The Lovecraft Vault

THE CURSE OF YIG is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop in which Yig, "The Father of Serpents", is first introduced. The story was first published in the November 1929 edition of Weird Tales. Set in Oklahoma around 1889, a newly arrived couple become aware of a chilling local legend: a vengeful “Snake God” known as Yig, who punishes those who harm serpents—either by killing them outright or transforming them into grotesque, half-snake beings.

THE DUNSTABLE HORROR is a Cthulhu Mythos story by Arthur Pendragon, first published in the April 1964 issue of Fantastic Stories of Imagination. “A Gothic, Lovecraftian tale, of ancient evil and ghastly retribution."

In the latest episode of THE UNTOLD MYSTERIES PODCAST, the show's host, Dan Rogers, shares the strange story of a 1978 radio broadcast, concerning a series of calls the station received from a man who claimed to be under the watchful eye of a mysterious sea creature.
Performers:
Erik Peabody as "Dan Rogers"
Ian Gordon as "John Price"
Tony Walker as "Phillip Pritchard"
Written by Ian Gordon
Music and production by Ian Gordon

THE MOUND was written by Lovecraft after he was hired by Zealia Bishop to create a story about an Indian mound haunted by a headless ghost. "An ethnologist investigating eerie legends surrounding a haunted Oklahoma mound uncovers a mysterious metallic relic that hints at an ancient and unsettling secret behind the region’s strange apparitions and madness." The story belongs to the Cthulhu Mythos.

THE TREE was first published in the October 1921 edition of The Tryout. The story takes place in ancient Greece, where the legacy of two master sculptors takes root in a grotesque and supernatural form.