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Characters

Delapore

Delapore is the unnamed American businessman who narrates The Rats in the Walls and resumes the ancestral spelling de la Poer after restoring Exham Priory. His attempt to recover and redeem a family past ends in an underground discovery, the death of his companion and a denial that frames the entire surviving account.

4 min read · 777 words

An enormous scaled marine creature with one eye, gills and a six-toed forefoot moves beneath a small fishing vessel in an imagined pre-capture scene.
Literature

The Horror at Martin’s Beach

The Horror at Martin’s Beach follows a seaside resort’s encounter with an unknown marine life form and the disappearance of a group attempting a rescue. A captured creature becomes a profitable exhibition before an unseen force offshore turns the rescuers’ rope into a means of entrapment. The collaboration with Sonia H. Greene keeps its central danger partly outside the witnesses’ field of vision.

6 min read · 1,095 words

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

The Horror in the Burying-Ground

The Horror in the Burying-Ground reconstructs a double funeral through the unsettling conversations of a declining village. An undertaker’s experimental fluid, an abusive brother and warnings from a repeatedly dismissed witness raise the possibility that two men were buried conscious. The lasting horror depends as much on what the community refuses to investigate as on what may have returned from its cemetery.

10 min read · 1,923 words

Zann plays his viol before a window opening onto a starless void.
Literature

The Music of Erich Zann

The Music of Erich Zann concerns an impoverished student who hears extraordinary playing from an old musician’s attic and discovers that the room’s window opens onto something beyond the expected city. Written in December 1921 and first published in March 1922, the tale makes music an apparent act of resistance while withholding the explanation its frightened performer tries to write.

6 min read · 1,249 words

Explorers approach an immense alien city among ice and dark peaks.
Literature

The Transition of Juan Romero

The Transition of Juan Romero describes an unexplained death after a mine opens an apparently bottomless cavity. A narrator remembers following Romero into the depths, although other witnesses place both men in their bunks throughout the night. The vanished opening, a missing ring and the narrator’s withheld final vision prevent a single, fully demonstrable explanation.

6 min read · 1,090 words