LORE ONLINE
LORE Online is a literary home for weird fiction, cosmic horror, Gothic fiction, dark fantasy and the writers who shaped the strange. Explore unsettling stories, literary criticism, forgotten magazine history and the darker corners of the imagination.
A literary portal for the strange and uncanny
From supernatural tales and haunted landscapes to cosmic dread and visionary speculative fiction, LORE Online explores literature that refuses to stay within ordinary boundaries. The site also preserves the cultural footprint of the historic LORE Magazine and the writers, interviews and ideas connected with it.
Explore
Stories that blur the boundaries between horror, fantasy and the inexplicable.
🌑 Cosmic horror
Cosmic horror shifts fear away from the familiar monster and toward something much larger: the possibility that the universe is indifferent, incomprehensible and filled with realities the human mind was never meant to understand.
Writers
Meet four writers and critics who open different doors into LORE’s world: cosmic horror, philosophical nightmare, Gothic literature and Lovecraftian scholarship. Each profile connects essential works, literary context and recovered material from the LORE archive.
From the LORE archive
LORE Magazine emerged in the 1990s as a home for dark, imaginative and often Lovecraft-influenced fiction. Its history includes original stories, interviews, essays and later online features.
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FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVESIn this restored 2013 interview, R. A. Salvatore talks about Drizzt Do’Urden, Dungeons & Dragons, the Forgotten Realms, character alignment, world-building, the Sundering and…
Read story →FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES In this recovered 2011 LORE interview, Barry B. Longyear talks about writing, voice, Enemy Mine, the Civil War, publishing and what success really…
Read story →25FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES Originally published September 2, 2011. In the second installment of Moldy Manuscripts, Robert M. Price opens a cabinet of Poe-related curiosities: Donald R.…
Read story →FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES Originally published July 15, 2011. In this recovered LORE review, author Jeffrey Thomas considers William Peter Blatty’s Dimiter — a novel of mystery,…
Read story →FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES The beginning of Robert M. Price’s MOLDY MANUSCRIPTS series. This recovered 2011 LORE feature introduced a simple but valuable idea: bring hard-to-find Lovecraftian…
Read story →FROM THE ORIGINAL LORE ARCHIVES This restored 2011 LORE feature reports on the Nebula Awards ceremony held in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2011, with Michael Swanwick serving…
Read story →LORE Online is an independent modern literary website exploring weird fiction, cosmic horror, Gothic literature, dark fantasy, literary history and the writers who inhabit those traditions.
