H. P. Lovecraft

The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft


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H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incom…

Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories


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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially…

The Shadow Over Innsmouth


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Rumours abound of sinister goings-on in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The once prosperous town, which has fallen into a st…

The Call of Cthulhu



“[The Call of Cthulhu] is a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature. Mr. Lovecraft holds a u…

Horror Story Collection 001


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An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 017


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up y…

The Dunwich Horror


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In a rundown farmhouse near isolated, rural Dunwich, a bizarre family conjures and nurtures an evil entity from another realm, with the purp…

Ghost Story Collection 002


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A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

Horror Story Collection 003


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An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…

La Bestia En La Cueva


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Un hombre se extravía dentro de una cueva, esto despierta en él sensaciones de miedo, alegría y terror al encontrarse c…

Herbert West: Reanimator


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"Herbert West—Reanimator" is a story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft that was first serialized in February throu…

Dagòn


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"Escribo esto bajo una fuerte tensión mental, ya que cuando llegue la noche habré dejado de existir." Es as&iacut…

To the Old Pagan Religion


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LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of To the Old Pagan Religion by H. P. Lovecraft. This was the fortnightly poetry project for Feb…

Horror Story Collection 002


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An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Horror Story Collection 004


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An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusi…

Le Mystère du cimetière



Au Fil des Lectures. Nouvelle de H. P. Lovecraft lue par R. Depasse (12min). « Il était midi dans le petit village de Mainville…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007


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A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

The Haunter of the Dark



The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island, and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom, a mysterious cult using an artifact call…

The Shadow out of Time



The protagonist, Prof. Peaslee collapses one day when delivering a lecture and from that moment on starts acting as if something has possess…

El alquimista


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Allá en lo alto, coronando la herbosa cima un montículo escarpado, de falda cubierta por los árboles nudosos del bosqu…

The Colour Out of Space



In the tale, written in 1927, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the “blasted heath” in the wil…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 016


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath



Considered by writers as diverse as Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King to be a masterpiece of the American horror/fantasy genre, “The Dream …

H.P. Lovecraft – Selected Short Stories, vol. 1



This is the first part of a collection of short pieces by HPL read by different readers (Summary by Piotr Nater)This audiobook was produced …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 012


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 013


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up y…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 018


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 020


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 014


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 005


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A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

Short Story Collection Vol. 006


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LibriVox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox member…

H.P. Lovecraft – Selected Short Stories, vol. 3



The third part of a collection in which the readers narrate their short stories of choice … … (Summary by Piotr Nater)This audiobook was pr…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 009


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A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

L'Indicible



Au Fil des Lectures. Nouvelle fantastique de H. P. Lovecraft lue par Martine Leroy-Rambaud (34min). Un esprit cartésien peut-il r&eac…

The Dunwich Horror (Version 2)


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Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. T…

El Ceremonial


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Narra como un joven es enviado por su familia a ser parte de un extraño y antiguo rito celebrado por su familia hace generaciones.

Supernatural Horror in Literature



“Supernatural Horror in Literature” is a long essay surveying the field of horror fiction. It was written between November 1925 and May 1927…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 023


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Los gatos de Ulthar


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Se dice que en Ulthar, que se encuentra más allá del río Skai, ningún hombre puede matar a un gato; y ciertament…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 027


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 022


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A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers u…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 025


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

La ciudad sin nombre


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Al acercarme a la ciudad sin nombre me di cuenta de que estaba maldita. Avanzaba por un valle terrible reseco bajo la luna, y la vi a lo lej…

The Call of Cthulhu


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The worshipers of this ancient tentacled horror are still with us, waiting for this terrible being to awake and take vengeance again on an e…

Short Story Collection Vol. 007


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Colour Out of Space


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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” This creepy horror…

Le Mystère du cimetière



Au Fil des Lectures. Nouvelle fantastique de H. P. Lovecraft lue par Martine Leroy-Rambaud (13min). « Il était midi dans le pet…

Short Story Collection Vol. 035


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A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members.

Ex oblivione


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Cuando me llegaron los últimos días, y las feas trivialidades de la vida me hundieron en la locura como esas gotas de agua que…

The Whisperer In Darkness



This is a computer generated audiobook using text to speech human voice synthesis. As such, the tempo, sound and cadence may not be palatabl…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

At the Mountains of Madness


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In the most cold and remote region of the planet lies mountains towering higher than the Himalayas and containing abominable secrets the min…

La tumba


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Al abordar las circunstancias que han provocado mi reclusión en este asilo para enfermos mentales, soy consciente de que mi actual si…

La pradera verde


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Nota Introductoria: La siguiente narración particular, o registro o impresión, fue descubierta bajo circunstancias tan extraor…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 031


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 034


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

El extraño


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Infeliz es aquel a quien sus recuerdos infantiles sólo traen miedo y tristeza. Desgraciado aquel que vuelve la mirada hacia horas sol…

