The Lovecraft Vault

THE SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH⁠, first published by Visionary Press in 1936, tells the strange story of an unnamed student, whose visit to a decrepit Massachusetts seaport—the crumbling town of Innsmouth—leads to a number of shocking and personal revelations… It forms part of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

TWO BLACK BOTTLES is the result of a collaboration between H. P. Lovecraft and Wilfrid Branch Talman. It was first published in Weird Tales Magazine in August 1927. In the story, the narrator, Hoffman, recounts a trip into the Ramapo Mountains of New York, following the death of his uncle.

SPAWN OF THE GREEN ABYSS is a Cthulhu Mythos story by C. Hall Thompson, first published in the November 1946 edition of Weird Tales. "An accursed house, a soul that is no longer one's own, and a boundless doom that comes from the sea."

BELLS OF OCEANA is a short story by Arthur J. Burks, first published in the December 1927 edition of Weird Tales. It tells of an encounter with something deadly in the uncharted waters of the North Pacific. The story is imbued with a touch of 'outsideness', as noted by Lovecraft in a letter to the magazine in 1928.

THE CRAWLING CHAOS is a short story based on a dream once described to Lovecraft by fellow-author, Winifred V. Jackson, in which the consequences of dabbling with opium were experienced. It was first published in the 1943 collection, Beyond the Wall of Sleep.

THE STRANGE HIGH HOUSE IN THE MIST was written on November 9, 1926, and first published in the October 1931 issue of Weird Tales. It concerns a character traveling to the titular house which is perched on the top of cliff which seems inaccessible both by land and sea, yet is apparently inhabited.

THE RED BRAIN is a short story by Donald Wandrei, first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. The story tells of a strange, menacing cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

Forming part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, THE DUNWICH HORROR, first published in the April 1929 edition of Weird Tales, takes place in the decaying village of Dunwich, a Massachusetts backwater steeped in rural superstition and dark whispers. When a strange child named Wilbur Whateley is born under mysterious circumstances, a series of bizarre events begins to unfold, drawing the wary attention of both the locals and distant scholars.

PICKMAN'S MODEL was first published in the October 1927 edition of Weird Tales. In the story, the narrator recalls his friendship with Richard Upton Pickman, an eccentric painter whose grotesque and disturbingly lifelike canvases of ghouls and nightmarish scenes earn him both fame and infamy.

THE ABYSS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by Robert Lowndes. The story was described by Stirring Science Stories back in February 1941 as follows: “A tale of a ghastly journey down a little strip in the center of a rug!”