The Horror at Red Hook

De: H. P. Lovecraft

Narrado por: Jim Donaldson

Lovecraft’s gothic horror masterpiece. During an investigation in Red Hook, Detective Thomas F. Malone, and discovers horrors that he never imagined. A horror classic.

Public Domain (P)2013 Trout Lake Media

Just a Bit of a Warning

I had no idea when I bought this that some genius had made the decision to add a background sound every few minutes to the narration. I could just picture some college kid they had paid in burritos in the sound booth, pressing various sound effect buttons and high fiving himself for his totally righteous editing skills.

But still! It's cheap and you could do worse.

An interesting way to spend an hour

In the past, I have seen & read biographical information on H.P. Lovecraft. His life was that of a loner and sheltered in many ways. He appeared to have some serious issues about those of different races & a definite distrust of those who were not Caucasian. I find this story to be interesting, but Mr. Lovecraft uses so many words ( was he perhaps paid by the word by the fanzines?). I can see how he was an inspiration to many of the writers in the genre that came after. This audio book had a good narrator, but I found the sound effects to be distracting. That was also a criticism of a friend who has medium hearing difficulties as well. All in all, the story if rewritten by Stephen King, Clive Barker or Neil Gaimon would definitely leave me wanting more. If one loves tales of the "Old Gods" with ancient rituals plus a close knowledge of Brooklyn past & present, this may be just the story for you.

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Loved it!

It was perfect! I throughly enjoyed it. Can't go wrong with this gem. It is quite a bargain.

meh

the sound effects killed the story to be honest. they seemed unnecessary and i feel like would have enjoyed it much more without them.

intriguing

it has the stuff that can be transferred into a TV mini series. Very dark.

Jarring Sound Effects

Good story and good narration, but I found the sound effects to be a bit jarring. I get that they're meant for dramatic effect but I found that unwelcome whilst listening in the car.

Master of Horror

Suspense from the start had me hooked. Truly worth reading and will read more of his work.

why so many sound effects

I really enjoyed the narrator but the sound effects added into the background were distracting

Partly Abridged with Sound Effects

While the story and performance are good, the audio is plagued with unnecessary and erroneous stock sound effects for tone throughout the body of the piece. It breaks the show over tell rule of story telling for me. I also noticed a few sentences that were left out of the audio from my physical text.