A university student is forced to take the only lodging he can afford, in an almost empty building in a strange part of the city. One of the few other tenants plays strange melodies never heard before.
An Irish-American reclaims an ancestral estate in Ireland and ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.
Sailors kill a 50 foot creature that bears strange anatomical irregularities and is revealed to be just a juvenile.
A cult uses an ancient artifact to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space.
In the attic of an ancient house a curious object causes the surroundings to take on strange new properties.
Randolph Carter dreams three times of a majestic sunset city, but each time he is abruptly snatched away before he can see it up close. When he prays to the gods of dream to reveal the whereabouts of the phantasmal city, they do not answer, and his dreams of the city stop altogether. Undaunted, Carter resolves to go to Kadath, where the gods live, to beseech them in person. However, no one has ever been to Kadath and none even knows how to get there.
More than 10,000 years ago a race of shepherd people colonized the banks of the river Ai in a land called Mnar. Craving more land, a group of these hardy people migrated to the shores of a lonely and vast lake at the heart of Mnar, founding the metropolis of Sarnath. But the settlers were not alone.
The story of a terrifying opium experience, in which the narrator is accidentally administered an overdose by a doctor during the «year of the plague».