Horror audiobooks

The Book

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it,... Read more

The Evil Clergyman

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounder. The story begins in the attic of an ancient house. The... Read more

Nyarlathotep

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Lovecraft Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep", he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods, a malevolent... Read more

The Quest of Iranon

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 16 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Quest of Iranon" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on February 28, 1921,]and was first published in the July/August 1935 issue of the magazine Galleon. It was later reprinted in Weird Tales in 1939. The story is about a golden-haired youth who wanders into the city of Teloth, telling tales of the... Read more

At the Mountains of Madness

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 4 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

"At the Mountains of Madness" is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931. The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to Antarctica in September 1930, and what is found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout... Read more

The Descendant

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 9 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Descendant" is a story fragment by H.P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in 1927. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death. The story begins with a narrator explaining that he is on his deathbed and feels the need to share a particular story before he dies. He tells of a quiet and slightly mad... Read more

Ex Oblivione

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips. It is written in first person and tells of the dreams of a presumably dying man. In his dreams, the man is walking through a valley and... Read more

What the Moon Brings

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 5 minutes

Abridged: No

"What the Moon Brings" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written on June 5, 1922. This story was first published in the National Amateur in May 1923. It's shorter than most of Lovecraft's other short stories, and is essentially a fragment. The story is based on one of Lovecraft's dreams, a common technique. This... Read more

The Shadow over Innsmouth

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Shadow over Innsmouth" is a horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in November–December 1931. It forms part of the Cthulhu Mythos, using its motif of a malign undersea civilization, and references several shared elements of the Mythos, including place-names, mythical creatures, and invocations. The Shadow over Innsmouth... Read more

The Very Old Folk

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Very Old Folk" is the name given by publishers to a story found in the letter sent to Donald Wandrei by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft on 3 November 1927. It is a recording of a dream, where the protagonist is a Roman military official in the Vascon country near Pompelo. The countryside is, every year, ravaged by terrible... Read more

The Terrible Old Man

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It's notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of Kingsport. The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly... Read more

Storie di paura

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Librinpillole

Length: 12 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

E se quello che più ci spaventa, il mostro sotto il letto, non fosse così irreale come crediamo? Paura, occulto e fantascienza. Storie di mostri e creature, provenienti dalle profondità del mare e della terra, agiscono in una realtà parallela alla nostra, così vicina da sfiorarsi e fondersi. In questa raccolta sono presenti tutti i simboli, le... Read more

Mothered

By: Zoje Stage

Narrated by: Sophie Amoss & David de Vries

Length: 10 hours 54 minutes

Abridged: No

From the USA Today bestselling author of the international sensation Baby Teeth comes a claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman’s nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother.Grace isn’t exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They’ve never had a great relationship, and Grace likes... Read more

The Street

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Street" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1919 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the Wolverine amateur journal. The story traces the history of the titular street in a New England city, presumably Boston, from its first beginnings as "but a path" in colonial times to a... Read more

The Tree

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 10 minutes

Abridged: No

"The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with ironic consequences. On a slope of Mount Maenalus in Arcadia is an olive grove that grows around a... Read more

Celephaïs

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

"Celephaïs" is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in Lovecraft's Dream Cycle, including his novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926). Celephaïs was created in a... Read more

Beyond the Wall of Sleep

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 28 minutes

Abridged: No

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined... Read more

Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family", also known as just "Arthur Jermyn" or "The White Ape", is a short story in the horror fiction genre written by H. P. Lovecraft 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a reality which human understanding finds intolerable. Read more

Ibid

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

"Ibid" is a parody by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1927 or 1928, and first published in the January 1938, issue of O-Wash-Ta-Nong. "Ibid" is a mock biography of the Roman scholar Ibidus (486–587), whose masterpiece was Op. Cit., "wherein all the significant undercurrents of Graeco-Roman thought were crystallized... Read more

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 4 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath is a novella by H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) published by Arkham House posthumously in 1943 in the collection Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Begun probably in the autumn of 1926, it was completed on January 22, 1927 and was unpublished in his lifetime. It is both the longest of the stories that make up his Dream Cycle... Read more

Sweet Ermengarde, or, The Heart of a Country Girl

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Sweet Ermengarde" is a short comic story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft under the pseudonym "Percy Simple". As a comedy it is a curiosity of his early writing, and was probably written between 1919 and 1921; Lovecraft scholars state it is "the only work of fiction by HPL that cannot be dated with precision." It was first... Read more

He

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

"He" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written August 1925, it was first published in Weird Tales, September 1926. The story's anonymous narrator has moved from New England to New York City, and greatly regrets it. One night, while wandering through a historic part of Greenwich Village, he happens upon a man dressed in... Read more

Old Bugs

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 17 minutes

Abridged: No

"Old Bugs" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, probably written shortly before July 1919. It was first published in the Arkham House book The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces (1959) With the onset of Prohibition, the Sheehan Billiard Room in Chicago became a sordid haunt for hard drinkers. A certain Old Bugs, a... Read more

The Alchemist

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Peter Coates

Length: 22 minutes

Abridged: No

The story is recounted by the protagonist, Count Antoine de C, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge on not only him but all his descendants, cursing them to die on reaching the age of 32. The... Read more