H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald 20 min read

When the state highway closes, travelers must take the old Stillwater road past Swamp Hollow, an unpopular route, for years, for reasons tied to a horror in the burying-ground.

Hazel Heald and H. P. Lovecraft's 1937 story is a chilling New England weird tale. Eerie, atmospheric, well-told. Read it for a Lovecraft-revised horror steeped in rural Yankee dread, a backwoods village, a sinister undertaker, and a grim secret in the graveyard, told with the creeping menace of the classic Weird Tales tradition.

In its time

Published in 1937, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Margaret Brundage