Necronomicon

Written by H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by Peter Coates and Kenneth Elliot

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft: Commemorative Edition is a select collection of horror short stories, novellas and novels written by H. P. Lovecraft.

This collection includes stories by H. P. Lovecraft:
The Call of Cthulhu
Dagon
Herbert West–Reanimator
The Lurking Fear
The Rats in the Walls
The Whisperer in Darkness
Cool Air
In the Vault
The Colour out of Space
The Horror at Red Hook
The Music of Erich Zann
The Shadow out of Time
The Dunwich Horror
The Haunter of the Dark
The Outsider
The Shunned House
The Unnamable
The Thing on the Doorstep
Under the Pyramids
The Hound
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Dreams in the Witch House

• Language: English
• Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
• Release date: Feb 28, 2024

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.