The Essential Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft
Language: EnglishKeywords:
Cosmic Horror
Cthulhu
Eldritch Horror
weird tales
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Read by Full Cast, Fred Burman, Kevin Pariseau, Matt Godfrey, Peter Berkrot, Robert Fass, Timothy Andrés Pabon, Paul Woodson, Avi Roque, Raphael Corkhill
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged
This is already here at 64kpbs. This version is encoded from the USAC codec version which is 130kbps 44.1kHz.
I have converted it to FDK VBR 5.
This version is fully chaptered with labelled introductions for each story.
There were comments on the other torrent bemoaning the introductions so I am also uploading a torrent with them removed.
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The Essential Lovecraft
Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection, 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.
Stories:
“The Tomb” narrated by Fred Berman
“Dagon narrated by Gregory Connors
“Polaris” narrated by Simon Vance
“Beyond the Wall of Sleep” narrated by Dan Bittner
“The Transition of Juan Romero” narrated by Raphael Corkhill
“The Statement of Randolph Carter” narrated by William DeMerritt
“The Doom That Came to Sarnath” narrated by Peter Berkrot
“The Terrible Old Man” narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
“The Cats of Ulthar” narrated by Vikas Adam
“Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family” narrated by Simon Vance
“The Temple” narrated by Sascha Rotermund
“Celephaïs” narrated by Simon Vance
“From Beyond” narrated by Mirron Willis
“Nyarlathotep” narrated by Kevin Kenerly
“The Picture in the House” narrated by Neil Hellegers
“Ex Oblivione” narrated by Jason Culp
“The Nameless City” narrated by Jonathan Davis
“The Quest of Iranon” narrated by Avi Roque
“The Outsider” narrated by Raphael Corkhill
“The Other Gods” narrated by Vikas Adam
“The Music of Erich Zann” narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
“Herbert West: Reanimator” narrated by Jay Snyder
“The Unnamable” narrated by William DeMerritt
“The Hound” narrated by Raphael Corkhill
“The Lurking Fear” narrated by Jay Snyder
“The Rats in the Walls” narrated by Paul Woodson
“The Festival” narrated by Fred Berman
“Under the Pyramids” narrated by Jonathan Davis
“The Shunned House” narrated by Robert Fass
“The Horror at Red Hook” narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
“He” narrated by Marc Vietor
“Cool Air” narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon
“The Call of Cthulhu” narrated by Matt Godfrey
“The Silver Key” narrated by William DeMerritt
“Pickman’s Model” narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla
“The Strange High House in the Mist” narrated by Kevin Kenerly
“The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” narrated by William DeMerritt
“The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
“The Colour Out of Space” narrated by Gregory Connors
“History of the Necronomicon” narrated by Simon Vance
“The Dunwich Horror” narrated by Marc Vietor
“The Whisperer in Darkness” narrated by Kevin Pariseau
“At the Mountains of Madness” narrated by Scott Brick
“The Shadow over Innsmouth” narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
“The Dreams in the Witch House” narrated by Dan Bittner
“The Thing on the Doorstep” narrated by Jason Culp
“The Shadow Out of Time” narrated by Kevin Kenerly
“The Haunter of the Dark” narrated by Neil Hellegers
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This post has 4 comments with rating of 5/5
March 6th, 2026
Amazing, tysm for putting this together ❤️
March 6th, 2026
Here is the torrent with the Intros removed, https://audiobookbay.lu/abss/the-essential-lovecraft-introductions-music-removed-hp-lovecraft/
March 6th, 2026
Great, thank you!
March 10th, 2026
I am trying again. When I first read Lovecraft 20 years ago, I was excited because I heard so many good things. But every story I read reeked of racism, nativism, xenophobia, and an unspoken sexism which denies women any agency or even any existence at all. At least this was true of the stories that I read, and the Red Hook story was one of the first which I now understand to be one of his most notorious. (Btw,using the time that he wrote as an excuse doesn’t work. Consider Poe, Shelly’s Frankenstein, etc. But it says something of our time that Lovecraft has become so popular. This seems to have coincided with the backlash against the civil rights movement, 1980 onward, and it really hit its stride, I think, after 9/11, when fear of the Oriental/Arab Other became more widespread than it had been for 100 years.)
[2] I’m going to try again with this download (I’ve tried by reading and by listening to his stories.) I haven’t found anything yet (except maybe his early story The hound, which I barely remember) that doesn’t express his hate and paranoia of non-white immigrants — be it directly (like the Red Hook story) or in references to ancient evil races (his word choice, instead of species, etc) who used languages we can’t begin to pronounce or understand. (Am I the only one who sees the lovecraft’s ancient/evil language thing as the equivalent of grade schoolers mimicking and making fun people speaking in unfamiliar foreign languages??)
[3] I’m also going to try to listen to him with the open mind and fresh mind in regard to the quality of his writing. I’ve tried this before however. But I always find myself disgusted and disappointed with his writing when he falls back on phrases like “beyond description” and “beyond imagination” — which basically tells the reader that we’re on our own trying to imagine what he’s got pictured in his head but is incapable of putting into words. (Nothing he refers to is beyond imagination, because he’s imagined it before writing it or he’s imagining it as he’s writing)
I know that there are some excellent writers, including at least a couple politically progressive (I think) African American authors, who I think were hooked on Lovecraft when they were young, and didn’t see the xenophobia and racism initially.
It’s partly because of them that I keep giving Lovecraft another chance. And I know that some elements in his stories have provided great material for writers who are not racist or xenophobic.
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