In the Vault, H. P. Lovecraft
In the Vault, H. P. Lovecraft
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In the Vault

Author: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Unabridged: 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/20/2015


Synopsis

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his brilliant and highly influential works of horror fiction.

In the Vault tells the tale of a lazy and parsimonious undertaker who tries to skimp on the cost of a coffin by reusing a substandard, cheap box which he had made previously for a very short man. The recipient of the flimsy coffin is the vindictive farmer Asaph Sawyer, a man known in the neighbourhood to be permanently set on vengeance on anyone who slights him....

About H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips "H. P." Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant twentieth-century authors in his genre.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter on July 12, 2019

An undertaker is trapped within a vault and builds a 'Tower of Bable' with the coffins to leave his confinement. When he tries to get out he is held back by something that claws into his tendons. Will he survive the situation unharmed and alive? Even though there is a great characterization of Birch......more

Goodreads review by Bill on April 07, 2019

C.H. Smith, editor of the amateur mag Tryout, suggested the idea for this conventional tale of horror: what if a New England undertaker, trapped in the churchyard’s receiving vault (the place where they store the coffins each winter until the ground thaws enough so they can dig the graves), attempte......more

Goodreads review by Caroline on May 03, 2021

Creepy! Also, karma's a bitch.......more

Goodreads review by Zac on December 27, 2023

Bro really said, "Not my coffin!"......more

Goodreads review by Felix on June 07, 2024

Lovecraft goes normalcore......more