"The Music of Erich Zann" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1921, it was first published in National Amateur, March 1922.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.org or on our YouTube c

The Nameless City - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 28th, 2021 27m 44s

"The Nameless City" is a short horror story written by American writer H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first story set in the

The Crawling Chaos - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 27th, 2021 16m 28s

Beyond Wall of Sleep - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 26th, 2021 32m 27s

"Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.org

Polaris - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 25th, 2021 9m 25s

"Polaris" is a fantasy short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1918 and first published in the December 1920 issue of the amateur journal The Philosopher. It is the story that introduces Lovecraft's fictional Pnakotic Manuscr

Memory - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 24th, 2021 2m 28s

"Memory" is a flash fiction short story by American horror and science fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1919 and published in May 1923 in The National Amateur.View our entire collection of podcasts at www.solgood.org or on our YouTube

The Statement of Randolf Carter - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 23rd, 2021 12m 59s

"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in The Vagrant, May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of the oc

Nyarlathotep - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 22nd, 2021 7m 54s

"Nyarlathotep" is a prose poem by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and first saw publication in that year's November issue of The United Amateur. The poem itself is a bleak view of human civilization in decline, and it explores the mixed

Celephais - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 21st, 2021 19m 4s

"Celephaïs" is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow. The title refers to a fictional city that later appears in Lovecraft's Dr

The Cats of Ulthar - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 20th, 2021 8m 15s

"The Cats of Ulthar" is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920. In the tale, an unnamed narrator relates the story of how a law forbidding the killing of cats came to be in a town called Ulthar.View our en

The Tree - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 19th, 2021 10m 51s

"The Tree" is a macabre short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920, and published in October 1921 in The Tryout. Set in ancient Greece, the story concerns two sculptors who accept a commission with iro

Ex Oblivione - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 18th, 2021 4m 19s

"Ex Oblivione" is a prose poem by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in late 1920 or early 1921 and first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.View our entire collection of podcas

A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 17th, 2021 11m 13s

"A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" is a short story written in 1917 by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in the September 1917 issue of the United Amateur, under the pseudonym Humphrey Littlewit, Esq. Th

The Beast In Cave - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 16th, 2021 13m 56s

"The Beast in the Cave" is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. The first draft was written in the Spring of 1904, with the final draft finished in April 1905, when Lovecraft was age fourteen. View our entire collect

The Tomb - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 15th, 2021 25m 12s

"The Tomb" is a fictional short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It tells the story of Jervas Dudley, who becomes obsessed with a mausoleum near his child

The Doom That Came to Sarnath - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 14th, 2021 17m 56s

"The Doom That Came to Sarnath" is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine

The Street. - H.P. Lovecraft

Aug 13th, 2021 14m 15s