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HorrorBabble's Cthulhu Mythos: An Illustrated Collection
"The Cthulhu Mythos" is a system of entities, books, and locations created by H. P. Lovecraft.
HorrorBabble's Cthulhu Mythos adheres to Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos by Lin Carter, whose requirement for including a story was that it must "present us with a significant item of information about the background lore of the Mythos, thus contributing important information to a common body of lore."
Regarding the exclusion of "The Mound": When Carter published his book in 1972, "The Mound" was still to be unearthed in its entirety (the original text was finally published in 1989). This collection follows Carter's 1972 list of Cthulhu Mythos stories.
This collection was recorded over a period of 3 years, from November 2015 through to September 2018, being narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble, feat. Jennifer Gill as "Zadok" in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
Chapters:
Introduction
The Nameless City
The Hound
The Festival
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dreams in the Witch House
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow Out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
The Thing on the Doorstep
The History of the Necronomicon
Fungi from Yuggoth
Outro: "Lovecraft; Into the Abyss" by Ian Gordon
HorrorBabble's Cthulhu Mythos adheres to Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos by Lin Carter, whose requirement for including a story was that it must "present us with a significant item of information about the background lore of the Mythos, thus contributing important information to a common body of lore."
Regarding the exclusion of "The Mound": When Carter published his book in 1972, "The Mound" was still to be unearthed in its entirety (the original text was finally published in 1989). This collection follows Carter's 1972 list of Cthulhu Mythos stories.
This collection was recorded over a period of 3 years, from November 2015 through to September 2018, being narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble, feat. Jennifer Gill as "Zadok" in "The Shadow Over Innsmouth".
Chapters:
Introduction
The Nameless City
The Hound
The Festival
The Call of Cthulhu
The Dunwich Horror
The Whisperer in Darkness
The Dreams in the Witch House
At the Mountains of Madness
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Shadow Out of Time
The Haunter of the Dark
The Thing on the Doorstep
The History of the Necronomicon
Fungi from Yuggoth
Outro: "Lovecraft; Into the Abyss" by Ian Gordon
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Published April 5, 2018
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About the author
H.P. Lovecraft
5,930 books19.2k followersHoward Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
See also Howard Phillips Lovecraft.
— Wikipedia
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
April 30, 2024
Me encantó esta relectura.
No todos los relatos me fascinan, pero es, sin duda, excelente y amé reencontrarme con cada uno.
Absolutamente recomendada si quieren conocer una excelente selección de autores icónicos dentro del género y, obviamente, Los mitos.
No todos los relatos me fascinan, pero es, sin duda, excelente y amé reencontrarme con cada uno.
Absolutamente recomendada si quieren conocer una excelente selección de autores icónicos dentro del género y, obviamente, Los mitos.
September 26, 2025
La mejor manera de entrar en los mitos y en Lovecraft.
Después de esta lectura -y según leí a algún conocedor de las ediciones en España de los mitos y Lovecraft - convendría pasar a la antología publicada por Valdemar "El que susurra en la oscuridad". Y apenas quedarían los relatos largos: "Las montañas de la locura" y "El caso de Charles Dexter Ward" para leer lo canónico.
Siempre me atrajo el mundo de Lovecraft, pero hasta esta lectura, había chocado con un muro infranqueable al comenzar con sus escritos. Creo que es un autor al que para nuevos lectores no les viene bien empezar con las obras completas en orden cronológico. Ni arriesgarse en las decenas de antologías (con traducciones dudosas) con selecciones arbitrarias.
Además, sirve para conocer el famoso Círculo de Lovecraft y descubrir sus conexiones literarias y diálogos narrativos...
Después de esta lectura -y según leí a algún conocedor de las ediciones en España de los mitos y Lovecraft - convendría pasar a la antología publicada por Valdemar "El que susurra en la oscuridad". Y apenas quedarían los relatos largos: "Las montañas de la locura" y "El caso de Charles Dexter Ward" para leer lo canónico.
Siempre me atrajo el mundo de Lovecraft, pero hasta esta lectura, había chocado con un muro infranqueable al comenzar con sus escritos. Creo que es un autor al que para nuevos lectores no les viene bien empezar con las obras completas en orden cronológico. Ni arriesgarse en las decenas de antologías (con traducciones dudosas) con selecciones arbitrarias.
Además, sirve para conocer el famoso Círculo de Lovecraft y descubrir sus conexiones literarias y diálogos narrativos...
January 22, 2021
Horror in books just doesn't through to me that much. Racism does, though. There's plenty of both...
August 21, 2022
[4.5*]
January 30, 2024
Eine durchaus lesenswerte Sammlung von wahrhaftig schaurigen Geschichten
February 2, 2025
The book is magnificent, the book has an air of terror ingrained in the soul.
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