Free Lovecraft books, stories, audiobooks, and radio plays
The complete original books and stories of H.P. Lovecraft in a free, clean, and easy to read collection.
You can also find audiobooks and audio plays alongside the original short stories and books.
The Colour out of Space
West of Arkham the
hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has
ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically,
and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint
of sunlight...
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The Call of Cthulhu
Of such great powers or beings there may be conceivably a survival...
a survival of a hugely remote period when... consciousness was manifested,
perhaps, in shapes and forms long since withdrawn before the tide
of advancing humanity.....
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The Dunwich Horror
Gorgons and Hydras,
and Chimaeras - dire stories of Celaeno and the Harpies - may reproduce
themselves in the brain of superstition - but they were there before.
They are transcripts, types - the archtypes are in us, and eternal...
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
Where to start with Lovecraft?
Jumping into Lovecraft's array of stories and Mythos can be a bit daunting. For most readers looking to learn more about Cthulhu or the Cthulhu Mythos the best place to start is obviously The Call of Cthulhu. For people more interested in his other works good places to start are The Dunwich Horror, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Colour out of Space. If you have only a short time to venture into a story Dagon or Nyarlathotep are quite short.
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All PostsAbout H.P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft was a prolific writer born in Providence, Rhode Island, whose work in the early 20th century never garnered widespread interest. Since then he has achieved posthumous fame and has had and will continue to have a heavy influence on science fiction horror.
The distinctly Lovecraftian style of cosmic indifference and unknown terror can be felt in the literary works of authors like, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and William S. Burroughs amongst others. His influence in cinema can be felt in the design and artwork of Alien created by HR Geiger, in many of John Carpenter movies such as The Thing, and in the works of Guillermo Del Toro.
Lovecraft’s themes touch upon forbidden knowledge, cosmic fate, non-human influences on humanity, and the risks of science pushing too far. His writing style was heavily influenced by Edgar Allen Poe and they shared many similarities in their lives such as the early loss of their fathers and a strong interest in poetry. Lovecraft references several of Poe's works in his own in stories like The Shadow over Innsmouth, and a direct quote in At the Mountains of Madness from The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Poe. Read more about the author
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Yog Sothoth by Tombo Studios
H.P. Lovecraft's Arkham
Michele Botticelli
Arkham is a fictional town situated in Massachusetts. It is an integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, and it is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
Lovecraft in 1935
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St Johns Churchyard
Hounds of Tindalos
James Wolf Streble
They are lean and athirst!" he shrieked... "All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment, I cannot be certain.