Nyarlathotep, H.P. Lovecraft
Nyarlathotep, H.P. Lovecraft
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Nyarlathotep

Author: H.P. Lovecraft

Narrator: Chris Sorensen

Unabridged: 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/01/2013

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

During a time of political and social unrest in Egypt, a god-like force, Nyarlathotep, emerges. He travels the land dazzling people with electricity and psychology. While witnesses of this god-like creature encourage others to see him, afterwards people seem terrified. As the narrator recounts his experiences, he becomes disoriented. By the end of the story, the narrator and the other viewers of Nyarlathotep begin to lose touch with reality.
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a Rhode Island -born writer best known for his contributions to the genre of horror. His eerie stories and poetry were influenced by the writing of Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft’s own family life. Being sick often as a child and dealing with the death of his father, who battled with mental illness, Lovecraft seems to have infused these experiences and emotions into his writing. A theme in many of his works is that too much knowledge can be harmful and lead to destruction.
attention while he was alive, he is now considered one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. He is famed for creating the shared fictional universe of the Cthulhu Mythos and the fictional magical textbook "Necronomican."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

I know, I know… this is just the paranoid Democrat in me obsessing, but when I read the beginning of “Nyarlathotep,” I instantly thought of how I’ve felt in these months since Trump became president:I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it was months ago. The general tension was horrible.......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Horror and catastrophies threaten to waste the country. Everybody is afraid of this situation. What about the role of Nyarlathotep? Who is it by the way? This is one of the stories of Lovecraft that doesn't come to the point in my opinion, doesn't render Nyarlathotep as uncanny as he might be. To me......more

Read online elsewhere, but this is the first complete work by H. P. Lovecraft that I read. Nyarlathotep, an ancient malignant being and occasional man, has haunted humanity's dreams since the days of the Pharaohs. Our narrator, a scientific skeptic, goes to one of Nyarlathotep's demonstrations and de......more