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The Hound

H.P. Lovecraft a la Carte No. 5

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The Hound

By: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Finn J.D. John
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About this listen

This is the same reading of "The Hound" that you'll find in Pulp-Lit Productions' 82-hour flagship omnibus collection, The Complete Weird-Fiction Works of H.P. Lovecraft. We've packaged it as an individual file for listeners who just want this story, to save them the expense of buying the whole collection and the trouble of sifting through hundreds of titles.

This particularly chilling short story was inspired by a trip that Lovecraft made with Rheinhart Kleiner to the 18th-century Dutch Reformed Church on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn - and to its adjacent graveyard, full of grave markers dating from the mid-1700s. While there, Lovecraft pocketed a piece of one of the grave markers; and it set him to thinking about the possibilities of a story plot in which a vengeful tomb-denizen, resenting a similar act of souvenir-taking, claws its way out of the grave to track down the desecrator.

That story idea led him directly to “The Hound.”

Public Domain (P)2019 Pulp-Lit Productions
Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Horror Short Stories Scary

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