"The Shambler from the Stars" by Robert Bloch | A Cthulhu Mythos Story
The Lovecraft Vault · 2025-05-21
THE SHAMBLER FROM THE STARS is a horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales. A Cthulhu Mythos tale, it introduced the forbidden tome De Vermis Mysteriis (Mysteries of the Worm). Later on in 1935, Lovecraft wrote the short story "The Haunter of the Dark" as a sequel and dedicated it to Bloch. Eventually, in 1950, Bloch wrote his own sequel The Shadow from the Steeple.
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