H. P. Lovecraft

The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft



H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incom…

Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories

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H. P. Lovecraft



Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially…

The Call of Cthulhu


H. P. Lovecraft



“[The Call of Cthulhu] is a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature. Mr. Lovecraft holds a u…

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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H. P. Lovecraft



Rumours abound of sinister goings-on in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The once prosperous town, which has fallen into a st…

The Dunwich Horror

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H. P. Lovecraft



In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purp…

Herbert West: Reanimator

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H. P. Lovecraft



"Herbert West—Reanimator" is a story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February throu…

To the Old Pagan Religion

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of To the Old Pagan Religion by H. P. Lovecraft. This was the fortnightly poetry project for Feb…

The Haunter of the Dark


H. P. Lovecraft



The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island, and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom, a mysterious cult using an artifact call…

The Shadow out of Time


H. P. Lovecraft



The protagonist, Prof. Peaslee collapses one day when delivering a lecture and from that moment on starts acting as if something has possess…

The Colour Out of Space


H. P. Lovecraft



In the tale, written in 1927, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the “blasted heath” in the wil…

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath


H. P. Lovecraft



Considered by writers as diverse as Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King to be a masterpiece of the American horror/fantasy genre, “The Dream …

H.P. Lovecraft – Selected Short Stories, vol. 1


H. P. Lovecraft



This is the first part of a collection of short pieces by HPL read by different readers (Summary by Piotr Nater)This audiobook was produced …

H.P. Lovecraft – Selected Short Stories, vol. 3


H. P. Lovecraft



The third part of a collection in which the readers narrate their short stories of choice … … (Summary by Piotr Nater)This audiobook was pr…

The Dunwich Horror (Version 2)

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H. P. Lovecraft



Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. T…

Supernatural Horror in Literature


H. P. Lovecraft



“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927…

The Call of Cthulhu

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H. P. Lovecraft



The worshipers of this ancient tentacled horror are still with us, waiting for this terrible being to awake and take vengeance again on an e…

The Colour Out of Space

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H. P. Lovecraft



“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This creepy horror…

At the Mountains of Madness

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H. P. Lovecraft



In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the min…

The Whisperer In Darkness


H. P. Lovecraft



This is a computer generated audiobook using text to speech human voice synthesis. As such, the tempo, sound and cadence may not be palatabl…

At the Mountains of Madness, Version 2

Read by Mark Nelson


H. P. Lovecraft



A scientific expedition to Antartica discovers the ruins of a civilization millions of years old, built by the Elder Things, beings who came…

H. P. Lovecraft Suspense OTR The Dunwich Horror 11 1 1945 Featuring Ronald Cole…


H. P. Lovecraft



Suspense OTR episode of The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovcraft. Featuring Ronald Coleman and Brett Morrison.

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

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H. P. Lovecraft



"Through the Gates of the Silver Key," published complete in this issue, is an utterly amazing novelette. It is much more than a m…

The Call of Cthulhu (version 2)

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H. P. Lovecraft



“[The Call of Cthulhu] is a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature. Mr. Lovecraft holds a u…

The Shadow Over Innsmouth

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H. P. Lovecraft



Unspeakable monstrousness overhung the crumbling, stench-cursed town of Innsmouth... and folks there had somehow got out of the idea of dyin…

Supernatural Horror in Literature

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H. P. Lovecraft



In this essay Lovecraft traces the history of hair-raising fictional stories with a focus on things that go bump in the night, starting with…

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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H. P. Lovecraft



The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel (51,500 words) by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not pu…

Weird Tales Double Feature: The Haunter in the Dark and The Thing on the Door-S…

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H. P. Lovecraft



In this thrilling and horrific installment of the Weird Tales Double Feature, we have the final two novelettes published within the Cthulhu …