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In "Beyond the Door", a man buys a cuckoo clock for his wife who has always wanted one. When he catches her cheating on him, the man throws his wife out of the house with her lover. Though he never really cared for the clock, he keeps winding it because he dislikes the silence. But the cuckoo clock, who preferred the wife's company, begins to plot against its owner.

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved fame after his death for his groundbreaking works of horror fiction. In "From Beyond" a maniacal scientist develops an extraordinary machine which enables humans to tap in to a range of additional senses which allow him to perceive whole new dimensions of the cosmos.