Cthulhu Mythos

“The Return of the Sorcerer” is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith, published in 1931, which forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. The story follows an unemployed man who accepts a job as secretary to John Carnby, a solitary scholar specializing in demonology and witchcraft. Carnby asks him to use his knowledge of Arabic to help him decipher passages from the Necronomicon, an ancient and obscure book. As he progresses with his work, the protagonist begins to suspect that his employer’s interest goes beyond pure erudition and that dark and diabolical secrets lie behind his facade.

The Nameless Offspring is a short story by Clark Ashton Smith published in June 1932 in the magazine Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror. It tells the story of Henry Chaldane, who, during a trip through the English countryside, happens upon Tremoth Hall, an old mansion shrouded in a dark family legend. There, he meets Sir John Tremoth, a man tormented by a terrible secret related to his lineage.