The Hound is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft published in the 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It is notable for containing the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional grimoire, the Necronomicon, and is considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The story follows an unnamed narrator and his friend St. John, who are obsessed with grave-robbing and have built a macabre museum in their basement filled with preserved bodies, skulls, mummies, and other grotesque artifacts. Their obsession leads them to a Holland churchyard to exhume the tomb of a legendary grave robber. They discover a jade amulet in the shape of a winged hound with a semi-canine face, which they recognize as described in the Necronomicon. After stealing it, they are pursued by a monstrous hound, leading to the death of St. John and the narrator’s descent into madness. The Mound is a horror and science fiction novella by H.P. Lovecraft, written in 1929– as a ghostwriter for Zealia Bishop, based on her brief premise: "There is an Indian mound near here, which is haunted by a headless ghost. Sometimes it is a woman." Lovecraft expanded this into a tale of a hidden underground civilization, K’n-yan, beneath a mound in Oklahoma. The story is narrated by an ethnologist who investigates local legends of a man pacing the mound by day and a headless woman by night. He discovers a cylinder containing a scroll written by Pánfilo de Zamacona y Nuñez, a 16th-century Spanish explorer who stumbled upon the subterranean realm. K’n-yan is ruled by an immortal, telepathic race that worships Cthulhu, Yig, Shub-Niggurath, and formerly Tsathoggua. They practice sadism, biological modification, and ritualistic torture, and live in a decaying, decadent society.
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Herbert West - Reanimator is a horror story by H. P. Lovecraft first serialized in the magazine Home Brew in 1922. The story introduces Herbert West, a brilliant but amoral and narcissistic medical student at the fictional Miskatonic University in Arkham, who becomes obsessed with the idea of reanimating the dead through a chemical reagent. West's theories, which view life as a purely mechanical process, lead him to conduct secret experiments on fresh human corpses, eventually resulting in the creation of violent, animalistic reanimated beings.
The narrative is told from the perspective of West's former friend and assistant, who recounts their time at medical school, their clandestine work in an abandoned farmhouse, and the increasingly horrific consequences of West's experiments. The story served as the basis for the 1985 horror film Re-Animator, directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West. Combs reprised the role in two sequels, Bride of Re-Animator (1990) and Beyond Re-Animator (2003), cementing the character as one of cinema's greatest mad scientists.  The Temple by H.P. Lovecraft and The Black Terror by Henry S. Whitehead | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com 
 A sinister reputation takes years to develop, especially for a house. | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com
 An ancestral home with a sinister history; what could go wrong? | Narrator and Producer MP Pellicer | www.MPPellicer.com
A tale of eldritch horror and the awakening of Cthulhu.
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a cosmic horror short story written by American author H. P. Lovecraft in the summer of 1926 and first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in February 1928. It is considered a foundational work of the Cthulhu Mythos, a shared fictional universe that Lovecraft and other writers expanded upon. The story is presented in a documentary style, from the notes of the deceased Francis Wayland Thurston, who recounts his investigation into the mysterious death of his grand-uncle, George Gammell Angell, a professor of Semitic languages at Brown University. Thurston discovers a peculiar clay bas-relief sculpture and accompanying notes that detail a cult worshipping an ancient, monstrous entity named Cthulhu, described as having a pulpy, tentacled head and a scaly, draconic body, evoking simultaneous images of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature. The bas-relief is linked to the delirious dreams of Henry Anthony Wilcox, a Rhode Island art student, who claims to have sculpted it based on visions of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths". 
The classic horror story of an unspeakable being birthed into our dimension in the Massachusetts hamlet of Dunwich.
The Dunwich Horror is a cosmic horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1928 and first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales. Set in the fictional village of Dunwich, Massachusetts, the story centers on Wilbur Whateley, the son of Lavinia Whateley, a deformed and unstable albino, and an unknown father who is later revealed to be the entity Yog-Sothoth. Wilbur exhibits extreme precocity, maturing to manhood within a decade, and is shunned by locals due to his grotesque appearance and an unnatural, inhuman odor. His grandfather, Old Whateley, a sorcerer, indoctrinates him into dark rituals and the study of witchcraft. 
The Challenge from Beyond is a collaborative horror short story written in 1935 by H. P. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, and Abraham Merritt. It was published in Fantasy Magazine in September 1935 and is considered part of the Cthulhu Mythos.
The story is about George Campbell, a university professor on vacation in the Canadian woods, who discovers a peculiar, ancient crystal cube after being awakened by a nocturnal disturbance. The cube, smooth and perfectly formed despite its evident age, contains a disc inscribed with mysterious, wedge-shaped characters reminiscent of cuneiform writing. As Campbell investigates, the cube begins to emit a faint luminescence and produce ethereal sounds, drawing him into a hypnotic trance. He is eventually transported across space and time, arriving in an incorporeal state on the alien planet Yekub, where he inhabits the body of a creature named Tothe.  Two eldritch stories of stealthy horror by authors H.P. Lovecraft and Oliver Onions. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 Three weird tales of unusual moments when persons cross paths with the unholy. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
Three horror stories about curses and retribution.
The Terrible Old Man is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft and first published in July 1921. It is notable as the first story to introduce Lovecraft's fictional New England setting, featuring the town of Kingsport. The story centers on a mysterious, ancient man described as "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name," who lives alone in an old house on Water Street near the sea. He is believed to have once been a captain of East India clipper ships and to have accumulated a vast fortune, though he is also reputed to be exceedingly feeble. The Blue Spectacles is a short story by August Derleth, first published in the July 1949 issue of Weird Tales. The story features Alan Verneul, a New Orleans divorce lawyer and womanizer, who acquires a pair of centuries-old blue Chinese glasses during Mardi Gras. When worn by an immoral person, these glasses grant visions of the wearer's earlier incarnation, serving as a supernatural punishment. No Ships Pass written by Lady Eleanor Smith is strange tale of a shipwrecked sailor who manages to swim to a remote tropical island. He discovers, to his surprise, that he is not the first sailor to alight there. There are already four castaways ashore...and mysteriously some of them have been there for a very long time. Up to 140 years, in fact. Before long he realizes that there is something very peculiar and sinister about the island. He determines to try to escape, whatever the odds. 
