The Lovecraft Vault

THE FIRE VAMPIRES is a mythos story by Donald Wandrei. It first appeared in Weird Tales in February 1933, and was described by the magazine: "Out of the sky struck a dread electric scourge that burned the life out of countless thousands and left charred skeletons to mark its passing."

FACTS CONCERNING THE LATE ARTHUR JERMYN AND HIS FAMILY aka THE WHITE APE was first published in The Wolverine, March 1921. Arthur Jermyn, the last descendant of a once-noble British family, unearths a horrifying secret about his lineage.

THE CHADBOURNE EPISODE is a short story by the American writer, Henry S. Whitehead. It first appeared in the February 1933 edition of Weird Tales Magazine with the following description: “A shuddery graveyard tale of ghastly shapes glimpsed in the moonlight, and little, reddish, half-gnawed bones scattered about the tomb in the Old Cemetery.”

DAGON was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. This dramatic adaptation takes place on a stormy night in a prison cell, as the protagonist attempts to explain and justify an inexplicable bout of mania.

CELEPHAÏS is a Dream Cycle story, first published in the May 1922 edition of The Rainbow. "In a dream Kuranes saw the city in the valley..."

THE LADY IN GRAY is a short story by the American author, Donald Wandrei. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales in its December 1933 edition, and was described by the magazine as follows: “The story of a strange woman and a loathsome gray slug that came to a sleeper in his dreams..."

HORROR AT VECRA is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Henry Hasse, first published in The Acolyte, in its Fall 1943 edition. "After losing their way, two travellers arrive in the eerie village of Vecra, where strange books, unsettling dreams, and a sealed crypt hint at something ancient waiting to be unearthed."

THE HORROR IN THE MUSEUM is a short story ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for Hazel Heald in October 1932, first published in the July 1933 edition of Weird Tales. The story concerns a private wax museum that specialises in the grotesque.

THE TRANSITION OF JUAN ROMERO is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in Marginalia, a 1944 Arkham House collection. The story concerns a mine, beneath which is discovered an immense and mysterious chasm.

THE SPIRITS OF THE LAKE is a short story by Alonzo Deen Cole, author and director of the 1930s radio series, The Witch's Tale. The story first appeared in the November 1941 edition of Weird Tales. "Was it at the bidding of the 'Old Ones' that slime—loathsome, hideously green—rose from the lake's dreadful depths?"