Short Stories

The Beast in the Cave

Written 1905 · First pub. 1918

A lone wanderer meets something in the dark that may no longer be human.

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The Alchemist

Written 1908 · First pub. 1916

Curse and hereditary doom in a castle: apprentice Gothic before the cosmos opened.

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The Tomb

Written 1917 · First pub. 1922

An antiquarian trespasses upon a sealed family vault and hears the past calling.

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Dagon

Written 1917 · First pub. 1919

After a Great War shipwreck, a morphine-haunted merchant glimpses Pacific blasphemy.

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A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson

Written 1917 · First pub. 1917

Eighteenth-century pastiche: a youthful jeu d’esprit in borrowed wig and ink.

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Sweet Ermengarde

Written 1917 · First pub. 1943

Parody of romantic melodrama, filed among juvenilia though written in maturity.

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Polaris

Written 1918 · First pub. 1920

A watchman dreams of Lomar while something moves on the threshold of sleep.

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The Mystery of Murdon Grange

Written 1918 · First pub. nonextant

A lost tale; bibliographers list it, readers cannot open it.

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The Green Meadow

Written 1918/1919 · First pub. 1927

A found notebook from beyond Sing Sing’s waters, co-signed with Winifred V. Jackson.

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Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Written 1919 · First pub. 1919

A backwoods astronomer and a cosmic messenger share a brief, terrible kinship.

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Old Bugs

Written 1919 · First pub. 1959

Satirical sketch of a derelict scholar in a den of vice.

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The Transition of Juan Romero

Written 1919 · First pub. 1944

A mine shaft opens upon a pit and a transformation at dawn.

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The White Ship

Written 1919 · First pub. 1919

Basalt lighthouse dreams and a voyage toward the unknown crown.

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The Doom That Came to Sarnath

Written 1919 · First pub. 1920

Pride, prophecy, and the annihilation of a dream-city.

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The Statement of Randolph Carter

Written 1919 · First pub. 1920

Randolph Carter waits above a crypt while his companion descends and does not return.

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The Terrible Old Man

Written 1920 · First pub. 1921

Three robbers underestimate a reclusive mariner in Kingsport.

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The Tree

Written 1920 · First pub. 1921

Classical antiquity and a poisoned olive grove near Mount Olympus.

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The Cats of Ulthar

Written 1920 · First pub. 1920

In dreamland Ulthar, no man may kill a cat - and the cats remember.

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The Temple

Written 1920 · First pub. 1925

A U-boat drifts toward Atlantis in diary form.

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Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

Written 1920 · First pub. 1921

Ancestral shame and a boxed relic from the Congo.

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The Street

Written 1920? · First pub. 1920

A patriotic allegory of a single thoroughfare; among the author’s most troubled political texts.

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Poetry and the Gods

Written 1920 · First pub. 1920

Pan and the Muses intrude upon a modern poet’s reverie.

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Celephaïs

Written 1920 · First pub. 1922

A man dreams a city into being and pays for the longing.

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From Beyond

Written 1920 · First pub. 1934

A resonator reveals predators that have always surrounded us.

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The Picture in the House

Written 1920 · First pub. 1921

Blood on a genealogical print in backwoods New England.

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The Crawling Chaos

Written 1920/1921 · First pub. 1921

A fever dream of Boston’s end, signed with Winifred V. Jackson.

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The Nameless City

Written 1921 · First pub. 1921

An Arabian ruin whispers: “That is not dead which can eternal lie.”

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The Quest of Iranon

Written 1921 · First pub. 1935

A golden-haired minstrel searches for lost Aira.

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The Moon-Bog

Written 1921 · First pub. 1926

Irish peat and something that bubbles beneath the moon.

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The Outsider

Written 1921 · First pub. 1926

A solitary being climbs toward light and meets its own reflection.

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The Other Gods

Written 1921 · First pub. 1933

Barzai the Wise climbs too high and sees what moved when Earth was young.

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The Music of Erich Zann

Written 1921 · First pub. 1922

A viol plays against the abyss beyond a garret window in Paris.

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Herbert West–Reanimator

Written 1921/1922 · First pub. 1922

Six episodes of medical blasphemy and cadaverous consequence.

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Hypnos

Written 1922 · First pub. 1923

Sculpture, narcotics, and a friendship that trespasses on sleep.

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The Horror at Martin's Beach

Written 1922 · First pub. 1923

A stranded sea creature draws crowds - and teeth.

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The Hound

Written 1922 · First pub. 1924

Necrophilic thieves awaken something in a Dutch graveyard.

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The Lurking Fear

Written 1922 · First pub. 1923

Martense Mountain and a fear that tunnels beneath thunderstorms.

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The Rats in the Walls

Written 1923 · First pub. 1924

Exhumed Exham Priory remembers older hungers than Christianity.

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The Unnamable

Written 1923 · First pub. 1925

Randolph Carter and friends debate whether a thing can be only partly real.

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Ashes

Written 1923 · First pub. 1924

Ghostly collaboration with C. M. Eddy, Jr.

