The Hound, H. P. Lovecraft
The Hound, H. P. Lovecraft
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The Hound

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/18/2016


Synopsis

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved posthumous acclaim for his outstanding and influential works of horror fiction.

'The Hound' is a terrifying story of two morbid young men who add excitement to their dull lives by robbing graves and creating a macabre museum of ghoulish trophies. But one day they open a grave containing a strange and sinister jade amulet...and once they are in possession of this artefact, terrifying events overtake them.

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 Glenn

"Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world, where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St. John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui." So begins this tale of Lovecraft horror. Most un......more

Goodreads review by Bill

One evening, in September of 1922, H.P. Lovecraft visited a Brooklyn graveyard and took a souvenir home with him, a small chip from a tombstone dated 1747. Later, he began to muse, in a letter: “what thing might not come out of the centuried earth to exact vengeance for his desecrated tomb? And shou......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Fast paced and extreme tale of horror! Two friends, interested in everything sinister and macabre, have an occult museum in the lowest basement of their house. When they rob an ancient amulet from the grave of a magician strange things occur. They hear the baying of a great dog and St John (one of t......more