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The Vault of Lovecraft

The Vault of Lovecraft

By: Mike Bennett
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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.” H.P. Lovecraft. Enter The Vault of Lovecraft and cross over into a nightmarish world of spine-chilling horror from one of the Twentieth Century's greatest masters of the macabre. This unabridged collection includes many of H.P. Lovecraft's best known works: short stories like The Statement of Randolph Carter, Dagon, Cool Air, and longer stories like The Colour out of Space, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Mike Bennett's Parsec Award-winning recording of The Shadow over Innsmouth. Originally podcast between 2007 and 2019, this podcast is all of Mike Bennett's Lovecraft recordings (so far) collected in one volume.Copyright Mike Bennett 2007-2019. Art Literary History & Criticism Science Fiction
Episodes
  • The Terrible Old Man

    The Terrible Old Man
    Mar 16 2021

    It was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man. This old man dwells all alone in a very ancient house on Water Street near the sea, and is reputed to be both exceedingly rich and exceedingly feeble; which forms a situation very attractive to men of the profession of Messrs. Ricci, Czanek, and Silva, for that profession was nothing less dignified than robbery…
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    10 mins
  • Dagon

    Dagon
    Mar 16 2021

    I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below...
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    20 mins
  • The Rats in the Walls

    The Rats in the Walls
    Mar 16 2021

    On July 16, 1923, I moved into Exham Priory after the last workman had finished his labours. The restoration had been a stupendous task, for little had remained of the deserted pile but a shell-like ruin; yet because it had been the seat of my ancestors I let no expense deter me…
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    58 mins
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Mr Bennett truly knows how to captive everything I love about H. P. Lovecraft's work. I have listened to this before, and it's perfect for a dark evening at home, or even a car ride. His voices are wonderful and it's all top quality.

He knows how to drive the horror forward slowly, just like the texts do. I can't recommend this enough.

Mike Bennett and his amazing voice

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