Macabre Tales

Written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and W. F. Harvey

Narrated by Cathy Dobson

A ghoulish collection of loathsome and macabre tales full of astounding skill and diabolical cleverness.

'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton
'The Everlasting Club' by Arthur Gray
'The Vampire' by Jan Neruda
'The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand' by J. S. Fletcher
'The Story of the Spaniards' by E. & H. Heron
'Over an Absinthe Bottle' by W. C. Morrow
'The Anticipator' by Morley Roberts
'The Snow' by Hugh Walpole
'The Conjurer' by Richard Middleton
'A Considerable Murder' by Barry Pain
'The Clock' by W. F. Harvey
'The Terrible Old Man' by H. P. Lovecraft
'Three Pennyworth of Luck' by Basil Murray
'The Ghost Ship' by Richard Middleton
'His Unconquerable Enemy' by W. C. Morrow
'The Voice' by A. J. Alan
'Sea Curse' by Robert E. Howard
'The Stranger' by Ambrose Bierce
'The Evil Clergyman' by H. P. Lovecraft
'A Ghost Story' by Mark Twain
'A Madman’s Manuscript' by Charles Dickens
'A Very Black Business' by Ernest Bramah
'Double Demon' by W. F. Harvey
'Bagnell Terrace' by E. F. Benson
'Gabriel-Ernest' by Saki
'My Adventure in Norfolk' by A. J. Alan
'On the Brighton Road' - by Richard Middleton
'Rattle of Bones' by Robert E. Howard
'Shepherd’s Boy' by Richard Middleton
'Query' by Seamark

Plus 40 other macabre stories.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Red Door Consulting
• Release date: Oct 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781509495412

Howard Phillips Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.