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    The Terrible Old Man
    The Terrible Old Man
    The Terrible Old Man
    Audiobook8 minutes

    The Terrible Old Man

    Written by H. P. Lovecraft

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author of horror fiction who achieved posthumous fame as one of the most influential writers of his day.

    "The Terrible Old Man" is the gruesome story of three robbers who set out to steal from a mysterious and reclusive retired sea captain who has a circle of strange stones in his garden and conducts even stranger rituals in his house.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateJun 20, 2015
    ISBN9781467698900
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    H. P. Lovecraft

    Renowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and lived most of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. Among his many classic horror stories, many of which were published in book form only after his death in 1937, are ‘At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror’ (1964), ‘Dagon and Other Macabre Tales’ (1965), and ‘The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions’ (1970).

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    • 5/5
      H.P. Lovecraft is always known for great stories, so the writer speaks for the story itself. The narrator is a woman in this story, she does a fantastic job and her tone gives the story a perfect sense of dread.