Arcane Tales

THE MOONLIT ROAD
by Ambrose Bierce
1: Statement of Joel Hetman, Jr.
I AM the most unfortunate of men. Rich, respected, fairly well educated and of sound health–with many other advantages usually valued by those having them and coveted by those who have them not–I sometimes think that I should be less unhappy if they had been denied [...]

The House of the Past
by Algernon Blackwood

One night a Dream came to me and brought with her an old and rusty key. She led me across fields and sweet smelling lanes, where the hedges were already whispering to one another in the dark of the spring, till we came to a huge, gaunt house with [...]

Ex Oblivione
by H.P. Lovecraft

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water that torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victims body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep.  In my dreams I found a little of [...]

Nyarlathotep
by H.P. Lovecraft

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Nyarlathotep… the crawling chaos… I am the last… I will tell the audient void…
I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible. To a season of political and social upheaval was added a strange and brooding apprehension of hideous physical [...]