Cool Air

Name: Cool Air
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 9781467698955

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Red Door Consulting

Published: 06/20/2015

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Short Stories

Synopsis

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), better known as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame for his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.

"Cool Air" is the story of a mysterious, reclusive doctor who appears to be suffering from a peculiar illness which involves him cooling his rooms to extremely cold temperatures and taking strange chemical baths.

Then one day the pump system which refridgerates his apartment breaks down...and a sequence of events unfolds which is truly horrific.

About H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors in his genre.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

This is an extremely creepy and uncanny story. What is the mysterious doctor practising upstairs and why does he need such a number of ammoniac to cool down the temperature in his room. Accompany a lodger who pieces together sinister details on that strange doctor. The conclusion seems utterly absur......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro

Creepy cool reading! FREEZING HORROR This tale is about the peculiar friendship... ...between a cranky person and a medical doctor,... ...shaped up after the latter saved the life of the former. Set in an era way before of any modern air conditioning system,... ...the doctor is obssessed on devel......more

Goodreads review by Glenn

With this tale of horror set in 1923 New York City, H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) touches on two subjects that, judging from the proliferation of films and novels spotlighting these peculiar topics, have continually aroused our human imagination: cryonics and zombies. I say ‘touches on’ since Cool Air......more

Goodreads review by Bill

First published in Tales of Magic and Mystery (March,1928), “Cool Air” is one of only three stories that Lovecraft composed in New York City--and it is the only one of those three that is not racist. Moreover, although short in length and narrow in its range of effects, it is a very good horror stor......more