HorrorBabble's Ultimate Lovecraft Collection

By: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrated by: Ian Gordon

Length: 51 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's Summary

This collection comprises H. P. Lovecraft’s definitive works, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories.

Contents:

1. Credits

2. The Colour Out of Space 

3. From Beyond 

4. He 

5. The Rats in the Walls 

6. Cool Air 

7. The Music of Erich Zann

Cthulhu Mythos:

8. The Nameless City

9-10. The Hound

11. The Festival 

12-14. The Call of Cthulhu

15-24. The Dunwich Horror

25-32. The Whisperer in Darkness 

33. The Dreams in the Witch House

34-45. At the Mountains of Madness

46-50. The Shadow over Innsmouth

51-58. The Shadow Out of Time

59. The Haunter of the Dark 

60. The Thing on the Doorstep

61. The History of the Necronomicon

62. Fungi from Yuggoth

End of Cthulhu Mythos

63. Old Bugs 

64. In the Vault 

65. The Curse of Yig 

66. The Temple 

67. The Challenge from Beyond 

68-74. The Mound

75. The Tomb 

76. The Disinterment 

Dream Cycle:

77. Polaris

78. The White Ship

79. The Doom That Came to Sarnath 

80. The Cats of Ulthar 

81. Celephaïs

82. Ex Oblivione

83. Nyarlathotep 

84. The Quest of Iranon

85. The Other Gods

86. Azathoth 

87. Hypnos

88. What the Moon Brings

89-91. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath 

92. The Outsider

93. The Silver Key 

94. The Strange High House in the Mist 

95. Through the Gates of the Silver Key

End of Dream Cycle

96. The Horror at Red Hook 

97. The Man of Stone 

98. The Lurking Fear 

99. Out of the Aeons 

100-104. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

105. The Shunned House

106. Credits

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No story titles!

Excellent stories from dark worlds, well narrated but there are no story titles, only chapters. no way of knowing where one story ends and another begins.

an unique experience

The book is great, i have the commemorative edition of the necronomicon and i read it with this narator that brings an atmosphere that i never felt before like that. he has a great voice and i love how he can make you feel in the lovecraftian world

As Good as It Gets

Ian Gordon is the best self-published narrator I have come across. He has a passion for both Lovecraft and other Weird Tales authors which seriously come across in his readings. When you combine his zeal with an essential collection HPL's works, this is a glorious purchase.

Ian Gordon is the best.

In some sleepy and unnamed village, a child was born under the full moon of Samhain. The product of union between a muse and the dank night itself, Ian was named after his great grandfather, rumored to be the town crier of R'lye. The celestial cyclopian lantern illuminated the birth of such offspring, destined to chant the darkness.

Ian Gordon is incredible, not only in his performance, but also in delivery of what his many fans desire... the dark ease that flows in his every utterance.

I have many good readings of the same material, but his is my favorite of each selection.

My only possible criticism is that I would prefer titles rather than chapter numbers for navigation.

A great voice

Ian Gordon gives a reading that held interest and brought the stories to life. a must have for Lovecraft fans.

wonderful

As always it was a terrific listen. Thank you so much. My favourite Lovecraft story was included.

Great books great reading

One of my favorite authors. Lovecraft is the best. Haven't EVER disliked a story he wrote.

Perfection!

I love it! Hope there will be another collection. So many beautiful tales still to be told by the wonderful HorrorBabble!!!

All time favorite.

I've been a huge fan of both Lovecraft's and Ian Gordon's work for a long time, and this collection is my absolute favorite of Ian's narrations.

errant punctuation, speech impediment

Hard to. Listen to. Narrator seems to want. To create his own. punctuation. Pausing, at every. Three words.

Very Good, let down by Audible's lack of features

Edit to add: Lovecraft had horrible racist views and it is apparent in many of the stories. Having read the books a number of times I find myself simultaneously appreciating the writing more but the racism becomes more apparent and offsets this. This isn't horrorbabbles problem, but as I give the stories a 5 star review I feel I should point that out.

The performance and quality is very good in my opinion. It is a shame audible doesn't have features to name each chapter, that makes this type of collections very hard to navigate... Also Audible, let us organise our own libraries into categories of our own choosing, I have 100's of books and it is a nightmare to find what I want to listen to.

