Localities

The grave of a low, reputedly ghoulish figure buried five centuries earlier with a jade amulet the two narrators cannot resist taking. The amulet…

An unremarkable building distinguished by one tenant's elaborate, ammonia-cooled apartment and the very specific reason he can never let it warm up.…

A working farm turned listening post, its owner Henry Akeley having wired the house to record the buzzing voices he hears coming from the hills at…

An ordinary house whose upper room now contains a resonance machine built to stimulate the pineal gland and reveal what ordinary senses are built to…

An estate whose sub-cellars descend through Roman, and then pre-Roman, construction into something that isn't architecture in any normal sense at…

The site of Joseph Curwen's original laboratory and burial vaults, abandoned after his execution and quietly bought back into the family two…

A working olive grove in an otherwise unremarkable stretch of Greek countryside, distinguished only by the tomb at its center and the tree that grew…

A working studio Pickman kept apart from his respectable Back Bay address, chosen for a Colonial-era well in the cellar that connects, by his own…

A crowded immigrant waterfront district that hosted, for a period, a wealthy recluse's basement congregation and the disappearances that came with…

The last meetinghouse of a defunct light-fearing cult, its sealed steeple room holding a strange stone artifact and the skeleton of whoever was…

An address with an unusually high tenant turnover, all of it attributable — once somebody finally dug far enough down — to what has been growing in…

An out-of-the-way manor tower converted into a private studio for two people conducting research neither of them could have gotten funded through…

An unusually well-preserved colonial-era farmhouse whose single long-term occupant has kept its library, and himself, in better condition than the…

A shrinking township of ruined mills and abandoned farms, its bloodlines and superstitions equally inbred. The Whateley farm sits apart from the rest…

Once a prosperous port, now reduced to a few hundred residents with a shared and increasingly amphibious look about them. Devil Reef lies within…

An Irish village whose bog conceals the drowned remains of a much older settlement, left alone by every generation of locals until one returning…

A town that keeps its calendar closer to the old country than to the rest of Massachusetts, particularly around the winter solstice. Some of its…

A respectable teaching hospital that becomes, case by case, the source of an increasingly well-traveled trail of test subjects. West's later work…

An otherwise unremarkable New England village whose winter storage solution for the recently deceased worked exactly as intended for years, right up…

A storm-wracked summit whose slopes have absorbed more than a century of unexplained deaths, all eventually traced to what the isolated Martense…

Ground poisoned by whatever a meteorite deposited in it, still visibly wrong years after every trace of the meteorite itself had vanished. The…

The abandoned homestead Randolph Carter drove to the night he vanished, carrying an ancestral silver key and nothing else. Only the car and an empty…

An ordinary Arkham household turned uncertain about who, exactly, is living in it from one week to the next. Its cellar becomes the final…

A family burial vault predating the mansion that once stood over the hollow, both destroyed in the same eighteenth-century storm its more recent…

An unremarkable colonial cemetery except for the derelict house at its border, whose sealed attic has stayed sealed for exactly as long as local…

An unremarkable mountain dwelling, notable only for having briefly housed a consciousness considerably older and larger than the Catskills backwoods…

A cottage whose interior reportedly opens onto considerably more space, and considerably older company, than its cliffside exterior would suggest.…

The garret room where the witch Keziah Mason once lived, its walls meeting at angles that don't sum the way a normal room's should. Sleeping there is…

A city of ivory and bronze that has not aged a day since a homesick English boy first dreamed it into being, later returning as its permanently…

A watch-city on the edge of an arctic frontier, defended against a barbarian horde by a garrison that depended on one particular sentry staying…

A vast library-city built by the mind-swapping Great Race of Yith, its archives holding recorded history from species across every age of Earth. Its…

The corpse-city built by the Great Old Ones in ages before terrestrial life existed, its architecture deliberately non-Euclidean so that ordinary…

A ruined city said to have been ruled by a pale, ape-like queen, its exact location surviving only in one eighteenth-century explorer's discredited…

A dead metropolis of star-shaped towers and sculpted stone predating the dinosaurs, built and long abandoned by a species that seeded life on Earth…

A stretch of old forest whose surface calm belies a Zoog population, and a border with the Gugs' subterranean city, that the wood itself seems to…

A city built to a scale and shape that fits nothing that walks upright, predating every other ruin the narrator has studied by an order of magnitude.…

A single carved monolith, its origin and builders unknown, briefly exposed on a slab of sea-bottom that sank back beneath the waves within a day of…

The site of a city that annihilated an older settlement for the crime of being strange to look at, and was itself annihilated exactly one thousand…

A drowned city of marble temples and colonnades, populated in antiquity by a race whose carved likenesses and trained dolphins are the only trace of…

A valley floored in bones of uncertain origin, patrolled by ghasts and, by reputation, something larger that the one detailed account on file…

A quiet village whose singular civic distinction is a standing law, obeyed without exception, against killing a cat within its limits. The law's…

A golden city, remembered vividly enough by one lifelong searcher to sustain an entire unnaturally long life spent looking for it — and revealed, by…

A tomb old enough that Harley Warren believed a book he carried could open something beneath it worth the risk of two men's sanity. Only one of them…

A legendary paradise sailors speak of but none can verify, situated past every charted dream-country and, on the one occasion someone sailed far…

A mountain climbed by exactly one recorded expedition with the explicit goal of seeing what sits on top of it, and returned from by exactly one…

A crooked, high-walled street of old buildings leaning over a black river no map of Paris seems to record. Its topmost garret window, in the building…

A great, unnamed metropolis whose infrastructure and populace unravel in step with Nyarlathotep's demonstrations, crumbling from a recognizable…

A grey, fungoid territory governed by the moon-beasts and given a wide berth by everyone else in the Dreamlands with the sense to avoid it. Its one…

A pocket of pre-Revolutionary New York surviving, by whatever means, inside a city that paved over the rest of its own past generations ago. The…

A decaying, ivy-choked fortress with no visible way out and, evidently, only one occupant for as long as anyone can determine. Its single tower turns…

The seat of the earth's gods, built in imitation of a sunset city that turned out to be assembled entirely from one dreamer's own childhood memories.…

An ancient, failing world populated by a non-human species long accustomed to sharing their bodies with stranded consciousnesses from elsewhere, one…