This is a good audiobook with great stories and well-done narration, but it suffers somewhat by a poorly chosen, all too common title, and an evident publisher's disregard for the little things that might have greatly improved the buyer's experience. Keith Szarabajka did a commendable job on "The Shadow Out of Time." I'd also like to commend the narrators of "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Herbert West", but I have no idea who they were.ĭid Necronomicon inspire you to do anything? What about the narrators’s performance did you like? I'm looking forward to working my way through every story in the volume. A lot of Lovecraft's stories are first person narratives, making an audiobook like this one an outstanding way to experience Lovecraft. I began with my favorite Lovecraft story, "The Shadow Out of Time." I happened to recognize the narrator's voice, Keith Szarabajka, and he was excellent. This volume contains: DAGON HERBERT WEST-REANIMATOR THE LURKING FEAR THE RATS IN THE WALLS THE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS COOL AIR IN THE VAULT THE CALL OF CTHULHU THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE THE HORROR AT REDHOOK THE MUSIC OF ERICH ZANN THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME THE DUNWICH HORROR THE HAUNTER IN THE DARK THE OUTSIDER THE SHUNNED HOUSE THE UNNAMABLE THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP UNDER THE PYRAMIDS Also, unless you can recognize a reader's voice, there's no way to tell who is narrating each story. For example, the second selection in the audiobook, "Herbert West." takes up six chapters. In order to learn what my audiobook had in it, I had to go through all 63 chapters and deduce which stories they were associated with. By the way, a Table of Contents would be nice, maybe even a downloadable information sheet. Well, they're not the stories in the audiobook I bought. Another issue: another reviewer listed the stories included in this volume. I'm not sorry I bought the book, but it simply wasn't what it was represented to be. Regardless of the publisher's summary, it does not contain all of Lovecraft's "harrowing stories" and it doesn't include all of the Cthulhu mythos stories. Very confusing to a potential buyer, and the reviews I read before purchasing this audiobook were misleading. Why do I specify? Because there are evidently several different books out there with the same title. Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?įirst things first: I'm reviewing the Audiobook listed above, with the black cover featuring blue tentacles and the title "Necronomicon" in bold white caps. It will introduce a whole new generation of readers to Lovecraft’s fiction, as well as attract those fans who want all his work in a single, definitive volume.
This tome brings together all of Lovecraft’s harrowing stories, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were when first released. Lovecraft’s astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction, and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when first published.
Originally written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, H. The only audio edition of Necronomicon authorized by the H.
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