The Lovecraft Vault

THE ELECTRIC EXECUTIONER is a short story by Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro, first published in the August 1930 edition of Weird Tales. "An investigator for a mining colony finds himself at the mercy of a deranged inventor's bizarre killing machine."

THE QUEST OF IRANON, a Dream Cycle story first published in the July/August edition of Galleon in 1935, tells of a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the great city of Aira, where he was prince.

THE WARDER OF KNOWLEDGE is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Richard F. Searight, unpublished during his lifetime. Lovecraft read the story, saying of it: "I like the story exceedingly." It was first published in the 1992 mythos collection, TALES OF THE LOVECRAFT MYTHOS. In pursuit of omniscience, Professor Gordon Whitney dares to summon the ageless Warder of Knowledge, and finds that some secrets are guarded by horrors beyond human imagining.

THE DIARY OF ALONZO TYPER tells of an occult researcher, who, following a journey to an abandoned, isolated house in upstate New York, disappears without a trace. The story was first published in the February 1938 edition of Weird Tales.

THE HORROR AT RED HOOK was first published in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. In the story, a detective recounts how a federal investigation into a mysterious recluse left him with a phobia of large buildings.