The Lovecraft Vault

IN THE WALLS OF ERYX was written in collaboration with Kenneth Sterling and first published in the January 1939 issue of Weird Tales.

Set on Venus, the story is presented as the recovered account of an Earthman employed by a mining company to harvest valuable crystals sought after for their energy properties. While exploring the Venusian jungle, the narrator becomes trapped inside an invisible maze-like structure—an alien construct built by the planet’s native, reptilian inhabitants.

THE MOON-BOG was first published in the June 1926 issue of Weird Tales.
The story is narrated by a friend of Denys Barry, an American who purchases an ancient estate near a bog in Ireland with the intent of draining the swamp and modernizing the land. Despite warnings from the superstitious locals about ancient legends tied to the bog, Barry proceeds with his project, disturbing the resting place of strange, long-forgotten beings.

AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in the San Francisco News Letter and California Advertiser, Dec 25, 1886. The story, which tells of the wanderings of a man through a strange desert, introduces several elements to the Cthulhu Mythos.

HAITA THE SHEPHERD is a short story by Ambrose Bierce, first published in The Wave, Jan 24, 1891. The story, which tells of the naive worshipper of the god, Hastur, introduces several elements to the Cthulhu Mythos.

THE TOMB was first published in the The Vagrant no. 14 (March 1922). It is one of Lovecraft’s earliest stories and showcases his fascination with ancestral memory, Gothic atmosphere, and psychological horror.

The story is narrated by Jervas Dudley, a reclusive and imaginative young man with an obsession for a nearby, long-abandoned mausoleum belonging to the Hyde family. Drawn to the tomb by a strange sense of familiarity, Jervas becomes convinced he is connected to the Hydes by blood or spirit.

THE SHUNNED HOUSE was first published by The Recluse Press in 1928. Set in Lovecraft’s hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, the story follows the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, as they investigate a decaying old house on Benefit Street that has been plagued by generations of mysterious deaths, madness, and decay. Despite its long history of misfortune, the house’s true nature remains unknown—until the pair begin conducting a scientific investigation involving digging, observation, and direct confrontation with the supernatural.

MUSIC OF THE STARS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by the American author, Duane W. Rimel. The tale, which first appeared in The Acolyte in its Spring 1943 edition, tells of a musician who claims to have discovered an ancient and terrible form of music.

HYPNOS first appeared in The National Amateur vol. 45, no. 5 (May 1923). It is one of Lovecraft’s key early entries in his Dream Cycle, exploring themes of altered consciousness, artistic obsession, and the boundaries of reality.

The story is narrated by an unnamed sculptor who forms an intense intellectual and psychic bond with a mysterious, beautiful man he meets in a train station. Together, they embark on increasingly dangerous experiments in dream projection and mental exploration, using opiates and willpower to transcend the physical world and venture into strange cosmic realms.

IN THE VAULT was first published in the magazine The Tryout in November 1925. The story centres on George Birch, an unrefined and careless undertaker in a small New England town. One day, while locking up the vault that temporarily stores coffins during cold weather, Birch becomes accidentally trapped inside.

THE HOUNDS OF TINDALOS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Frank Belknap Long. First published in Weird Tales in 1929, the story follows Halpin Chalmers, an author who, after taking the Chinese drug Liao, encounters extra-dimensional beings known as The Hounds of Tindalos.