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A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror - John Hornor Jacobs Shared by:XxSiCABySsXx Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself. In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself. Breathtaking and haunting, A Lush and Seething Hell is a terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden.

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New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos - ed. Ramsey Campbell Shared by:Hellblazer1138 Anthology of eight stories presented as a tribute to H.P. Lovecraft and as additions to the subgenre he favored, in which elements of science fiction and horror fiction are mixed. Includes tales by Stephen King, Frank Belknap Long, Basil Copper, H.P. Lovecraft, and Ramsey Campbell. Stories in this collection: 01) Introduction by Ramsey Campbell 02) Crouch End by Stephen King 03) The Star Pools by A. A. Attanasio 04) The Second Wish by Brian Lumley 05) Dark Awakening by Frank Belknap Long 06) Shaft Number 247 by Basil Copper 07) Black Man with a Horn by T. E. D. Klein 08) The Black Tome of Alsophocus by H. P. Lovecraft & Martin S. Warnes 09) Than Curse the Darkness by David Drake 10) The Faces at Pine Dunes by Ramsey Campbell

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The Adventure of the Deadly Dimensions (Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu #1) - Lois H. Gresh Shared by:Lieve A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his former partner, Dr. John Watson. They discover the common thread tying together the murders. Bizarre geometries, based on ancient schematics, enable otherworldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking to wreak havoc and destruction. The persons responsible are gaining so much power that even Holmes’ greatest enemy fears them - to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance.

The Adventure of the Neural Psychoses (Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu #2) - Lois H. Gresh Shared by:Lieve Amelia Scarcliffe’s monstrous brood, harbingers of Cthulhu, will soon spawn. Her songs spell insanity, death…and illimitable wealth. And Moriarty will do anything to get his hands on gold, even if it means tearing down the walls between this world and a realm of horrors. Meanwhile, after Sherlock Holmes’s last tangle with the Order of Dagon, horrifying monsters haunt the Thames, and madness stalks the streets of Whitechapel. Gang war between Moriarty’s thugs and the powerful cult can only bring more terror - unless Holmes and Dr. Watson can prevent it. But can they find the cause of the neural psychoses before Watson himself succumbs?

The Adventure of the Innsmouth Mutations (Sherlock Holmes vs. Cthulhu, Book 3) - Lois H. Gresh Shared by: Cardes A series of grisly murders rocks London. At each location, only a jumble of bones remains of the deceased, along with a bizarre sphere covered in strange symbols. The son of the latest victim seeks the help of Sherlock Holmes and his former partner, Dr. John Watson. They discover the common thread tying together the murders. Bizarre geometries, based on ancient schematics, enable otherworldly creatures to enter our dimension, seeking to wreak havoc and destruction. The persons responsible are gaining so much power that even Holmes’ greatest enemy fears them - to the point that he seeks an unholy alliance.

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Tidepool - Aryell Grist Shared by:Cardes In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappeared while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won’t rest until she finds out what happened to him. Defying her father’s orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry is known to have visited. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can’t quite meet Sorrow’s eyes when she asks about her brother. When corpses wash up on shore looking as if they’ve been torn apart by something not quite human, Sorrow is ready to return to Baltimore and let her father send in the professional detectives. However, after meeting Ada Oliver, a widow whose black silk dresses and elegant manners set her apart from other Tidepool residents, Sorrow discovers Tidepool’s dark, deadly secret. With this discovery, some denizens of Tidepool - human and otherwise - are hell-bent on making sure Sorrow never leaves their forsaken town. Lovecraftian dark fantasy gets a modern treatment in this terrifying debut novel.

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H. P. Lovecraft’s Book of the Supernatural - ed. Stephen Jones Shared by:Hellblazer1138 H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft’s own opinions and insights in each author’s work, as well as Henry James’ wonderfully atmospheric short novel, The Turn of the Screw. For every fan of modern horror, here is an opportunity to rediscover the origins of the genre with some of most terrifying stories ever imagined.

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Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Horror in the Museum - HPLHS, H.P. Lovecraft Shared by:Cardes Steven Jones, an entertainment producer from Chicago, journeys to London in search of new attractions. There he discovers the strange and disturbing wax museum of George Rodgers and his inscrutable associate Orabona. Is the mad artist able to conjure up the world’s most horrifying waxen effigies through his occult inspirations, or is there a darker secret lurking behind the wax and paint?

[Gweilo]

These are the definitive  readings of HPL's own stories by H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society read by Andrew Leman and Sean Branney.

