Elder Beings

The Horror From the HiIls – A stone idol, brought to New York from China, unleashes the Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn upon the world. And Chaugnar Faugn is hungry.
The Horror From the HiIls incorporates a dream H. P. Lovecraft related to the author in a letter.

Dreams and Horror – Two Novelettes by H.P. Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror – “Oh, oh, great Gawd . . . that . . . that.”
The Dreams in the Witch-House – A story of mathematics, witchcraft and Walpurgis Night, in which the horror creeps and grows—

Early Cthulhu Stories – seven early stories by H.P. Lovecraft that are the foundation of the Cthulhu Mythos. The Cthulhu stories describe a race of “Elder Beings” who once ruled the universe, but who are now imprisoned or sleeping in some remote part of the Earth or elsewhere in the universe. They only await the time “when the stars are right” to return and resume their rule. Monsters and evil humans live and act to hasten this return.