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Necronomicon
- Narrated by: Richard Powers, Bronson Pinchot, Stephen R. Thorne, Keith Szarabajka, Adam Verner, Tom Weiner, Patrick Cullen
- Length: 21 hrs and 1 min
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The only audio edition of Necronomicon authorized by the H. P. Lovecraft Estate!
Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s, H. P. Lovecraft's astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published. This tome brings together all of Lovecraft's harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft's fiction, as well as attract those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.
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- mike
- 06-23-16
This has bugged me for a while...
Sometimes you just want to listen to a specific story. For the life of me, I can't understand why anthologies like his aren't broken into chapters or at least labeled in the descriptions. This should help with that. The numbers might be off by a second or two, but will get you to the beginning of each story.
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- Scott Hammond
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Good Collection, Confusing Title
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
First things first: I'm reviewing the Audiobook listed above, with the black cover featuring blue tentacles and the title "Necronomicon" in bold white caps. Why do I specify? Because there are evidently several different books out there with the same title. Very confusing to a potential buyer, and the reviews I read before purchasing this audiobook were misleading. Regardless of the publisher's summary, it does not contain all of Lovecraft's "harrowing stories" and it doesn't include all of the Cthulhu mythos stories.
I'm not sorry I bought the book, but it simply wasn't what it was represented to be. Another issue: another reviewer listed the stories included in this volume. Well, they're not the stories in the audiobook I bought. By the way, a Table of Contents would be nice, maybe even a downloadable information sheet. In order to learn what my audiobook had in it, I had to go through all 63 chapters and deduce which stories they were associated with. For example, the second selection in the audiobook, "Herbert West..." takes up six chapters. Also, unless you can recognize a reader's voice, there's no way to tell who is narrating each story.
This volume contains:
DAGON; HERBERT WEST-REANIMATOR; THE LURKING FEAR; THE RATS IN THE WALLS; THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS; COOL AIR; IN THE VAULT; THE CALL OF CTHULHU; THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE; THE HORROR AT REDHOOK; THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN; THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME; THE DUNWICH HORROR; THE HAUNTER IN THE DARK; THE OUTSIDER; THE SHUNNED HOUSE; THE UNNAMABLE; THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP; UNDER THE PYRAMIDS
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I began with my favorite Lovecraft story, "The Shadow Out of Time." I happened to recognize the narrator's voice, Keith Szarabajka, and he was excellent. A lot of Lovecraft's stories are first person narratives, making an audiobook like this one an outstanding way to experience Lovecraft. I'm looking forward to working my way through every story in the volume.
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Keith Szarabajka did a commendable job on "The Shadow Out of Time." I'd also like to commend the narrators of "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Herbert West", but I have no idea who they were.
Did Necronomicon inspire you to do anything?
Sleep with a light on.
Any additional comments?
This is a good audiobook with great stories and well-done narration, but it suffers somewhat by a poorly chosen, all too common title, and an evident publisher's disregard for the little things that might have greatly improved the buyer's experience.
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Despite their similarity, the stories make an entertaining and varied set, from outrageous Frankenstein parody and rustic undertaker farce to mental time travel and cross-species baby rearing. Here is an annotated list.
1. Dagon (1917)
The narrator has run out of the morphine he'd been taking to forget "a vast reach of black slime" full of rotting fish things, aquatic hieroglyphics, and Dagon.
2. Herbert West, Reanimator (1922)
"Damnit, it wasn't quite fresh enough!" Despite the redundant summaries that open each chapter, this is an absorbing novella as the narrator recounts his years assisting the boyish, blond, blue-eyed Herbert West, a "Baudelaire of physical experiment" questing to "overcome the thing we call death."
3. The Lurking Fear (1922)
The "connoisseur of horror" narrator heads for a demon haunted Catskill mansion, and, desperate to get to the innermost secret of fear, soon enough witnesses diabolic caricatures of the monkey tribe capering around.
4. The Rats in the Walls (1923)
When the narrator tries to renovate his cursed ancestral priory, he and his nine cats are "Poised on the brink of frightful revelations" involving a "scampering army of obscene vermin" whose appetites resemble what we do to each other.
5. The Whisperer in the Darkness (1930)
Receiving "invitations to strange surgery and stranger voyagings," an instructor of lit at Miskatonic U learns that "Close contact with the utterly bizarre is often more terrifying than inspiring."
