"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of Weird Tales. It was the last written of the author's known works, and is part of the Cthulhu Mythos. The epigraph to the story is the second stanza of Lovecraft's 1917 poem "Nemesis".
Title page spread of "The Haunter of the Dark" as it appeared in Weird Tales, December, 1936. Illustration by Virgil Finlay.
Robert Blake, as imagined by Jarkko Naas
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Lovecraft in 1934
Whipple Van Buren Phillips
Lovecraft's final home, May 1933 until March 10, 1937
H. P. Lovecraft's gravestone