
Classic·Cosmic Horror
The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers
A forbidden play promises exquisite beauty in its first act and total madness in its second. Dare to look upon Carcosa.

“A scholar's hidden legacy unlocks an ancient, maddening truth waiting in the dark abysses of the earth.”
Following the sudden death of his grand-uncle, a distinguished professor of languages at Brown University, Francis Wayland Thurston inherits a chilling archive of research. Piecing together notes on grotesque bas-reliefs, police reports from cult raids, and accounts of inexplicable mass delirium, Thurston uncovers the terrifying footprint of a cosmic entity trapped beneath the ocean. This gripping investigative narrative explores human vulnerability and the fragility of sanity when confronted with realities far older and vaster than civilization itself.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
“The youth’s febrile mind, apparently, was dwelling on strange things; and the doctor shuddered now and then as he spoke of them.”
“This person was the late William Channing Webb, professor of anthropology in Princeton University, and an explorer of no slight note.”
“They had, indeed, come themselves from the stars, and brought Their images with Them.”
“What it suggested, however, was of portentous significance to my flagging quest; and I carefully tore it out for immediate action.”
“Of the swarthy cult-fiends on the Alert he speaks with significant horror.”

Classic·Cosmic Horror
Robert W. Chambers
A forbidden play promises exquisite beauty in its first act and total madness in its second. Dare to look upon Carcosa.

Short Story·Horror
Arthur Pendelton
The colonial walls were not built to keep pirates out, but to keep something from rising out of the sea.

Classic·Children's literature
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A sour, orphaned girl discovers a locked sanctuary in the Yorkshire moors, where bruised hearts find miraculous new life.
Public-domain work (1928). Text: Project Gutenberg #68283. The Spanish version is an AI-assisted translation and may contain errors. Digital edition by Inkora Stories. Learn more