The Festival

The main character (who is nameless) visits Kingsport, New England, to celebrate Yuletide. They feel their forefathers and ancestors have been somehow calling them to come. But when they arrive, they find it isn’t what they expected it to be. An enjoyable and strange short read with an eerie and sini......more

This early Cthulhu mythos story, first published in Weird Tales in 1925, is central to Lovecraft’s development, powerfully atmospheric in its earlier passages, but finally unsuccessful for a typically Lovecraftian reason: not content with the haunted mood he first evokes, he rachets up the rhetoric,......more

"It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival wa......more

A lonely wanderer enters the town of Kingsport to celebrate with his family Yuletide (a festivity similar to Christmas but much older). He arrives at a very old house, enters and from then on the horrors begin. He finds the Necronomicon, has a close look at a mysterious church and meets subterraneou......more

My second Lovecraft. Another lonely traveller (I get the feeling, after only two stories so far, that this will become a recurring theme) travels to his ancient homeland for Christmas, but it's not your usual family tiffs and drunken uncles you need to worry about... Hmm. This was greatly intriguing.......more