THE SHAMBLER FROM THE STARS is a horror short story by American writer Robert Bloch, first published in the September 1935 issue of Weird Tales. A Cthulhu Mythos tale, it introduced the forbidden tome De Vermis Mysteriis (Mysteries of the Worm). Later on in 1935, Lovecraft wrote the short story "The Haunter of the Dark" as a sequel and dedicated it to Bloch. Eventually, in 1950, Bloch wrote his own sequel The Shadow from the Steeple.