H. P. Lovecraft 12 min read

Called by his forefathers to an ancient New England town he has only dreamed of, a lone traveler arrives at Yuletide, for a secret festival older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than mankind.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1925 story is an atmospheric Cthulhu-Mythos horror tale. Eerie, dream-soaked, superbly told. Read it for a chilling festival of ancestral evil in the haunted town of Kingsport, where an old family rite conceals cosmic horror, in one of Lovecraft's most vivid evocations of dread beneath the surface of the everyday.

In its time

Published in 1925, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Andrew Brosnatch