Two early stories by H. P. Lovecraft: Dagon and The Statement of Randolph Carter. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
 An eldritch story set in Lovecraft's haunted Vermont. | Narrator and Producer Marlene Pardo Pellicer
This is a strange tale of a soul which has no understanding of who or what it really is until one heartbreaking encounter with humanity.
The Outsider is a classic H.P. Lovecraft horror short story from 1926 about a lonely, isolated narrator who escapes his dark castle to find humanity, only to discover something horrific about himself. 
An unusual neighbor that insists on keeping his apartment cold as an ice-box, and when you touch his skin it's colder still, doubtless skulduggery is afoot.
The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him. His tale begins in the spring of 1923, when he was looking for housing in New York City. He finally settles in a converted brownstone on West Fourteenth Street. Investigating a chemical leak from the floor above, he discovers that the inhabitant directly overhead is a strange, old, and reclusive physician. One of the three stories that Lovecraft wrote during his exile to New York in 1926. 
Spooky neighbors, weird-acting birds in a remote setting, sounds like a horror story to me.
The story The Whippoorwills in the Hills by August Derleth is a horror short story first published in the September 1948 issue of Weird Tales. It is set in the Cthulhu Mythos and draws elements from several H. P. Lovecraft stories. The story follows Dan Harrop, who takes possession of a country house in the vicinity of Arkham and Aylesbury, which used to belong to his cousin, Abel Harrop, who disappeared a few weeks before. The story is set in a rural New England where people speak an archaic diction. 
Some knowledge is forbidden and with good reason, and for some the very fact it's forbidden is a lure that cannot be denied.
The Mask of Cthulhu is a collection of short stories by August Derleth, first published in 1958. It is part of the Cthulhu Mythos and expands on the themes and characters introduced by H.P. Lovecraft. 
"Something from Out There" is a short Cthulhu Mythos story by August Derleth. The story involves rural English doctor William Currie, who investigates a man named Malvern who is in a state of madness, clutching a star-shaped stone acquired at a ruined priory.
Passing of Eric Holm is a short story by August Derleth, published in the December 1939 issue of Strange Stories under the pseudonym "Will Garth". The story is part of the Cthulhu Mythos and involves an inquest to determine the circumstances of Eric Holm's death. Holm was last seen alive on April 3, 1939, returning home with a newly-bought book titled "Confessions of the Mad Monk Clithanus".
Ithaqua, also known as the Wind-Walker or the Wendigo, is an entity in the Cthulhu Mythos, and one of the Great Old Ones. He is believed to prowl the Arctic waste, hunting down unwary travelers and slaying them in a gruesome fashion. Ithaqua's cult is small, but he is greatly feared in the far north, where human denizens often leave sacrifices for the elemental; not as worship but as appeasement.
The story revolves around two friends investigating the strange behavior of Professor Josiah Alwyn, the grandfather of one of the two men, and it features a threshold that must not be crossed, leading to ominous consequences if breached.
Beyond the Threshold is a Cthulhu Mythos story written by August Derleth, first published in the September 1941 issue of Weird Tales. The story follows a Miskatonic librarian who is summoned by a cousin to a house in Wisconsin, where their grandfather has become obsessed with the papers of his uncle. The uncle had trafficked with the Great Old Ones and left a warning to "not pass beyond the threshold, for fear of dire consequences." The grandfather discovers a rocky opening leading into the depths of the earth and crosses that threshold, only to be taken away by a Great Old One. The story is set in a "lonely house deep in the forest places of northern Wisconsin". 
A hostile town peopled by what seems strains of inbreeding among the populace, all of them guarding a secret that has plagued them for many years. The story was made into a film in 1967.
The Shuttered Room is a short story written by August Derleth, presented as a "posthumous collaboration" with H. P. Lovecraft. The story tells of Abner Whateley, a member of the Dunwich Whateleys, who returns to his family's home in Massachusetts after his grandfather's death. He discovers a shuttered room where his Aunt Sarah was kept locked up following her visit with relatives in Innsmouth. The story is part of the Cthulhu Mythos and is considered one of Derleth's works based on Lovecraft's ideas. 
Secret ceremonies and dark rituals in the underbelly of New York, where creatures from another dimension have been summoned and thrive on human agony.
"The Horror at Red Hook" is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft, set in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The story follows Detective Thomas F. Malone, who investigates a series of mysterious events linked to Robert Suydam, a reclusive scholar with ties to a sinister cult. Published in 1925, the story explores themes of cosmic horror, religious horror, and the occult, with elements inspired by the Kabbalah and Greek mythology. 
The Beast in the Cave is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft, written when he was 14 years old and first published in 1918 in the amateur press journal The Vagrant. The story is set in Mammoth Cave in Kentucky and follows a man who becomes lost after separating from his guide. As his torchlight fades, he hears strange, non-human footsteps approaching and, in a moment of panic, throws a rock at the source of the sound, hitting and injuring an unknown creature.
Kept in the dark, fed fear and waiting to be released, an unwary stranger stumbles upon a being and opens the door to allow it entry into this dimension, recognizing only too late the evil he has unleashed. | Narrated by Marlene Pardo Pellicer
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