The Book of Cthulhu

Tales Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft

By: Ross E. Lockhart - editor

Narrated by: Fleet Cooper, Teresa DeBerry

The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century's most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of the 21st century have planted their seeds in this fertile soil. The Book of Cthulhu harvests the weirdest and most corpulent crop of these modern mythos tales. From weird fiction masters to enigmatic rising stars, The Book of Cthulhu demonstrates how mythos fiction has been a major cultural meme throughout the 20th century, and how this type of story is still salient, and terribly powerful today.

©2011 Ross E. Lockhart (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

a mix of good ones and bad ones

some are really good, some are bad, and others are terrible. overall not bad though.

Lots of Monster Fun

Incredible anthology of short (and somewhat longer) stories that mostly are great listens, some really make your skin crawl

Fantastic performance!

The last story, "The men of Porlock" was my favorite! The performance by the reader was flawless. Must hear. Spooky!

Almost ...

There are some good stories in here and the audio is great ... however ... there are TOO MANY stories that are just pure crap. I gave them all a good college try but some of these might as well have just been smut. On the plus side the bad ones made the good ones really stand out but only about a third of them were worth reading.

Hit and Miss

Only a couple stories really stood out. I ended up skipping one entirely because the narrator was using a horrid, borderline inappropriate Middle Eastern accent. I skipped two others because they bored me. I fully recognize that HP Lovecraft is from another time, was casually racist and used racial slurs. One author took significant advantage of that and used "n----r" about 15 times, without any benefit to the story.