# H.P. Lovecraft — Complete Fiction Index

> **TL;DR:** H.P. Lovecraft — Complete Fiction Index: Index for searching Lovecraft's fiction for predictive programming themes, especially: remote control / viewing from another world or plane — compare Wells' Crystal Egg, Tolkien's Palantír. These stories contain explicit mechanisms for perceiving, communicating with, or being controlled by entities from other worlds, dimensions, or time periods.
> Downloaded from [hplovecraft.com](https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/).
> All works public domain (Lovecraft died 1937). 104 fiction pieces + 2 essays.
> Total fiction corpus: ~710,000 words.

## Purpose

Index for searching Lovecraft's fiction for predictive programming themes, especially:
**remote control / viewing from another world or plane** — compare Wells' Crystal Egg, Tolkien's Palantír.

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## HIGH RELEVANCE: Remote Viewing / Control / Dimensional Devices

These stories contain explicit mechanisms for perceiving, communicating with, or being controlled by entities from other worlds, dimensions, or time periods.

### The Haunter of the Dark (1935) — ~9,200 words
**File:** `txt/the-haunter-of-the-dark.txt`
**Device:** The **Shining Trapezohedron** — a polyhedral scrying stone, forged on Yuggoth, that functions as "a window on all time and space." Gazing into it summons the Haunter of the Dark, establishing a psychic link between viewer and entity. The stone shows "heaven & other worlds" and the Haunter "tells them secrets in some way."
**Key quote:** *"Of the Shining Trapezohedron he speaks often, calling it a window on all time and space, and tracing its history from the days it was fashioned on dark Yuggoth, before ever the Old Ones brought it to earth."*
**Predictive programming angle:** Compare directly to Wells' Crystal Egg (1899) — both are alien-manufactured crystal objects that permit viewing of other worlds, and both permit *reciprocal* observation. The Trapezohedron is explicitly a two-way link.

### From Beyond (1920) — ~3,000 words
**File:** `txt/from-beyond.txt`
**Device:** Tillinghast's **electronic resonance machine** — activates dormant sense-organs (especially the pineal gland) to perceive overlapping dimensions. Beings from "beyond" can also perceive and attack the operator.
**Key quote:** *"We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation."*
**Key quote:** *"That gland is the great sense-organ of organs—I have found out. It is like sight in the end, and transmits visual pictures to the brain."*
**Key quote:** *"In these rays we are able to be seen as well as to see."*
**Predictive programming angle:** The **pineal gland** as a literal organ of interdimensional perception — compare to every occult tradition calling it the "third eye." The machine's *reciprocity* (we see them, they see us) parallels the Crystal Egg's two-way function.

### Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919) — ~4,300 words
**File:** `txt/beyond-the-wall-of-sleep.txt`
**Device:** A homemade **telepathic radio** (transmitter/receiver based on "atomic or molecular motion, convertible into ether waves"). Used to communicate with a cosmic entity trapped inside a sleeping human.
**Key quote:** *"I am an entity like that which you yourself become in the freedom of dreamless sleep. I am your brother of light, and have floated with you in the effulgent valleys."*
**Key quote:** *"We are all roamers of vast spaces and travellers in many ages... dwelt in the bodies of the insect-philosophers that crawl proudly over the fourth moon of Jupiter."*
**Predictive programming angle:** A **cosmic intelligence imprisoned in a human body**, communicable only via technological assistance. The entity describes consciousness as naturally mobile across bodies and worlds — the body as a *prison*, not a home.

### The Shadow out of Time (1936) — ~25,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-shadow-out-of-time.txt`
**Device:** The **Great Race of Yith** perfected mind-projection across time — seizing bodies in the far future, swapping consciousnesses, interrogating captive minds in alien bodies. Uses "suitable mechanical aid" for projection.
**Key quote:** *"With suitable mechanical aid a mind would project itself forward in time... seize on the best discoverable representative of the highest of that period's life-forms; entering the organism's brain and setting up therein its own vibrations while the displaced mind would strike back to the period of the displacer."*
**Key quote:** *"From cases of the permanent projection of elder minds arose many of those lasting changes of personality noticed in later history—including mankind's."*
**Predictive programming angle:** The most complete expression of the theme. An advanced race *routinely* seizes human bodies across time for intelligence-gathering. The displaced human is trapped in an alien body millions of years in the past. Personality changes in historical figures are *explained* as permanent mind-swaps. This is the Palantír concept taken to its logical extreme.

