Books like The Willows
Two friends canoeing down the Danube make camp on a sandy island among endless willows, and the landscape begins to feel like the border of somewhere else entirely.
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The Great God Pan
A doctor performs brain surgery on a young woman so that she can see the god Pan, and years later a string of suicides among London gentlemen leads back to a beautiful woman no one can quite place.
The Fisherman
Abe, who took up fishing after his wife died, agrees to take Dan, a newly widowed coworker, to Dutchman's Creek in the Catskills, and at a diner on the way the cook tells them the story of the creek.
At the Mountains of Madness
A geologist from Miskatonic University explains why he opposes a new expedition to Antarctica by telling what his own team found there: the frozen remains of ancient creatures and, beyond a range of impossibly high mountains, a vast dead city.
The Hollow Places
Newly divorced, Kara moves in with her uncle above his Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy in a small North Carolina town, and finds a hole in the wall that opens onto somewhere else.
Carmilla
Laura lives with her father in a lonely castle in Styria until a carriage accident leaves a beautiful girl in their care, and the guest's languid affection arrives with a sickness that spreads through the countryside.
A Short Stay in Hell
Soren Johansson, a Mormon who dies of cancer, learns that the true religion was Zoroastrianism and is sent to a Hell that is a nearly endless library of every possible book, which he may leave only by finding the one that tells his life.
The King in Yellow
Stories of artists, lovers and madmen in New York and Paris, the first of them linked by The King in Yellow, a play said to drive anyone who reads its second act insane.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
Eight ghost stories by the Cambridge medievalist, in which scholars, collectors and clergymen poke into old manuscripts, mezzotints and whistles found in the sand, and wake things that should have stayed asleep.
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
Stories of cosmic dread in which scholars, sailors and unlucky New Englanders find traces of beings far older than humanity, led by the title tale, in which a dead professor's papers describe a cult devoted to a creature sleeping beneath the Pacific.
Handling the Undead
In a Stockholm heatwave, a strange electrical field wakes the city's recently dead, and their families have to decide what to do with them.
Revival
Jamie Morton is six in 1962 when Charles Jacobs, a young minister fascinated by electricity, arrives in his Maine town, and their paths keep crossing over the next fifty years.
The Ballad of Black Tom
In 1924 Harlem, Charles Thomas Tester hustles to support his father, and when he delivers an occult book to a reclusive sorceress in Queens, he draws the attention of a rich eccentric and of the police, and of something sleeping beneath the sea.