The Archive — Register of Chronicles
Chronicles
This is the register of chronicles held by the Archive: the firsthand accounts on file, arranged by the decade in which each was written. 50 are on record.
Each entry opens its own record, showing the dossiers it names, the localities it places, any screen record that touches it, and the printed editions in which it can be found.
1910s
- DagonWritten 1917
A torpedoed sailor escapes his captors in an open boat and wakes stranded on a reeking expanse of seafloor heaved up overnight by some volcanic…
- The TombWritten 1917
A wealthy, solitary young dreamer grows fixated as a boy on his family's sealed ancestral tomb, and once he finally gets inside it, starts speaking…
- PolarisWritten 1918
A dreamer splits his waking attention between an ordinary modern home and a post he keeps watch from in an ancient arctic city under siege, uncertain…
- Beyond the Wall of SleepWritten 1919
A young asylum physician grows convinced that a backwoods patient's violent dreams are transmissions rather than delusions, and builds a wireless…
- The Doom That Came to SarnathWritten 1919
The men of Sarnath wipe out the older, stranger settlement of Ib on the shore of their lake and carry off its sea-green idol as a trophy, dismissing…
- The Statement of Randolph CarterWritten 1919
Randolph Carter gives police his account of the night his friend Harley Warren descended alone into an ancient tomb, staying in telephone contact…
- The White ShipWritten 1919
A lighthouse keeper boards a ghostly vessel that appears only under the full moon, and sails with its silent captain through a string of increasingly…
1920s
- CelephaïsWritten 1920
A dreamer who first visited a radiant valley city as a boy spends the rest of his life trying to dream his way back to it, eventually losing the…
- Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His FamilyWritten 1920
A distinguished but physically unfortunate scholar researches his family's Congo expedition history to understand an ancestor's ruined reputation…
- From BeyondWritten 1920
A reclusive scientist invites his only remaining friend to witness the results of a machine he claims will stimulate an unused sense organ and reveal…
- NyarlathotepWritten 1920
A stranger calling himself Nyarlathotep arrives from Egypt claiming twenty-seven centuries of memory, and gives increasingly public demonstrations of…
- The Cats of UltharWritten 1920
An orphaned boy traveling with a caravan loses his only companion to a cruel elderly couple locally known for trapping and killing cats, and responds…
- The Picture in the HouseWritten 1920
A genealogist caught in a November storm takes shelter in an isolated Miskatonic Valley farmhouse, where the elderly owner's fixation on a…
- The TempleWritten 1920
A U-boat commander's official log records his crew's slow unraveling after they recover a small ivory carving from a torpedoed ship, and the disabled…
- The Terrible Old ManWritten 1920
Three small-time crooks target a strange, ancient hermit rumored to keep his fortune in gold and silver coin inside his decaying house, dismissing…
- The TreeWritten 1920
Two celebrated Arcadian sculptors, inseparable despite opposite temperaments, are commissioned to compete for the same statue of Tyché. One falls…
- Herbert West—ReanimatorWritten 1921
A brilliant, morally unbothered medical student spends years perfecting a reagent that can restart a corpse — provided the body is fresh enough and…
- The Moon-BogWritten 1921
An American returns to reclaim his family's ancestral castle in rural Ireland and announces plans to drain the bog beside it, over the loud…
- The Music of Erich ZannWritten 1921
A student renting a cheap garret room becomes fascinated by his mute upstairs neighbor, a viol player whose late-night music grows steadily wilder…
- The Nameless CityWritten 1921
An explorer alone in the Arabian desert finds a city older than any human civilization, its low corridors and reptile-scaled murals built to a scale…
- The Other GodsWritten 1921
An aging Ulthar scholar convinced that his own learning has earned him the right to look upon earth's gods leads his young disciple up Hatheg-Kla on…
- The OutsiderWritten 1921
Raised alone in a decaying, sunless castle with no memory of any other life, a nameless narrator finally climbs up and out in search of daylight and…
- The Quest of IranonWritten 1921
An ageless singer arrives at a joyless granite city insisting he's a lost prince searching for his true home, and finds one believer in a local boy…
- HypnosWritten 1922
A sculptor recounts a two-year friendship built entirely around chasing deeper and stranger dream-states with a companion who seemed to already know…
- The HoundWritten 1922
