A REMINISCENCE OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON is a satirical short story, written in the style of an exaggerated 18th-century memoir. The narrator, an absurdly aged gentleman named James Boswell (a clear parody of the real-life biographer of Dr. Johnson), claims to have been born in 1690 and reminisces about his interactions with the great lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

THE SPACE-EATERS is a short story by American writer, Frank Belknap Long. It first appeared in the July 1928 edition of Weird Tales. The story explores the concept of the 'ultimate horror', as viewed from the perspective of a short story writer, and his closest friend.

THE NOVEL OF THE BLACK SEAL is a work of horror by Arthur Machen—a key story in his 1895 novel, "The Three Impostors". The story follows Professor Gregg, an antiquarian whose studies uncover disturbing evidence of a lost and terrible people, whose relics and language persist in the remote corners of Britain.

MEMORY was written in 1919 and first published in The United Co-operative, June 1919. This ultra-short story takes place in a ruined, ancient world where a spirit and a demon discuss the fate of humanity.

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP was written in 1919 and first published in Pine Cones in October of that same year. The story is narrated by an unnamed researcher at a mental hospital who becomes fascinated by a violent, backwoods patient named Joe Slater. Slater, a degenerate from the Catskill Mountains, suffers from strange, vivid dreams in which he experiences celestial visions and claims to transform into a luminous, cosmic being.

THE BLACK STONE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by American author, Robert E. Howard, first published in the November 1931 edition of Weird Tales Magazine. Notably, it marks the first appearance of the fictional work, the Unaussprechlichen Kulten, by Friedrich von Junzt. The story tells of an occult researcher's pursuit of a curious, sinister monolith in the mountains of Hungary.

THE TALE OF SATAMPRA ZEIROS is a Cthulhu Mythos short story by American author, Clark Ashton Smith, which first appeared in Weird Tales Magazine in November 1931. The story tells of a thief and his companion in search of treasure in the former capital of Hyperborea.

THE BEAST IN THE CAVE was written in 1904 when Lovecraft was just a teenager and was first published in The Vagrant in June 1918. The story follows an unnamed protagonist who becomes lost while exploring Mammoth Cave, a vast underground labyrinth.