H.P. Lovecraft Short Horror Stories

H.P. Lovecraft Short Horror Stories

H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain. View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.org This is a Librivox Recording. All Librivox recordings are in the public domain.

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The Music of Erich Zann - H.P. Lovecraft

August 29, 2021 • 18 mins
"The Music of Erich Zann" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922.

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The Nameless City - H.P. Lovecraft

August 28, 2021 • 27 mins
"The Nameless City" is a short horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first story set in the Cthulhu Mythos world.

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The Crawling Chaos - H.P. Lovecraft

August 27, 2021 • 16 mins
"The Nameless City" is a short horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first story set in the Cthulhu Mythos world.

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Beyond Wall of Sleep - H.P. Lovecraft

August 26, 2021 • 32 mins
"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919.

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Polaris - H.P. Lovecraft

August 25, 2021 • 9 mins
"Polaris" is a fantasy short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscripts, the first of his arcane tomes.

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Memory - H.P. Lovecraft

August 24, 2021 • 2 mins
"Memory" is a flash fiction short story by American horror and science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and published in May 1923 in The National Amateur.

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The Statement of Randolf Carter - H.P. Lovecraft

August 23, 2021 • 12 mins
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the occult loosely representing Lovecraft himself.

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Nyarlathotep - H.P. Lovecraft

August 22, 2021 • 7 mins
"Nyarlathotep" is a prose poem by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and first saw publication in that year's November issue of The United Amateur. The poem itself is a bleak view of human civilization in decline, and it explores the mixed sensations of desperation and defiance in a dying society.

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Celephais - H.P. Lovecraft

August 21, 2021 • 19 mins
"Celephaïs" is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, including his novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

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The Cats of Ulthar - H.P. Lovecraft

August 20, 2021 • 8 mins
"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar.

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The Tree - H.P. Lovecraft

August 19, 2021 • 10 mins
"The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. Lovecraft wrote "The Tree" early in his career.

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Ex Oblivione - H.P. Lovecraft

August 18, 2021 • 4 mins
"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.

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A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson - H.P. Lovecraft

August 17, 2021 • 11 mins
"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq. The story is a spoof of Lovecraft's antiquarian affectations.

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The Beast In Cave - H.P. Lovecraft

August 16, 2021 • 13 mins
"The Beast in the Cave" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The first draft was written in the Spring of 1904, with the final draft finished in April 1905, when Lovecraft was age fourteen.

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The Tomb - H.P. Lovecraft

August 15, 2021 • 25 mins
"The Tomb" is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his childhood home.

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The Doom That Came to Sarnath - H.P. Lovecraft

August 14, 2021 • 17 mins
"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920.

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The Street. - H.P. Lovecraft

August 13, 2021 • 14 mins
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Herber West Reanimator Part 1 - H.P. Lovecraft

August 12, 2021 • 39 mins
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Herber West Reanimator Part 2 - H.P. Lovecraft

August 11, 2021 • 40 mins
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The Alchemist - H.P. Lovecraft

August 11, 2021 • 18 mins
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