Dagon


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Escribo esto bajo una fuerte tensión mental, ya que cuando llegue la noche habré dejado de existir. Sin dinero, y agotada mi p…

Short Story Collection Vol. 041


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 041: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

El grito del muerto


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El grito de un muerto fue lo que me hizo concebir aquel intenso horror hacia el doctor Herbert West, horror que enturbió los ú…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 033


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up y…

El Ceremonial


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Lo innombrable


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Estábamos sentados en una ruinosa tumba del siglo XVI, a avanzada hora de la tarde de un día de otoño, en el viejo ce…

En la cripta


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Nada más absurdo, a mi juicio, que esa tópica asociación entre lo hogareño y lo saludable que parece impregnar l…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 032


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

De la oscuridad


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De Herbert West, amigo mío durante el tiempo de la universidad y posteriormente, no puedo hablar sino con extremo terror. Terror que …

El caos reptante


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Mucho es lo que se ha escrito acerca de los placeres y los sufrimientos del opio. Los éxtasis y horrores de De Quincey y los paradis…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 035


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Aire frio


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Me piden que explique por qué temo las corrientes de aire frío, por qué tirito más que otros al entrar en una h…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 036


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

La bestia de la cueva


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La horrible conclusión que había ido gradualmente imponién­dose en mi mente confundida y reacia resultaba ahora de …

El clérigo malvado


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Un hombre grave que parecía inteligente, con ropa discreta y barba gris, me hizo pasar a la habitación del ático, y me …

La calle


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Hay quien dice que las cosas y los lugares tienen alma, y hay quien dice que no; por mi parte, no me atrevo a pronunciarme, pero quiero habl…

El árbol


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En una verde ladera del monte Menalo, en Arcadia, se halla un olivar en torno a las ruinas de una villa. Al lado se encuentra una tumba, ant…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 038


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A collection of twenty one stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, vampires, huge rats and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 040


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Revenge, fear, petri…

Short Story Collection Vol. 031


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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 031: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Polaris (SP-EN)


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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 042


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, furry beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spi…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 049


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Celephais


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En un sueño, Kuranes vio la ciudad del valle, y la costa que se extendía más allá, y el nevado pico que dominab…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 053


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 039


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

At the Mountains of Madness, Version 2


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A scientific expedition to Antartica discovers the ruins of a civilization millions of years old, built by the Elder Things, beings who came…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 051


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 048


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

H. P. Lovecraft Suspense OTR The Dunwich Horror 11 1 1945 Featuring Ronald Cole…



Suspense OTR episode of The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovcraft. Featuring Ronald Coleman and Brett Morrison.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 054


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 060


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, rats and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the so…

Short Poetry Collection 073


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This is an open collection of poems for the month of November 2008.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 041


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Revenge, fear, petri…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 056


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A collection of twelve stories for Halloween. Enjoy some of the classics, like Poe and Lovecraft, but also some of the lesser-known contribu…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 061


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Weird Tales Presents: The Strange World of Harry Houdini


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In 1924, the odd and wonderful Weird Tales Magazine published a series of stories written (or ghost-written in at least one instance) by not…

Dreams Collection 1 - Stories and Poems


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This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry)

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 058


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 050


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Science Fiction Collection 093


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Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 064


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 052


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065


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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …

Through the Gates of the Silver Key


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"Through the Gates of the Silver Key," published complete in this issue, is an utterly amazing novelette. It is much more than a m…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 069


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 070


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This year's Halloween edition of Ghost and Horror Collection features 15 stories of a wide variety in length as in content! Short and long s…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 063


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 062


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

The Call of Cthulhu (version 2)


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“[The Call of Cthulhu] is a masterpiece, which I am sure will live as one of the highest achievements of literature. Mr. Lovecraft holds a u…

Supernatural Horror in Literature


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In this essay Lovecraft traces the history of hair-raising fictional stories with a focus on things that go bump in the night, starting with…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 065


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 066


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A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

Dreams Collection 2 - Stories and Poems


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This is a collection of 20 stories and/or poems, contributed by Librivox volunteers, pertaining to dreams. ( ~ Michele Fry)

The Shadow Over Innsmouth


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Unspeakable monstrousness overhung the crumbling, stench-cursed town of Innsmouth... and folks there had somehow got out of the idea of dyin…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

The Weird Fiction of Fantasy Fan Magazine


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The Fantasy Fan was a fanzine edited by Charles D. Hornig that featured exclusive works by many seminal figures from the golden period of we…

Short Poetry Collection 190


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This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2019.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 072


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Poetry Collection 208


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This is a collection of 67 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2020.

Coffee Break Collection 036 - Cats


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This is the 36th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 074


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 073


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

Short Poetry Collection 215


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This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2021.

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 098


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"The moment a man attempts to tell the truth as he not only thinks but feels it, what he says becomes charged with that man himself.&qu…

Short Poetry Collection 235


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This is a collection of 37 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2022.

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 075


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A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your…

First Chapter Collection 011


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The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…