The Shadow over Innsmouth cover art

The Shadow over Innsmouth

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Shadow over Innsmouth

By: H. P. Lovecraft
Narrated by: Phil Reynolds
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £8.99

Buy Now for £8.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

Considered to the be one of most influential American authors, Howard Philip Lovecraft is synonymous with some of the best fantasy and horror fiction of the 20th century, second only to Edgar Allan Poe.

Innsmouth is a dilapidated seaside town with secrets as a hybrid race of half-human and half-amphibian creatures worship the gods of Cthulhu and Dagon…. Written in 1931, and published by the Visionary Publishing Company some five years later.

”It’s a genre blessed with many great stylists, H. P.Lovecraft’s baroque imagination and outrageous use of language still manages to stand head and shoulders above the rest. A timeless master of the macabre and the true connoisseur of dread.” (Michael Marshall-Smith)

©2009 Fantom Films (P)2009 Fantom Films Classics Fantasy Fiction Ghosts Horror Scary Haunted

Listeners also enjoyed...

 At the Mountains of Madness cover art
The Dunwich Horror cover art
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward cover art
The Whisperer in Darkness cover art
The Colour out of Space cover art
The Call of Cthulhu cover art
Dagon cover art
The Haunter of the Dark (Dramatized) cover art
The Shadow out of Time cover art
Dagon: War of Worlds (Dramatized) cover art
The Thing on the Doorstep (Dramatized) cover art
H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1: 'The Lurking Fear' and 'The Thing on the Doorstep' cover art
Dreams in the Witch House (Dramatized) cover art
H.P. Lovecraft - The Complete Fiction Omnibus Collection, Second Edition cover art
The Rats in the Walls (Dramatized) cover art
The Horror in the Museum cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
A tale of discovery through uncertainty and delirium.

A man travels the New England coast only to come across a fotlrsaken and odd town, only later to discover what lurks within that place and later on, himself.

A Thrilling Lovecraftian Narrative

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Phil Reynolds does a great job of the New England accents, his tone is just right, and the story, of course, is portentous from the beginning. One of the original 'Mysterious Little Town' stories. Definitely one for the best horror stories ever written list, which has inspired everyone from Dean Koontz (see 'Midnight') and Stephen King, to the late, great James Herbert.

An EXCELLENT edition

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I had never read a HP Lovecraft book and was pleasantly surprised now I want to read more of his work
The narrator was also fantastic with change of accents and tones

truly brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I didn't like Phil Reynolds' narration of this story at all - his attempts at an American accent were awful! Instead, you'd do better looking for Garrick Hagon's readings of the tales (recorded in the 80s), or, failing that, Wayne June's.

Disappointed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.