6. Cool Air (1926)
When the fastidious narrator rents a room in a boarding house with "a hint of obscure cookery" run by a bearded Spanish landlady, he befriends Munoz, an abnormal doctor, "paying him overcoated calls" in his refrigerated room.
7. In the Vault (1925)
A careless, callous village undertaker cuts corners for the last time: "And so the prisoner toiled in the twilight, heaving the unresponsive remnants of mortality with little ceremony as his miniature Tower of Babel rose course by course."
8. The Call of Cthulhu (1926) (Pinchot)
Blasphemous cults, obscene gulfs of time, inimical lurking aliens, provocative correlations between disparate cultures, slimy Cyclopean cities of a wrong geometry, sensitive men going mad, and a narrator who researches horrifying secrets. N-not to mention anthropologists, theosophists, and philologists; police investigators, decadent sculptors, and "negro fetishists"; degenerate diabolist "eskimaux," voodoo swamp priests--and Cthulhu.
9. The Colour Out of Space (1927)
Revealing why the narrator would prefer not to drink Arkham water: a local legend about a meteor that fell on a farm, releasing a demoniac iridescence from beyond which mutated, maddened, and consumed the flora, fauna, and family.
10. The Horror at Red Hook (1925)
In the Red Hook slum, a sensitive 42-year-old NYC policeman experiences a hellish revelation involving illegal mongoloid aliens, child sacrifice, pre-human devil dances, Lilith, hell's organ, Satan's court (under the streets of NYC!).
11. The Music of Eric Zahn (1921)
The student of metaphysics narrator rents a room in a house wherein he hears unearthly music apparently coming from the room of the reclusive German viol player above him. Why won't Zahn let him look through his shuttered window?
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In mid-lecture an economics prof at Miskatonic U suffers an attack of "amnesia" like a case of possession by a "secondary mind." Five years later he suddenly returns to himself, fearing that his vivid dreams are memories of being a "captive mind" 150 million years ago.
13. The Dunwich Horror (1928)
After the birth of a goat-faced, fast-growing boy to a twisted albino woman in degenerate Dunwich (where the whippoorwills are demoniac psychopomps), Dr. Armitage, an erudite, 73-year old librarian at Miskatonic U, steps in.
14. The Haunter of the Dark (1935)
A writer/painter of Lovecraftian horror (like "The Feaster from the Stars") enters a shunned Providence church: "Probably they were mere legends evoked by the evil look of the place, but even so, they were like a strange coming to life of one of his own stories."
15. The Outsider (1921) (Pinchot)
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17. The Unnameable (1923) (Pinchot)
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There are two disappointing features of the audiobook. First, the stories are arranged neither chronologically nor thematically. Second, there is no list of which readers read which stories. Apart from the inspired Bronson Pinchot, who caresses his four tales with macabre import, relishing lines like "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn," I have no idea who reads what. And I would like to know that, if only to avoid one reader among the many good ones who botches Lovecraft's rhythm and pacing with unwanted pauses and says "horror" with one syllable: e.g., "in quest of greater whores."
Fans of Lovecraft and aficionados of horror should give this collection a listen, not only because Lovecraft is such an influential figure in 20th-century horror and sf, but also because his stories, despite their pulp origins and unpleasant racism, classism, and sexism evoke half-chortle half-shiver fascination and offer great writing:
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
"Bodies were always nuisances."
"We were now burrowing bodily through the midst of the picture, and I seemed to find in its necromancy a thing I had innately known or inherited, and for which I had always been vainly searching."
"Smash that record!"
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- Calliope
- 07-03-16
Some great, some good, some interesting
Others have offered a list of what's included (Maliboo's list is incomplete), but here I'll add a list of which chapters correspond to which stories......I found that information very helpful in allowing me to choose shorter or longer stories to listen to.
Dagon (Ch. 1)
Herbert West: Re-Animator (Ch. 2 - 7)
The Lurking Fear (Ch. 8)
The Rats in the Walls (Ch. 9)
The Whisperer in Darkness (Ch. 10 - 17)
Cool Air (Ch. 18)
In the Vault (Ch. 19)
The Call of Cthluhu (Ch. 20 - 22)
The Color Out of Space (Ch. 23)
The Horror at Red Hook (Ch. 24 - 30)
The Music of Eric Zahn (Ch. 31)
The Shadow Out of Time (Ch 32 - 39)
The Dunwich Horror (Ch. 40 - 49)
The Haunter of the Dark (Ch. 50)
The Outsider (Ch. 51)
The Shunned House (Ch. 52 - 56)
The Unnamable (Ch. 57)
The Thing on the Doorstep (Ch. 58 - 62)
Under the Pyramids (Ch. 63)
I am not a huge Lovecraft fan, but I thought some short stories would allow me small tastes of his different subjects and themes, without getting too much and getting turned off by the sparse writing and thin characters. It was a good mix. The narrators varied in quality from fair to very good, as did the stories. I consider this a good mix for those unsure of how much they will like Lovecraft, because they, like I can enjoy small bits over months without feeling like they're losing the thread of a longer book.
