Reader(s): Roberts, William
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0214
Barcode: 9781843798774
Release Date: 01/2015

LOVECRAFT, H.P.: Shadow Over Innsmouth (The) / The Whisperer in Darkness (Unabridged)

Tracklist

Disc 1
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips - Author
Roberts, William (Reader)
1The Shadow Over Innsmouth07:54
Roberts, William (Reader)
2'More empty houses than there are people…'06:28
Roberts, William (Reader)
3'Yes, there's a hotel in Innsmouth – called the Gilman…'07:19
Roberts, William (Reader)
4The librarian gave me a note of introduction to the curator…06:21
Roberts, William (Reader)
5II: Shortly before ten the next morning…08:17
Roberts, William (Reader)
6It was a town of wide extent and dense construction…08:36
Roberts, William (Reader)
7A very thin sprinkling of repellent-looking…08:53
Roberts, William (Reader)
8It would be of no use, my informant said…06:55
Roberts, William (Reader)
9Fish Street was as deserted as Main…06:23
Roberts, William (Reader)
10III: It must have been some imp of the perverse…05:13
Roberts, William (Reader)
11After an hour his furtive taciturnity…05:48
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 2
1The old man's whisper grew fainter, and I found myself…08:17
Roberts, William (Reader)
2'Well, come abaout thutty-eight – when I was seven…'08:12
Roberts, William (Reader)
3The old man was getting hysterical, and I began to shiver…08:20
Roberts, William (Reader)
4'It got wuss araound Civil War time, when children born…'08:54
Roberts, William (Reader)
5IV: I can hardly describe the mood in which I was left by…08:30
Roberts, William (Reader)
6I did not undress, but decided to read till I was sleepy…08:00
Roberts, William (Reader)
7I perceived that my chances were very slender…07:05
Roberts, William (Reader)
8As I moved the furniture and rushed toward the windows…05:57
Roberts, William (Reader)
9I was now in Washington Street, and for the moment…06:42
Roberts, William (Reader)
10A second reflection was less comforting.08:12
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 3
1Once more in shadow, I resumed my former dog-trot…06:07
Roberts, William (Reader)
2I had entered the brush-grown cut and was struggling…08:52
Roberts, William (Reader)
3V: It was a gentle daylight rain that awaked me…08:49
Roberts, William (Reader)
4But the worst shock came when my uncle shewed me…09:43
Roberts, William (Reader)
Roberts, William (Reader)
5The Whisperer in Darkness08:41
Roberts, William (Reader)
6These things seemed content, on the whole, to let mankind…09:09
Roberts, William (Reader)
7II: As was only natural under the circumstances, this piquant…08:22
Roberts, William (Reader)
8Now my object in writing you is not to start an argument…08:09
Roberts, William (Reader)
9That he had really overheard disturbing voices in the hills…08:23
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 4
1From the pictures I turned to the bulky, closely-written letter…04:50
Roberts, William (Reader)
2III: Toward the end of June the phonograph record came…06:36
Roberts, William (Reader)
3Such were the words for which I was to listen when I started…06:17
Roberts, William (Reader)
4About this time – the second week in July – another letter of…06:14
Roberts, William (Reader)
5IV: The unknown things, Akeley wrote in a script grown…06:56
Roberts, William (Reader)
6Monday. Dear Wilmarth, A rather discouraging P.S. to my last.06:38
Roberts, William (Reader)
7But I haven't told you the worst, Wilmarth.06:03
Roberts, William (Reader)
8V: Then, apparently crossing my incoherent note and reaching…06:38
Roberts, William (Reader)
9The Outer Beings are perhaps the most marvellous organic…06:16
Roberts, William (Reader)
10The complexity of my emotions upon reading, re-reading…07:07
Roberts, William (Reader)
11VI: On Wednesday I started as agreed, taking with me a valise…08:50
Roberts, William (Reader)
Disc 5
1The nearness and intimacy of the dwarfed, domed hills…05:15
Roberts, William (Reader)
2Alighting from the car and taking my valise…07:43
Roberts, William (Reader)
3VII: Refusing to let these cloudy qualms overmaster me…08:58
Roberts, William (Reader)
4Very slowly I turned and began to obey my host…07:54
Roberts, William (Reader)
5There was a harmless way to extract a brain…08:36
Roberts, William (Reader)
6'Do you realise what it means when I say I have been…'08:44
Roberts, William (Reader)
7VIII: Do not ask me how long my unexpected lapse…08:46
Roberts, William (Reader)
8As I tried to catch the words which the stoutly-fashioned floor…08:05
Roberts, William (Reader)
9At last I felt able to act, and stretched myself vigorously…07:59
Roberts, William (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 06:16:56