Before You Begin

Before you begin.

`Beyond the Door` first appeared as a standalone story in Weird Tales, Volume 1, Number 2, published in April 1923. This LitLab edition preserves the story as continuous text while using its internal turns only for visual unlocks. Read it as a compact domestic mystery that keeps shifting toward spiritual dread: an insect-lined study, a locked bedroom door, a private diary, and a cellar where ordinary evidence begins to feel unstable. The illustrations follow those pressure points without replacing the prose, so the reader can let the unease gather at the same pace as the narrator.