IntroductionH.P. Lovecraft’s "The White Ship" (1919) stands as a poignant narrative within his Dream Cycle, reflecting both his fascination with cosmic wonder and his literary homage to the traditions of Lord Dunsany. Unlike his more overtly horrific tales such as "The Call of Cthulhu" or "The Shadow over Innsmouth," this story operates within a dreamlike …
Category: Writings
The Festival
By H.P. Lovecraft “Efficiunt Daemones, ut quae non sunt, sic tamenquasi sint, conspicienda hominibus exhibeant.”—Lactantius. I was far from home, and the spell of the eastern sea was upon me. In the twilight I heard it pounding on the rocks, and I knew it lay just over the hill where the twisting willows writhed against …
Dagon
By H. P. Lovecraft I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid …
WITHIN THE TEMPLE OF ISIS
BY Belle M. Wagner. Denver, Colorado:ASTRO-PHILOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING CO.,1899. Copyright, 1899, By Henry Wagner, M.D. DEDICATION. TO MY HUSBAND, Henry Wagner, M.D., IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HIS TRUE WORTH AS A WARRIORIN THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, AND HIS DEVOTION TO THEBROTHERHOOD AND SISTERHOOD OF MAN, AND THEFATHERHOOD AND MOTHERHOOD OF GOD, IDEDICATE THIS BOOK. BY THE AUTHORESS. …
Turba Philosophorum (part 2)
The Twenty-Sixth Dictum. Zenon saith:- I perceive that you, O crowd of the Wise, have conjoined two bodies, which your Master by no means ordered you to do! The Turba answereth:- Inform us according to your own opinion, O Zenon, in this matter, and beware of envy! Then he:- Know that the colours which shall …
Turba Philosophorum (part 1)
The Epistle of Arisleus, prefixed to the Words of the Sages, concerning the Purport of this Book, for the Benefit of Posterity, and the same being as here follows:- Arisleus, begotten of Pythagoras, a disciple of the disciples by the grace of thrice great Hermes, learning from the seat of knowledge, unto all who come …
The Dunwich Horror
By H. P. Lovecraft “Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras—dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies—may reproduce themselves in the brain of superstition—but they were there before. They are transcripts, types—the archetypes are in us, and eternal. How else should the recital of that which we know in a waking sense to be false come to …
The Fane of Yog-Sothoth 