A Classic Thriller, H P Lovecraft's "The Mound"

The Mound By H. P. Lovecraft On the lonely plains of Oklahoma stands a forgotten mound that no one dares approach. By day, a silent Indian figure walks its summit. By night, a headless woman carries an eerie blue flame. For generations, those who ventured too close either vanished without a trace... or returned hopelessly broken, babbling of impossible cities, inhuman creatures, and horrors buried beneath the earth. Most dismiss the legends as frontier superstition. Until an ethnologist arrives determined to uncover the truth. What begins as a routine investigation soon leads to the discovery of a mysterious sixteenth-century manuscript—one that tells of a Spanish conquistador who entered a hidden underground civilization older than history itself. A realm where death has been conquered, where matter itself obeys the will, and where an immortal race has spent countless ages descending into decadence and madness. But some places are not abandoned. Some civilizations have merely been waiting. As the evidence mounts, the investigator realizes the mound is not a tomb... It is an entrance. And something below still remembers the world above. Blending archaeological mystery, cosmic horror, lost civilizations, and one of Lovecraft's most ambitious visions of the unknown, The Mound is a slow-burning descent into an abyss where history, mythology, and nightmare converge. Some mysteries are buried to protect us. Some doors should never be opened. Brief intro by David C Lane