Frank Belknap Long 22 min read

Experimenting with a drug to see through time, the occultist Chalmers glimpses the primal past, and draws the attention of the Hounds of Tindalos, lean things that lurk in the angles of time.

Frank Belknap Long's 1929 story is a landmark of cosmic horror. Eerie, original, immensely influential. Read it for a foundational Mythos classic that gave weird fiction one of its most memorable terrors, the angle-dwelling Hounds, blending Einsteinian time, forbidden drugs, and pursuing horror, in a story that helped shape modern cosmic dread.

In its time

Published in 1929, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

C. C. Senf