredibly aged Negro in somber [...]
16Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedTill A’ the Seas
By H. P. Lovecraft and R.H. Barlow I Upon an eroded cliff-top rested the man, gazing far across the valley. Lying thus, he could see a great distance, but in all the sere expanse there was no visible motion. Nothing stirred the dusty plain, the disintegrated sand of long-dry river-beds, where once coursed the gushing [...]
15Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedImprisoned with the Pharaohs
By Howard Phillips Lovecraft Ghostwritten for Harry Houdini Mystery attracts mystery. Ever since the wide appearance of my name as a performer of unexplained feats, I have encountered strange narratives and events which my calling has led people to link with my interests and activities. Some of these have been trivial and irrelevant, some deeply [...]
13Jan2010 | Editor | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Transition of Juan Romero
by H. P. Lovecraft Of the events which took place at the Norton Mine on October eighteenth and nineteenth, 1894, I have no desire to speak. A sense of duty to science is all that impels me to recall, in the last years of my life, scenes and happenings fraught with a terror doubly acute [...]
11Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedPeople of the Dark
by Robert E. Howard I came to Dagon’s Cave to kill Richard Brent. I went down the dusky avenues made by the towering trees, and my mood well-matched the primitive grimness of the scene. The approach to Dagon’s Cave is always dark, for the mighty branches and thick leaves shut out the sun, and now [...]
3Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedSpear and Fang
by Robert E. Howard A-aea crouched close to the cave mouth, watching Ga-nor with wondering eyes. Ga-nor’s occupation interested her, as well as Ga-nor himself. As for Ga-nor, he was too occupied with his work to notice her. A torch stuck in a niche in the cave wall dimly illuminated the roomy cavern, and by [...]
1Jan2010 | Editor | 0 comments | Continued“EXCURSION INTO MADNESS”
By George Morrow William McKinley, the twenty-fifth President of the United States, looked out a White House window on an evening early in the year 1900 and remarked to his wife, Ida, about the guests arriving for a reception. “They are the cream of the crop, my dear Ida. It should make for a splendid [...]
30Dec2009 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedWITCH HILL COVE AND THE STRANGE ACCOUNT OF WILLIAM BAILEY
By Travis J Fowler I It was the last week of the semester before summer break at Miskatonic University in 1937. I majored in folklore/ancient theology and was preparing for my finals of what was to be my final semester before entering the graduate program in the fall. It was during this final week of [...]
28Dec2009 | Editor | 2 comments | ContinuedThe Unnamable
by H. P. Lovecraft We were sitting on a dilapidated seventeenth-century tomb in the late afternoon of an autumn day at the old burying ground in Arkham, and speculating about the unnamable. Looking toward the giant willow in the cemetery, whose trunk had nearly engulfed an ancient, illegible slab, I had made a fantastic remark [...]
22Dec2009 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Nameless City
by H. P. Lovecraft When I drew nigh the nameless city I knew it was accursed. I was traveling in a parched and terrible valley under the moon, and afar I saw it protruding uncannily above the sands as parts of a corpse may protrude from an ill-made grave. Fear spoke from the age-worn stones [...]
16Dec2009 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedHypnos
by H. P. Lovecraft Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed daily with an audacity that would be incomprehensible if we did not know that it is the result of ignorance of the danger. -Baudelaire May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, [...]
16Dec2009 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Festival
by H. P. Lovecraft Efficiut Daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamen quasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant. (Devils so work that things which are not appear to men as if they were real.) -Lactantius I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In the twilight I heard it [...]
16Dec2009 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Beast in the Cave
by H. P. Lovecraft The horrible conclusion which had been gradually intruding itself upon my confused and reluctant mind was now an awful certainty. I was lost, completely, hopelessly lost in the vast and labyrinthine recess of the Mammoth Cave. Turn as I might, in no direction could my straining vision seize on any object [...]
16Dec2009 | Editor | 0 comments | Continued