OK here is me doing Audibles job... The contents of this Audiobook are as follows, each chapter number corresponds to these books, chapter 1 is an intro. Some of the larger books are split into separate chapters, I have labelled these as 2 3 4 etc. So Chapter 19 is The Dunwitch Horror part 5. Apologies if not spelled correctly. I am currently listening to 9: The Hound

The narrator does a good job, I think the voice matches the books well, I find it easy to listen to at night going to sleep and I have no issues with quality thus far.



2 The Colour Out of Space
3 From Beyond
4 He
5 The Rats In the Walls
6 cool Air
7 The Music Of Eric Zan
8 The Nameless City
9 The Hound
10 2
11 The Festival
12 The Call of Cthulhu
13 2
14 3
15 The Dunwitch Horror
16 2
17 3
18 4
19 5
20 6
21 7
22 8
23 9
24 10
25 The Whisperer in Darkness
26 2
27 3
28 4
29 5
30 6
31 7
32 8
33 The Dreams In The Witch House
34 At The Mountains Of Madness
35 2
36 3
37 4
38 5
39 6
40 7
41 8
42 9
43 10
44 11
45 12
46 The Shadow Over Innsmouth
47 2
48 3
49 4
50 5
51 The Shadow Out of Time
52 2
53 3
54 4
55 5
56 6
57 7
58 8
59 The Haunter of the Dark
60 The Thing on the Doorstep
61 The History of the Necronomicon
62 Fungi from Yuggoth
63 Old Bugs
64 In the Vault
65 The Curse of Yig
66 The Temple
67 The Challenge from Beyond
68 The Mound
69 2
70 3
71 4
72 5
73 6
74 7
75 The Tomb
76 The Disinterment
77 Polaris
78 The White Ship
79 The Doom that came to Sarnath
80 The Cats of Ulthar
81 Celaphais
82 Ex Oblivione
83 Nyarlathotep
84 The Quest of Irenon
85 The Other Gods
86 Azathoth
87 Hypnos
88 What the Moon Brings
89 The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath
90 2
91 3
92 The Outsider
93 The Silver Key
94 The Strange High House in the Mist
95 Through the Gates of the Silver Key
96 The Horror at Red Hook
97 The Men of Stone
98 The Lurking Fear
99 Out of the Aeons
100 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
101 2
102 3
103 4
104 5
105 The Shunned House

The best adaptation to date.

As someone who's been reading HPL since I was about 11 (I'm now in my 40s) I've listened to a lot of adaptations from radio plays to society adaptations and everywhere in between.
Thus far, no one has been able to read in such a manner that WORKED for me, be it due to their timbre, speed or pronunciation of words..or so I thought.
A friend, knowing of my love for Lovectaft's works directed me to the YouTube channel for Horrorbabble and my love for Ian's work was born.
With great production values, a voice well suited to the style of writing and an clear understanding of the use of speed and volume in expressing suspense, Ian brings the work to life.

Perfect atmosphere

This audiobook creates the ideal atmosphere for these kind of stories it makes them trully scary

Excellent narration

Ian Gordon is the most skilled narrator I have come across on Audible by a long way. Will definitely be purchasing more recordings from HorrorBabble.

Lovecraft’s stories are classics and require no comment.

Just a mess of a chapter structure

Lovecraft's works, well read, but arranged in the least convenient way. Include chapter titles, guys!

Great collection

I like the ambiance the company used a lot to help set the story’s! Overall great voice acting a treat to any lovecraft fans

Intoxicating Horror

Well written, Well Narated, Hypnotising, thought provoking, eye opening, breaks down the barriers between the listener and the story teller. It almost becomes your own thoughts Narating the story. incredible. Lovecraft was a Genius. Well executed Naration.

Awful narrator

I would have thoroughly enjoyed listening to this if I didn't have to turn the volume down every time there was a female voice to narrate...... screechy and unbearable at those points. As others have commented, it would have been great if the individual stories were more clearly segmented. Great author, brilliant content but sadly ruined for me by the narrator.

It’s Lovecraft...

The narration is good, one of the better productions out there of Lovecraft’s almost complete works. At the end of the day, it is Lovecraft - you’ve probably heard the stories a dozen times before. They’re classics for a reason and there is no real way to summarise this many stories - some are better than others.

However, something that I would like to see rectified is not calling the chapters chapters, except where there are literally more chapters to a story than just one. Navigating over 50 hours of audio solely via Chapters is really a problem, even if the list of chapters and corresponding stories is written at the “page” for the book it is still an unnecessary step for the listener to go through in order to find the story he or she wants to listen to. Other long audiobooks has fixed this issue, those by H.P Lovecraft historical society for instance, which means HorrorBabble can fix this too.