"The Nameless Offspring" by Clark Ashton Smith | A Cthulhu Mythos Story
THE NAMELESS OFFSPRING is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith. The tale, which first appeared in Strange Tales of Mystery in Terror back in June 1932, tells of a man's troubling stay at a remote property in the English countryside.
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"The Novel of the White Powder" by Arthur Machen
THE NOVEL OF THE WHITE POWDER is a work of horror by Arthur Machen—a key story in his 1895 novel, "The Three Impostors". In the story, a young man begins taking a prescribed medicine for a minor ailment, but his condition soon takes a strange and unsettling turn.
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"The Nameless City" by H. P. Lovecraft | A Cthulhu Mythos Story
THE NAMELESS CITY is one of Lovecraft’s earliest explorations of cosmic horror and pre-human civilizations, introducing themes that would become central to the Cthulhu Mythos—particularly the insignificance of humanity in the face of ancient, alien forces. It was first published in the November 1921 issue of The Wolverine.
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"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" by H. P. Lovecraft
A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON is a satirical short story, written in the style of an exaggerated 18th-century memoir. The narrator, an absurdly aged gentleman named James Boswell (a clear parody of the real-life biographer of Dr. Johnson), claims to have been born in 1690 and reminisces about his interactions with the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson.
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"The Space-Eaters" by Frank Belknap Long | A Cthulhu Mythos Story
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.