The Lurking Fear, and Other Stories
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Narrated by:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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H. P. Lovecraft
About this listen
H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is a primary influence of countless iconic authors, and even now, nearly a century after its publication, its themes of cosmic horror and madness remain at the forefront of supernatural literature, as well as being highly influential in the mediums of music, film, and video games. But Lovecraft's expansive imagination didn't stop there. This five-story volume contains some fascinating rarities outside the Cthulhu Mythos.
The Lurking Fear includes examples of Lovecraft's earliest weird fiction including "Hypnos", "What the Moon Brings", "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs", and "Memory" (inspiration for the 2014 film of the same name), as well as the title story, "The Lurking Fear", a traditional horror study commissioned by George Julian Houtain to be run as a serial in Home Brew magazine in 1923 that has served as the source material for multiple films and been adapted into a comic book.
Only H. P. Lovecraft could conceive the delicious and spine-tingling horrors you will find within this unique five-story collection.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-12-22
Spooky
Very atmospheric and the narration is on point for the genre. Will buy more great work
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- Gillian Heath
- 10-05-24
One of the best
The problem with works in the public domain is that anyone can read them and not everyone should; but this was excellent. It’s not classic Cthulhu Lovecraft, but close enough to give a taste. If you like eldritch, and gibbering, and monstrous ululating-try it!
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- Aleksejs Skorodumovs
- 01-01-23
This is silly
I do think that there are some modern story writers who are very good in expanding on the Lovecraftian universe and Cthulhu mythos. There are numerous stories, games, and even some movies that manage to build awesomeness upon this material. But Lovecraftian books themselves are mostly silly scary tales for children. And I think the only thing that really scares me in these stories is the choice of adjectives used to smother the listener.
He may be the first guy to write this sort of fiction, but you got to admit these stories are mediocre at best, and only present historical value 🤷♂️
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- a lisa
- 12-11-24
classic Lovecraft
classic Lovecraft, so much of his writings are stuck on his obsession with this parallel world of alien-monster-demon horror, and not as a metaphor for hell and punishment for sin, but just for the fun of it. it feels incredibly repetitive, even if he does sometimes manage to write atmospheric scenes.
everything i've seen so far from Lovecraft seems very similar, and i'm not a big fan of that, but it's great to have the book.
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- L. Wildsmith
- 30-06-22
Not for me
Perhaps it's due the stories being a product of their time, but as a modern listener, I found them to be very boring and anticlimactic. I also found some of the narrator's pronunciations to be very off putting
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