H. P. Lovecraft 32 min read

Investigating an abandoned church on Providence's Federal Hill, young writer Robert Blake finds a dark artifact, and rouses a monstrous entity that haunts the dark and hungers to reach him.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1936 story, dedicated to Robert Bloch, is a chilling Cthulhu-Mythos horror tale. Dread-soaked, atmospheric, superbly told. Read it for one of Lovecraft's last and finest tales, a Shining Trapezohedron, a lightless steeple, and a nameless haunter of the dark, a masterful late work of cosmic terror set in his beloved Providence.

In its time

Published in 1936, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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