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  Unnamable The (The Work of H P...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Unnamable" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in September 1923, first published in the July 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and first collected in Beyond the Wall of Sleep. The corrected text appears in Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, (revised ed, 1986). The story's locale was inspired by the Charter Street Historic District Burying Ground in Salem.

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  The Squaw

  Bram Stoker

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  "The Squaw" is a short horror story by the Irish author Bram Stoker. It first appeared in print on December 2, 1893 in the British magazine Holly Leaves the Christmas Number of the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. It was republished in 1914 as part of the anthology Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories.
  The story describes in gory detail how an American tourist in the German city of Nuremberg accidentally kills a kitten. It goes on to describe, in equally gory detail, how the kitten's mother gets revenge on the American.

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  Untouchable (Unabridged)

  Rosalie Parker

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  Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing.
  UNTOUCHABLE: On a fine day, the dale could hold its own. White clouds scudded across a pale blue sky, casting shape-shifting shadows over the land, and just before dusk a translucent light bathed the fells in a fairy glow.

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  The Hyperborean Cycle

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  The Hyperborean Cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea. The stories were first published between 1931 and 1958, by magazines such as Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror, and Weird Tales. 
  Consisting of 10 stories: 
  The Tale of Satampra Zeiros 
  "The story of a thief and his companion in search of treasure in the former capital of Hyperborea." 
  The Door to Saturn 
  "Beyond sea and sky the wizard Eibon pursues his outlandish wanderings." 
  The Weird of Avoosl Wuthoqquan 
  "A fantastic tale of two magnificent emeralds and how they returned to the vampiric entity that owned them." 
  The Testament of Athammaus 
  "The state executioner's story of an incredible monstrosity that struck terror to an entire city." 
  The Ice-Demon 
  "The story of a hunter who seeks to plunder jewels from a glacial tomb." 
  Ubbo-Sathla 
  "The tale of a man, who, in a state of trance, ventures back to the very beginning of time, where he encounters the primal one, Ubbo-Sathla." 
  The White Sybil 
  "He knew that he had seen the White Sybil, that mysterious being who was rumored to come and go as if by some preterhuman agency in the cities of Hyperborea." 
  The Seven Geases 
  "The story of a huntsman's adventures in the strange caverns of the Tsathoggua worshippers, the Voormis." 
  The Coming of the White Worm 
  "The tale concerns the victim of a monstrous entity’s scourge, and his quest to unravel the secret of the beast." 
  The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles 
  "The thief Satampra Zeiros hunts for sacred treasure."

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  The Dark Lord And Master

  Rachel Lawson

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  Ever since Blake revealed his identity as Death, he has felt utterly disregarded. People just see Death, not the man he is. This is a day in his life.

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  The Descendant

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Descendant" is a story fragment by H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. The story begins with a narrator explaining that he is on his deathbed and feels the need to share a particular story before he dies. He tells of a quiet and slightly mad older man who lives in the Gray's Inn with his pet cat. The man is haggard and haunted, looking older than his years and terrified of church bells. A young man named Williams (the narrator) moves into the Inn and tries to befriend the old man and get him to share his knowledge. It is revealed that the man is Lord Northam of England. Williams' attempts are largely rebuked until one day, Williams acquires a copy of the Necronomicon, the book of the dead that captures the minds of so many intrigued by the dark arts...

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