THE SALEM HORROR is a short story by American author, Henry Kuttner. The tale first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in May 1937, and tells of an author who rents a quiet house in Salem in order to finish his latest novel—a house that once belonged to a witch—a witch whose presence has far from faded.

HERBERT WEST–REANIMATOR was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the amateur publication Home Brew. The story concerns the gruesome adventures of Herbert West, a young scientist consumed with the ambition of bringing the dead back to life.

THE SECRET IN THE TOMB is a short story by American author, Robert Bloch, first published in the May 1935 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, a man answers an inexplicable summons from beyond the grave.

THE CALL OF CTHULHU, first published in Weird Tales in 1928, is a foundational tale of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. Told through a series of manuscripts and testimonies, the story traces a hidden pattern of strange dreams, cult activity, and archaeological discoveries that point toward the existence of an ancient cosmic entity: Cthulhu, a monstrous Great Old One.

UBBO-SATHLA is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Clark Ashton Smith, forming part of Smith's Hyperborean Cycle. It tells of a man, who, in a state of trance, ventures back to the very beginning of time, where he encounters the primal one, Ubbo-Sathla. The story first appeared in the July 1933 edition of Weird Tales.

First appearing in The Philosopher in 1920, POLARIS is an early entry in Lovecraft’s Dream Cycle. The story’s narrator, haunted by the cold, pulsing light of the North Star, dreams of a majestic marble city called Olathoë in the land of Lomar.

First published in Weird Tales in 1924, IMPRISONED WITH THE PHARAOHS is a first-person tale ghostwritten by H. P. Lovecraft for the escapologist Harry Houdini. In the story, Houdini recounts how, while visiting Egypt, he is kidnapped and thrown into a deep shaft beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza. Struggling to escape, he encounters vast underground chambers filled with monstrous, half-human entities and glimpses a colossal, ancient presence tied to Egypt’s forgotten gods.

THE HAUNTER OF THE GRAVEYARD first appeared in Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, 1969. "The story of a TV presenter who encounters a malign spirit in a cemetery."

THE TEMPLE first appeared in the September 1925 edition of Weird Tales. Told through the final log entries of a doomed German U-boat commander during the First World War, the story charts a descent from prideful rationality into madness and the embrace of the abyss.

THE DEATH WATCH is a short story by the British born, American author, Hugh B. Cave. The story, which first appeared in Weird Tales in its 1939 June-July edition, was described as follows: "What ghastly thing was it that came clumping into the big house out of that wild night of storm?"