JOIN THE CULT. WEAR THE MYTH.
Unspeakable Tales
Cart0
Library of Lovecraft Mythos in Miskatonic University

Miskatonic Arcihves

H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Explore the encyclopedia

An encyclopedia of strange fiction, its creators, places and mythos. Follow the sources; draw your own conclusions.

Tagged: Technology

An imagined chamber of old volumes and forbidden learning, lit in amber.
Literature

The Electric Executioner

The Electric Executioner follows an investigator who encounters a would-be killer during a delayed railway journey through Mexico. The man’s electrical invention, grandiose ambitions and occult claims force the narrator into a prolonged struggle to gain time. An apparent escape becomes a deeper mystery when the same death is reported at a distant mountain cave, accompanied by objects that may connect the two locations.

7 min read · 1,373 words

An imagined chamber of old volumes and forbidden learning, lit in amber.
Literature

The Statement of Randolph Carter

The Statement of Randolph Carter is an account given to investigators after Harley Warren disappears during an expedition into an ancient cemetery. Carter remains above ground, connected to his friend by a portable telephone, while Warren descends into a vault. The story makes the unseen danger increasingly vivid through the collapse of the voice coming up the wire.

6 min read · 1,063 words

Wilmarth discovers the empty chair and abandoned components of Akeley’s disguise.
Literature

The Whisperer in Darkness

A folklorist’s correspondence with an isolated Vermont resident becomes an invitation to abandon the human body and travel among the stars. The Whisperer in Darkness builds its mystery through letters, photographs and recorded voices, then makes the apparent reliability of every medium part of the trap.

12 min read · 2,449 words