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Pickman was an artist, one of the best, but even his imagination couldn't conjure his last model. H. P. Lovecraft was one of the greatest horror writers of all time. His seminal work appeared in the pages of legendary Weird Tales and has influenced countless writer of the macabre. This is one of those stories.

Charles Ward, even as a child, had always wandered the streets of ancient Providence, drawn inexorably to its domes and spires, its hills and homes, its history and its haunts. His antiquarian habits were always just so: an innocent preoccupation with the city and its wonders. Yet, when the discovery of a shadowy ancestor exposes an eldritch malevolence long thought to be contained, Charles must resist the dark grip of his fascination, before it consumes him, and his world, completely.

A shadow of degeneration, tainted ancestry and forbidden mystery hangs over the New England town of Innsmouth. The narrator of this novella by H. P. Lovecraft, a college student touring the detaining berg, discovers far more then he bargained for. Normal citizens tend to disappear, while the indigenous residents are taking on a fish-like appearance. Strangers are definitely not welcome in this rotting town where heathen ceremonies are said to take place. And could it be that the narrator is starting to resemble his grandmother and dead uncle Douglas?

Lovecraft imagines that Earth was inhabited by highly developed creatures spawned from outer space long before the arrival of man. Vestiges of this civilization have lain buried in Antarctica for eons and eons. Professor William Dyer discovers this hidden land, and the horrors that had remained dormant there until disturbed by the professor and his party. Once again they are dormant, but can the professor convince others to leave sleeping monsters lie?

In the distant future, Earth is at war with the planet Mars. Three saboteurs from Earth cause a major Martian city to disappear. They board the last spaceship bound for the planet Earth, and set up a conversation with a stranger…

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this short story written in 1850 by Charles Dickens is beautiful in its simplicity. A boy grows to a man with the memory of him and his now dead sister gazing upon the evening star, imagining it as a gate to heaven.

Award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti reads Acres of Diamonds, originally a lecture that Dr. Russell Conwell delivered in over 6,000 towns, villages, and cities.

In short, Elmer is a drunken, womanizing hypocrite who becomes a Baptist minister, a position from which he is soon ejected. He then links up with star revivalist Sharon Falconer, who is heavily based on Aimee Semple McPherson. Throughout his career, Gantry moves through many settings and scenarios illustrating aspects of the American religion. With religion as entertainment and show business, both Elmer and Sharon are consummate performers. They are always on.

Leave it to H.P. Lovecraft to depict in this short poem narrated by Earphone Award winner Mike Vendetti, "Holloween in a Suburb" of tombstones.

Step into the chilling world of Malcolm Slade, a man returning to the home he abandoned, only to find it as cold and desolate as his heart. As he battles the freezing night and his own regrets, a surprising warmth awaits him inside. But is it real, or just a figment of his frostbitten imagination?

A space traveler lands on a beautiful planet inhabited by huge peaceful beasts and a beautiful woman, or perhaps a god, and it's not a good idea for Mr. Machismo man to mess with this god.

Krebs, Hemingway's protagonist, leaves home a college kid and returns a very changed man. This story explores the extremely changed family dynamics within the Krebs family when Harold returns home. Roles switch from parent-child to adult/adult.

It’s a dark and stormy night, and “The Raven”, read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, transports us to a lonely chamber illuminated by firelight. The inhabitant who becomes the narrator hears a gentle tapping at the chamber door. The tapping is a raven who speaks one word, “Nevermore."

Part of Lovecraft's dream series, Celephaïs was created in a dream by Kuranes (which is his name in dreams - his real name is not given) as a child of the English landed gentry. As a man in his 40s, alone and dispossessed in contemporary London, he dreams it again and then, seeking it, slowly slips away to the dreamworld. Finally knights guide him through medieval England to his ancestral estate, where he spent his boyhood, and then to Celephaïs.

The gems in this piece are as relevant today as they were 200, 1000 or 2000 years ago. Sit back and absorb as award winning narrator Mike Vendetti shares Ben's wisdom.

Graves registration. The Civil War, and all wars that followed. A terrible job, requiring a special kind of man to do the job. Still a requirement in future intergalactic wars. The "Constellation", a 100 body morgue ship, has retrieved its 97th body. Who will be dead man number 100 and allow the "Constellation" to head home.

Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, this Lovecraft short story will not disappoint you. A part of the Lovecraft sleep series, this one leaves one to wonder was it a real living friend of the sculptor, or just the delusions of a madman. Much to think about in this short story. Lovecraft talks of drugs, and one must wonder if he actually used them since they were probably more available than they are today.

A scientist develops a rabbit, “Rabbit Number 9”, a highly intelligent variant of the fast breeding species. And not intelligence in rabbit terms, but human terms. The “Lab” had intended these experiments to further the human cause, but a human that intelligent could shortly dominate the world, and ordered the experiments stopped. When Number 9, a female, spots and peruses a jackrabbit hopping down the bunny trail, could this spell the end of human dominance of this world as we know it?

It's out there, and it's name is the Answerer. It knows the answer to everything, if you know how to ask the question.

The year 3000, and Mr. Morcheck has married the perfect woman. Not one of those neurotic primitive women, who were forever asking for money with which to buy clothes and trinkets demanding breakfast in bed, dashing off to bridge games, talking for hours on the telephone...,Myra is a delicate modern woman, perfect until much like your faithful Toyota, it becomes a bit sluggish, and there is blue smoke coming ftom the exhaust.