From Beyond
Written by H.P. Lovecraft
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
3/5
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About this audiobook
In "From Beyond", a maniacal scientist develops an extraordinary machine which enables humans to tap in to a range of additional senses which allow him to perceive whole new dimensions of the cosmos.
But that ability brings with it a vulnerability to unknown and malignant forces which exist 'beyond' but which now equally have access to our world. As the monsters 'from beyond' close in, there is only one way to escape....
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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Reviews for From Beyond
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Cannot stand this narrator. Almost sing song which is irritating when someone tries to raise the pitch at the end of every sentence. It’s like she’s constantly asking a question. Ugh!!!
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The concept of this story has five authors write one chapter each. Each of the authors has their own distinctive style, and so the story is a little uneven, but a lot fun to read. Each of the authors were masters of their craft in their day and I just wonder what a book written in the same format by today’s authors (King, Rowling, etc) would be like.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Several writers contribute towards this supernatural short story. Robert E. Howard's involvement is unfortunately minimal. I suspect the tale would've been much more upbeat had he been more apparent. Lovecraft's section proved especially tedious in this monotonous yarn about a man being transported to another world via a cube he discovers.There are some clever elements towards the end, hence my rating the piece 2 stars instead on 1, but overall I found this too slow-paced and mundane.