H. P. Lovecraft 36 min read

'It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend', so begins the narrator's desperate account of Edward Derby, his strange wife Asenath, and the horror on the doorstep.

H. P. Lovecraft's 1937 story is a chilling Cthulhu-Mythos horror tale. Dread-soaked, gripping, superbly told. Read it for a masterful Lovecraft nightmare of body-swapping, black sorcery, and a soul that will not stay dead, building through mounting dread to one of his most shocking and unforgettable final images.

In its time

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

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Virgil Finlay