H. P. Lovecraft 12 min read

A man explains his terror of cold drafts by recounting the most horrible thing he ever encountered, in a shabby rooming-house, in the glare of afternoon.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1926 story insists that horror need not hide in darkness, delivering its dread in broad daylight around a reclusive doctor obsessed with keeping his rooms unnaturally cold. A tight, effective classic of the macabre. Read it for compact, chilling Lovecraft with one of his most memorable revelations.

In its time

Published in 1939, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

12 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).

Illustrated by

Harry Ferman