10 Weirdest Lovecraft Stories Every Horror Fan Should Read

Exploration is part of human nature and no story embodies the innate curiosity for the unknown than The Nameless City.

Set against the desolate backdrop of the Arabian desert, an aptly nameless protagonist wanders in search of a fabled lost city. Upon finding unfamiliar markings among the vague hints of ruins, nightfall in the desert brings with it the aethereal sounds of metallic clanging beneath the earth itself. Come daybreak and the sounds have led our narrator to an impossible cave carved from the face of a cliff, housing a miniature temple within its walls. Intrigued to a fault, the nameless man wanders further and further into the system of caves, with each illuminating discovery of what rests within the bowels of the earth bringing with it a fresh yet ancient horror.

Taking a leaf from the adventure classics of the era authored by Jules Verne and Edgar Rice Burrows, Lovecraft's The Nameless City offers up an alternative kind of journey, one into a much darker depth than any had ever dared venture before, and one from which it is unlikely to ever return.