The Descendant
Written by H.P. Lovecraft
Narrated by Anastasia Bertollo
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About this audiobook
Howard Philips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937) was an American writer world-famous for his horror fiction works.
In London lives a man described as “harmlessly mad”, for the weirdest thing he does is screaming when the bells ring. He wishes to get isolated from the people to the required minimum, answer no questions, he tries to put on a mask of joyfulness, but quite unconvincing.
His new neighbor is called William, a young man, who has been interested in a book called Necronomicon for a very long time, and as he gets it, he wants to decipher its pages as soon as possible, but the help of the odd man next door is needed. And as the gray haired man sees the book, he begins to tell his tale, that may be far beyond our imagination.
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H.P. 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.
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