The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel (51,500 words) by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published (in abridged form) in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941; the first complete publication was in Arkham House's Beyond the Wall of Sleep collection (1943). It is included in the Library of America volume of Lovecraft's work. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

The Defenders — Philip K. Dick StoryHumanity believes it wages endless war underground while robots fight above. When the truth surfaces, the machines reveal they have quietly preserved Earth—and manipulated humans into survival through comforting lies. Dick probes reality, trust, and whether salvation still counts if it’s engineered deception. First appearancePublished in Galaxy Science Fiction (1953). Author bioPhilip K. Dick (1928–1982) was a visionary American science-fiction writer obsessed with reality, paranoia, authority, and false worlds. His work explores fragile identities and manufactured truths, influencing philosophy, cyberpunk, and countless films despite his chaotic, troubled life.   Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

The Coffin Cure — Alan E. Nourse StoryA bleak medical future where burial becomes therapy. The “coffin cure” is a sanctioned psychological treatment—patients sealed away to shock them back into compliance. Nourse uses clinical calm to expose how medicine, stripped of empathy, can become ritualized cruelty dressed up as care. First appearancePublished in April 1957 issue of Galaxy magazine. Author bioAlan E. Nourse (1928–1992) was both a physician and science-fiction writer. His fiction obsessively interrogates medicine, ethics, and institutional power, often predicting bioethical debates decades early with unsettling clarity and professional precision. Death Wish — Robert Sheckley StoryA man casually wishes for death—and gets exactly what he asked for, via a perfectly legal, perfectly absurd system. Sheckley skewers consumer logic and bureaucratic literalism, showing how desire, once formalized and monetized, becomes a trap engineered to fulfill you to death. First appearancePublished in the November 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Author bioRobert Sheckley (1928–2005) was a master of satirical science fiction. Famous for short stories, he specialized in ironic twists, legalistic futures, and social systems that collapse under their own logic—funny, fast, and quietly savage. Check out this link to buy DB's Books[link]    

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"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

Indrid Cold (later known as the Grinning Man or Smiling Man) is a legendary humanoid being who originated in 20th century folklore, and became a stock character in certain works of fiction. He is usually associated with tales of the Mothman from Point Pleasant, West Virginia in the 1960s. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending.

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March and August 1921, it was first published in Weird Tales, April 1926. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple  

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple  

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

"The Dweller in the Gulf", is a short story by American author  Clark Ashton Smith. It forms the second part of his Mars series. INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53).  INSTAGRAM Facebook Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple

William Hope Hodgson’s The Night Land (1912) is a staggering piece of early weird fiction — an immense, apocalyptic vision set millions of years in the future, after the sun has died. Humanity survives in the Last Redoubt, a titanic metal pyramid lit by internal power, surrounded by eternal darkness and monstrous forces that hunger for the light within. The protagonist, a telepathic man of that far-future world, senses the spirit of his long-dead love calling from another human fortress — the Lesser Redoubt — now besieged in the black wilderness. Driven by love and duty, he ventures into the Night Land: a desolate, monster-haunted plain where the Earth’s surface is stalked by “Watchers,” “Silent Ones,” and colossal horrors that defy comprehension. It’s equal parts cosmic horror, doomed romance, and proto-science-fantasy. Hodgson’s prose is archaic, deliberately medieval in tone, which makes the book feel like an illuminated manuscript describing a dream of the end of time. Modern readers often find it dense, but it rewards endurance — this is an early ancestor of Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and dark science fiction from Dune to Dark Souls. Check out DB Spitzer's newest book, a love letter to cyberpunk and bartending. FInd us on... INSTAGRAM Facebook YouTube Apple