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The Essential Lovecraft
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Marc Vietor, Scott Brick, Simon Vance, Jonathan Davis, Jay Snyder, Mirron Willis, Kevin Kenerly, Dan Bittner, Chris Ciulla, Vikas Adam, Gregory Connors, Jason Culp, Timothy Andrés Pabon, full cast
- Length: 50 hrs and 12 mins
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Publisher's summary
Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.
Full cast of narrators include:
- Fred Burman
- Kevin Pariseau
- Matt Godfrey
- Peter Berkrot
- Robert Fass
- Timothy Andrés Pabon
- Paul Woodson
- Avi Roque
- Raphael Corkhill
Foreword narrated by Leslie S. Klinger
Chapter 1: The Tomb narrated by Fred Berman
Chapter 2: Dagon narrated by Gregory Connors
Chapter 3: Polaris narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 4: Beyond the Wall of Sleep narrated by Dan Bittner
Chapter 5: The Transition of Juan Romero narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 6: The Statement of Randolph Carter narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 7: The Doom That Came to Sarnath narrated by Peter Berkrot
Chapter 8: The Terrible Old Man narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 9: The Cats of Ulthar narrated by Vikas Adam
Chapter 10: Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 11: The Temple narrated by Sascha Rotermund
Chapter 12: Celephaïs narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 13: From Beyond narrated by Mirron Willis
Chapter 14: Nyarlathotep narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 15: The Picture in the House narrated by Neil Hellegers
Chapter 16: Ex Oblivione narrated by Jason Culp
Chapter 17: The Nameless City narrated by Jonathan Davis
Chapter 18: The Quest of Iranon narrated by Avi Roque
Chapter 19: The Outsider narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 20: The Other Gods narrated by Vikas Adam
Chapter 21: The Music of Erich Zann narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 22: Herbert West: Reanimator narrated by Jay Snyder
Chapter 23: The Unnamable narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 24: The Hound narrated by Raphael Corkhill
Chapter 25: The Lurking Fear narrated by Jay Snyder
Chapter 26: The Rats in the Walls narrated by Paul Woodson
Chapter 27: The Festival narrated by Fred Berman
Chapter 28: Under the Pyramids narrated by Jonathan Davis
Chapter 29: The Shunned House narrated by Robert Fass
Chapter 30: The Horror at Red Hook narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 31: He narrated by Marc Vietor
Chapter 32: Cool Air narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
Chapter 33: The Call of Cthulhu narrated by Matt Godfrey
Chapter 34: The Silver Key narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 35: Pickman’s Model narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
Chapter 36: The Strange High House in the Mist narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 37: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath narrated by William DeMerritt
Chapter 38: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 39: The Colour Out of Space narrated by Gregory Connors
Chapter 40: History of the Necronomicon narrated by Simon Vance
Chapter 41: The Dunwich Horror narrated by Marc Vietor
Chapter 42: The Whisperer in Darkness narrated by Kevin Pariseau
Chapter 43: At the Mountains of Madness narrated by Scott Brick
Chapter 44: The Shadow over Innsmouth narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
Chapter 45: The Dreams in the Witch House narrated by Dan Bittner
Chapter 46: The Thing on the Doorstep narrated by Jason Culp
Chapter 47: The Shadow Out of Time narrated by Kevin Kenerly
Chapter 48: The Haunter of the Dark narrated by Neil Hellegers
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- 10-06-24
A perfect into into love craft
I have been interested in love crafts work in passing but have never read any of his books for one reason or another but I saw this and decided to pick it up. It starts with some of the history of love craft and at the start of each story it talks about another snippet of his life around the time he wrote that story and I found these small snippets very interesting and I now find myself even more interested in his history and the other books that where not included in this collection. And of course the books were awesome I didn’t love all of them but if you like the genre you will have to find some interesting stories in the 50 hours
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- john eastridge
- 10-01-24
DELETE INTROS
Each story has a completely annoying little intro before it begins. Unnecessary, unwanted, unsophisticated. Why do this? Not everyone wants to have context and SPOILERS before they start a story. Also the guys voice sounds like he is drunk? As for the narrators, some of them are good, the man with the British accent is excellent, though lovecraft should really be read by an American. Would you have an American read Charles dickens? No. Some of the American narrators are utterly terrible and amateurish.
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