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Eldritch Tales

A Miscellany of the Macabre

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Eldritch Tales

By: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: various narrators
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Following the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft's remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature."

Gathering together in chronological order the rest of Lovecraft's rarely seen but extraordinary short fiction, this collection includes the entirety of the long-out-of-print collection of thirty-six sonnets "Fungi from Yuggoth."

Lovecraft died at the age of forty-seven, but in his short life he turned out dozens of stories that changed the face of horror. His extraordinary imagination spawned both the Elder God Cthulhu and his eldritch cohorts, as well as the strangely compelling town of Innsmouth, all of which feature here.

©2014 H.P. Lovecraft (P)2014 Blackstone Audiobooks Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Ghosts Horror Short Stories Scary Haunted

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This second volume of H.P Lovecraft works, consists mainly of non Cthulhu and lesser known
stories and poems. However, this is not to say the pieces are of no worth! Whilst it is true to say this volume is a bit of a curates egg, there are some tasty morsels to be found here. None more so then Lovecraft's classic essay on weird fiction, "Supernatural Horror In Literature" (1927).
The one negative about this collection and the previous "Necronomicon: is that neither of them includes Lovecraft's classic tale "At The Mountains Of Madness" (written in 1931,published 1936).

A Good Companion Piece To The "Necronomicon".

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As the second part of the Necronomicon book I was expecting the last of Lovecraft stories to be included but At the Mountains of Madness is missing and I'm sure still more are missing.

Great stuff

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There's a reason Lovecraft is known as one of the definers of cosmic horror, and this is a pretty comprehensive collection of his stories and poems, and well read by all the narrators, though i preferred some to others. My favourite story is The Alchemist. I also liked The Terrible Old Man.

definer of cosmic horror

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Necronomicon (ISBN 1483013499) contains the stories he is most famous for, but Eldritch Tales is a fantastic collection in its own right and absolutely worth reading. As the many odds and ends of his writing career, there is much greater variety in style and structure and the stories are enjoyable in their own right as well. Whilst the quality varies more than in Necronomicon, this substantive collection is well worth listening to in its own right.

A fantastic, fantastically varied collection

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Only Dreams of Terror and Death:

The Doom That Came to Sarnath
The Statement of Randolph Carter
The Cats of Ulthar
From Beyond
The Nameless City
The Hound
Pickman's Model
The Dream Quest of Unknown Kaddath
The Silver Key
The Strange High House in the Mist
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Dreams in the Witch House
Through the Gates of the Silver Key

Both:

Azathoth
The Descendant
The Thing in the Moonlight
Polaris
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
Celephais
Nyarlathotep
The Other Gods
Ex Oblivione
The Quest of Iranon
Hypnos
What the Moon Brings

Only Eldritch Tales:

History of the Necronomicon
The Alchemist
A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
The Beast in the Cave
The Poe-et's Nightmare
Memory
Despair
The Picture in the House
Psychopompos; A Tale in Rhyme
The White Ship
The House
The Nightmare Lake
Poetry and the Gods
The Street
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
The Crawling Chaos
The Terrible Old Man
The Tree
The Tomb
The Horror at Martin's Beach
The Festival
The Temple
Hallowe'en in a Suburb
The Moon-Bog
He
Festival
The Green Meadow
Nathicana
Two Black Bottles
The Last Test
The Wood
The Ancient Track
The Electric Executioner
Fungi from Yuggoth
The Trap
The Challenge From Beyond
In a Sequester'd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walk'd
Ibid
The Book
The Messenger
The Evil Clergyman
The Very Old Folk
The Transition of Juan Romero
Supernatural Horror in Literature

Compared with Dreams of Terror and Death

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Almost all the stories were rather uninteresting to follow, often found my mind wandering off instead of listening to what's happening. I suggest if you haven't, only pick up the necronomicon that holds a lot of lovecraft's actual really good work and then also pick up the shadow over insmouth and mountain of madness. I like lovecraft's universe a lot but most of the the stories in this collection are a lot weaker then anything else I've read or listened to, even the fan story collection lovecraft's monsters" features far more entertaining material to listen.

Stick with the Necronomicon

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Really enjoyable and varied narration of an incredible work of imagination. Let down by the lack of title info on the books included.

No book or chapter titles - just chapter 1, 2,3...

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very disappointed at the dreary and half baked attempt to Bright llvecradts work to life.

highly displeased by what could have beenn an amazing anthology akin to necronomicom

Great work , ruined by terrible oration.

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