"What happens when you go seeking after knowledge that man was never meant to hold? What happens when that knowledge gives you ideas about rearranging the cosmos to suit your fancy? Well, it turns out that challenging the merciless, inevitable elder gods of the cosmos for their power is a very, very bad idea."
"What to do when suffering from a terminal case of boredom? If you're a character in a Lovecraft story, why, you take up grave robbing and set up a twisted little museum of death, of course.
What do you do when the occupant of one of the graves you robbed decides it wants it's belongings back? That's an entirely different question."
"It's important to acknowledge where you come from, and to keep old family traditions alive. The old ways should be remembered. But maybe, just maybe, some traditions are best left behind."
"A poor student of metaphysics becomes obsessed with the odd music of an elderly German viol player who lives in the same boarding house on the mysteriously mysterious Rue d'Auseil - a street that no one else has ever heard of, and which the man is never able to find again later in his life. Unfortunately for both our narrator and the elderly musician someone (or something) else is also obsessed with The Music of Erich Zann."
"Our senses are limited, and we can perceive only a very limited range of what we know is out there in the world around us. But Crawford Tillinghast aims to change all that by awakening the latent abilities that lay dormant in all of us. What could possibly go wrong?"
"Something is killing the hill folk in the Catskills, and our intrepid narrator is determined to find out what it is. What he finds is much, much more than he bargained for."
"It's a well known fact that H.P. Lovecraft was a horribly racist man, and that some of his earliest stories reflect that particular worldview. This can make it awkward for those who would like to read his work and see what all the fuss is about but don't want to have to wade through the putrid swamp of his views on people of color and immigrants.
In response to this issue, I have put together this collection of the H.P. Lovecraft short stories written between 1917 and 1923, but with the omission of the really racist ones (there are still one or two lines in one or two of the stories included here that might raise the odd eyebrow, but nothing overtly racist). You may now peruse the works of the master of weird fiction without fear that you'll have to deal with his opinions of the master race, and that's a good thing. Lovecraft was a racist douchebag, but he was also a visionary writer of amazingly creative and breathtaking stories without which entire genres of fiction would not exist, and on that score the literary world owes him a debt of gratitude.
In this audio book version I will read you the stories as suspensefully and creepily they deserve to be read. For best results, listen on a good set of headphones. In the dark. Under a blanket. Just don't expect to get much sleep.
Come see (hear) what all the fuss is about."
"A very slightly updated version of the traditional Norwegian folk tale from Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book from 1889. The Blue Fairy Book was the first of 12 Fairy Books to be written and published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and, though Lang is credited as the creator of these books, it is worth noting that almost all of the actual translation and writing of the stories was done by others - most notably his wife, Nora.
This story is classified as ATU 425A in the ATU tale type classification system, which is the “Search for the Lost Husband” type."
