I. The Flight of the Necromancer The thrice-infamous nathaire, alchemist, astrologer and necromancer, with his ten devil-given pupi...

Swelling and towering swiftly, like a genie loosed from one of Solomon's bottles, the cloud rose on the planet's rim. A rusty a...

Man's conquest of the interplanetary gulfs has been fraught with many tragedies. Vessel after vessel, like venturous motes, disappe...

Preface As an interne in the terrestrial hospital at Ignarh, I had charge of the singular case of Rodney Severn, the one surviving m...

For Ubbo-Sathla is the source and the end. Before the coming of Zhothaqquah or Yok-Zothoth or Kthulhut from the stars, Ubbo-Sathla dwel...

Let the grape yield for us its purple flame, And rosy love put off its maidenhood: By blackening moons, in lands without a name, ...

"Yes, I found the place," said Falmer. "It's a queer sort of place, pretty much as the legends describe it." H...

Raoul, Comte de la Frenaie, was by nature the most unsuspicious of husbands. His lack of suspicion, perhaps, was partly lack of imagina...

Quanga the huntsman, with Hoom Feethos and Eibur Tsanth, two of the most enterprising jewelers of Iqqua, had crossed the borders of a ...

…The olden wizards knew him, and named him Quachil Uttaus. Seldom is he revealed: for he dwelleth beyond the outermost circle, in the d...

Among the many gargoyles that frowned or leered from the roof of the new-built cathedral of Vyones, two were pre-eminent above the rest...

The old Larcom house was a mansion of considerable size and dignity, set among oaks and cypresses on the hill behind Auburn's China...

The instructions of Famorgh, fifty-ninth king of Tasuun, were minutely circumstantial and explicit, and, moreover, were not to be diso...

"Mordiggian is the god of Zul-Bha-Sair," said the innkeeper with unctuous solemnity. "He has been the god from years tha...

I "Give, give, O magnanimous and liberal lord of the poor," cried the beggar. Avoosl Wuthoqquan, the richest and most av...

Gerard de l'Automne was meditating the rimes of a new ballade in honor of Fleurette, as he followed the leaf-arrased pathway toward...

The following narrative was found among the papers of Christophe Morand, a young law-student of Tours, after his unaccountable disappe...

Many and multiform are the dim horrors of Earth, infesting her ways from the prime. They sleep beneath the unturned stone; they rise...

Evening had come from the desert into Faraad, bringing the last stragglers of caravans. In a wine-shop near the northern gate, many ...

The sand of the desert of Yondo is not as the sand of other deserts; for Yondo lies nearest of all to the world's rim; and strange ...