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The Ghost-Eater

Written 1923 · First pub. 1924

Another Eddy collaboration from the Providence circle.

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The Loved Dead

Written 1923 · First pub. 1924

Infamous for editorial controversy; co-authored with Eddy.

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The Festival

Written 1923 · First pub. 1925

Yule in Kingsport leads downward to the sound of piping.

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Deaf, Dumb, and Blind

Written 1924? · First pub. 1925

Revision-collaboration with Eddy; date of composition uncertain.

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Under the Pyramids

Written 1924 · First pub. 1924

Houdini’s Egyptian nightmare, ghostwritten for the escape artist.

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The Horror at Red Hook

Written 1925 · First pub. 1927

Detective Malone’s Brooklyn ordeal; a document of its era’s prejudices.

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He

Written 1925 · First pub. 1926

Colonial Troy hides a wizard’s Roman revenge.

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In the Vault

Written 1925 · First pub. 1925

An undertaker’s practical joke becomes anatomical evidence.

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Cool Air

Written 1926 · First pub. 1928

A Spanish physician preserves life at six degrees Celsius.

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The Call of Cthulhu

Written 1926 · First pub. 1928

A global dossier of dreams, cults, and something risen in the Pacific.

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Two Black Bottles

Written 1926 · First pub. 1927

Pastoral horror revised with Wilfred Blanch Talman.

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Pickman's Model

Written 1926 · First pub. 1927

Boston art and North End tunnels conceal the model behind the canvas.

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The Silver Key

Written 1926 · First pub. 1929

Randolph Carter regains the road to forgotten childhood.

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The Strange High House in the Mist

Written 1926 · First pub. 1931

Kingsport cliffs and gods that step from the mist into a scholar’s house.

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The Colour Out of Space

Written 1927 · First pub. 1927

A meteorite leaves a colour no spectrum can hold, and a valley dies.

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The Last Test

Written 1927 · First pub. 1928

Lovecraft revised de Castro’s tale of a chemist and something from the deep.

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The Curse of Yig

Written 1928 · First pub. 1929

Oklahoma homesteaders invoke the serpent father of Yig.

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Ibid

Written 1928? · First pub. 1938

Satirical mock-scholarship on a Roman antiquarian’s absurd afterlife.

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The Dunwich Horror

Written 1928 · First pub. 1929

A backwoods birth, a sealed library chant, and something on the hillside.

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The Electric Executioner

Written 1929? · First pub. 1930

Revision for de Castro; date of composition uncertain.

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Medusa's Coil

Written 1930 · First pub. 1939

A lurid revision tale of hair, race, and the Congo.

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The Trap

Written 1931 · First pub. 1932

Mirror peril with Henry S. Whitehead.

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The Dreams in the Witch House

Written 1932 · First pub. 1933

Non-Euclidean angles in Arkham and Keziah Mason’s hare.

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The Man of Stone

Written 1932 · First pub. 1932

Heald collaboration: jealousy frozen in wax.

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The Horror in the Museum

Written 1932 · First pub. 1933

Waxworks and Rhan-Tegoth behind locked doors.

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Through the Gates of the Silver Key

Written 1932/1933 · First pub. 1934

Randolph Carter’s fate negotiated with Yog-Sothoth and co-authored with Price.

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Winged Death

Written 1933 · First pub. 1934

African poison and occult murder for Heald.

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Out of the Aeons

Written 1933 · First pub. 1935

Ghatanothoa in a Pacific museum for Heald.

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The Thing on the Doorstep

Written 1933 · First pub. 1937

Body theft, Innsmouth heritage, and a grave deliverance.

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The Evil Clergyman

Written 1933 · First pub. 1939

A luminous fragment of astral exchange in an attic.

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The Horror in the Burying-Ground

Written 1933/1935 · First pub. 1937

Rural necromancy revised for Heald.

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The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast

Written 1933 · First pub. 1994

Barlow collaboration; late publication of juvenile-style fantasy.

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The Slaying of the Monster

Written 1933 · First pub. 1994

Satirical adventure with young Barlow.

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The Tree on the Hill

Written 1934 · First pub. 1940

Australian landscape and a photographic curse with Rimel.

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Till A' the Seas

Written 1935 · First pub. 1935

Earth’s last man beneath a dying sun, revised with Barlow.

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Collapsing Cosmoses

Written 1935 · First pub. 1938

Playful cosmic satire with Barlow.

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The Challenge from Beyond

Written 1935 · First pub. 1935

Round-robin pulp experiment with Moore, Merritt, Howard, and Long.

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The Disinterment

Written 1935 · First pub. 1937

Premature burial and surgical horror for Rimel.

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The Diary of Alonzo Typer

Written 1935 · First pub. 1938

The von Junzt connection and a house that drinks light.

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The Haunter of the Dark

Written 1935 · First pub. 1936

The Shining Trapezohedron and a writer’s last night in Providence.

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In the Walls of Eryx

Written 1936 · First pub. 1939

Venusian maze science fiction with Kenneth Sterling.

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The Night Ocean

Written 1936 · First pub. 1936

Painter and poet witness impossible surf with Barlow.