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- Karen
- 04-10-15
Masterful!
I'm not one to write reviews, but after listening to Lovecraft's Necronomicon, I'm motivated. To start with, this is my first read by H.P. Lovecraft. I have known of his writings for many years, but just have never picked up a book, I did well in starting with this collection of stories.
The performances were well done and did not distract from the stories. The stories are amazing, Lovecraft builds the stories with firm foundations and builds and builds leading the reader in anticipation until you are sitting on the edge of your chair. It is so refreshing in this world of "fast"-"express" everything, to read something that takes the time to use the quality of words that fully describe the scene that Lovecraft is painting and is sorely lacking in a great deal of today's storytelling.
Bottom line, if you like this genre of story, if you've even slightly thought of reading Lovecraft, then I recommend this book to start with.
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- Kyle
- 07-11-17
a slog but worth the time
Solid, if varied, narration. I found Lovecraft's style listless rather than haunting. However, I still feel that Lovecraft was a hole in my reading and I'm glad I made time for Necronomicron.
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- Maliboo
- 08-14-14
Audiobook Contents
Dagon
Herbert West: Re-Animator
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Whisperer in Darkness
Cool Air
In the Vault
The Call of Cthluhu
The Colour Out of Space
The Horror at Red Hook
The Haunter of the Dark
The Outsider
The Shunned House
The Unnamable
The Thing on the Doorstep
Under the Pyramids
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- Kenneth D. Borum
- 10-31-19
H.P. is not a good writer
Lovecraft's writing is very dull and over written for how little substance his words actually have. Maybe in the early 1900's this was considered entertaining but with today's advancement of art and literature, even as a study his work could and probably should just be ignored.
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- David
- 08-28-15
Excellent Essential Lovecraft
Here is the complete list of stories in this audiobook:
Dagon
Herbert West, Reanimator
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Whisperer in the Darkness
Cool Air
In the Vault
The Call of Cthulhu
The Color Out of Space
The Horror at Red Hook
The Music of Eric Zahn
The Shadow Out of Time
The Dunwich Horror
The Haunter of the Dark
The Outsider
The Shunned House
The Unnameable
The Thing on the Doorstep
Under the Pyramids
The five star rating for this book is not because I think every story (or even most of them) were 5 stars, or because Lovecraft was a great writer (though I do think he was a better writer than he's often given credit for). It's because these stories are essential reading. Like him or hate him, Lovecraft casts a long, dark shadow over all of American fantasy and horror, and in fact, the stories are mostly pretty good, in a very dated way. Yes, Lovecraft wrote purple. Yes, his characterization is usually pretty thin. And yes, he was a horrible racist and it shows in his writing. But no one who touched this genre after him has been untouched by it, and if you have ever been awed or frightened or scared by a tale of eldritch horrors, unfathomable beings from beyond time and space, bubbling squamous obscenities so horrible that the very sight of them will erode your sanity, or vast, alien, cosmic gods inimical to humans and regarding us the way we regard germs... well, that's all Lovecraftian influence.
You also have Lovecraft to thank for a raft of awesome boardgames and RPGs, from the classic Call of Cthulhu to Eldritch Horror and Cthulhu Wars.
While Lovecraft's stories are typically labeled fantasy (hence his likeness being the trophy for the World Fantasy Award), he was really a science fiction writer, or perhaps science fantasy. His Elder Gods and the inhuman things that served them were not "gods" in the sense of being truly divine, but rather vast cosmic powers who exist on a scale beyond human comprehension. The "magic" sometimes found in his stories, even spells read from books like the Necronomicon, are likewise means of bending reality in ways Man Was Not Meant to Know, but ultimately his creatures are aliens, not demons, and his supernatural horror stems from science perverted beyond recognition, not from arcane witchcraft. Whenever something in the way of a more "traditional" monster appears in a Lovecraft story, like a mere ghost or vampire or werewolf, it's probably something much, much worse.
