The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft

Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/759209to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Hound Author: H.P. Lovecraft Narrator: Peter Coates Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 0 hours 20 minutes Release date: February 22, 2024 Genres: Horror Publisher's Summary: 'The Hound' is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in September 1922 and published in the February 1924 issue of Weird Tales. It contains the first mention of Lovecraft's fictional text the Necronomicon. The story opens with the unnamed narrator preparing to commit suicide. Lamenting his fate, he reflects upon the events which led him to this moment.The narrator and his friend, St. John, are a pair of loners who both have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects collected from the various graves they have robbed, the two men organize a private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls, and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also includes statues, frightful paintings, and a locked portfolio bound in tanned human skin. One day, the two learn of a particular grave, which sparks a profound interest in them: an old grave in a Holland cemetery which holds a legendary tomb raider within, one who is said to have stolen, many years ago, a 'potent thing from a mighty sepulchre.' They travel to the old cemetery where the man was buried...

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