### The Whisperer in Darkness (1931) — ~26,400 words
**File:** `txt/the-whisperer-in-darkness.txt`
**Device:** Mi-Go (Outer Ones) **surgically extract brains**, place them in metal cylinders of Yuggoth-mined alloy, connect them to "electrodes reaching through and connecting at will with elaborate instruments capable of duplicating the three vital faculties of sight, hearing, and speech."
**Key quote:** *"My brain is in that cylinder and I see, hear, and speak through these electronic vibrators... Do you realise what it means when I say I have been on thirty-seven different celestial bodies?"*
**Key quote:** *"When the electrodes are disconnected, one merely drops off into a sleep of especially vivid and fantastic dreams."*
**Predictive programming angle:** The brain-in-a-jar is the literal technological implementation of disembodied consciousness. Compare to transhumanism's "mind uploading." The Mi-Go offer this as a *service* — the extracted brain can travel to 37 worlds. The seduction is the pitch: *freedom through disembodiment*.

### The Thing on the Doorstep (1933) — ~10,700 words
**File:** `txt/the-thing-on-the-doorstep.txt`
**Device:** **Occult body-exchange** through hypnotic domination of will. Ephraim Waite → daughter Asenath → husband Edward Derby. Chain of possession across generations.
**Key quote:** *"She constantly took his body and went to nameless places for nameless rites."*
**Key quote:** *"He changed forms with her when he felt death coming—she was the only one he could find with the right kind of brain and a weak enough will... On, on, on, on—body to body to body—he means never to die."*
**Predictive programming angle:** **Immortality through serial body-theft.** The sorcerer's method is presented as ancient knowledge. Compare to legends of Wandering Jew, body-hopping demons, and modern "walk-in" claims.

### The Challenge from Beyond (1935, collaborative) — ~6,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-challenge-from-beyond.txt`
**Device:** Crystal cubes with **hypnotic discs**, functioning as "ether-bridges." The cube attracts a mind, draws it in, transmits it across galactic distances to alien receiving equipment.
**Key quote:** *"The mind that noticed the cube would be drawn into it by the power of the disc, and would be sent on a thread of obscure energy to the place whence the disc had come—the remote world of the worm-like space-explorers across stupendous galactic abysses."*
**Predictive programming angle:** A **crystal cube as alien trap** — the most explicitly sinister version of the Crystal Egg idea. Here the crystal is *bait*, designed to capture minds. The alien race is an intelligence-gathering operation.

### The Evil Clergyman (1937) — ~1,700 words
**File:** `txt/the-evil-clergyman.txt`
**Device:** A **matchbox-like device** combined with a **violet ray-projector**. Activating it causes permanent personality displacement — the narrator's body is overwritten.
**Key quote:** *"There's been a certain change—in your personal appearance. He always causes that."*
**Predictive programming angle:** The most compact expression: a small, innocent-looking device that *permanently* overwrites identity. Compare to modern anxieties about brain-computer interfaces.

### The Trap (1931, with Whitehead) — ~8,400 words
**File:** `txt/the-trap.txt`
**Device:** An **antique mirror** functioning as a dimensional portal. A boy is physically drawn through the glass into a "reversed fourth-dimensional prison."
**Key quote:** *"It was more than a mirror—it was a gate; a trap; a link with spatial recesses not meant for the denizens of our visible universe."*
**Predictive programming angle:** The **mirror as trans-dimensional trap** — compare to Lewis Carroll's *Through the Looking-Glass*, Snow White's magic mirror, and John Dee's obsidian scrying mirror.

