The outsider is my first visit into the world of lovecraft that i can recall and unfortunately i ruined it for myself by reading the background summary offered just prior to the story in my big book of h. Howard phillips lovecraft 18901937, more commonly known as h. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of grotesque, gigantic, and vineencumbered trees that silently wave twisted branches far aloft. Lovecraft stories ever wayne june, you fall in love with this story in high school, it blew julies mind. Everything we produce features custom professional voice acting. Lovecraft, was an american writer renowned for his highly influential works of horror fiction. Today were looking at the outsider, written in 1921 and. Just above, stream his complete public domain works, and see the internet archive for another audiobook set of his collected works. It also stands among his most succinct and more readable ones as well. In this work, a mysterious individual who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of human contact and light.
Welcome back to the lovecraft reread, in which two modern mythos writers get girl cooties all over old howards original stories. The outsider is a short story by american horror writer h. A man exists alone in a mysterious dark castle, with no memory of. Chilling tales for dark nights produces alloriginal horror audio content. It contains the first mention of lovecrafts fictional text the necronomicon.
Lovecraft s name is synonymous with horror fiction. A man exists alone in a mysterious dark castle, with no memory of how or why he is there. The hound contains several references to the body of lore known as the cthulhu mythos that lovecraft shared with other horror writers. Written between march and august 1921, it was first published in weird tales, april 1926. The outsider audiobook by howard phillips lovecraft. Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Lovecraft in september 1922 and published in the february 1924 issue of weird tales. Lovecraft audio at youtube at the mountains of madness 1931 by h.
Ive done the job for you guys and have put in a single video the audiobook nick gisburne, the text and a backsound from resident evil so. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. The outsider howard phillips lovecraft audiobook by howard. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror. The outsider is one of lovecrafts earliest and creepiest stories.
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