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"Kui kaugele on teadlased jõudnud inimaju kõige suuremate saladuste avastamisel? Inimkond teab väga palju maailmast enda ümber, kuid see, mis toimub meie peas, on jäänud siiani suuremas osas mõistatuseks. Mis toimub seal kummalises maailmas – inimmeeles –, mis teeb meid nii iseloomulikult inimlikuks? Teadvus ühendab aistingud, ettekujutused, tajud, mõtted ja mälestused ning vormib nendest ainulaadse sulami, mis moodustab meie isiksuse. Tänu sellele oleme teadlikud maailmast enda ümber ja iseendast. Kuidas on võimalik, et see kõik tekib justkui juhuslikult umbes kilogrammist ajurakkudest – see on üks maailma suurimaid lahendamata mõistatusi. „Sinu teadvuse saladustes“ viivad maailma juhtivad aju-uurijad ja New Scientisti meeskond lugeja põnevale rännakule läbi inimmeele, püüdes jõuda selgusele, mis see teadvus siis ikkagi päriselt on ning mida me võime selle kohta õppida siis, kui asjad viltu lähevad. Arutletakse selle üle, kas inimene suudab kunagi ehitada teadlikke masinaid, mida saame loomade teadvust uurides teada inimeste kohta, ja uuritakse vaba tahet. "

This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbling blocks of monolithic stone now serve only for grey toads and snakes to nest under. Interspersed in the ruins are large trees that are home to little apes. Through the bottom of this valley runs the great, slimy red river called Than.

The narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the Great Sphinx of Giza. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the Sphinx.

"Celephais" was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams—his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his forties, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dream-world.

The story is the first to mention Lovecraft's fictional Miskatonic University. It is also notable as one of the first depictions of zombies, as corpses arising, through scientific means, as animalistic, and uncontrollably violent creatures.

The story describe the appearance of Nyarlathotep as a "man" of the race of the Pharaohs, who claims to have been dormant for the past twenty-seven centuries, and his subsequent travels from city to city demonstrating his supernatural powers. Wherever Nyarlathotep went, the story relates, the inhabitants' sleep would be plagued by vivid nightmares.

An undertaker finds himself trapped in the vault where coffins are stored during winter for burial in the spring, and is mysteriously injured when he escapes.

Hypnos is a first-person narrative written from the perspective of an unnamed character living in Kent, England. The narrator writes that he fears sleep, and is resolved to write his story down lest it drive him further mad, regardless of what people think after reading it.

The story tells of an unnamed narrator, who has moved from New England to New York City and greatly regretted it. One night, while wandering an older part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man strangely dressed in garments from the eighteenth century. The man offers to show the narrator the secrets of the town.

The unnamed narrator describes the final fate of his good friend, Denys Barry, an Irish-American who reclaims an ancestral estate in Kilderry, a fictional town in Ireland. Barry ignores pleas from the local peasantry not to drain the nearby bog, with unfortunate supernatural consequences.

The narrator, hearing tales of a "lurking fear" upon Tempest Mountain in the Catskills, takes two men with him to investigate. They camp inside the deserted Martense mansion as a lightning storm approaches, and feeling strangely drowsy, they all fall asleep. The narrator wakes up to find both his companions missing, and in a flash of lightning sees a demonic shadow cast upon the fireplace chimney from a grotesque monster like the other one.

The story is told from the first person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person’s pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.