### The Mound (1930, for Zealia Bishop) — ~29,300 words
**File:** `txt/the-mound.txt`
**Device:** The underground civilization of K'n-yan (Tsath) possesses **dematerialisation, rematerialisation, thought-projection, atomic energy, and reanimation** — all through trained will.
**Key quote:** *"By the sheer force of the technically trained will... a learned man of K'n-yan could dematerialise and rematerialise himself."*
**Key quote:** *"He experimented in the arts of dematerialisation and projection, hoping that he might thereby be able to throw his consciousness downward."*
**Predictive programming angle:** The **Vril concept** under a different name. An advanced underground race with mastery over matter and energy through trained will. Compare directly to Bulwer-Lytton's *The Coming Race* (1871). Lovecraft read Bulwer-Lytton.

### The Call of Cthulhu (1926) — ~11,900 words
**File:** `txt/the-call-of-cthulhu.txt`
**Device:** No physical device — Cthulhu transmits **dreams and psychic impressions** globally from his sunken city R'lyeh, affecting "psychically hypersensitive" artists and dreamers worldwide when the stars are right.
**Key quote:** *"From February 28th to April 2nd a large proportion of them had dreamed very bizarre things, the intensity of the dreams being immeasurably the stronger during the period of the sculptor's delirium."*
**Predictive programming angle:** **Mass telepathic influence from a sleeping entity.** The transmission is involuntary, affects only sensitives, and correlates with cosmic/seismic events. Compare to HAARP theories, mass formation, and the concept of "the signal."

### The Dreams in the Witch House (1932) — ~14,600 words
**File:** `txt/the-dreams-in-the-witch-house.txt`
**Device:** The geometry of a room with **non-Euclidean angles** enables interdimensional travel during sleep. The witch Keziah Mason discovered this mathematically and uses it to physically transport between dimensions.
**Key quote:** [Search for "non-Euclidean", "angles", "geometry", "Keziah"]
**Predictive programming angle:** **Architecture as portal technology.** The room's angles function as a dimensional gateway. Compare to Masonic sacred geometry, ley lines, and cathedral construction.

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## MEDIUM RELEVANCE: Alien Contact / Cosmic Horror / Hidden Civilizations

### The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927) — ~51,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-case-of-charles-dexter-ward.txt`
**Theme:** Resurrection/channeling across time. An ancestor's personality re-emerges through necromantic ritual, eventually displacing the descendant's identity.

### At the Mountains of Madness (1931) — ~40,500 words
**File:** `txt/at-the-mountains-of-madness.txt`
**Theme:** Elder Things' advanced pre-human civilization in Antarctica. **Shoggoths** as remote-controlled biological workforce. Creation of life. Maps of pre-Columbian Earth.

### The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931) — ~26,700 words
**File:** `txt/the-shadow-over-innsmouth.txt`
**Theme:** Deep Ones' pact with humans — hybridization program. The narrator discovers his *own* Deep One heritage. Genetic transformation as involuntary change.

### The Dunwich Horror (1928) — ~17,400 words
**File:** `txt/the-dunwich-horror.txt`
**Theme:** Yog-Sothoth's influence from "beyond" producing hybrid offspring. Dimensional entities seeking entry into our world through breeding programs.

### The Colour out of Space (1927) — ~12,400 words
**File:** `txt/the-colour-out-of-space.txt`
**Theme:** Alien force arriving via meteorite, draining life force from land and inhabitants. Remote influence without intelligence — or intelligence beyond recognition.

### Through the Gates of the Silver Key (1932-33) — ~14,200 words
**File:** `txt/through-the-gates-of-the-silver-key.txt`
**Theme:** Dimensional travel via the Silver Key artifact. Randolph Carter's consciousness scattered across "the WHOLE of a Multiverse" — inhabiting alien bodies in other dimensions.

### The Silver Key (1926) — ~5,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-silver-key.txt`
**Theme:** Precursor to the above. The Silver Key enables return to dreamlands/past. Dimensional travel through artifact.

