Tonight, the Vault opens to something a little different — a moment of peace along our journey.

🎧 The Journey:

0:00 – The Train to Dunwich (Rain & Rails)

25:00 – The Lighthouse in the Storm (Ocean & Thunder)

50:00 – Return to the Hearth (Fireplace & Rain)

This is your space to travel and to rest — from Dunwich to the hearth.

The Train to Dunwich is a seventy-five minute Lovecraftian Pomodoro — a quiet ritual for focus, reflection, or travel through dream and imagination.

Whether you use it to study, read, write, or simply drift, this soundscape carries you from rain-soaked rails through the roaring sea and finally home to the crackling hearth. Let it be your companion in the hours between stories — a breath, a pause, a journey of its own.

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I can’t tell you how much I appreciate you, my darlings. 🖤

We’ve been on this journey together since the first night of Lovecraft, and your kindness, patience, and presence keep the Archive alive. Thank you for being here — for traveling beside me through story, sound, and dream.

Thank you, as always, for listening in the dark with me 🕯️

🎧The ambiance for this reading includes the gentle tick of a clock, the whisper of a pen upon paper, and the steady warmth of a crackling fire.

Tonight we unseal the twenty-third vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Horror in the Museum — a tale of wax and worship, where art and atrocity blur beneath the dim lights of an underground exhibit.

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First published in Weird Tales in July 1933, The Horror in the Museum was ghostwritten by Lovecraft for Hazel Heald, combining her grisly imagination with his cosmic unease. Together, they created one of his most disturbingly tactile stories — a descent into waxen artistry so lifelike it feels alive.

When a curious art enthusiast visits Rogers’ Museum in Southwark Street, he discovers more than mere effigies behind glass — there are shapes that breathe, eyes that glisten too naturally, and whispers of a grotesque god from older worlds.

In the still air of that subterranean gallery, creation itself becomes worship… and the sculptor’s devotion demands sacrifice.

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Tonight we unseal the twenty-second vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with Till A’ the Seas — a rare, sorrowful vision of the far future, where the oceans have dried, the stars have dimmed, and humanity itself flickers like the last candle in the dark.

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First published in The Vagrant in 1935, this haunting collaboration with R. H. Barlow trades cosmic monsters for a slower, more human apocalypse. It is a meditation on extinction and endurance — the quiet horror of watching the world end not with violence, but with thirst.

Here, the mythos feels tender and merciless at once: no cults, no gods, only the long patience of time…and the echo of our species fading into dust.

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Tonight we unseal the twenty-first vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Horror at Martin’s Beach — a tale of the sea, of strange depths, and of what answers when mortals dare to summon what should not rise.

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First published in Weird Tales in November 1923, The Horror at Martin’s Beach was co-written with Sonia H. Greene, Lovecraft’s wife at the time. Together, they crafted a story that blends maritime mystery with cosmic despair — a haunting echo of the deep that foreshadows The Call of Cthulhu itself.

It begins with the capture of a monstrous sea creature… and ends with an entire town drawn helplessly toward the waves.

Was it curiosity? Or the pull of something older — something waiting just beyond the tide? The Horror at Martin’s Beach is a reminder that the ocean keeps its own gods… and sometimes, it calls them home.

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Tonight we unseal the twentieth vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Dreams in the Witch House — one of the most requested stories I’ve ever had the honor to whisper. For years, listeners have asked when we would finally cross these crooked thresholds… and tonight, we do.

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First published in Weird Tales in July 1933, The Dreams in the Witch House caused a quiet stir among readers and critics alike. Lovecraft’s daring blend of witchcraft, mathematics, and interdimensional physics felt unsettlingly ahead of its time — some called it visionary, others called it heresy.

In this tale, a gifted student of Miskatonic University discovers that geometry can be a doorway, and that the lines between science and sorcery are perilously thin. Within the warped angles of his rented room, he awakens something that was never meant to be mapped. A fever dream of numbers and nightmares, The Dreams in the Witch House remains one of Lovecraft’s strangest and most debated stories — proof that even the laws of space can tremble under a witch’s hand.

