In a strangely tranquil America of 1920, a young man recovering from a riding accident falls under the spell of a forbidden play and a mysterious mender of reputations.

The last baronet of an old English house, descended from an eccentric explorer of the Congo, sets out to learn the truth behind his family's strange history and odd looks.

A lonely London writer, last of his family, escapes his dreary waking life through dreams of Celephaïs, a gleaming city by the sea that he once knew as a boy.

A dreamy, solitary youth becomes obsessed with a sealed hillside tomb in the woods near his home, and the forgotten family whose name is carved above its door.

A lonely being who has spent its whole life in a dark, ancient castle climbs its tallest tower toward the light, and finds a world that recoils from it.

In the village of Ulthar, where no one may kill a cat, a wandering caravan arrives just as a hateful old cottager couple is suspected of preying on the town’s cats.

Randolph Carter tells investigators of the night he and his friend Harley Warren, a student of forbidden lore, ventured into an ancient cemetery in a swampy hollow.

Sitting on an old tomb in an Arkham burying-ground at dusk, a writer of weird tales and his skeptical friend debate whether anything could truly be unnamable.

Randolph Carter journeys through the Dreamlands—past zoogs, ghouls, and night-gaunts—in search of a glorious sunset city and the gods’ castle atop unknown Kadath.

A professor who lost five years to a bizarre amnesia is plagued by vivid dreams of an alien city, until an expedition to the Australian desert tests his sanity.

An American restores his family’s ancestral English seat, Exham Priory, only to be troubled by scurrying sounds in the walls and the dark legends of his forebears.

A Providence youth’s obsession with his notorious colonial ancestor, the reputed wizard Joseph Curwen, draws his family doctor into a hunt for the truth behind his changes.

A morphine-haunted sailor recounts how, adrift in the Pacific during the Great War, he awoke stranded on a vast plain of black slime newly heaved up from the ocean floor.

A young antiquarian touring New England stops in the decaying seaport of Innsmouth, whose furtive, strange-looking townsfolk guard a secret tied to the reef offshore.

An explorer ventures alone into an accursed, sand-buried city in the Arabian desert and descends into low-ceilinged temples carved by a race far older than humankind.