### The Horror at Red Hook (1925) — ~8,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-horror-at-red-hook.txt`
**Theme:** Occult summoning and possession rituals in urban setting. Portal between our world and demonic realms.

### Nyarlathotep (1920) — ~1,200 words
**File:** `txt/nyarlathotep.txt`
**Theme:** Nyarlathotep as avatar/emissary of the Outer Gods — an entity that functions as **remote agent** of cosmic powers. Presents a science-demonstration show that drives audiences mad.

### Hypnos (1922) — ~2,500 words
**File:** `txt/hypnos.txt`
**Theme:** Two men explore other dimensions through drug-induced sleep states. Encounter hostile entities. One is turned to stone.

### The Music of Erich Zann (1921) — ~3,500 words
**File:** `txt/the-music-of-erich-zann.txt`
**Theme:** Music as dimensional barrier/bridge. Zann's playing holds back entities from the void beyond his window.

### The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919) — ~3,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-statement-of-randolph-carter.txt`
**Theme:** Communication via telephone wire from underground tomb — voice changes as entity takes over.

### The Nameless City (1921) — ~4,500 words
**File:** `txt/the-nameless-city.txt`
**Theme:** Pre-human civilization's ruins in the Arabian desert. Reptilian race.

### Dagon (1917) — ~2,000 words
**File:** `txt/dagon.txt`
**Theme:** Risen Pacific island with monolith depicting aquatic races. Proto-Cthulhu.

### Polaris (1918) — ~1,500 words
**File:** `txt/polaris.txt`
**Theme:** Dream-memories of a previous life in an Arctic civilization. Past-life consciousness.

### The Outsider (1921) — ~2,500 words
**File:** `txt/the-outsider.txt`
**Theme:** Entity discovers it is not human by seeing its own reflection. Identity displacement.

### He (1925) — ~4,000 words
**File:** `txt/he.txt`
**Theme:** Alchemist shows visions of old New York through a window — temporal viewing.

### The Festival (1923) — ~3,500 words
**File:** `txt/the-festival.txt`
**Theme:** Ancient underground rites; entities that have maintained identity across centuries through transformation.

### The Diary of Alonzo Typer (1935) — ~7,000 words
**File:** `txt/the-diary-of-alonzo-typer.txt`
**Theme:** House as portal to underworld entities. Trapped in a dimensional borderland.

### Under the Pyramids (1924, for Houdini) — ~10,900 words
**File:** `txt/under-the-pyramids.txt`
**Theme:** Giant entities beneath the Pyramids. Pre-human civilization surviving underground.

### The Strange High House in the Mist (1926) — ~3,500 words
**File:** `txt/the-strange-high-house-in-the-mist.txt`
**Theme:** House at the edge of a cliff as a meeting place between this world and the gods. Dimensional borderland.

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## LOWER RELEVANCE: Setting / Atmosphere / Other Themes

