Timeless classics masterfully performed

Performed with passion for the art, loved every minute of it. The stories are put into an appropriate context and the cosmic horror is reflected in the performance. Great work!

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A masterpiece

There is not much to say ...
The stories as well as it's deliverence are masterpieces!

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Phenomenal

Phenomenal performace by Leman an Branney. A real gem of an audiobook, worth every cent.

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Dark visions and disgusting racism

I knew of HP Lovecrafts Xenophobia when I started listening to this audiobook. So I was prepared for his remarks on evil "negroes" and their "degeneration" or the " refinery" of white officers. It was even amusing to hear his hatred and disgust against Portuguese or Italians, as these European people are no longer regarded with the contempt Lovecraft implies. But "The Horror at Red Hook" was more than I could take. All the poor of this district, whether black, arab, kurd or italian are depicted as devil worshipers sacrificing blue eyed blond "scandinavian" children.

I was relieved to find that TSJoshi has already pointed this out publicly. But this is so hateful I think you should do so in context with the story itself.

This being said I admire the artistic value of the audiobook. HPL's fiction is darkly fascinating, though strangely detached at the same time. His stories are mostly in retrospect, which sometimes reduces the thrill. Nonetheless there are stories that thrilled me.

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Ein Schmankerl

Das ist definitiv mein Lieblings-Hörbuch.
Zum ersten mal in der Menschheitsgeschichte gibt es hier Lovecraft-Fans, die sein Werk kongenial vorlesen und interpretieren können.
Sehr schnittig.

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Ecellent collection of H.P. Lovecraft's work

This is a beautliful collection of of H.P. Lovecraft's work. Very well read by both Andrew Leman and Sean Branney.
Meaningful chapter titles are provided!
Big thumbs up!

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Perfect fiction collection from beginning to end

Wow, I finished the entire collection, what a masterpiece from the author as well as from the readers. So much entertainment for ao little price. Unreal!!! Thank you so much for what you did, you are really heros!!!!

ML Simon Bethke

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a classic raked dish served best

the readers do their job well, and one can hear their enthusiasm they have as part of the HP Lovecraft Society ;)

HP Lovecraft is somewhat different: he is a classic, as one of the predecessor of horror and SF we have to thank him for these genres. his Cthuluh mythos itself founded a "new whole world" for other authors...

his stories are full of crazy, spooky concepts and characters that merit to be mentioned.

however he is too a stout racist, and together with his "gothic, byzantine, old fashioned" and therefore intense writing style and his evenly intense repetitive phrases make reading his stories indeed a nice bit of eye souring work. like a "real classic" ;) his work is somehow becoming an anachronism: it's obsolete to read all this xenophobic undertones and lengthy description of yet an other old city when the legacy of Cthulu lives on ;)...

that's why an audio book is even better to indulge the stories ;)

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Aged well, but not mind-blowing

Concerning modern horror and fiction about existential dread, Lovecraft's contribution is indisputable.
And all in all, these short stories have aged pretty well, even to a non-native speaker.
Nonetheless, I found most "classics" in this collection relatively shallow. Others have taken his ideas further than he has.

The narrators did good jobs though.

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exhausting to listen to

The speaker's exhasperated tone throughout the book is almost unbearable to listen to after a while. It's a bit like listening to an exited sports commentator. I can't finish this audio book

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