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft, H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society Shared by:kingabomination The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced an audio recording of all of Lovecraft’s stories. These are not dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre - rather, this is an audiobook of the original stories, in all-new, never-before-heard recordings made by the HPLHS’ own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney exclusively for this collection. Working from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, this collection spans his entire career from his earliest surviving works of childhood to stories completed shortly before his death. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies. This audio bonanza features 74 stories adding up to more than fifty (50!) hours of Lovecraftian listening fun, professionally performed and recorded for your enjoyment.

The Collaborations of H.P. Lovecraft - H.P. Lovecraft Shared by:kingabomination The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has produced the definitive audio recording of Lovecraft’s collaboration tales. These are not dramatizations like our Dark Adventure Radio Theatre - rather, this is an audiobook of the stories, in all-new, never-before-heard recordings made by the HPLHS’ own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney exclusively for this collection. Working from texts prepared by Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi, this collection features stories HPL wrote with other authors and includes, “The Curse of Yig” (with Zealia Bishop), “The Horror in the Museum”, “The Mound”, “The Night Ocean” (with R.H. Barlow), and many others. All tales include original music by HPLHS composer Troy Sterling Nies. This collection features 33 stories adding up to more than 23 hours of Lovecraftian listening fun, professionally performed and recorded for your enjoyment.

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The Dark Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft, Volumes 1-6 - H. P. Lovecraft Shared by:glenne3 Written by H. P. Lovecraft Read by Wayne June The Dunwich Horror The Call of Cthulhu The Shadow Over Innsmouth Dagon The Horror At Red Hook Herbert West: Re-Animator The Outsider The Statement of Randolph Carter The Rats In the Walls The Shunned House The Music of Eric Zann The Haunter of the Dark The Thing on the Doorstep The Lurking Fear At the Mountains of Madness

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Here's a couple I haven't seen mentioned:

The Fisherman by John Langan Shared by:smirks Written by John Langan Read by Danny Campbell Not explicitly Lovecraftian but definitely very good cosmic horror in a similar vein. In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman’s Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other’s company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there, the remedy to both their losses, they dismiss it as just another fish story. Soon, though, the men find themselves drawn into a tale as deep and old as the Reservoir. It’s a tale of dark pacts, of long-buried secrets, and of a mysterious figure known as Der Fisher: the Fisherman. It will bring Abe and Dan face to face with all that they have lost, and with the price they must pay to regain it.

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest Shared by:Dallis24 Written by Cherie Priest What if Lizzie Borden killed her parents for a very good reason?  What if they were turning into Lovecraftian creatures?

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Two books from the "Arkham Horror" series, based on the RPG set in Lovecraft's Mythos world.

Arkham Horror: Wrath of N’kai - Josh Reynolds Shared by:Strumiker Read by Graphic Audio The first in a new range of dramatized audiobooks of eldritch adventure from the wildly popular Arkham Horror; an international thief of esoteric artifacts stumbles onto a nightmarish cult in 1920s New England. Countess Alessandra Zorzi, international adventurer and thief, arrives in Arkham pursuing an ancient body freshly exhumed from a mound in Oklahoma, of curious provenance and peculiar characteristics. But before she can steal it, another party beats her to it. During the resulting gunfight at the Miskatonic Museum, the countess makes eye contact with the petrified corpse and begins an adventure of discovery outside her wildest experiences. Now, caught between her mysterious client, the police, and a society of necrophagic connoisseurs, she finds herself on the trail of a resurrected mummy as well as the star-born terror gestating within it. Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music.

Arkham Horror: The Last Ritual - S.A. Sidor Shared by:Strumiker Read by Graphic Audio A mad surrealist’s art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy, from the wildly popular world of Arkham Horror. Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent parties for Arkham’s social elite, conjuring arcane illusions which blur the boundaries between nightmare and reality. Only slowly does Alden come to suspect that Balthazarr’s mock rituals are intended to break through those walls and free what lies beyond. Alden must act, but it might already be too late to save himself, let alone Arkham. Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music.

[OpaTsupa]

Which book/story would you suggest for a first introduction to H.P. Lovecraft?
I only now him by fame, and nothing else.
I generally don't consume Fantasy, although I wish I could.

[Gweilo]

Which book/story would you suggest for a first introduction to H.P. Lovecraft?
I only now him by fame, and nothing else.
I generally don't consume Fantasy, although I wish I could.

His best work isn't really fantasy. Often described as "cosmic horror".

