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)

The Shadow Over Innsmouth and The Whisperer in Darkness are counted amongst H.P. Lovecraft’s most popular stories. In the first we are transported to the decrepit coastal town of Innsmouth, whose amphibian-like citizens betray a dark and sinister secret. The second takes us to Vermont, where a university professor becomes embroiled in a mindbending, celestial mystery after strange things are seen floating in the rivers. Dark, brooding and suspenseful, this is Lovecraft at his very best.

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