Beyond the Wall of Sleep, H.P. Lovecraft
Beyond the Wall of Sleep, H.P. Lovecraft
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Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Adriel Brandt

Unabridged: 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/29/2018

Categories: Fiction, Gothic

Synopsis

Lovecraftian themes abound in the tales of an intern at a madhouse and an illiterate madman. Slater, the madman whose unspeakable crimes led him to the madhouse, is continuously awakened in this story by surprisingly literate hallucinations of a glowing entity seeking revenge. Inspired by Slater’s uneducated background and the telepathic machine that he had made in his yesteryear, the intern delves deep into Joe Slater – who is receiving telepathic messages from a being of light. This being of light says that nothing can come from being shackled to human bodies, which causes Slater to die, the transmission to end, and the battle between good and evil to rage on.   

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn

Author of the horrific, the Gothic and the fantastic, a man who lived his short life as a recluse in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island until his premature death at age 47, Beyond the Wall of Sleep is H. P. Lovecraft’s (1890-1939) classic tale of a reality less visible than our everyday earthb......more

Goodreads review by Bill

This story was written in 1919, when Lovecraft was only 29, but it is one of the most concentrated and effective tales of his early maturity. It is based on a passage from an article in The New York Tribune (“How Our State Police Have Spurred Our Way to Fame,” 4/27/19), which uses a particularly deg......more

Goodreads review by Peter

The line between reality and dreams is blurring in this great short story. Did Joe Slater, a degenerate hick, really kill a man or was he filled by another entity, something cosmic, something from beyond? In this great story Lovecraft comes up with a first person narrator who uses modern radio techn......more

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