Two jaded dilettantes, having exhausted every fashionable vice, take up grave-robbing for the thrill of it — until a jade amulet lifted from a…
- The Lurking FearWritten 1922
An investigator researching a string of mass deaths on a Catskills mountain traces the killings to an abandoned mansion and the reclusive family line…
- The FestivalWritten 1923
A man returns to the ancestral Massachusetts town of his forefathers to take part in a Yuletide rite he's obligated to attend once a generation. The…
- The Rats in the WallsWritten 1923
An American heir restores his ancestral English priory despite its grim reputation, only to hear phantom rats scurrying inside the walls each night.…
- The UnnamableWritten 1923
A writer of weird fiction and his skeptical friend argue, seated in an old Arkham burying ground at dusk, over whether a truly indescribable horror…
- The Shunned HouseWritten 1924
A Providence man and his skeptical uncle set out to explain, once and for all, why every long-term tenant of a certain house on Benefit Street…
- HeWritten 1925
A disillusioned poet wandering Greenwich Village after dark accepts a strange, colonial-dressed stranger's offer of a shortcut through the city's…
- In the VaultWritten 1925
A careless small-town undertaker, sealed by accident inside the receiving tomb he's been using as makeshift overflow storage, escapes only by…
- The Horror at Red HookWritten 1925
A New York police detective investigating a wave of disappearances in a Brooklyn waterfront district follows the trail to a wealthy recluse's sudden…
- Cool AirWritten 1926
A boarder in a New York rooming house strikes up an odd friendship with the reclusive physician upstairs, whose apartment is kept unnervingly cold at…
- Pickman's ModelWritten 1926
A Boston painter recounts why he abruptly quit the art world after visiting a colleague's secret studio in the North End. The colleague's paintings…
- The Call of CthulhuWritten 1926
A man sorts through his late granduncle's papers and finds three threads pulling toward the same abyss: a sculptor's fever-dream carving, a swamp…
- The Silver KeyWritten 1926
A Boston aesthete who spent his boyhood dream-traveling to genuinely other places finds, at fifty and thoroughly disillusioned with waking life, an…
- The Strange High House in the MistWritten 1926
A visiting philosophy professor spends a Kingsport summer fixated on a cottage perched at the top of a sea-cliff no local will climb, and finally…
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathWritten 1926–27
Randolph Carter dreams the same golden sunset city three times running, then loses the ability to dream it again — and sets out through zoog-haunted…
- The Case of Charles Dexter WardWritten 1927
A Providence antiquarian's harmless-seeming genealogy obsession curdles into something else once he locates his eighteenth-century ancestor's…
- The Colour Out of SpaceWritten 1927
A meteorite lands on a New England farm and slowly poisons everything around it — crops, wells, animals, and eventually the family who lived there —…
- The Dunwich HorrorWritten 1928
In a decaying Massachusetts hill town, a family with a bad reputation raises a son who grows unnaturally fast and keeps something unseen locked in…
1930s
- The Whisperer in DarknessWritten 1930
After Vermont floods wash strange carcasses out of the hills, a folklorist begins corresponding with a reclusive farmer who claims to have recorded…
- At the Mountains of MadnessWritten 1931
An Antarctic expedition finds fossils of a species older than complex life on Earth, then finds the frozen city that species built. What they uncover…
- The Shadow over InnsmouthWritten 1931
A budget tour brings a young traveler to a shunned Massachusetts fishing town, where the older residents share an unsettling look and a strange gold…
- The Dreams in the Witch HouseWritten 1932
A mathematics student rents a garret room with a history — a 17th-century witch once used its oddly-angled walls to slip out of ordinary space…
- Through the Gates of the Silver KeyWritten 1932–33
Four years after Randolph Carter vanishes from the hills outside Arkham, a turbaned mystic arrives at his estate settlement claiming to speak for him…
- The Thing on the DoorstepWritten 1933
A man explains, in advance of his own arrest, why he shot his best friend's wife six times in the head — and why he's certain she'll still come…
- The Shadow Out of TimeWritten 1934
A professor loses five years to amnesia, and returns with fragmented dreams of a body that wasn't his and a library built for minds that weren't…
- The Haunter of the DarkWritten 1935
A young writer investigates an abandoned Providence church long shunned by locals, and finds a sealed steeple room containing a strange faceted stone…