Doug Bradley's Spinechillers Volume Thirteen: Classic Horror Short Stories

Written by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, M R James, Edgar Allan Poe and Saki

Narrated by Doug Bradley and Jeffrey Combs

This triumphant final volume of Spinechillers begins with Doug Bradley's personal guide to the writers and the history of the stories.

M.R. James' classic Number 13 starts off this volume with a mystery about a disappearing and reappearing hotel room, can you guess the room number?

Story two is the tale of a cat that can not only talk, but spills secrets that should have been truly left behind.

Next, we present one of the most famous stories by H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu. Doug transports you into Lovecraft's world of indescribable horror, accompanied by Alistair Lock's outstanding orchestral score.

Edgar Allan Poe's well-known allegory on our mortality, The Masque of the Red Death, follows.

Then Jeffrey Combs reads the concluding part of Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator series, The Tomb Legions.

Finishing up Volume 13 is Poe's 1843-penned poem, "The Conqueror Worm".

• Language: English
• Publisher: Renegade Arts Entertainment
• Release date: Jan 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781987825435

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.