Here's a few of his more famous ones, important as part of the "Mythos", the mythology that is the background of many of his stories, and hundreds by other authors since,

The shadow out of time -- psychic time travel
The shadow over Innsmouth -- amphibious humanoids
At the Mountains of Madness -- discovery of an ancient city in Antarctica, his longest story.
Herbert West, reanimator -- what the title says, pretty horrific.
The call of Cthulhu -- his most famous "god" is arising.

The HPLHS collection above has all his stories.
"Tour de Lovecraft" has some interesting commentary:
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FAA1809AD9A8F84D4E380CF0EDA1E6C7

[OpaTsupa]

Thank you.
I've listened to a couple of stories that you listed, but I must admit they were not to my taste.
Perhaps I'm unaccustomed to the short story format, and the few narrators I heard gave it an odd tone.

I've noticed these new editions read by Johnathan Keeble. Are they available anywhere?
I could listen to Johnathan Keeble reading a dishwasher manual.

[Gweilo]

Tales of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft, Joyce Carol Oates Shared by:Hellblazer1138 Written by H. P. Lovecraft, Joyce Carol Oates Read by Conrad Feininger The most important tales of the godfather of the modern horror genre—a master who influenced the works of a generation of writers including Stephen King and Anne Rice—are gathered in one volume by National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates. Stories in this collection: 01) H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates 02) The Outsider (1926) 03) The Music of Erich Zann (1922) 04) The Rats in the Walls (1924) 05) The Shunned House (1928) 06) The Call of Cthulhu (1928) 07) The Colour Out of Space (1927) 08) The Dunwich Horror (1929) 09) At the Mountains of Madness (1936) 10) The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1936) 11) The Shadow Out of Time (1936)

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The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Terror - H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth Shared by:Hellblazer1138 Written by H. P. Lovecraft, August Derleth Read by Conrad Feininger Six tales of horror. In the title piece Abner Whateley’s grandfather left him a strange letter instructing him to destroy every living thing in a shuttered room. Abner did not understand the message until he saw dusty prints and a monstrous creature squatting on the bed. Stories in this collection: The Shuttered Room Witches’ Hollow The Horror from the Middle Span The Shadow in the Attic The Fisherman of Falcon Point The Dark Brotherhood Note: These are “posthumous collaborations”, where Derleth took scraps of Lovecraft’s text from his papers after his death and made them into stories; how much was actually Lovecraft is a matter of debate.

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The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff Shared by: Goomer Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a research trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. But Hippolyta has a secret—and far more dangerous—agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia’s doorstep.

Sequel to  "Lovecraft Country"

Lovecraft Country Written by Matt Ruff

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The Literature of Lovecraft, Vol. I by Various Shared by: giuliocesare09 Read by Sean Branney, Andrew Leman (HPLHS) In his Commonplace Book and and his lengthy essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, author H.P. Lovecraft carefully assessed weird tales through the ages. He named a great many stories that he admired. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society has curated a collection of 43 of the best of them and recorded them as audiobooks for your listening enjoyment. Read by the HPLHS’ own Andrew Leman and Sean Branney and featuring original music by Troy Sterling Nies, these eerie tales will delight your mind and chill your blood. This collection features 43 tales totaling roughly 50 hours of thrilling storytelling by masters including Blackwood, Dickens, Kipling, Machen, Chambers, Conan Doyle, and Poe. You’ll likely meet new authors whose works you may not know. The collection features a special audio afterword in which Mssrs. Branney and Leman share their thoughts as editors and readers of the collection in a casual conversation.

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Esoterica Chronicles (1-2) - Virgil Knightley Shared by: prick Read by Bruno Anderson, Peggy Greyson A Lovecraftian harem fantasy Liam Elloway is the survivor of a terrible accident, but when he gets swept up into the world of the occult and enrolled at a strange academy for practitioners of dark magic, things get really interesting really quickly. As the first necromancer enrolled at the school in years, and the only mage of a certain type known to exist in centuries, all eyes are on Liam as he begins to discover his destiny. But can his sneering headmistress be trusted? And between the gorgeous celestial girl, the raven-haired vampire, and the pink-haired, red-horned half-demon, how will he manage his new relationships? Probably not that Lovecraftian in style, but it does have Cthulhu on the cover.

