H. P. Lovecraft & Zealia B. Bishop 54 min read

Lost on a lonely Missouri back-road at dusk, a traveler seeks shelter at a decaying plantation house, and hears a tale of terrible beauty, dark sorcery, and a woman's serpentine hair.

Zealia Bishop and H. P. Lovecraft's 1939 story is an atmospheric Southern-gothic horror of ancient evil and a fatal enchantress. Vivid, dread-soaked, sinister. Read it for a lush, disturbing tale of doom on a ruined estate, laced with Lovecraft's cosmic horror.

In its time

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

Reading it

54 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).