The Lovecraft Vault

THE SPACE-EATERS is a short story by American writer, Frank Belknap Long. It first appeared in the July 1928 edition of Weird Tales. The story explores the concept of the 'ultimate horror', as viewed from the perspective of a short story writer, and his closest friend.

THE NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL is a work of horror by Arthur Machen—a key story in his 1895 novel, "The Three Impostors". The story follows Professor Gregg, an antiquarian whose studies uncover disturbing evidence of a lost and terrible people, whose relics and language persist in the remote corners of Britain.

MEMORY was written in 1919 and first published in The United Co-operative, June 1919. This ultra-short story takes place in a ruined, ancient world where a spirit and a demon discuss the fate of humanity.

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP was written in 1919 and first published in Pine Cones in October of that same year. The story is narrated by an unnamed researcher at a mental hospital who becomes fascinated by a violent, backwoods patient named Joe Slater. Slater, a degenerate from the Catskill Mountains, suffers from strange, vivid dreams in which he experiences celestial visions and claims to transform into a luminous, cosmic being.

THE BLACK STONE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by American author, Robert E. Howard, first published in the November 1931 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. Notably, it marks the first appearance of the fictional work, the Unaussprechlichen Kulten, by Friedrich von Junzt. The story tells of an occult researcher's pursuit of a curious, sinister monolith in the mountains of Hungary.

THE TALE OF SATAMPRA ZEIROS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of his Hyperborean Cycle. The tale, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1931, tells of a thief and his companion in search of treasure in the former capital of Hyperborea.

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE was written in 1904 when Lovecraft was just a teenager and was first published in The Vagrant in June 1918. The story follows an unnamed protagonist who becomes lost while exploring Mammoth Cave, a vast underground labyrinth.

THE WHITE SHIP is a fantasy story that belongs to Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. It was written in October 1919 and first published in United Amateur in November 1919.

The story follows Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper who longs for something beyond his mundane existence. One night, a mysterious white ship, piloted by a silent, robed figure, appears and carries him across fantastical seas to wondrous lands—places of peace, wisdom, and strange beauty. However, his curiosity leads him to seek the forbidden land of Sona-Nyl, a fabled paradise beyond all knowledge.

HISTORY OF THE NECRONOMICON was written in 1927 but remained unpublished until 1938, a year after Lovecraft’s death, when it appeared in Leaves, a publication by Rebel Press. Presented as a scholarly account, this short pseudo-historical essay outlines the origins and fate of the infamous Necronomicon, the fictional grimoire frequently referenced in Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos.

THE THING ON THE ROOF is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert E. Howard, first published in the February 1932 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a man and his quest for a lost temple known as the 'Temple of the Toad'.