Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites, credited to Various, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites by Various. Read in English by Josh Kibbey; Rafe Ball; Chris Pyle; oogiesragdoll; Dan Ficklin; Peter Yearsley; Maria de Fátima da Silva; Robert Doolan; Ian Virly; JMH Powell; Alan Winterrowd; Stefan Von Blon In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a long essay on "Supernatural Horror in Literature" in which he discussed the history of what came to be known as Weird Fiction. This collection includes many of the texts that Lovecraft mentioned in the essay, beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher, published in 1839 and ending with Walter de la Mare Seaton's Aunt from 1922. Included are 19 stories and 1 poem. - Summary by Alan Winterrowd

Recording facts

• Recording title: Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites
• Author credits: Various
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 13:44:29

Catalogue topics

• horror
• weird
• lovecraft

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe — 38:40
2. 02 - What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien — 36:49
3. 03 - The Little Red Kitten by Lafcadio Hearn — 5:36
4. 04 - The Upper Berth by F. Marion Crawford — 45:02
5. 05 - The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce — 33:31
6. 06 - The Mark of the Beast by Rudyard Kipling — 33:21
7. 07 - The Captain of the 'Pole-Star' by Arthur Conan Doyle — 49:48
8. 08 - The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers — 38:57
9. 09 - Xelucha by M. P. Shiel — 26:19
10. 10 - The Red Room by H. G. Wells — 24:55
11. 11 - The Shadows on the Wall by Mary E. Wilkins — 36:05
12. 12 - The Harbor-Master by Robert W. Chambers — 58:11
13. 13 - The White People by Arthur Machen - Pt 1 — 25:53
14. 14 - The White People by Arthur Machen - Pt 2 — 44:51
15. 15 - The White People by Arthur Machen - Pt 3 — 20:20
16. 16 - Lost Hearts by M. R. James — 24:50
17. 17 - The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Pt 1 — 34:12
18. 18 - The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Pt 2 — 29:11
19. 19 - The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Pt 3 — 29:31
20. 20 - The Willows by Algernon Blackwood, Pt 4 — 24:17
21. 21 - The Hashish Man by Lord Dunsany — 15:18
22. 22 - The Unhappy Body by Lord Dunsany — 13:04
23. 23 - Fishhead by Irvin S. Cobb — 26:46
24. 24 - The Hashish-Eater, or the Apocalypse of Evil by Clark Ashton Smith — 28:49

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