H. P. Lovecraft 28 min read

On a thunderous night the narrator climbs to a deserted mansion atop Tempest Mountain, hunting the lurking fear, the nightmare creeping death that touched off an eldritch panic a month before.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 story is an atmospheric horror tale. Eerie, dread-soaked, superbly told. Read it for classic early Lovecraft, a decaying Catskill mansion, a degenerate horror in the storm-wracked hills, and a mounting terror pursued to its monstrous source, in one of his most vivid and gruesome early weird tales.

In its time

Published in 1922, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Hugh Rankin