### Fiction (alphabetical)
| File | Title | ~Words | Notes |
|------|-------|--------|-------|
| `the-alchemist.txt` | The Alchemist | 2,500 | Cursed family, immortal enemy |
| `ashes.txt` | Ashes | 3,000 | Collaboration |
| `azathoth.txt` | Azathoth | 500 | Fragment — the blind idiot god at center of chaos |
| `the-battle-that-ended-the-century.txt` | The Battle that Ended the Century | 1,000 | Humorous sketch |
| `the-beast-in-the-cave.txt` | The Beast in the Cave | 2,000 | Early work — cave creature |
| `the-book.txt` | The Book | 500 | Fragment — forbidden book |
| `the-cats-of-ulthar.txt` | The Cats of Ulthar | 1,500 | Dreamlands fable |
| `celephais.txt` | Celephaïs | 2,000 | Dreamlands — escape to dream-city |
| `collapsing-cosmoses.txt` | Collapsing Cosmoses | 1,000 | Humorous SF parody |
| `cool-air.txt` | Cool Air | 3,500 | Living dead maintained by cold |
| `the-crawling-chaos.txt` | The Crawling Chaos | 2,000 | Vision of world's end |
| `the-curse-of-yig.txt` | The Curse of Yig | 5,500 | Snake god vengeance |
| `deaf-dumb-and-blind.txt` | Deaf, Dumb, and Blind | 3,000 | Sensory deprivation and other-world contact |
| `the-descendant.txt` | The Descendant | 1,000 | Fragment — Necronomicon reader |
| `the-disinterment.txt` | The Disinterment | 4,000 | Body horror |
| `the-doom-that-came-to-sarnath.txt` | The Doom That Came to Sarnath | 2,500 | Ancient civilization destroyed |
| `the-dream-quest-of-unknown-kadath.txt` | The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | 42,500 | Dreamlands epic |
| `the-electric-executioner.txt` | The Electric Executioner | 5,500 | Madman on a train |
| `ex-oblivione.txt` | Ex Oblivione | 700 | Dreamlands fragment |
| `facts-about-arthur-jermyn.txt` | Facts about Arthur Jermyn | 4,000 | Ape ancestry |
| `the-ghost-eater.txt` | The Ghost-Eater | 2,500 | Collaboration |
| `the-green-meadow.txt` | The Green Meadow | 2,000 | Manuscript on meteorite |
| `herbert-west-reanimator.txt` | Herbert West—Reanimator | 11,900 | Frankenstein variant |
| `history-of-the-necronomicon.txt` | History of the Necronomicon | 1,000 | Mock-scholarly essay |
| `the-hoard-of-the-wizard-beast.txt` | The Hoard of the Wizard-Beast | 1,000 | Dunsany pastiche |
| `the-horror-at-martins-beach.txt` | The Horror at Martin's Beach | 2,500 | Sea monster mind control |
| `the-horror-in-the-burying-ground.txt` | The Horror in the Burying-Ground | 3,500 | Graveyard humor |
| `the-horror-in-the-museum.txt` | The Horror in the Museum | 11,200 | Wax museum horror |
| `the-hound.txt` | The Hound | 3,000 | Grave-robbing, amulet curse |
| `ibid.txt` | Ibid | 2,000 | Humorous scholarly parody |
| `in-the-vault.txt` | In the Vault | 3,500 | Undertaker trapped |
| `in-the-walls-of-eryx.txt` | In the Walls of Eryx | 11,800 | Venus, invisible maze |
| `the-last-test.txt` | The Last Test | 19,000 | Mad scientist collaboration |
| `the-little-glass-bottle.txt` | The Little Glass Bottle | 1,000 | Juvenile |
| `the-loved-dead.txt` | The Loved Dead | 3,500 | Necrophilia horror |
| `the-lurking-fear.txt` | The Lurking Fear | 6,500 | Degenerate family underground |
| `the-man-of-stone.txt` | The Man of Stone | 3,000 | Petrification |
| `medusas-coil.txt` | Medusa's Coil | 16,600 | Hair horror |
| `memory.txt` | Memory | 500 | Vignette — ruins of humanity |
| `the-moon-bog.txt` | The Moon-Bog | 3,000 | Irish bog horror |
| `the-mysterious-ship.txt` | The Mysterious Ship | 500 | Juvenile |
| `the-mystery-of-the-grave-yard.txt` | The Mystery of the Grave-Yard | 500 | Juvenile |
| `the-night-ocean.txt` | The Night Ocean | 8,000 | Atmospheric ocean horror |
| `old-bugs.txt` | Old Bugs | 3,500 | Temperance tale |
| `the-other-gods.txt` | The Other Gods | 2,000 | Barzai seeks the gods |
| `out-of-the-aeons.txt` | Out of the Aeons | 9,500 | Museum mummy awakens |
| `the-picture-in-the-house.txt` | The Picture in the House | 2,500 | Cannibalism |
| `pickmans-model.txt` | Pickman's Model | 5,500 | Painter of ghouls — paints from life |
| `poetry-and-the-gods.txt` | Poetry and the Gods | 2,500 | Dream of Olympian gods |
| `the-quest-of-iranon.txt` | The Quest of Iranon | 3,000 | Dreamlands wanderer |
| `the-rats-in-the-walls.txt` | The Rats in the Walls | 8,000 | Ancestral horror, underground cave |
| `a-reminiscence-of-dr-samuel-johnson.txt` | A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson | 2,000 | Humorous |
| `the-secret-cave.txt` | The Secret Cave | 500 | Juvenile |
| `the-shunned-house.txt` | The Shunned House | 10,000 | Vampiric entity beneath house |
| `the-slaying-of-the-monster.txt` | The Slaying of the Monster | 300 | Juvenile fragment |
| `the-street.txt` | The Street | 2,000 | Allegorical |
| `sweet-ermengarde.txt` | Sweet Ermengarde | 3,000 | Parody |
| `the-temple.txt` | The Temple | 5,500 | Sunken ruins, submarine |
| `the-terrible-old-man.txt` | The Terrible Old Man | 1,500 | Robbers punished |
| `the-thing-in-the-moonlight.txt` | The Thing in the Moonlight | 700 | Dream fragment |
| `till-all-the-seas.txt` | "Till A' the Seas" | 4,500 | Earth's last man |
| `the-tomb.txt` | The Tomb | 3,500 | Personality of the dead |
| `the-transition-of-juan-romero.txt` | The Transition of Juan Romero | 2,500 | Mining encounter |
| `the-tree.txt` | The Tree | 1,500 | Classical ghost story |
| `the-tree-on-the-hill.txt` | The Tree on the Hill | 3,000 | Photograph reveals other dimension |
| `two-black-bottles.txt` | Two Black Bottles | 5,000 | Soul-trapping |
| `the-unnamable.txt` | The Unnamable | 3,000 | Entity beyond description |
| `the-very-old-folk.txt` | The Very Old Folk | 3,500 | Roman-era horror |
| `what-the-moon-brings.txt` | What the Moon Brings | 700 | Dream vignette |
| `the-white-ship.txt` | The White Ship | 2,000 | Dream voyage |
| `winged-death.txt` | Winged Death | 7,000 | Fly-transferred soul |

