Gruselkabinett 63 - Besessen

by Robert E. Howard, Roman Wolko (Speaker), Tobias Lelle (Speaker)

Dom Vincente da Lusto hat eine illustre und äußerst amüsierwillige Gesellschaft in sein Schloss an der West-Küste Afrikas geladen. Misstrauisch beäugen die Eingeborenen die ankommenden fremden Weißen. Mit dem Vollmond zieht unerwartet das Grauen im Schloss und der gesamten Gegend ein...

Mit den bekannten Stimmen von Roman Wolko, Tobias Lelle, Kai Taschner, Tim Schwarzmaier, Patrick Roche, Gabrielle Pietermann, Patrick Schröder, Alexander Turrek und Christian Weygand.

1 CD ca. 56 Minuten

Genres: Horror, Short Stories, Fantasy, Fiction, Audiobook, Werewolves

1 pages, Audiobook

First published January 1, 1926

About the author

Robert Ervin Howard was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. Howard wrote "over three-hundred stories and seven-hundred poems of raw power and unbridled emotion" and is especially noted for his memorable depictions of "a sombre universe of swashbuckling adventure and darkling horror."

He is well known for having created—in the pages of the legendary Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales—the character Conan the Cimmerian, a.k.a. Conan the Barbarian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can only be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.

—Wikipedia

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Reviews

[Eloy Cryptkeeper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Relato sobre Licantropos. Publicado en Weird Tales en Agosto de 1925. Por este genio imaginativo, que apenas vivió 30 años. Y nos dejo a Conan, Solomon Kane, e infinidad de relatos Pulp, de terror, aventura, misterio, etc, etc.

[Tom Tancredi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, gripping tale. Straight-forward in the action and the worries, but it felt like it missed another turn at the end. Or perhaps it ended just too soon.

[Pedro Plasencia Martínez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Predecible pero bastante disfrutable. Los caminos pueden ser peligrosos de noche, incluso siendo un aventurero. Hay dos detalles que han conseguido que le suba la puntuación a este relato breve. En primer lugar, la actitud y las frases que deja Carolus, el inesperado acompañante y en segundo lugar la nueva regla que Howard propone sobre la licantropía.

ENGLISH
Predictable but quite enjoyable. The roads can be dangerous at night, even for an adventurer. Two details have raised the rating of this short story. First, the attitude and lines delivered by Carolus, the unexpected companion, and second, the new rule Howard proposes regarding lycanthropy.

[Madison McSweeney · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listened to an audio adaptation of this on The Lurking Transmission podcast. This werewolf tale set in a creepy forest is atmospheric with gradually building dread. Howard’s werewolf is as charmingly sinister as classic vampires, and its transformation (beautifully described as a dance) is transfixing.

[James Turner · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting take on the werewolf legend.

[Forked Radish · Rating 4 out of 5]

The preamble to Wolfshead.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just a little strole in the woods with a werewolf. Great little story.

[Andrea · Rating 3 out of 5]

estoy segura que siendo un poquito más detallado, habría sido maravilloso.

[Per · Rating 2 out of 5]

https://archive.org/details/WeirdTale...
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0607...

Werewolf stories are so frequent in the early Weird Tales that it in and of itself is weird. This one had a good atmosphere, but not much else. There is a second story by Howard featuring the narrator, de Montour (of Normandy), called Wolfshead:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Liz · Rating 3 out of 5]

A werewolf tale with atmosphere. I just wish it had been longer. Audible edition.