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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, born August 20, 1890, began composing rudimentary horror tales by the age of 8. He’s best remembered for cooking up his very own genre, Cosmic Horror, featuring monsters so powerful and terrifying that just seeing them will likely drive you insane.

H. P. Lovecraft gilt als Begründer des modernen kosmischen Horrors – ein Erzähler, der das Grauen nicht im Sichtbaren, sondern im Unbegreiflichen verortet. Seine Geschichten öffnen den Blick auf eine Wirklichkeit jenseits menschlicher Vorstellungskraft, in der uralte Mächte, vergessene Zivilisationen und verbotene Erkenntnisse lauern. Diese Hörbuch-Edition vereint zentrale Erzählungen seines Werkes und führt in die düstere, faszinierende Welt des sogenannten „Cthulhu-Mythos".

The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft follows a lone traveler who ventures into an ancient, half-buried ruin deep in the Arabian desert, a place older than human history and shunned by legend. Drawn by curiosity, he explores its strange low-built corridors and underground passages, where he discovers carvings and relics revealing a forgotten reptilian civilization that flourished long before mankind.

An ancient tradition… and a descent into something far older than memory. In The Festival, H. P. Lovecraft delivers a chilling tale of inherited ritual, hidden passageways, and the terrifying pull of the unknown. Returning to his ancestral town during the winter solstice, a lone traveler is...

Enter the eerie world of H. P. Lovecraft with this essential collection featuring three of his most haunting and influential tales: The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Over Innsmouth. A must-listen for fans of cosmic horror, classic weird fiction, and unsettling supernatural...

In this unnerving collection of cosmic horror, H. P. Lovecraft casts his gaze far beyond our fragile Earth, revealing a universe vast, uncaring, and filled with incomprehensible forces. These seven stories confront the listener with the terrifying notion that mankind is not alone, not significant, and not safe. From ancient aliens buried in Antarctic ice to cryptic transmissions from the void, these tales chronicle the slow unravelling of minds exposed to truths no human was meant to grasp.

The Shunned House is a horror fiction novelette by American author H.P. Lovecraft, written on October 16–19, 1924. It was first published in the October 1937 issue of Weird Tales. For many years, the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, have nurtured a fascination with an old abandoned house on Benefit Street. Dr. Whipple has made extensive records tracking the mysterious, yet apparently coincidental, sickness and death of many who have lived in the house for over one hundred years.

The Tomb is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home.

This story takes place in the ancient valley of Nis, in vegetation-covered stone ruins described by Lovecraft in great detail. These crumbling blocks of monolithic stone now serve only for grey toads and snakes to nest under. Interspersed in the ruins are large trees that are home to little apes. Through the bottom of this valley runs the great, slimy red river called Than. "Memory" involves only two characters: "the Genie that haunts the moonbeams" and "the Daemon of the Valley".

The story involves a mine that uncovers a very deep chasm, too deep for any sounding lines to hit bottom. The night after the discovery of the abyss the narrator and one of the mine's workers, a Mexican called Juan Romero, venture together inside the mine, drawn against their will by a mysterious rhythmical throbbing in the ground. Romero reaches the abyss first and is swallowed by it. The narrator peers over the edge, sees something – "but God, I dare not tell you what I saw!" and loses consciousness. The next morning, the narrator and the deceased Romero are both found in their bunks.

The story begins with Detective Malone describing an on-duty incident in Red Hook, Brooklyn, that gave him a phobia of large buildings. Back-tracking to where it all began, the Brooklyn waterfront slum Red Hook is described in detail, with its gangs and crime, and hinting at an occult underbelly. The "case of Robert Suydam" is then told to be the driving force behind Malone's federally ordered involvement at Red Hook. Suydam's demeanor changes suddenly. Known as a shabby recluse, he is seen around town looking younger and more radiant.

Discover three haunting tales from H. P. Lovecraft in The Best of H. P. Lovecraft, featuring The Quest of Iranon, He, and The Trap. This classic collection brings together eerie fantasy, cosmic mystery, and unsettling supernatural fiction from one of horror literature’s most influential...

Explore The Collected Short Stories of H. P. Lovecraft, featuring The Dreams in the Witch House, The Silver Key, and Through the Gates of the Silver Key. This classic horror and dark fantasy collection brings together eerie dreamscapes, mysterious keys, cosmic terror, and Lovecraft’s...

A chilling collection of H. P. Lovecraft horror tales featuring eerie dread, dark folklore, and supernatural terror. This classic volume includes “The Curse of Yig,” “Medusa’s Coil,” and “The Horror in the Burying-Ground” for readers who enjoy gothic horror, weird fiction, and...

Enter the eerie world of H. P. Lovecraft with three haunting classics: The Shunned House, The Festival, and The Horror at Red Hook. This chilling collection blends cosmic dread, dark mystery, and gothic suspense for fans of timeless horror fiction...

The Statement of Randolph Carter is the first person testimony of the titular character, who has been found wandering through swampland in an amnesiac shock. In his statement, Carter attempts to explain the disappearance of his companion, the occultist Harley Warren. Warren has come into the possession of a book, written in an unknown language, the exact contents of which he never revealed to Carter. Carter mentions that Warren has other "strange, rare books on forbidden subjects", several of which are in Arabic.

The story revolves around a young man who becomes obsessed with an abandoned crypt. Originally built to house the members of a powerful local family, the crypt was abandoned after a fire consumed the family’s home and compelled them to move away. Despite living in the local area and having an entirely different surname, the narrator of the story claims some spurious relation to the powerful family. With this obsession ingrained he starts to spend his nights loitering outside the crypt and dreaming up ways of gaining access.

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounders. The letter, to his friend Bernard Austin Dwyer, recounted a dream that Lovecraft had had. Although Lovecraft frequently based stories on his dreams, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia notes that " is difficult to say how HPL would have developed this conventional supernatural scenario.

"The Thing in the Moonlight" is a short story by J. Chapman Miske. The story is based on a letter dated November 24, 1927 from H. P. Lovecraft to Donald Wandrei describing one of Lovecraft's dreams. The story was prepared for publication by Miske, who filled in the story surrounding the description of the dream. In places, the letter and published story are identical to Lovecraft's style. It was first published in Bizarre magazine on January 1941.

Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited. With great difficulty, Olney climbs the crag, approaches the house, and meets the mysterious man who lives there. The only door opens directly onto a sheer cliff, giving access only to mist and "the abyss".