(If you don’t have Spotify’s free software, you can download it here.) Lovecraft audiobooks, featuring readings of not just “The Call of Cthulhu” but The Shadow over Innsmouth, “The Dunwich Horror,” “The Thing on the Doorstep,” and other stories besides. Indeed, what better writer to hear on Halloween night? Once it gets dark, consider firing up this fourteen-hour Spotify playlist of H.P. What better writer to read on Halloween night, when - amid all the partying and the candy - we all permit ourselves a glimpse into the abyss? We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.” So writes the narrator of “The Call of Cthulhu,” the best-known story by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, who, before he burnt out and died young, spent his whole literary career looking into that infinity and reporting on the psychological effects of what he sensed lurking there. “The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. Image by Dominique Signoret, via Wikimedia Commons
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