(Please forgive my stuffy voice — the chill and endless rain have kept me a bit under the weather this week. Thank you for listening so kindly through the storms 🖤)

Thank you for listening in the dark with me 🕯️

Please forgive my stuffy voice tonight — I’ve been quite sick lately as the temperature drops and the rain hasn’t stopped for days. Thank you for listening so kindly through the storms 🖤

Tonight we unseal the nineteenth vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Very Old Folk — a tale whispered from Rome’s oldest shadows, where ancient rites still breathe beneath the mountain soil.

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In The Very Old Folk (1918), an ancient letter recounts a Roman officer’s nightmare—visions of unspeakable rites performed by a people too old for history to remember. It is a story of memory and contagion, where dream bleeds into prophecy and the past refuses to stay buried. A fragmentary tale, yes—but one that hums with cosmic dread. Because the oldest gods were never forgotten. They were merely waiting.

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Tonight we unseal the eighteenth vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast — a forgotten collaboration unearthed from the darker corners of the mythos, where greed, sorcery, and ancient hunger intertwine.

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In The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast, a doomed expedition seeks a monstrous treasure buried in the earth’s oldest shadows. What they find is no mere relic, but a living curse — one that guards its own legend with teeth and time. First published posthumously, this tale feels like an unearthed relic itself: part pulp adventure, part cosmic parable about the price of obsession.Even the bravest treasure hunters must eventually learn — some riches remember who touched them.

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Tonight, two shadows cross the veil with a double feature—one from the waking world, one from the dreaming.

We unseal the seventeenth vault with The Terrible Old Man and What the Moon Brings (starts at 12:04)—tales that mirror each other across sea and sleep. In both, curiosity becomes a curse, and what seems harmless in daylight reveals its true shape under the moon.

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In The Terrible Old Man (1920), greed drives three men to plunder the home of an ancient hermit whose power is older—and darker—than they imagine. Then, in What the Moon Brings (1919), a dreamer wanders into a moonlit garden only to glimpse the shifting boundaries between beauty and decay. Together, these stories whisper the same truth: some doors open themselves when the moon is high.

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Tonight we unseal the sixteenth vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with From Beyond — a tale with unseen shapes, psychic thresholds, and a revelation too grotesque for the waking eye.

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In From Beyond, a deranged scientist unveils a device that activates dormant senses—allowing the human mind to perceive realities normally hidden. What begins as a scientific breakthrough quickly spirals into horror, as the narrator witnesses grotesque entities lurking just beyond the visible spectrum.

Written in 1920, this short tale is one of Lovecraft’s most iconic explorations of forbidden knowledge and sensory overload. It’s not the cosmos that terrifies here—it’s the idea that our world is already infested with horrors we simply cannot see.

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Tonight we unseal the fifteenth vault in our 31 Nights of Lovecraft with The Loved Dead—a tale so macabre it was nearly buried by the publishers themselves. The fog hangs heavy over the graveyard, and the hunger is not for life, but for what lingers after. The town is quiet, but the obsession is not. It stirs with midnight visits, whispered confessions, and a descent too twisted for daylight.🔮 Enter the Archive at http://tomebytomeasmr.com, where every ritual leads home:🗝️ Claim your Lovecraft Advent Calendar lockscreen💀 Ensure your name appears in November’s Call of Cthulhu tribute📜 Submit your original horror tale for the Anniversary Readings❤️ Lorekeepers (Patreon & YouTube Members) will be honored in the final roll—verified October 30, 2025In The Loved Dead, a narrator haunted by morbid desires descends into obsession and madness, drawn to the dead with a compulsion he cannot resist. Set in a fog-drenched New England town, the story unfolds as a confessional spiral—each graveyard visit more disturbing than the last, each encounter more grotesque.Co-written with C.M. Eddy Jr., this is widely considered one of Lovecraft’s most graphic and twisted tales. Its themes of necrophilia and psychological decay pushed the boundaries of pulp horror, even prompting some publications to reject it for its content. Though not part of the mythos, it lingers as a dark echo in Lovecraft’s legacy—a tale where dread is not cosmic, but deeply, viscerally human.Thank you for listening in the dark with me 🖤