This collection contains most of Lovecraft's better known stories, focusing largely on his Cthulhu mythos cycle, so there is lots of squamous horror here. All the familiar names are here: Cthulhu, Hastur, Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, Yog-Sothoth, Dagon, etc. Monsters of all shapes and sizes, and degenerate inbred New England townsfolk who usually have nasty things in their barns, wells, attics, and woods.
If you want a Lovecraft primer, this is a good start. I'd read all these stories before, but many of them I had not read for years, so I enjoyed going through the classics again even if they don't bring me quite the same feeling of existential horror they did when I was a teenager.
It's a fine collection of creepy and fantasy stories, and great inspiration before playing a game of Arkham Horror or Call of Cthulhu.
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- Thomas Ciminello
- 04-11-16
A Very Mixed Bag
Having never read any of Lovecrafts works but always intending to, I used my first Audible credit for Necromicon.
The first issue was with the way the app breaks down the chapters simply by numbering them 1 to 63. If this was a single book that wouldn't be a concern but as a compendium of stories you have no way to easily locate a favorite. Some chapters are full stories yet some chapters include several sub chapters. Could have been done better IMO.
The various narrators were not credited to the particular stories they read so I have no way to know who my favorites were, I thought it would have been worth noting .
As for Mr Lovecrafts works... Some hits and misses to be sure. Great premises and incredibly imaginative and groundbreaking stuff on one hand and yet repetitive and tediously wordy on the other. Is it blasphemy to say it wasn't up to my expectations? Maybe but there it is.
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- Ian
- 09-28-15
An Excellent Collection, but NOT Complete.
Any additional comments?
The book contains these stories:
Part One
1. Dagon
2. Herbert West, Reanimator
8. The Lurking Fear
9. The Rats in the Walls
10. The Whisperer in Darkness
18. Cool Air
19. In the Vault
20. The Call of Cthulhu
23. The Color Out of Space
24. The Horror at Red Hook
Part Two
1. The Music of Eric Zahn
2. The Shadow out of Time
10. The Dunwich Horror
20. The Haunter of the Dark
21. The Outsider
22. The Shunned House
27. The Unnameable
28. The Thing on the Doorstep
The numbers are the chapter numbers. The audiobook is presented as a series of chapters, some stories take up multiple chapters, but there is no indication which stories start where, so I made this list.
The review claims that all the stories are here, but as you can see, many of the most significant stories are not present, including The Shadow over Innsmouth, and Beyond the Mountains of Madness.
The stories that are here are wide ranging, excellently read and good stories. If this is your first experience of Lovecraft, then this is a perfect introduction, and a good representative of his work. If you're interested because of its claim to have all the stories, then be warned. Personally, I don't want to return it, because I'm enjoying it greatly, and I think it is excellent value for money/1 credit. I was just disappointed it was misadvertised.
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- Cora-May
- 11-26-16
Absolutely fantastic.
I listened to this while working and often found myself stopping to focus on the stories. Lovecraft is a genius and the narrators are wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will probably listen to again soon.
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- Derek
- 09-16-15
Need better documentation
This audio book contains many shorter stories. It would be great if there was some documentation of which stories these are and what chapters on the audio book these respond to.
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- JPS
- 02-15-18
Read by robots.... American robots
Several of the voice actors used in the audio book were terrible. There was very little emotion, pacing or dramatic inflections that would have given the stories more life. They sounded like they were read by robots or, at the least, someone who had never read them before. Fortunately, Lovecraft was an excellent writer and I was able to finish and even enjoy the stories. It could have been so much better with decent voice actors.....
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- Storm
- 02-19-15
Eldtrich and unspoken horror...no, wait!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, I've loved it! I assume you already know Lovecraft if you're looking at this so I'll review it with that in mind.
The stories are well read and, although it's not quite as creepy as reading them yourself, it's still great and...come on, you get about 65 stories here, for ONE CREDIT?
That has to be (at the mountains of) madness!
What did you like best about this story?
I sometimes work at night and driving around the dark, wintry streets of Glasgow, often out in the sticks, with this audiobook playing in the background....brilliant!
Which character – as performed by the narrators – was your favourite?
Some of the narrators are great, some not so much.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I locked the doors in my car when I was listening in the dark....who knows what lurking horror might have crept up on me?
Lovecraft is never terrifying or shocking in a 21st century way, but his writing is always creepy and sticks in your mind. This collection does a fine job of bringing that crawling chaos to life.
Any additional comments?
