Under the Sunset-Bram Stoker

Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Henry Hewlett.If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw thunder-storms and other huge convulsions; that is how they saw meadow, grove and stream—in terms of their own fair humanity. They saw such natural phenomena as shadows of spiritual conflict or of spiritual calm, and within the appearance apprehended the truth. So it may be that I have done. Some such may be the explanation of all fairy experience. Let it be so. It is a fact, I believe, that there is nothing revealed in this book which will not bear a spiritual, and a moral, interpretation; and I venture to say of some of it that the moral implications involved are exceedingly momentous, and timely too. I need not refer to such matters any further.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Weird Tales Presents Dark Stories of Stark, Unreasoning Terror by Robert E. Howard.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Fantastics and Other Fancies by Lafcadio Hearn.This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest works, many of them brief romantic sketches of phantasmagoric imagery, supernatural occurrences and tales from far away places. H. P. Lovecraft said of this collection in his seminal essay Supernatural Horror in Literature that it "contains some of the most impressive ghoulishness in all literature".Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Hall Chamberlain.Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Attention to the Ainu is especially timely because of the revival in Japan of Ainu activism on behalf of indigenous rights, pride, and culture, but are well worth reading for their purely entertainment value.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisure by Songling Pu.25 tales of ghosts, spirits, fate, horror, murder, doomed love, manipulation and other mysterious happenings.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H. P. Lovecraft.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short horror novel (51,500 words) by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published (in abridged form) in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941; the first complete publication was in Arkham House's Beyond the Wall of Sleep collection (1943). It is included in the Library of America volume of Lovecraft's work. The novel, set in 1928, describes how Charles Dexter Ward becomes obsessed with his distant ancestor, Joseph Curwen, an alleged wizard with unsavory habits. Ward physically resembles Curwen, and attempts to duplicate his ancestor's Qabalistic and alchemical feats. He eventually uses this knowledge to physically resurrect Curwen.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft.H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24 Lovecraft works that are in the public domain.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Dunwich Horror (Version 2) by H. P. Lovecraft.Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. The horrific beings that live in these other dimensions are ancient, terrifying and very malign. This story is about one of these overlapping spots in a decaying community in the USA where these beings can interact with our world and where humans succeed in calling them forth in all of their stench, fetor and power with the intent of destroying all life on our planet. Mere humans cannot resist their power. Is there any hope?Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Seven H.P. Lovecraft Stories by H. P. Lovecraft.Howard Phillips Lovecraft, better known as H.P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror, fantasy, poetry and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction and many feel he is the acknowledged master of creepy, weird and unsettling stories. These are seven stories by Lovecraft that literally span his career; some being written when he was barely a teenager and one (The Shunned House) only published after he had died. Each story is unique and strange in it's own way but all of them come from the same mind that gave us the Cult of Cthulhu and other wonderful tales that generations now have enjoyed for their strangeness that resonates with our own inner fears. Some of these stories explore the depths of the human mind others the depths of human degradation and creepiness. I won't ruin the suspense by telling you which is which. Enjoy.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Supernatural Horror in Literature by H. P. Lovecraft.In this essay Lovecraft traces the history of hair-raising fictional stories with a focus on things that go bump in the night, starting with the examples from the Antiquity and ending with a detailed discussion of the works of his contemporaries.Featured on Shadow Over Innsmouth.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.