Of the pleasures and pains of opium much has been written. The ecstasies and horrors of De Quincey ... Read more
Cosmic Horror Short Stories
Total Stories: 62
Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea ... Read more
Apropos of sleep, that sinister adventure of all our nights, we may say that men go to bed ... Read more
I When Professor Linyard came back from his holiday in the Maine woods the air of rejuvenation he ... Read more
Into the granite city of Teloth wandered the youth, vine-crowned, his yellow hair glistening with myrrh and his ... Read more
King Henry, the Handsome Scholar, had one son, named William, whom he dearly loved. The young man was ... Read more
There is in the land of Mnar a vast still lake that is fed by no stream, and ... Read more
On 16 July 1923, I moved into Exham Priory after the last workman had finished his labours. The ... Read more
I hate the moon – I am afraid of it – for when it shines on certain scenes ... Read more
There is nothing more absurd, as I view it, than that conventional association of the homely and the ... Read more