The War of the Worlds, written by H.G. Wells (1898) has always been a favorite alien invasion story and has seen so many adaptations over...

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (a.k.a. Invasion of the Flying Saucers and Flying Saucers from Outer Space) is a 1956 American science...

This horror short story was written between October 1921 and June 1922 and it was first serialized in February through July 1922 in the...

Written on August 1–2, 1925, Red Hook is a transitional tale, situated between the author's earlier work and the later Cthulhu Mythos....

Not only did Lovecraft write many descriptions of sunsets in his stories, he also wrote a poem, aptly named, Sunset. From his home in 66...

This short text was written by Lovecraft in 1927, and was published after his death in 1938. It is a brief pseudo-history describing the...

This horror novella was written in 1928, and it was first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It takes place in Dunwich,...

AMERICA'S STONEHENGE (MYSTERY HILL) DATE(S) VISITED: NOV 5, 2017 LOCATION: SALEM, NH MAP America's Stonehenge is a privately-owned...

Written in August 1933, and first published in the January 1937 issue of Weird Tales, The Thing on the Doorstep is a story which...

PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM DATE(S) VISITED: OCT 30, 2017 LOCATION: SALEM, MA MAP Best known as the lead guitarist of famed heavy metal band...

The Haunting is an introductory Call of Cthulhu scenario which has been included with the game since the beginning and it is said that it...

H. P. Lovecraft wrote this novella in February/March 1931 and was rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the...

Pickman's Model is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird...

Written on November 9, 1926, the story was originally rejected by Weird Tales when submitted in July 1927. In 1929, Lovecraft agreed to...

The Festival was written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales, and is considered to be one of the first...

Fungi from Yuggoth is a sequence of 36 sonnets written by Lovecraft. Most of the sonnets were written between 27 December 1929 – 4...

During his lifetime, Lovecraft kept a listing of story ideas, concepts, and other elements which he might at some point include in his...

Written in the summer of 1926, The Call of Cthulhu was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. It is the only...

RICHMOND FOUNTAIN DATE(S) VISITED: OCT 28, 2016 LOCATION: PROVIDENCE, RI MAP In front of the Athenaeum in Benefit Street, Providence, RI...

Lovecraft wrote this short story in November 16, 1920 and it was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10). The...