"Ooze"
© 1923
by
Anthony M. Rud

In the heart of a second-growth piney-woods jungle of southern Alabama, a region sparsely settled by backwoods blacks and Cajans  - that queer, half-wild people descended from Acadian exiles of the middle eighteenth century (1) - stands a strange, enormous ruin ( Read more... )

“Vine Terror”

© 1934

by

Howard Wandrei

Roman Sholla stood perfectly still on his front sidewalk, bewildered. He blinked a few times, and opened and closed his mouth like a fish out of water. Then he thrust his still unlighted pipe into his pocket and ran.

There was reason enough for his fright. Sholla, proprietor of South's Cut-Rate ( Read more... )

“The Colour Out of Space”

© 1927

by

H. P. Lovecraft

West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight. On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and ( Read more... )

Synopsis: 
The narrator introduces the story by stating::Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr. Jennings, near ( Read more... )