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## Essays

| File | Title | Notes |
|------|-------|-------|
| `txt-essays/supernatural-horror-in-literature.txt` | Supernatural Horror in Literature | Lovecraft's survey of the entire weird fiction tradition — essential reference for understanding his influences (Machen, Blackwood, Dunsany, Chambers, Bierce, Poe) |
| `txt-essays/notes-on-writing-weird-fiction.txt` | Notes on Writing Weird Fiction | Lovecraft's own craft guide |

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## Search Keywords for This Corpus

To search the `txt/` directory for specific predictive programming themes:

```bash
# Remote viewing / scrying devices
grep -ril "trapezohedron\|crystal\|scrying\|window.*time\|window.*space\|mirror.*dimension" txt/

# Mind transfer / body exchange
grep -ril "mind.*exchang\|body.*exchang\|consciousness.*transfer\|brain.*cylinder\|personality.*displac\|possess.*body" txt/

# Pineal gland / third eye / dormant senses
grep -ril "pineal\|third eye\|sense.*organ\|dormant.*sense\|atrophied.*organ" txt/

# Alien technology / advanced machines
grep -ril "machine\|apparatus\|device\|instrument\|vibrat\|resonan\|electric\|electronic" txt/

# Underground civilization / Vril
grep -ril "underground\|subterranean\|dematerial\|rematerial\|K'n-yan\|thought.*project" txt/

# Dream transmission / telepathy
grep -ril "dream\|telepat\|psychic\|mental.*project\|thought.*wave\|ether.*wave" txt/

# Non-Euclidean geometry / portal architecture
grep -ril "non-Euclidean\|angle\|geometry\|portal\|gate\|door.*dimension" txt/

# The Great Race / time travel
grep -ril "great race\|Yith\|mind.*project\|forward.*time\|backward.*time" txt/
```

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