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Summary
(IBList user synopsis):
After reading of the existence of an ancient black monolithic structure deep in the mountains of Hungary, the unnamed narrator finally locates it just outside the village of Stregoicavar. While resting near the stone, at Midsummer Night, he experiences a dream - or nightmare - of the terrible rites that were enacted in times past... First published in Weird Tales, November 1931. Also appears in:
- Grim Death, Selwyn & Blount (1932)
- Sleep No More, Farrar & Rinehart (1944)
- Skull-Face and Others, Arkham House (1946)
- Wolfshead, Lancer (1968)
- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Arkham House (1969)
- Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate, Star (1975)
- Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors, Baen (1987)
- To Sleep Perchance to Dream, Nightmare, Barnes & Noble (1993)
- Nameless Cults, Chaosium (2001)
- People of the Dark, Wildside Press (2005)
- The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Crimson Shadows, Del Rey (2007)
- The Haunter of the Ring and Other Stories, Wordsworth (2008)
- The Horror Stories of Robert E. Howard, Del Rey (2008)
Original title: The Black Stone
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Horror→ Cosmic Paranoia
This work is a subwork of the following works : Skull-Face and Others (1946) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
Sleep No More (1964) [Anthology] Authors: M. R. James
, Algernon Blackwood
, Robert W. Chambers
, Robert E. Howard
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Frank Belknap Long
, Robert Bloch
, H. Russell Wakefield
, M.P. Shiel
, Henry S. Whitehead
, Howard Wandrei
, Hazel Heald
Wolfshead (1968) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
Tales of The Cthulhu Mythos (1969) [Anthology] Authors: Stephen King
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ramsey Campbell
, August Derleth
, Robert E. Howard
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Frank Belknap Long
, Robert Bloch
, Brian Lumley
, Colin Wilson
, Philip José Farmer
, Richard A. Lupoff
, Joanna Russ
, Karl Edward Wagner
, James Wade
Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975) [Anthology] Authors: Bram Stoker
, Robert E. Howard
, Fritz Leiber
, Henry Kuttner
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Robert Bloch
, Richard Matheson
, Basil Copper
, W.C. Morrow
, Peter Fleming
Cthulhu - The Mythos and Kindred Horrors (1987) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
To Sleep, Perchance to Dream... Nightmare (1993) [Anthology] Authors: Bram Stoker
, H. P. Lovecraft
, Ambrose Bierce
, Clive Barker
, Thomas Ligotti
, Ramsey Campbell
, Wilkie Collins
, Robert W. Chambers
, Charles Beaumont
, Charles L. Grant
, Robert E. Howard
, Fritz Leiber
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Clark Ashton Smith
, Robert Bloch
, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
, Richard Matheson
, Abraham Merritt
, Chet Williamson
, Karl Edward Wagner
, Nelson S. Bond
, Bruce McAllister
, John F. Suter
, Hugh B. Cave
, Donald Wandrei
, Henry S. Whitehead
, Robert Aickman
, Scott Bradfield
, E. F. Benson
, Edmond Hamilton
Nameless Cults: The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard (2001) [Anthology] Authors: H. P. Lovecraft
, August Derleth
, Robert E. Howard
, Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore
, Frank Belknap Long
, Abraham Merritt
, Robert M. Price
, Joseph S. Pulver
, C.J. Henderson
Haunter of the Ring and Other Tales, the (2008) [Collection] Author: Robert E. Howard
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