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The Cats Of Ulthar by H. P. Lovecraft "The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar. As the narrative...

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United. About The Author :- Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible...

"Polaris" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is noteworthy as the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomes. About The...

The Descendant by H. P. Lovecraft "The Descendant" is a story fragment by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927. Lovecraft may have been referring to this attempt at a story when he wrote that he was "making a very careful...

The Terrible Old Man by H. P. Lovecraft "The Terrible Old Man" is a very short story (less than 1200 words) by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It's notable as the first story to make use...

The Evil Clergyman by H. P. Lovecraft "The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. The story begins in the attic of an ancient house. The narrator’s companion refers to the former owner of the house and the presumably...

"Nyarlathotep" is a name used for various characters in the works of H. P. Lovecraft and other writers. The character is commonly known in association with its role as a malign deity in the Cthulhu Mythos fictional universe, where it is known as the Crawling Chaos. About The Author...

"Memory" is a flash fiction short story by American horror and science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919. About The Author :- Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the inverse...

What The Moon Brings by H. P. Lovecraft "What the Moon Brings" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on June 5, 1922. This story was first published in the National Amateur in May 1923. It is shorter than most of Lovecraft's other short stories,...

The Tree by H. P. Lovecraft "The Tree" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1920. "The Tree" is told in past tense, in third person objective. The location of the story is Mount Maenalus, in Arcadia, Greece, a mountain which...

The Welsh Fairy Book by W. Jenkyn Thomas A collection of Welsh legends and folktales for young readers. "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural...

The Golden Verses of Pythagoras by Florence M. Firth Pythagoras of Samos (born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC) was an Ionian Greek mathematician and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist;...

The Observations Of Henry by Jerome K. Jerome A popular turn-of-the-century humorist, Jerome K. Jerome is perhaps better known for his plays than his novels and short stories. The main character of the The Observations of Henry is a waiter who meets a variety of odd people in the coffee shop...

The Laws of Manu George Bühler, translator The Sanskrit text of this work was first translated into English in 1794, and translations into other European languages swiftly followed. No understanding of modern India is possible without it. Wendy Doniger provides a landmark translation, the...