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Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

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Books & artifacts

Gilman’s Alien Metal Figure

The alien metal figure in The Dreams in the Witch House is the ornament Walter Gilman breaks from a balustrade during an apparent journey to a city under three suns. Its later appearance in his bed, examination by others and preservation in Miskatonic’s museum make it unusually durable evidence of his experiences.

4 min read · 637 words

An elliptical marine tiara displays the metalwork of Innsmouth’s hidden civilization.
Books & artifacts

Innsmouth jewelry

The strange metalwork associated with Innsmouth connects an underwater civilization with trade, museum collecting, religious ceremony and the Marsh family’s concealed history.

4 min read · 743 words

An ornate antique mirror on a rosewood console reveals an impossible succession of dim rooms, with whorls converging near one corner.
Books & artifacts

Loki’s Glass and the Copenhagen Mirror

In The Trap, a small ancient object called Loki’s Glass is fused into an ornate mirror by the Copenhagen magician Axel Holm. The resulting apparatus admits living people to a spatial prison that suspends aging but prevents ordinary escape. The ancient component, the large decorative mirror and the inner world have different functions and should not be treated as three interchangeable names for one simple doorway.

6 min read · 1,061 words

A dark many-faceted viewing stone rests in its open metal box.
Books & artifacts

Shining Trapezohedron

The Shining Trapezohedron is the dark, red-striated polyhedral object through which Robert Blake encounters remote worlds and awakens the Haunter of the Dark. Its unusual container, visionary effects and recorded passage through nonhuman and human civilizations make it one of the most extensively contextualized artifacts in Lovecraft’s fiction.

6 min read · 1,161 words

The collectors uncover the jade amulet in a Dutch cemetery.
Literature

The Hound

The Hound follows two collectors whose pursuit of increasingly extreme aesthetic sensations leads them to rob a grave in Holland. The jade amulet they take becomes the focus of a pursuit that neither travel nor the destruction of their collection can end. The narrator’s attempt to return the object produces a final discovery that links the stolen relic, the grave’s occupant and the sound following him. This synopsis includes the ending.

6 min read · 1,052 words

Carter’s return to childhood begins on a familiar woodland path.
Literature

The Silver Key

The Silver Key follows Randolph Carter’s loss of access to the dream worlds of his youth and his attempt to recover them through memory, ancestry and an inherited key. Its return to childhood is both an emotional quest and an apparent disruption of time. The ending leaves ordinary investigators with abandoned objects while a sympathetic dreamer proposes a very different destination.

7 min read · 1,346 words

One dark bottle remains intact while pale vapor rises from a second shattered bottle in an imagined church belfry.
Literature

Two Black Bottles

Two Black Bottles follows a nephew investigating the death of a village minister and the sexton who controlled him. Its supernatural economy depends on souls separated from bodies and held in fragile vessels. The collaboration with Wilfred Blanch Talman combines a decaying church, a misleading confession and a revenant whose final purpose remains unfulfilled.

7 min read · 1,366 words