Cosmic horror books drop you into a universe that doesn't care if you exist. Here you'll find H. P. Lovecraft, the Cthulhu Mythos, and the weird fiction writers who came before him.
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Long before Cthulhu, writers like Arthur Machen and Algernon Blackwood wrote about forces no human can understand. These classic cosmic horror books aren't by Lovecraft, but he read them all, from The Willows to The King in Yellow.
Ten linked tales built around a forbidden play that drives its readers mad, with Carcosa, Hastur and the Yellow Sign. The first four stories shaped cosmic horror and later inspired Lovecraft and True Detective.
Bierce's collection of supernatural tales, including An Inhabitant of Carcosa, the story that first named the lost city later borrowed by Chambers and Lovecraft. Short, sharp and unsettling.
A surgeon opens a young woman's mind to the god behind the veil of reality, and the price is paid years later in London. The novella Lovecraft praised as one of the finest in weird fiction.
A girl's secret green book records her initiation into an ancient, hidden world of rituals and strange presences. Often named the greatest weird tale ever written, it is pure suggestion and slowly building dread.
A London mystery told through interlocking stories, among them The Novel of the Black Seal and The Novel of the White Powder. Machen's tales of survivals from a pre-human past directly influenced Lovecraft.
Two friends canoeing down the Danube camp on an island of willows where the border with another world wears thin. Lovecraft called it the finest weird story ever written.
A moose hunt in the Canadian wilderness turns into a nightmare when one guide hears his name called from the wind. A classic of the vast, indifferent wild as a source of terror.
A scientist finds an ancient tablet promising the ultimate truth about humanity, and reading it destroys him. A short, bleak tale about knowledge that should stay hidden.
A recluse in a remote Irish house is besieged by swine-like creatures and then swept on a vision to the death of the solar system. A landmark of cosmic horror that Lovecraft admired deeply.
Millions of years from now the sun is dead, and the last humans hide in a giant pyramid surrounded by watching, monstrous powers. A vast, strange vision of the end of the world.
Dunsany's invented mythology of gods who dream worlds into being and could end them at any moment. Its indifferent pantheon was a key model for Lovecraft's own Azathoth and the Outer Gods.
An Arctic explorer returns to find a poisonous purple cloud has killed every other person on Earth. A haunting last-man novel about solitude, madness and a universe that does not care.
Twelve early tales by Clark Ashton Smith, Lovecraft's closest friend and creator of Tsathoggua, including The Abominations of Yondo and Sadastor. Lush, strange prose from a master of Weird Tales.
H. P. Lovecraft turned that dread into a whole mythology, with Old Ones, forbidden books, and cursed New England towns. These are the stories where his cosmic horror hits hardest, from the Antarctic ruins of At the Mountains of Madness to Cthulhu's sunken city.
Clues from a dead professor's notes lead to a worldwide cult and the sunken city of R'lyeh, where Cthulhu waits dreaming. The story that founded the Cthulhu Mythos.
An Antarctic expedition finds a dead alien city older than humanity and learns the true history of life on Earth. Lovecraft's most ambitious work of cosmic horror.
A meteorite falls on a New England farm and leaves behind a colour no human eye can name, slowly poisoning the land and the family. Lovecraft's own favorite among his stories.
In a decaying Massachusetts village, the Whateley family prepares the way for Yog-Sothoth, and something invisible grows in their farmhouse. Includes the Necronomicon and Miskatonic University.
A traveler stops in a crumbling seaport whose people bear a strange look and worship the Deep Ones beneath the reef. A tense escape story with one of Lovecraft's most famous twists.
After a flood, strange bodies are seen in the Vermont rivers, and a lonely farmer's letters reveal visitors from Yuggoth. A slow-burn tale of alien contact and paranoia.
A professor loses five years of his life and slowly realizes his mind was swapped with a being from the Great Race of Yith. Deep time at its most dizzying.
A castaway stranded on a newly risen sea floor sees a vast creature worship at an ancient monolith. A short early tale that already holds the seed of the Cthulhu Mythos.
A man restores his ancestral priory in England and hears rats scurrying inside the walls, leading him down into caverns of inherited horror. One of Lovecraft's most gripping stories.
Lovecraft shared his gods with his friends, and they wrote their own nightmares into his universe. Here are Cthulhu Mythos stories by Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, Robert Bloch, and Robert E. Howard, first printed in Weird Tales.
A writer uses an ancient drug to travel back through time and catches the attention of hunters that live in the angles of space. Lovecraft liked it so much he added the Hounds to his own Mythos.
A writer renting an old Salem house finds the hidden chamber of a witch who served Nyogtha, the Haunter of the Dark. A pulp Mythos tale from Weird Tales.
An artist on the California coast is haunted by dreams of a sunken city and a woman from the sea. Two members of the Lovecraft Circle write their own take on the Deep Ones.
A friend is called to the deathbed of an old man who made a pact with dark powers, and the funeral turns into a nightmare. Howard's tribute to Lovecraft's forbidden lore.
Cosmic horror reminds us that the universe is far bigger and stranger than we think. Pick one of these weird tales tonight and see how long the feeling lasts.
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