The Unnamable

Two spine-chilling stories by H.P. Lovecraft, master of cosmic horror.The UnnamableCarter, a weird fiction writer, meets with his close friend, Joel Manton, in a cemetery near an old, dilapidated house on Meadow Hill in the town of Arkham, Massachusetts. As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area. He contends that because such an entity cannot be perceived by the five senses, it becomes impossible to quantify and accurately describe, thus earning itself the term unnamable ..."The Unnamable" was first published in Weird Tales, July 1925.In the VaultGeorge Birch, undertaker for the New England town of Peck Valley, finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring. When Birch stacks the coffins to reach a transom window, his feet break through the lid of the top coffin, injuring his ankles and forcing him to crawl out of the vault ..."In the Vault" was rejected by Weird Tales for being too gruesome The story was therefore first published in The Tryout in November 1925.