![]() "In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Ask any writer of horror, fantasy, or weird fiction who their influences were and H.P. Here, William Roberts' fruity delivery captures perfectly the florid, swivel-eyed hysteria of Lovecraft's prose, injecting it with an affectionate element of Grand Guignol camp that is entirely appropriate there are, after all, only so many times you can say "cyclopean" or "eldritch" with a straight-face. A quick search will reveal dozens of Lovecraft audio-readings available, some of which offer complete or extensive recordings of his works, but beware: many of these are well-meaning but wretchedly inept efforts resist the temptation for quantity over quality and plump for these instead. ![]() Fine examples of this tendency towards page-turning excitement are those classics of Weird Fiction, 'The Call Of Cthulhu' and 'The Dunwich Horror,' both of which are included here on this first of four Naxos collections narrated by William Roberts (the other stories in this volume are early statement of intent, 'Dagon,' and dreary Poe-pastiche, 'The Hound'). ![]() Lovecraft's best stories are essentially rip-roaring Boys Own adventure yarns with added tentacles and a minefield of idiosyncratic grammar. Stripped of their outré cosmic horror mythos, many of H. Tentacle in your pocket or just diseased to see me ![]()
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