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Re-Animator - Jeff Rovin Shared by: Sman80 Read by Christian Francis The novelization of the cult horror film Re-Animator, H.P. Lovecraft’s wildly outrageous tale of grisly horror that has become a modern cult-classic overnight, comes to audiobook to haunt, thrill, and delight the mad scientist in us all. Reanimation, the science of bringing dead creatures back to life, is Herbert West’s dream. West tests his secret life-rejuvenating potion on some cooperative corpses at a local morgue. It’s a success! But only a temporary one - as the dead spring to life, reacting violently to their reanimation. Zombies are loose, and now, West cannot control the very beasts he has recreated. The born-again dead are unstoppable, and even severed body parts take on life like so many split worms! Herbert West has a serious problem. Will he become the first in a new breed of headhunters, or are all of his woes coming to a head? NB: There are several readings of HPL's original story "Herbert West–Reanimator" in collections above.

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The New Annotated H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. Lovecraft, Leslie S. Klinger, Alan Moore Shared by:Hellblazer1138 Read by Jared Zak, NSL Weaving together a broad base of existing scholarship with his own insights, Klinger appends Lovecraft’s uncanny oeuvre and Kafkaesque life story in a way that provides context and unlocks many of the secrets of his often cryptic body of work.  Klinger collects here twenty-two of Lovecraft’s most chilling “Arkham” tales.”

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Cthulhu Lives!: An Eldritch Tribute to H. P. Lovecraft - ed. Salome Jones Shared by:tinylion Read by Alasdair Stuart This volume brings together 17 masterful tales of cosmic horror inspired by Lovecraft’s work. In his fiction, humanity is a tiny, accidental drop of light and life in the endless darkness.

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The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham Brian Keene, Nick Mamatas Shared by:Cardes Read by Mark Meer A hilarious, shocking, terrifying thrill ride across the American landscape, The Damned Highway combines two great flavors of weird: the gonzo journalism of Hunter S. Thompson and the uncanny terrors of H. P. Lovecraft. Horror legend Brian Keene and cult storytelling master Nick Mamatas dredge up a tale of drug-fueled eldritch madness from the blackest depths of the American nightmare. On a freaked-out bus journey to Arkham, Massachusetts, and the 1972 presidential primary, evidence mounts that sinister forces are on the rise, led by the cult of Cthulhu and its most prominent member - Richard M. Nixon.

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Arkham Horror: Cult of the Spider Queen - S.A. Sidor Shared by:diablum An ancient horror deep in the Amazon jungle spins a web of nightmares to ensnare adventurers, explorers, and their souls in this skin-crawling Arkham Horror dramatized audiobook of cosmic dread. When Arkham Advertiser reporter Andy van Nortwick receives a mysterious film reel in the mail, with a simple note: “Maude Brion is very much alive!”, he steps onto a path which will lead him to the brink of madness. Brion, the famous actress and film director, vanished a year ago on an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon rainforest, delving into the legend of the Spider Queen. Thrilled by the prospect of his big break, Nortwick swings the funds to launch a rescue mission. He gathers a team of explorers and a keen folklorist to bring back Brion and cement his reputation. But deep in the Amazon jungle, the boundaries between intrepid adventurers, dreamers, and deranged fanatics blur inside a web of terror. Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music by Graphic Audio.

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NecroTek Book 1 - Jonathan Maberry Shared by:bd2232 9 Jun 2024 855.34 MBs Neither cosmic philosopher Lars Soren, hotshot pilot Bianca Petrescu, nor the high priestess Jessica McHugh—Lady Death herself—can say quite where in the galaxy they are. But after an experiment gone horribly wrong, one thing is clear: Asphodel Station isn’t in orbit around Jupiter any longer. Worse, the monsters that live out here—ancient eldritch beings thought only to exist in stories and nightmares—have now been alerted to Earth’s existence. Their army of Shoggoths is coming for us next. Humanity’s only hope for survival lies on the surface of the alien world of Shadderal, where a ghost named Lost, the last of an ancient race, still haunts the vast plains of the Field of Dead Birds. But hope has a cost. Lost tells Soren about ancient derelict spacecraft awaiting on Shadderal, shapeshifting machines that blend ultra-advanced technology with the dark powers of necromancy. These ships might just be nimble enough to defend mankind against the coming invasion. But there’s a catch: they can only be piloted by the dead. As human starfighters fall in battle, their spirits can be called back from death to pilot these ghost ships of a fallen race. But will this new necromantic technology—NecroTek—allow humanity to stand against the vast armies of the Shoggoths? And even if it can, is the war to save the human race worth the cost of its pilots’ immortal souls?

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Arkham Horror [05] Shadows Of Pnath - Josh Reynolds Shared by:Pamar Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge. Zorzi must rescue her apprentice, find the tablets, and prevent an old enemy from summoning an army of vengeful ghouls from the depths of the catacombs. Stealing relics is a lot harder the second time around… Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music by Graphic Audio.