E. Hoffmann Price & H. P. Lovecraft 50 min read

In a strange New Orleans room where a coffin-shaped clock ticks to no earthly time, four men gather to settle the estate of the vanished Randolph Carter, and learn his fate beyond the Silver Key.

H. P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffmann Price's 1934 story is a landmark of cosmic fantasy-horror. Sweeping, visionary, superbly told. Read it for the grand climax of Randolph Carter's saga, a mind-expanding journey through the ultimate gate to confront Yog-Sothoth and the vastness beyond space and time, in one of the most cosmically ambitious tales of the Mythos.

In its time

Published in 1934, during the 1930s, space opera soars.

Reading it

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