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Enter The Vault of Lovecraft and cross over into a nightmarish world of spine-chilling horror from one of the Twentieth Century's greatest masters of the macabre. This unabridged collection includes many of H.P. Lovecraft's best known works: short stories like The Statement of Randolph Carter, Dagon, Cool Air, and longer stories like The Colour out of Space, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Mike Bennett's Parsec Award-winning recording of The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Originally podcast between 2007 and 2019, this podcast is all of Mike Bennett's Lovecraft recordings (so far) collected in one volume.]]>enScience FictionCopyright Mike Bennetthttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ab932df00c8f0b3ac7127fcb7ebd3b2f.jpghttps://mikebennettauthor.com/Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:55:50 +0000Mike BennettMike Bennettfeeds@spreaker.com“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” H.P. Lovecraft. Enter The Vault of Lovecraft and cross over into a nightmarish world of spine-chilling horror from one of the...
Enter The Vault of Lovecraft and cross over into a nightmarish world of spine-chilling horror from one of the Twentieth Century's greatest masters of the macabre. This unabridged collection includes many of H.P. Lovecraft's best known works: short stories like The Statement of Randolph Carter, Dagon, Cool Air, and longer stories like The Colour out of Space, Herbert West: Reanimator, and Mike Bennett's Parsec Award-winning recording of The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Originally podcast between 2007 and 2019, this podcast is all of Mike Bennett's Lovecraft recordings (so far) collected in one volume.]]>falseserialhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-outsider--52540561bdb8deb6-1f74-413d-8e7f-21f1af5f692dTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:06:36 +0000Mike BennettUnhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in vast and dismal chambers with brown hangings and maddening rows of antique books, or upon awed watches in twilight groves of...1448bennett,lovecraft,outsider,podcastfalse11fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/pickman-s-model--52540560f440c276-971d-42a2-a2a6-0942ed975306Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:13:19 +0000Mike BennettYou needn’t think I’m crazy, Eliot—plenty of others have queerer prejudices than this. Why don’t you laugh at Oliver’s grandfather, who won’t ride in a motor? If I don’t like that damned subway, it’s my own business; and we got here more quickly...2328bennett,lovecraft,pickman,podcastfalse12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/cool-air--525405587047c55f-e4aa-4412-b9e6-2a8686877c5bTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:15:51 +0000Mike BennettYou ask me to explain why I am afraid of a draught of cool air; why I shiver more than others upon entering a cold room, and seem nauseated and repelled when the chill of evening creeps through the heat of a mild autumn day...1600bennett,lovecraft,podcastfalse13fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/herbert-west-reanimator--525405352c1ea520-5f75-4516-9f45-e23d340e73beTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:20:37 +0000Mike BennettOf Herbert West, who was my friend in college and in after life, I can speak only with extreme terror. This terror is not due altogether to the sinister manner of his recent disappearance, but was engendered by the whole nature of his life-work, and...5677bennett,lovecraft,podcast,reanimatorfalse14fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-the-wall-of-sleep--52540562]]>801f40dc-083a-4083-9e54-9e732cdbc692Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:22:39 +0000Mike BennettI have frequently wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong…]]>2048bennett,lovecraft,podcastfalse15fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-cats-of-ulthar--525405548a0cd0d1-2ae9-4148-b317-7006af5b6de7Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:24:30 +0000Mike BennettIt is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see...793bennett,lovecraft,podcast,ultharfalse16fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/from-beyond--525405475750b5f7-697f-441a-bee3-f11a67121537Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:28:53 +0000Mike BennettHorrible beyond conception was the change which had taken place in my best friend, Crawford Tillinghast. I had not seen him since that day, two months and a half before, when he had told me toward what goal his physical and metaphysical researches...1340bennett,lovecraft,podcastfalse17fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-colour-out-of-space--52540555384444a9-2063-4db0-ae00-9d0a493cfafaTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:33:07 +0000Mike BennettWest of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut. There are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight…5423bennett,coloroutofspace,colouroutofspace,lovecraft,podcastfalse18fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/azathoth--525405525fc52c1e-5ef4-425f-8388-7f94f24d5df7Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:34:41 +0000Mike BennettWhen age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of spring’s flowering meads…276azathoth,bennett,lovecraft,podcastfalse19fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shadow-over-innsmouth--52540563e417e523-0293-40a9-9d42-b03043883aeeTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:43:28 +0000Mike BennettDuring the winter of 1927–28 officials of the Federal government made a strange and secret investigation of certain conditions in the ancient Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth. The public first learned of it in February, when a vast series of raids...11060bennett,innsmouth,lovecraft,podcastfalse110fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-music-of-erich-zann--52540549826878a2-27a5-4623-b55e-64879e4449adTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:45:57 +0000Mike BennettI have examined maps of the city with the greatest care, yet have never again found the Rue d’Auseil. These maps have not been modern maps alone, for I know that names change. I have, on the contrary, delved deeply into all the antiquities of the...1603bennett,erichzann,lovecraft,podcastfalse111fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-moon-bog--5254054885407c58-f1e8-4de7-8f11-9489df1352b6Tue, 16 Mar 2021 18:50:12 +0000Mike BennettSomewhere, to what remote and fearsome region I know not, Denys Barry has gone. I was with him the last night he lived among men, and heard his screams when the thing came to him; but all the peasants and police in County Meath could never find him,...1751bennett,bog,ireland,lovecraft,moon,moonbog,podcast,storyfalse112fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-thing-on-the-doorstep--525405305cf5fb9a-bb38-4767-a3f1-d258f696c04eTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:53:09 +0000Mike BennettIt is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium. Later...4805bennett,lovecraft,podcast,thingonthedoorstepfalse113fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-statement-of-randolph-carter--525405445f3cebec-7283-4330-b0a3-702d9725da6aTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:55:12 +0000Mike BennettI repeat to you, gentlemen, that your inquisition is fruitless. Detain me here forever if you will; confine or execute me if you must have a victim to propitiate the illusion you call justice; but I can say no more than I have said already…1218bennett,lovecraft,podcast,randolphcarterfalse114fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rats-in-the-walls--525405514efcb1d9-98b2-420c-ab7b-4d4e71077a8dTue, 16 Mar 2021 18:57:52 +0000Mike BennettOn July 16, 1923, I moved into Exham Priory after the last workman had finished his labours. The restoration had been a stupendous task, for little had remained of the deserted pile but a shell-like ruin; yet because it had been the seat of my...3493bennett,england,exham,lovecraft,podcast,ratsinthewallsfalse115fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/dagon--52540557bf883acd-47c2-4b82-b3cf-a8bf022d6a6bTue, 16 Mar 2021 19:00:45 +0000Mike BennettI am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret...1177bennett,dagon,lovecraft,podcastfalse116fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-terrible-old-man--525405370c45e469-fdd4-4dd4-99e1-330f7ddf2ab7Tue, 16 Mar 2021 19:02:59 +0000Mike BennettIt was the design of Angelo Ricci and Joe Czanek and Manuel Silva to call on the Terrible Old Man. This old man dwells all alone in a very ancient house on Water Street near the sea, and is reputed to be both exceedingly rich and exceedingly feeble;...605bennett,lovecraft,podcast,terribleoldmanfalse117full