Considering I got this for one monthly credit I honestly can't complain. There's 60-odd stories, all professionally read and that is just great value for money. I've read the stories dozens of times myself over the years and yet still found myself wanting to listen more to this to see what happened next. And I've only listened to the first few stories so far! Can't wait until I hear the likes of "Shadow Over Innsmouth" or "The Call of Ktulu" (oops, sorry, I've got Metallica on just now, got mixed up for a sec!).
Needless to say, if the quality drops I'll edit my review but for now I just wanted to post my thoughts as there's not a lot for other listeners to go on.
Trust me - if you're a fan of HPL give this a go.
Steven A. McKay, author of the Lovecraftian histfic novella "Knight of the Cross" (also on Audible!).
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- Lungsford
- 08-06-16
The Oracle
This is the starting point for a journey of Victorian Ethereal Horror. Beware it is old and has the terrible view on other races and cultures that the period shared. Ignoring these cringworthy moments it is an epic journey into the dark corners of our universe.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-13-15
Too much
Any additional comments?
I know that Lovecraft has been very influential and is much admired by some. I liked some of it too, and most of the several narrators were competent. In the end though, this compilation is just too much of material that is too uniform. In the latter half I found myself waiting for the next occurrence of "demoniac", "cyclopian" or "unspeakable" and truth to tell, I never had to wait long. If you opt for this title, my advice would be to listen to a story then listen to a different book, then come back for another Lovecraft tale another day!
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- douglas
- 04-21-16
great collection. some voices good some average.
Worth a listen if you like Gothic horror originals. Some difficulty with Lovecraft's racism or rather race ideas... makes some of his characters all the more nightmarish... and those are his heros . Read in context of the age its digestible. The world he creates through scraps and mini epics is sufferingly vast and with a life of its own. Disturbing over use of the word Cyclopean .
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- felix
- 05-14-15
Increasingly creepy
The longer you listen, the more you realise lots of the stories intertwine.
There is something exceedingly strange about the way Lovecraft shows his 'cosmic horror' that will. She you want to go back and re listen to many of the stories.
Some readers are clearly better than others but you very quickly get absorbed into their particular reading style. I particularly enjoyed those who read the stories as one large monologue.
Overall very good, my personal favourite being 'the whisperer in the darkness' closely followed by 'the outsider'
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- Katya
- 05-08-15
Not a bad collection
Good narration - very atmospheric. If you don't yet have any Lovecraft in your library, then this is the perfect start!
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- David
- 12-23-17
A good selection of Lovecraft's stories
There are a few standout stories, but the archaic language can be difficult to get through at times, especially if the story doesn't engage you. It's easy to consume a single story in one sitting. The many narrators perform well, bringing life to each story's first person narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-14-20
king of cosmic horror
Well narrated by all involved, and Lovecraft is always great. In a time where people are "cancelled" for their views I think it's important to reinforce the ability to like someone's work even if you don't agree with them
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- Delamotte
- 01-15-17
Very good book !
Really nice book ! I like how they create this chaotic universe into a real world, using some date, place and different evenement in a world
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- Kate Cefai
- 09-21-16
Fantastic
superbly horrific stories as only Lovecraft can deliver. the performances were brilliant and really helped lend the creepy and terrible air to the tales.
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- Attila
- 09-28-17
Not the infinitive collection.
Not the infinitive collection of the author or his best works. While the narration is very good, I just cant forgive why some of his less popular stories are included here while other stories that are widely agreed to be his best work were not included. Needed to return.
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- mcfrood
- 08-15-17
Lovecraft loves his adjectives a little too much. Performances highly variable.
Why use 1 adjective when you can use 6! That's Lovecraft's philosophy :-)
Nonetheless his stories are absolutely compelling.
The narrators are very variable. Some are fantastic. Some very average.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-13-20
some narrators great, some bad
I LOVE the stories. I found about half the narrating to be spot on. the other half I struggled to listen to because of repetitive jarring emphasises and pauses.
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- JAMIE
- 01-30-19
All my life
I have known of HP Lovecraft all my reading life but never thought I would be interested in horror stories . Had read these stories myself at a younger age I dought I would have liked them as much . The narrator's are perfectly matched to the stories ,giving them the right amount of creepiness. I definitely be looking for more in this vain .Mr Lovecraft was way ahead of his time and can tell tales that stand the test of time.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-27-18
citizenfry
can be a bit "wordy" but really great story telling, good for long trips and to unwind with.
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- Geometer
- 01-30-18
Great collection of H. P. Lovecraft's work!
Great collection of H. P. Lovecraft's work. It should really have an index so you can find a specific story, though.